Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

This year's Festiv-Ale homebrew festival is being held on Saturday July 20th. They've once again invited CRBS to attend. It will be at Wake Brewing in Rock Island, IL once again. Please post here if you want to go. I'll put up an event listing on our beer fest app for it.

Here's the deets from the organizers:

We are Excited to announce the 2019 Homebrew Festiv-Ale!
Wake Brewing, Rivers Edge Fermentation Society (REFS), and Mississippi Unquenchable Grail Zymurgists (MUGZ) are putting this event together and would love for you to come down and be a part of this special event for home brewers. This event will be catered toward craft beer enthusiasts and like-minded home brewers. Proceeds from the Festiv-Ale will be going to a local Quad Cities charity.

Now this is where you come in:
Provide 2 – 8 beers for tasting
Members to set up, tear down, clean their area and pour
Provide your own CO2 needs / Jockey Boxes

What We Provide:
Tent Area
1 - 6 foot table
Ice as needed
Free Admission / Glassware / Tickets to any club member providing beer or volunteering to help said club with pouring, set up and tear down.
(Maximum 10 passes per club)

Facebook Event Page coming May 28th to help spread the word of this amazing event.

Event Info Below:
EVENT - HOMEBREW FESTIV-ALE
DATE - SATURDAY JULY 20TH
LOCATED - WAKE BREWING 2529 5th AVE / ROCK ISLAND, IL 61201
LOAD IN TIME - NOON
EVENT TIME - 2PM – 6PM
AGE - 21+
TICKETS - $20 advance / $25 day of show

Customers will receive commemorative tasting glass and 15 sampling tickets.

For those that go to this event, someone will need to clean the beer lines for anything you use. I do not even thing they were rinsed out after Benzfest. Just sitting in the trailer getting warm.

Matt F wrote:For those that go to this event, someone will need to clean the beer lines for anything you use. I do not even thing they were rinsed out after Benzfest. Just sitting in the trailer getting warm.

You make it sound so appetizing and fun

Don’t forget this is coming up in a few weeks. I won’t be attending, I’ll be on call that weekend.


Tattoo Travis

A reminder that if no on can/wants to take the trailer down you can just grab a tap box to take. Regardless of what you use to pour it should be cleaned before and after.

I'm planning on going and have a beer in process for it. But, I don't have a way to pull the trailer.

I'm also going and can take the trailer if needed. But I'll probably take the tap box if only a couple of us are going. So please let me know soon if you intend to go.

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I have both the large 20' x 10' tents at my house. I was working on making wooden boxes for both tents. Tried to make them shorter than I wanted to squeeze them both out of one 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. Not going to work so will make new ones with taller sides when I get a chance. For now I can put one of the tents back in the trailer so it is ready for this event. Do you guys want to take a a large 20' x 10' tent down or use something else? Or do they give you a tent?

Sounds like they have a tent area and provide a table.


Tattoo Travis

Space is limited at this event so probably won't take a big tent. Especially if there's only a couple of us. Last year I took my pop up tent and that worked out well.

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Come on folks, step up. This is a very good, well-run festival and these clubs have supported us since the beginning of our festival. Even if you can't go down and pour with us, you can always send down some beers/meads/ciders. It's also a good opportunity to promote our festival, so we need to represent well here.

I am out of town so cannot go. I will hang on to the big tents and put them back in trailer when finish the boxes.

I'll have a beer to send (pin lock keg) and there's a chance I'll be able to make the trip, but it'll be a last minute kind of call.

- Josh Peanasky

Rivers Edge is a week from this coming Saturday, July 20th, at Wake Brewery in Rock Island.

We need your beer contributions posted on the herokuapp for Rivers Edge, as soon as you can so we can begin planning logistics.

REFS, MUGZ, and the Powder Keggers come and support our festival; this is our opportunity to reciprocate....we do not need a crowd going down, but we do need beer.

Please get them up on the herokuapp ASAP.

Thanks,
D