Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Mark Jensen has created an event for the 2022 Drink Local Festival on Facebook. Please mark yourself as "Going" or "Interested" and invite people you would like to so they can have our event on their Facebook Event Calendar.

Thank you Mark!!

Do we expect to have tickets for sale soon?

Not sure right now. Benz hasn't even posted about their festival yet. I'm meeting with Matt from Benz this week to figure out some logistics. We can discuss when to release tickets at our meeting on the 24th.

How many glasses do we have left?

Ask Jensen.

Ana from LB said that LB would love to be part of our festival but they're still struggling with being understaffed and they're gonna be very busy in the summer. They've asked if they could provide a tent and their beer and if we could pour their beers. Any volunteers?

We could just put pouring LBB beers as a "task" in our plan and folks can sign up for specific time slots to pour. Are they going to provide the bar/taps for pouring, or are we going to put their beers on one of our tap boxes?

I think they'll provide the bar/taps for pouring. But I can check and make sure.

That's a good idea Tony. We can probably put up their tent next to ours or close by.

tony b wrote:We could just put pouring LBB beers as a "task" in our plan and folks can sign up for specific time slots to pour. Are they going to provide the bar/taps for pouring, or are we going to put their beers on one of our tap boxes?

Breweries attending our festival so far (05/20):

Allerton
Big Grove
BIT
Confluence
Firetrucker
Front Street
House Divided
Jefferson County Ciderworks
Lion Bridge - They will provide everything, we just need a volunteer to pour their beers
Millstream
Nerdspeak Brewery
No Coast
Peace Tree
Second State
Twin Span Brewing
Wild Culture Kombucha
Wilson's and Sutliff Cider - same tent

Homebrew Clubs:

Ankeny
Burlington MOB
CRAZE
CRBS
IBU
Ames Brewers League - They declined
DaSobs - They will discuss at their May monthly meeting
Independence Local Union 334 - They will discuss at their April monthly meeting
MADCO - They will discuss at their May monthly meeting
MUGZ - They will discuss at their April monthly meeting

We'll be meeting at Iowa Brewing Company on April 14th from 7-8pm for some festival planning. All are welcome.

The cabinet meeting will begin at 8pm.

Here's the link to the company where we bought the glass holder lanyards in the past:

https://beerlander.org/products/beer-schwing-tm-lanyard

Here is one of the sources that we've used in the past for glassware:

https://egrandstand.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=taster

Be mindful that some styles of glassware aren't very compatible with the lanyards.

Food Vendors Up in Smoke BBQ and Island Vybz Mobile Rasta-Rant will be attending our festival this year.

Ticket Sales are up on Facebook through Eventbrite. Please like and share on Facebook.

Does anybody remember how we have sold hard copy tickets in the past? I remember the club selling tickets at our tent at Benz. Would be nice to be able to do that again. Please private message me or respond here if you know. Thanks!