2008 Iowa Festival of Beers

BrewHound · Post by **BrewHound** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:06 am

Dave,

I will be bringing "Paris Hilton" (A nice fruity blonde) in Ball lock keg.
Also bringing a friut wheat in a Ball lock Keg.

PS: Who is this Mark R guy, is he new to the club, the only Mark R other I know is a tratior who went to Craze! JK

DaveCo · Post by **DaveCo** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:05 am

I like the name of your blond ale. Good choice.

Dave

brownbeard · Post by **brownbeard** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:34 am

I got rid of the kids for the day. So, I should be there for the entire festival. I don't have any beer to add right now, but I would be glad to do some pouring. I am probably going to be hanging out with you loons all day anyway.

tony b · Post by **tony b** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:53 pm

Excellent idea, Matt. The hops will look very kewl!

Dave, I have a Flemish Saison to bring - the chick beer (Blue Moon Lite). I have 2 tap-a-draft kegs (6 liters). I'm forced carbonating tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed it will be fizzy enough on Sunday. Anyone have a local source for the CO2 cartridges? I'm down to 5 and no time to order online.

I will be there around 11am. Do we need coolers, ice, snacks, etc? I will have a couple of folding chairs, too.

Getting psyched to party!!

BrewHound · Post by **BrewHound** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:51 am

tony b wrote:Excellent idea, Matt. The hops will look very kewl!

Dave, I have a Flemish Saison to bring - the chick beer (Blue Moon Lite). I have 2 tap-a-draft kegs (6 liters). I'm forced carbonating tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed it will be fizzy enough on Sunday. Anyone have a local source for the CO2 cartridges? I'm down to 5 and no time to order online.

I will be there around 11am. Do we need coolers, ice, snacks, etc? I will have a couple of folding chairs, too.

Getting psyched to party!!

Tony I don't think I have any CO2 Cartridges (I gave them all to you when you bought the system). However, I may have some nitrous (not sure of spelling) that you could have.

Also you can usually find these if you can find a place in town that sells cake decorating supplies.

tony b · Post by **tony b** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:27 am

Thanks J-Dawg, but I found some local dealers for nitrous

!

Rapids Restaurant Supply on Hiway 13 in Marion. They also have a lot of beer dispensing equipment if you're looking for a good local source for taps, handles, once-through chiller coolers, etc.

Counting down to BeerFest!

tony b · Post by **tony b** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:21 am

John and I had a great time yesterday!!

Lots of great beer and comraderie. It was good to see some folks who've missed the last few meetings.

Looking forward to the September meeting and hoping that some folks on that full sheet of signups will actually come to the meeting.

DaveCo · Post by **DaveCo** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:59 am

Great fest all! Thanks to all that brought beer. We did a great job I must say.

Dave

Lower Case T · Post by **Lower Case T** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:32 am

Hey, I forgot to mention....

I had two different people (2 out of a thousand ain't bad) come to my booth and ask if I had "any of that slappy's smoked porter?" "Awe man, I've been cravin' that stuff"

What a bunch of nut-jobs

BrewHound · Post by **BrewHound** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:31 am

Lower Case T wrote:Hey, I forgot to mention....

I had two different people (2 out of a thousand ain't bad) come to my booth and ask if I had "any of that slappy's smoked porter?" "Awe man, I've been cravin' that stuff"

What a bunch of nut-jobs

It's the rat poison, that stuff is addictive!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:44 am

It seems like there were a few smoked beers at the festival last year, I don't think there was one to be found this year.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:45 am

Big T made the Iowa City Press Citizen, pouring for Third Base.

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs. ... 8809010317

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:22 am

Home Brewers People's Choice Award went to MUGZ out of the Quad Cities.

tony b · Post by **tony b** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:12 pm

No doubt! They put on quite a show with their rig and all the beers that they brought. While we had good beers, we were just a bunch of posers next to them. We need to step up, if we want to represent!

brownbeard · Post by **brownbeard** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:21 am

tony b wrote:No doubt! They put on quite a show with their rig and all the beers that they brought. While we had good beers, we were just a bunch of posers next to them. We need to step up, if we want to represent!

I agree. Time to do a little fabrication.