[THC] Homebrew club mtg Wed night at the Black Sparrow! Need HEADCOUNT :-)

[Kurt Brenneman]

and on time!

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:43 PM, L. A. Swihart <swihart at purdue.edu> wrote:

> It's in two days.  Wed June 25, 6 - 9 pm.
>
> I have just started a list based on the people who've written at the
> forum that they'll be there, and I do not remember exactly which people
> have told me verbally that they'll be there.  Tell me again, in email,
> if you're one of those (Keith and Janet?  Alan?)
>
> Would you please send me a reply asap before Wed eve -- off list would
> be fine with me (swihart at purdue.edu) and on-list would probably be OK as
> well.  Maybe the other people on the list want to know who'll be there, eh?
>
> Put Black Sparrow in the message header (can just reply to this message)
> and I will make sure not to miss it.
>
> We need to know how many people we are making space for.  So far I'm
> pretty sure we've got Lloyd, Nancy, me, maybe Rick, Sean, and Vic.  I
> *know* there are others and I'm sorry I'm forgetting.  I'm old, getting
> senile....  We won't need more than five or six people to have a great
> little meeting, but brewers and people interested in brewing are very
> welcome.  BRING HOMEBREW IF YA GOT IT.  No commercial beers, please, and
> no food of course!  And we believe that everybody will like the Black
> Sparrow and buy some beer and food there Wednesday and/or other times!
> And I promised Paul he could have tastes of the homebrew too even though
> he's not a brewer.  :-)
>
> We will not share homebrew with the other Black Sparrow customers, BTW,
> as much fun as that kind of sounds like.  It also sounds problematic.
> Paul could allow that kind of thing, but it's not what we asked him.  We
> will have our meeting, call it "members and guests" or something like
> that, keep our bottles of homebrew in our section and resist the
> temptation to invite/serve other Black Sparrow patrons who might express
> interest.
>
> Ah, right, no kegs either.  That was my idea and I just thought it might
> seem frightening or just too over the top if we started bringing in
> Corny kegs the first time.  :-)
>
> It'll be a bit different than the social meetings and brew days at
> people's homes; this will be more of a "business and education
> meeting."  With beer, which always makes a meeting a much more pleasant
> place to be.
>
> ------------
>
> What a conference!  Nancy and Lloyd and I have a few things to tell you
> about the Cincinnati NHC we just got back from, and I am hoping to come
> up with a short round of "Name That Beer," but I have to talk to Paul
> about it first.  (Paul Baldwin, owner of Black Sparrow and a very nice,
> fun, and community-minded fellow.)
>
> I will leave the house in a few minutes and most likely be out of email
> contact until Wednesday at noon.  But I'll get your messages at that
> time, first thing.
>
> Soooo -- who's coming to the Black Sparrow?  Even if you can't get there
> at 6, let me know about what time you can.
>
> Linda
>
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