Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:51 pm
Excellent initiative, brotha. I had hoped that I would have more time to work on the website by now - but alas - no. I'm pretty sure I can cobble together something crappy and pseudo functional - at least to faciliate communication on the next one. The biggest issues in the past are due to missed deadlines. However, I think that we have learned some things.
#1) It ain't cheap. Expect to pay $30-$50 to send your brews out. I hope to find a solution to this in the future - maybe some sort of volume discount as this grows. In the meantime, I can try to make the groups smaller - so you are only sending out max of three brews. That should save everyone some cash.
#2) It takes a while - right now - as it is all manual and deadlines are loosely enforced. I hope that when we have a workable website, then we can run these concurrently and there will always be one to join at any given time.
#3) Last minute backouts will be expected to judge, and will be expected to send out some local micro - in lieu of the community brew. Once you are in, you are in. Perhaps not in thye competition - but we always need judges - and everyone should get a bottle back for their bottle sent.
Now my opinion on the brew - it's summer. It's hot all over the country. I would probably suggest a Saison - for both brewing and shipping reasons. Let's save the sticky icky hops for the fall? That's just my opinion. Carry on.
BTW - We gave Shat some shat for dragging ass on the second round. He assured us that the Janet's Brown 2nd round entries are in his chest freezer and will be on an upcoming show. Can't really fault the brotha - he's been busy as a mofo for BNA4/NHC.
Mylo
"Life is too short to bottle homebrew." - Me
"HEINEKEN? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" - Dennis Hopper, in Blue Velvet
