pomsaleius
Well-Known Member
Evening all.
Popped into TRB today and came away with a growler of their amazingly good Rauchbier. But also had a bit of a chat with Marcus. So a couple of things came out of that. The first is that the brewery are doing this: https://www.facebook.com/events/258645604297293/ and Marcus suggested we might want to have a stall. Basically just something to publicise the club, talk about homebrewing, etc. Don't think we'd be offering samples or anything, but I guess it might look good to bring some impressive looking gear along or something (I can offer an immersion chiller here, but not much else, but they look like what non-brewers think of as brewing gear at least). However if we did this we'd have to sort out some kind of rota system for manning the stall etc. Anyone up for that?
Second thing is we talked about our relationship with the brewery going forward. They definitely want to keep the association going, however I think they don't want our club to be thought of as the Thunder Road Brewery homebrew club. So when it comes to meetings at the brewery, I think the frequency they were thinking of is probably no more than 3 or 4 times a year at most. And if we occasionally plan the odd meeting at somewhere like Temple, all the better to break that perception of too close an association with the brewery.
Oh, and one more thing. Anyone planning on going to ANHC in Canberra in October? I've been to the previous 3 in Melbourne, but never as a club member before. We could potentially plan a club trip, jointly book flights, accommodation etc. Just a thought.
Have a good evening.
Popped into TRB today and came away with a growler of their amazingly good Rauchbier. But also had a bit of a chat with Marcus. So a couple of things came out of that. The first is that the brewery are doing this: https://www.facebook.com/events/258645604297293/ and Marcus suggested we might want to have a stall. Basically just something to publicise the club, talk about homebrewing, etc. Don't think we'd be offering samples or anything, but I guess it might look good to bring some impressive looking gear along or something (I can offer an immersion chiller here, but not much else, but they look like what non-brewers think of as brewing gear at least). However if we did this we'd have to sort out some kind of rota system for manning the stall etc. Anyone up for that?
Second thing is we talked about our relationship with the brewery going forward. They definitely want to keep the association going, however I think they don't want our club to be thought of as the Thunder Road Brewery homebrew club. So when it comes to meetings at the brewery, I think the frequency they were thinking of is probably no more than 3 or 4 times a year at most. And if we occasionally plan the odd meeting at somewhere like Temple, all the better to break that perception of too close an association with the brewery.
Oh, and one more thing. Anyone planning on going to ANHC in Canberra in October? I've been to the previous 3 in Melbourne, but never as a club member before. We could potentially plan a club trip, jointly book flights, accommodation etc. Just a thought.
Have a good evening.
