[THC] WW 2008 tickets are almost gone

[Linda Swihart]

tippy_riverrat at comcast.net wrote:
> Linda
>
> For any newbies you might want to explain what WW is and why they should care.
>
>   

Right, sorry to leave that out but I was rushing. 

Winter Warmer.  LBC.  Every February, have to watch the LBC website to 
know when it will be and when the tickets will go on sale.  (The event 
is Feb 9th this coming year.)  Fundraiser, all proceeds to Laura 
Williams Scholarship Fund.  (Ya gotta love a chance to drink for 
charity!)  Greg invites all the Indiana breweries and a LOT of them show 
up.  They bring beer.  And the can sell merchandise.  The homebrew club 
is invited to have a table to promote homebrewing.  Greg includes a 
"barbeque and burger buffet" type meal in the cost of the ticket, which 
is a classy and very wise approach (rather than making people buy their 
food separately, which always leads to some people skimping, with 
resulting bad effects on those people and on the event.)

Our homebrew is NOT included in the ticket price (it is absolutely 
illegal to sell homebrew and we need to be very clear on that).  We are 
there to promote homebrewing and we do not have to serve any beer to 
anybody.  But we do, have been for.... I forget, five years now?  And we 
have always had a really good time.  And we let people sign up for the 
homebrew club email and we sell some T-shirts.

This is the first time tickets have gone this fast, but not a surprise 
because it's been getting faster every year. 

Nancy -- I'm hoping you'll be there are can help with the THC table?  We 
need people who can talk about homebrewing, answer questions, and you 
will be great.  Are you planning to attend?

Linda