O’Bannon’s 14th Annual St. Patrick’s 2-Day Festival
Information courtesy of | O’Bannon’s Taphouse
O’BANNON’S is your place to “PADDY HARD” this St Patrick’s Day!
It’s the talk of the town this time of year. O’Bannon’s St Patrick’s Day Festival has grown into a household name in Aggieland and this year it falls on SUNDAY FUNDAY! So naturally, we are celebrating twice as hard and including Saturday too.
Here is the rundown:
FRIDAY, 15th:
We begin shutting down Boyett St (in front of the pub) at noon and setting up our 60ft tent. The pub opens at 4pm
The pub opens at 2pm!
OUTSIDE:
BWD Bites food truck will be here in the afternoon serving up delicious food (menu coming soon). Absolute CS Music / Locked ‘N Loaded Ent. will be playing your favorite tunes and beer will be pouring.
Later that evening we have live music on the stage w/ Lark Wayne singing your favorite classic rock and Texas Country songs!
Then at 10pm we have ‘Saved by the 90s’! This all 90s cover band is based in Austin and is sure to bring a great time!
INSIDE:
We’re pulling Perfect Pints of Guinness and your other favorites all day. At 3pm Blackwater Draw Brewing Co. will be at the pub. You can meet the brewer and try a special beer just for St Paddy’s Day; BWD’s ‘Pot of Gold’ (yep! Mulligan w/ actual shiny glitter in it making it sparkle like gold).
From 2pm-4pm you can get a crack at pouring your own Perfect Pint of Guinness! You’ll get to come behind the bar and we’ll walk you through the steps as you create the perfect pint just for yourself!
At midnight we will all watch as the count down clock finally winds down to 00:00:00:00! At exactly midnight we begin pouring GREEN BEER!
If you like LIVE IRISH MUSIC, Great Guinness Relay, etc…then SUNDAY is your day.
WE OPEN AT 10am and start pulling pints and spiking your coffee with Irish whiskey. Like mimosas? We will have complementary mimosas while supplies last. (This will help your hangover from Saturday’s shenanigans) Breakfast will be available beginning at 10am as well (eggs, ham, bangers, potatoes, baked beans).
**Being Sunday, TABC law dictates you MUST order food to get alcohol before 12pm
At 11am join us in our annual St. Patrick’s Day morning TOAST to kick off the day! Be here for a pint, mimosa, or Irish coffee and let’s enjoy the BEST celebration of the year!
At 1pm BWD Bites will be serving their menu, all day and through the night!
We are the only place in town with LIVE Irish Music. And we’ve got it ALL DAY w/ Blaggards! These guys are regulars at the pub and bring you everything from The Pogues, to Johnny Cash, to Flogging Molly all w/ their own twist. We dare you to try and stay still while listen to these guys.
We also have events planned throughout the day. We don’t know their schedule but we usually get frequent visits from Tullamore Dew, Jameson, or Bushmills, Slane, Proper 12 and more!
What about beer? We’ve got all the green beer you can handle. We will not run out. Guinness? That’s our #1 seller at the pub. We are known for it. Guinness takes pride in their beer and how it’s poured and we take pride in following that standard.
It gets better. After a full day of Blaggards, at midnight they ROCK the AGGIE WAR HYMN!
And finally, remember all those breweries and distilleries we mentioned would be on site? We’ll have TONS of shirts, beads, shot glasses, hats and just about anything else you can think of to give away!
O’Bannon’s has one of the BEST St Patrick’s Day parties in TEXAS! We were even visited by the Guinness Book of World Records a few years ago! That’s 30+ HOURS of the BIGGEST, BEST, MOST AUTHENTIC St Patrick’s Day celebration in town! Please drink responsibly and make sure you designate a driver.
SLAINTE!