[IBU] Home brew for Brew Fest

[randle.boyd at mchsi.com]

Over the weekend, I was in a conversation with Jeff Bruning, one of the principals of the group that owns several downtown bars.  He is very interested in involving home brewers in el Bait Shop.  He wouuld like to pour about four would for the upcoming, June 23, brew fest.  

He would also like to have a periodic special, at el Bait Shop, where he would serve a keg of home brew, for free, during a certain period of time, kind of like Firken.  He of course would reimburse the brewers for the cost of the ingredients.  It doesn't sound like ingredient reimbursement is included for the brewfest, but rather free admission to the brewfest.

It appears that there are some details to be worked out.  I just thought I would go ahead and send this out to see if there is any interest.  I invited him to the May meeting, but as you can see in his response below, he didn't quite confirm.

Cheers,
Randle

-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- 
From: jeff Bruning <jlbruning at yahoo.com> 
To: randle.boyd at mchsi.com 
Subject: Re: home brewers 
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 02:28:09 +0000 


I would love to make it to one of your meetings soon.  I would like to throw one thing out, I want to pour around 3 to 4 homebrews at our Brewfest on June 23rd.  I just thought 3 or 4 people could brew up a five gallon batches and could pour their beer at the festival and talk to people about the beer.  It would get them into the fest for free and I think it would be a good time.  

Keep in touch.

Thanks,
Jeff
554.9535

randle.boyd at mchsi.com wrote:
Jeff, we had a conversation Saturday, during Cyclo DeMayo, about el Bait Shop doing something with home brewers. You mentioned that you would like to have some sort of happy hour with home brew and that you would like to have home brewers participate in the upcoming Brewefest. As I mentioned, I am the Secretary of the Iowa Brewers Union home brew club. Our next meeting is Monday, May 21st at 7:00 PM at the Holiday Inn on Merle Hay Rd. We would love to have you come by and talk to us. There is already a large interest in the brewfest. Your home brew happy hour idea will probably generate a lot of interest also. Alternatively, we could try to get some members to el Bait Shop for a DRAW (Drink Right After Work), an listen to your ideas.

Cheers,
Randle





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