[GLLUG] Beer for Penguicon, GLLUG

[Clay Dowling]

We went through a lot of beer this year.  People liked it.  We also ran 
out of beer on Friday, which left us none to offer on Saturday.

Do we want to bring more beer next year?  If we do, we're going to need to 
brew more beer, and we're going to need vessles to store it in.  I have 
the kegs we used this year.  I don't really want to buy more, because I 
won't use them.  As uit is I'll probably always have two empty kegs 
sitting around most of the year.

The kegs are basically useful for people who want to have a couple of 
parties throughout the year.  You buy a keg, bring it over on brew day, 
and leave it with me.  When your beer is done with fermentation, I put it 
in the keg and carbonate your beer for you.  You pick it up after it's 
been in the keg a week, take it to your party.  Things Beer will sell you 
the serving taps, as well as a nifty little gadget that lets you keep it 
pressurized off of a CO2 ampule.

Anybody wants to do this, let me know.  It's a bit of an equipment 
investment, probably $40 after you buy the keg, tap and the CO2 ampule 
gadget, but you'll be getting a party or two's worth of beer for maybe $20 
in materials and some labor on brew day.

You can put wine in a keg and carbonate it for a sparkling wine.  My dad 
warns me though that keeping that around the house could be the end of 
your liver.  He did that once, decided it wasn't a good thing to keep on 
hand.  Good to have for a party though.

Clay