20 Sep
2007
20 Sep
'07
12:32 p.m.
No, the water program is not a "Go", unless you're volunteering to organize
it! :)
I only have one person bringing water, and no one to set this up and man the
table, so let's not start adding extras, no matter how good the idea is.
The water tour is probably better for a meeting; drunken non-brewers don't
care about water analysis, I'm guessing. They want plentiful, cold water,
so . . .
Who else can bring a keg or two of water, any water, please? If you want to
label the club box (still unaccounted for . . . ) with the city of origin
of your tap, please do. I've got a free ticket for someone who can be in
charge that day.
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Oftel [mailto:Rick.Oftel@toro.com]
Jim, It sounds like the water program is a go. I completely agree with you
regarding the carbon filtering.
From previous experience, the club cooler is more than
adequate and the
event usually has an ice truck on site. The only negative is the
water
becomes charged in a few hours and to get any flow out of the cooler
requires about 20 psig. It would be great if someone could bring an
alternate gas like nitrogen or clean compressed air.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: mba-bounce(a)thebarn.com [mailto:mba-bounce@thebarn.com] On Behalf Of
Jim L. Ellingson
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:48 AM
To: John Longballa
Cc: mba(a)thebarn.com; mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: TC Area Water Tour at ABR?
Greetings,
Any chance re-doing the Metro Water Tour from a few
years back. Mpls vs St. Paul vs. assorted suburban tap waters?
Very nice if you could run it through the charcoal filter.
Double bonus points if you bring a copy of the water analysis
for your keg.
If you bring the water down on Friday, you may be able to
put it in the reefer trailer for overnight chilling. check
w/ our hosts on that. bergbrew(a)juno.com
Cheers,
Jim
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:38:25PM -0500, John Longballa wrote:
The MN Craft Brewers Guild has asked the MHBA to have
a table at the
Autumn
Brew Review on Saturday, August 29th. In light of all
that the
professional
brewing community has done for the club, we said,
"sure, we'll help!"
They would like us to provide kegs of water for the crowd. We will also
have club info at the table, info about Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day,
and
the fantastic teaching board produced by Gera.
Question #1 = who will volunteer to bring a keg or two of tap water?
Label
the keg, drop it at the table, then pick it up before
you head home.
Question #2 = can whoever has the club jockey box bring that? I'm certain
that the Guild will have some ice available that day. We can run the kegs
through that.
Question #3 = who would like free admission to the ABR? I have two
tickets
for volunteers who can set up the table and watch it
for parts of the day.
You can enter early, I believe, and participate in the early drinking.
But
the two people need to be in charge of the table and
kegs and take them
away
at the end. I need these two people to organize this
process. You're on
the spot, but you get in free! :-)
I'm fairly certain that other MHBA members in attendance would probably be
willing to relieve the table volunteers periodically. Worst case
scenario-you spend ½ the day manning the table and the other volunteer
takes
the other ½.
Thanks much,
John
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