Five Second Pints: Kappture’s ‘BRISK’ Debuts at Croke Park, Redrawing Stadium Bar Queues

Irish-built rapid service system serves fans and concertgoers in 5 seconds and targets 50%+ uplift on full house days, and readies rollouts for major venues across the UK & Ireland.

When fans stream into Croke Park for Oasis gigs this weekend (August 16th & 17th), the action will not only be on the stage. In the Lower Hogan Stand, payments and venue tech firm Kappture will quietly switch on BRISK for the first time at a major concert—a new rapid service kiosk system designed to end the much-maligned queues that have hit the headlines for the wrong reasons at gigs across the UK this year.

The BRISK solution is a game-changer for concert goers, as Mark Flood, Executive Chair at Kappture and co-founder of Renatus Capital Partners, explains:

“To get served, you tap your card at a turnstile, walk in, pick up your drink … and walk out. Five seconds from tap to exit. No ordering, no paying at the counter, no waiting.”

Behind the counter, the Croke Park bar utilises a multi-dispense unit capable of delivering 16 pints in 40 seconds; the pints are ready to be collected at the bar, and entrance and exit flows are managed by turnstiles linked to payment.

BRISK’s debut at Croke Park last weekend, at the Camogie final, offered Guinness and Rockshore. With Rockshore the focus for the upcoming Oasis shows this weekend, the GoalPost bar will be fully branded for Rockshore, showcasing another commercial opportunity BRISK brings to events and venues.

BRISK first cut its teeth and proved its capabilities at Norwich City FC.

Gordon Kaye, Kappture’s Sales & Marketing Director for Stadia and Live Events, said:

“The proof of concept has demonstrated BRISK’s ability to increase the volume of products sold by over 100%, and this success has led to a number of EPL and Championship Clubs moving quickly to engage Kappture.

“The clubs we are working with are very progressive, and their aim is simple: deliver a superior concourse service at peak times, ensure a swift ROI through higher takings at the bar, and deliver shorter queues at nearby kiosks.”

Built in Ireland, engineered for fast rollout across Europe, Kappture’s Irish office in Galway is where the concept and software build took place, with Kappture’s founder Neil Haran’s in-house development team operating from the PorterShed; the stainless-steel fabrication for the Croke Park project took place in Cork, and installation was delivered by a Meath contractor. “It’s 100% Irish,” he said, adding that the system is designed for operational pragmatism. “What’s special is it needs no broadband and no capital expenditure from the venue,” two hurdles Flood believes have slowed competing international approaches.

The 2025 SVB LIVE Conference & Exhibition – focused on elevating the live experience – is being held at Villa Park on October 6th and 7th. An Opening Night Icebreaker will kick things off on October 5th at bp pulse LIVE or Utilita Arena Birmingham and the SVB LIVE Awards will bring the event to a close on October 7th at the home of BCFC. Kappture is an exhibiting sponsor.

Beyond speed, Kappture’s team has focused on fraud prevention and privacy. “No personal data, no pictures. The system recognises your shape and size to match the purchase to your card. Neil [Haran] spent six months trying to break it with student testers … On Sunday it ran with 100% accuracy,” Flood said. Brisk can be configured for up to 12 products, though the Croke Park pilot kept the offer tight to optimise flow.

From handshake to go live in a month

Flood said the deployment cadence is a differentiator for venues fighting short lead times between event announcements and sell-outs. “We agreed on July 10, and it was live by August 10. That’s design, fabrication and installation compressed into a few weeks,” he said, crediting the venue and operating teams for moving at pace.

With a successful debut behind it, Kappture is lining up a busy calendar.

Flood said:

“We’re in for Oasis, Robbie Williams, and the NFL game in Dublin. We’ve also got several Premier League clubs to go live with in the next couple of months. By next year, I’d expect fans will be seeing this in a lot more venues—and multiple per venue.”

Why it matters

High-demand intervals at sports and music events routinely force fans to choose between missing the action or skipping a round. By collapsing the transaction to a pre-entry card tap and self-serve pick-up, Brisk aims to unlock latent demand while reducing congestion in concourses.

Flood frames the impact in fan experience terms:

“It’s about unlocking unsatisfied demand. The person who typically has no pint might have one. The person who has one might have two. And all without missing the game. It’s not about overconsumption; it’s about giving fans more time with their friends and more time watching the sport.”

Ownership and backing

Kappture has supplied point-of-sale systems to Croke Park for years. Brisk, Flood said, is the next step. Renatus Capital Partners, backed by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), AIB and several Irish entrepreneurs, owns Kappture alongside the founders, providing the capital and governance to scale an Irish-built product for international use.

What’s next

If early results continue, Kappture expects to broaden product ranges per station, extend Brisk to additional bars within Croke Park, and accelerate deployments across UK football grounds during the autumn fixture list. The company also plans to refine queue choreography and signage for first-time users, with the goal of keeping the five-second tap-to-exit experience consistent at higher volumes.

Bottom line: Brisk’s low-infrastructure design, Irish manufacturing footprint and early performance numbers position it as a credible new option for high-throughput venues. After a low-key launch, the fast-lane pint may be set to move from curiosity to commonplace across stadiums in Ireland, the UK and beyond.

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