[THC] BIG Microbrew fest

[L. A. Swihart]

omey at riseup.net wrote:

>I'd be in to volunteering at this event.
>-Jerome
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Jerome would you be into being the in-charge person?  The coordinator, 
the organization guru/geek.....?  :-)

I'm thinking of brewing Fri night at my house.  Maybe a batch of stout 
for the B Barrel, and maybe a batch of Am pale ale.   Everyone's 
invited.  We will turn the hot tub down to 96 and it'll be a cool tub.

My thinking for this year's event is to take less beer this year (we 
took about 12 or 15 gal last year), hide it under the table, and stand 
around greeting people and preaching the gospel of homebrew.  In general 
the glassy-eyed people looking for a fill-up will pass us by, which will 
be a good thing.

THE PROBLEM IS that whenever we started "serving" last year, i.e. had 
the kegs out and were delivering beer into people's glasses, in about 
two winks the people were lined up six wide and five deep, glasses in 
outstretched hands, and they were NOT interested in hearing anybody say 
"high we're homebrewers and we're here to talk about homebrewing....."

There were several very morale-draining incidents of people getting 
totally rude, never these words exactly but the very clear general sense 
that most people were thinking essentially SHUT UP AND POUR YOU DUMB ASS 
I LINED UP HERE FOR BEER NOT YOUR BLAH BLAH BLAH HOMEBREW BULLSHIT.

This was not just my impression -- it was Lloyd and Joe and me for 
almost four hours and they will verify.

It will just take a little subtlety.  (1) take 2- L bottles instead of 
kegs, maybe ten two-L bottles, several flavors, and basically to share 
with people who are not the drink-fast-to-get-my-money's-worth zombies.  
There are truly beer lovers at this event, potential homebrewers.  (2) 
keep the beer kind of out of sight, make sure we are clearly labeled 
WE'RE NOT A BREWERY -- WE'RE HERE TO PROMOTE HOMEBREWING.

If Bob O confirms that all can proceed as last year (I just wrote him), 
we  can have four people get free passes, and those four people would 
figure out how many can be gone from the table (sampling) at a time and 
for how long. 

L.


>On Wed, May 23, 2007 7:39 am, Dr. Linda A. Swihart wrote:
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>>I haven't made sure we're invited to do this again, but I expect it will
>>happen. Last year was the first time, Indiana homebrew clubs were invited
>>to send four representatives to attend (free of cost) a table at the
>>B.I.G. microbrew fest in
>>Opti-Park in Broad Ripple.
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>>http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/festival.html
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>>Lloyd will not be able to go, and I might be able to, but I'd be willing
>>to let others go too.  It's a strange and interesting event, and we who
>>went last year have some tips and thoughts about how it can be done this
>>year so as to reduce the stress on the club volunteers serving, and also
>>use less beer.
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>>Anybody interested?
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>>Linda
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