My IPA will be at the WAHA booth in the hospitality suite Thrusday night. (Hoppiness is an IPA, from BCS) It turned about a little sweet for an IPA. But, still a pretty good beer.
Just curious if any of you will have your beer served. It would be fun to be sure to try the beer of some of the forums regulars.
Yup, as soon as I’m done with all the packaging I’ll be bringing somewhere around 24 kegs of beer to the conference. ~12 of those are for my talk, but still, at least 12 on the 3 pouring opportunities for the Falcons. (Opening Hospitality shift with QUAFF, Closing Hospitality shift with QUAFF and Club Night)
It would be easier for a fat man to pass through the eye of a needle than to get out of the NHC without trying some of my beer.
A local homebrew shop has organized to send a pallett of kegs from members of several clubs around the state and these will be at the hospitality suite and at clubnight as the “Michigan Coalition of Homebrewers”.
We have a CAP that is going out. That one placed second in the First Round, and the other corny of the CAP was pouring a yummy beer last night. See you there.
I’ll be bringing 4 including 2 that are in the second round, a Northern English Brown and a Belgium Dark Strong. We will be at Club Night and will be serving at the hospitality bar poolside right after Club Night.
No club night or hospitality shift, but I hope to bring my new traveling keg cooler that fits 2 cornies. Possible kegs include Cream Ale, American Lager, English IPA, American IPA, Imperial IPA, Wee Heavy, American Barleywine, Doppelbock, “double” RIS (a novice judge recommended watering it down), and bourbon barrel-aged RIS. And some bottles of Berliner Weisse. Hmm, did I miss anything?
Jeff mentioned that the Michigan coalition will serve his CAP - fantastic beer indeed! We also will be serving a ccider made by Jeff Carlson, who has won the national award for cider making 4-5 times, Ken Schramm’s Cherry mead (he wrote a book on the subject and will be presenting), and many other solid beers at club night. Huge shout out to our local homebrew supply store owner, Jason Smith, of Adventures in Homebrewing for organizing and heavily subsidizing the cost to ship a dozen or so kegs from Michigan to San Diego!
Jeff - after three days in a truck crossing the country att scorching heat, I am crossing my fingers that they do not get badly affected by the ride. The proof will be in the pudding during our Hospitality shift next Thursday!
Did you ship a pallet of kegs? I’d think that if you packed the more robust beers on the outside and most delicate in the middle and got them all on the truck cold, those kegs in the middle stand a chance of not getting as hot as early.
Thanks to everyone who brought and served their beers down in SD last week. Club night was a blast, and the hospitality suite was always serving good beer.