Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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I have a Rye ale and a Munich Helles going for about 2 weeks that should be ready.
Also will be checking the year old Cherry Kreik. If it turns out, might have a 1or 2 bottle special release.
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Secondary: Munich Helles, Rye Wheat, Cherry Melomel
Lagering in fridge: Hanssen's Cherry Kriek
Dry hopping: none
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Matt F
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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I plan to crank out a double IPA soon for the fest. Also, if we have some special release stuff, let's go ahead and start with those to accommodate the premium paid by VIP ticket holders for the first hour.
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Slappy Brewing North

On Tap:
American IPA
Strata Hazy IPA
Dr. Lee Orval
American Strong Ale
Friend of the Devil Belgian Golden Strong
Imperial Stout
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daryl
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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A friendly reminder that Benz Beer Festival will soon be upon us. The next CR Beer Nuts membership meeting will be our last before this event.

We may call an organizational meeting or two, specific to this event is needed.

In addition to beer, we will need volunteers to pour and manage kegs.

Several of you have volunteered beer already (many thanks for that), but we could use more, so feel free to post here until we get the herokuapp set-up for the sign-up.

Also, reply to this post, if you can volunteer. We can probably set up in about an hour (just the big bar I am expecting) and could tear down in an hour. Some of the tasks will be:

Trailer/Bar Transport to Benz

Set-up/Clean up (Lines?)

Pouring

Keg/Pour Master (sets the schedule of pours and manages the keg swaps onsite)

Ticket Sales (for our Beer Fest)

Tear/Down Clean-up/Store the bar

Transport Trailer back to storage

We will more formalize this list in the upcoming Cabinet Meeting.

Please post or PM with thoughts/concerns/etc.

Thanks,
Daryl
In the Fridge/On Tap: English Bitter, Schwarzbier, Cream Ale
In the keg: Wheat Beer, Russian Imperial Stout
In the bucket:
In the queue: Irish Red, American IPA
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karl
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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Do we have an online sign-up like we did last year?

I'm hoping to get a British pub ale ready.


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On Tap at the Laughing-Kitten Pub:
* Foggy Bottom NEIPA
* Gluten Free Stoutish Ale
* Botched Bitter
* Club Barrel Robust Porter (cellar)
On deck/fermenting:
* Belle's Helles (cue AC/DC)
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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Im most likely brewing a simple Pale Ale and using the Idaho 7 hop.
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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karl wrote:Do we have an online sign-up like we did last year?

I'm hoping to get a British pub ale ready.


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Hi Karl - We will try to set that up ASAP.
In the Fridge/On Tap: English Bitter, Schwarzbier, Cream Ale
In the keg: Wheat Beer, Russian Imperial Stout
In the bucket:
In the queue: Irish Red, American IPA
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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y'all can list what you plan to bring on the official club festival beer list website: http://crbeernuts.herokuapp.com/
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daryl
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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Andrew is correct.

I just logged into the heroruapp and it took me directly to the Benz Beer Fest 2016 sign up page.

Register your entries at will....the earlier the better....do not worry if your entry runs out before the Fest or doesn't turn-out; hey, stuff happens.

But we want to have a good show of support to one of our biggest benefactors, Benz Beverage Depot.
In the Fridge/On Tap: English Bitter, Schwarzbier, Cream Ale
In the keg: Wheat Beer, Russian Imperial Stout
In the bucket:
In the queue: Irish Red, American IPA
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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Yes, I had set up the Benz Fest signup soon after the date was announced. You can also enter beers for our home brew fest as well if you already know what you're bringing. We also need to remember to promote our fest to people from other clubs that might be attending Benz. The main page of the app doesn't show entries until 30 days before the next fest. But you can enter beers as soon as an admin sets up a fest in the app.
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Matt F
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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My favorite beer name on our list so far is Uncle Dan's Prison Wine. Nice.
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Slappy Brewing North

On Tap:
American IPA
Strata Hazy IPA
Dr. Lee Orval
American Strong Ale
Friend of the Devil Belgian Golden Strong
Imperial Stout
Konigsmark
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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I will have a coffee Stout ready for the festival.
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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I will have a Coffee Stout ready for the festival.
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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entered a an english mild, was there a place to sign up to help setup or just show up at 11 and do stuff?
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karl
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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I've entered an English IPA. But, I might not be able to be there until 12:30. Can I drop it off the night before? Or should I just assume a later tapping and bring it late?

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On Tap at the Laughing-Kitten Pub:
* Foggy Bottom NEIPA
* Gluten Free Stoutish Ale
* Botched Bitter
* Club Barrel Robust Porter (cellar)
On deck/fermenting:
* Belle's Helles (cue AC/DC)
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daryl
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Re: Benz Beer Festival - 2016 - May 7

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We can drop our labeled kegs off at Benz the night before, they will be stored in the walk-in cooler.
karl wrote:I've entered an English IPA. But, I might not be able to be there until 12:30. Can I drop it off the night before? Or should I just assume a later tapping and bring it late?

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In the Fridge/On Tap: English Bitter, Schwarzbier, Cream Ale
In the keg: Wheat Beer, Russian Imperial Stout
In the bucket:
In the queue: Irish Red, American IPA
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