The RDS is a HUGH shop window for us to showcase the hobby and club. It would be great to have a list of events we could advertise at our stand.
If we could organise island wide events with meetups/tastings/brewdays/demos at local levels on the same day we could call it The National Homebrewing day or weekend and suggest that newbies attend to see what it is as about.
We could take a list of interested people and their email addresses and send them a reminder of the upcoming events around the country closer to the time.
It doesn't have to be an all singing all dancing local event with 100 people turning up but if we can grow numbers at local level and share knowledge with newbies I think the RDS would be the place to advertise it.
The first weekend in October would give us ample time to put something in place. It's not reinventing the wheel as Capital, Liffey, Rebel, Galway, Lee Valley, Maiden and I'm sure most other clubs have done this successfully before. It is investing in your own club and community so the benefits are there to see.
Anyone who cannot attend but wants to brew at home could brew a particular beer which we could supply a recipe for or even give them a choice of a half dozen winning recipes to choose from.
If we use social media well with hash tags, video and vines we could share the message and get to a new audience as well as making a lone brewer feel part of the day.
Fell free to chip in!
Think it's a great idea, we'd be up for hosting something up NCB way. Sure we can chat about it next Tuesday and get back
National Homebrew Day sounds like a great idea.
I think it's a great idea. With the booth at the rds already, we could even have maybe recipes and examples already brewed for people to try out and then do with their clubs. Even maybe make a mini competition out of it, to see which local club makes the best version of the recipe. The club's could then have another reason to meet up a few months to judge their member entries before putting the club's up against each other.
The more activities are going at local level, the more chance they all have of growing...
We will definitely be brewing for this! Love the idea.
01 - Capital Brewers
Count us in as usual
like the idea but would it have to done on a public premises or could it be arranged somewhere like somebody's garage/house? Would be willing to get involved but my kit is designed for my garage so can't really move it elsewhere.
Shanna
Declan I dont see why it would matter where you brew.
I think a public place on basic kit is wise.
I am not inclined to have some schmuck who thinks 'Free Beer!' coming to my shed.
Call me paranoid but I have more than beer gear there so don't want to find my mower and stainless stolen the following day.
Having people over to your home requires familiarity and trust.
Quote from: johnrm on August 07, 2014, 11:10:01 AM
I think a public place on basic kit is wise.
I am not inclined to have some schmuck who thinks 'Free Beer!' coming to my shed.
Call me paranoid but I have more than beer gear there so don't want to find my mower and stainless stolen the following day.
Having people over to your home requires familiarity and trust.
+1 to this. House party's are fine as long as you can trust those in attendance :)
Quote from: DEMPSEY on August 07, 2014, 11:24:07 AM
Quote from: johnrm on August 07, 2014, 11:10:01 AM
I think a public place on basic kit is wise.
I am not inclined to have some schmuck who thinks 'Free Beer!' coming to my shed.
Call me paranoid but I have more than beer gear there so don't want to find my mower and stainless stolen the following day.
Having people over to your home requires familiarity and trust.
+1 to this. House party's are fine as long as you can trust those in attendance :)
Good points & I would agree with both. Might float this with others at the next South Dublin meet and sound out the dark horse to see if they might facilitate a brew day.
Shanna
Quote from: Shanna on August 07, 2014, 08:03:41 PM
Quote from: DEMPSEY on August 07, 2014, 11:24:07 AM
Quote from: johnrm on August 07, 2014, 11:10:01 AM
I think a public place on basic kit is wise.
I am not inclined to have some schmuck who thinks 'Free Beer!' coming to my shed.
Call me paranoid but I have more than beer gear there so don't want to find my mower and stainless stolen the following day.
Having people over to your home requires familiarity and trust.
+1 to this. House party's are fine as long as you can trust those in attendance :)
Good points & I would agree with both. Might float this with others at the next South Dublin meet and sound out the dark horse to see if they might facilitate a brew day.
Shanna
Good thinking.
We have some local movement on this so I might split it out into a schedule once it gathers pace.
So far we have something happening for the 'National HomeBrew Weekend" from -
Capital
North county
Garden county.
These don't have to be on the same day to enable people to get around if they see fit.
What about getting some medal winning recipes from our latest medal winners that people can clone?
Get clubs to have a brew off - same recipe and then have a taste off?
Monster mash?
Any other suggestions?
We had a good chat about it at the NCB tonight, in fairness any brewday always gets positive feedback, so we will definitely do something. Venue TBA due to our current situation.
October 4th or 5th - is that official ??
Quote from: Partridge9 on August 14, 2014, 11:08:48 AM
October 4th or 5th - is that official ??
Yep. First weekend in Oct.
Is that set in stone ?
Just that linking up with the IPA fest (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7429.msg93080.html#msg93080) in Galway might not be a bad idea .. / bank holiday weekend / Wills Birthday / etc.. .
(queue cat running into a flock of pigeons!!)
Kildare plannin our hop pickin fest dat weekend. We estimate between 10,000 and 15000 cones... lot of work But we will wash the hop dust down wit a bevvy r 2
Another fest - thats great !
I didn't want to impinge on the Galway day as many guys might travel down to that anyway.
Bren is your harvest the first week in Oct?
There's an Oktober fest beer festival in Borrisoleigh, Tipperary that weekend. Im sure the South Central Brewers can do something there :)
Maiden City have the craft beer Sunday event on the 21st September, was thinking of holding a tasting night maybe a month after. First weekend of October might be a bit early but sure we can see what we can do.
Quote from: CARA on August 14, 2014, 04:23:22 PM
There's an Oktober fest beer festival in Borrisoleigh, Tipperary that weekend. Im sure the South Central Brewers can do something there :)
Fantastic.
Quote from: irish_goat on August 14, 2014, 04:29:17 PM
Maiden City have the craft beer Sunday event on the 21st September, was thinking of holding a tasting night maybe a month after. First weekend of October might be a bit early but sure we can see what we can do.
We need to get all these events into our event calender !
I have no probs with Saturday 4th of October.
However I would point out its only 4 weeks after the RDS. This means:
1. We may have given away all the donated free beers/ciders
2. The same old supspects will be expected to do all the work (Yet) again!
3. We have to really push the boat out on the National Brewday in terms of publicity:
leaflets/poster/flyers/sponsors all have to arranged.
Its not JUST coz its my birthday weekend but what about the 25th/26 as there is a holiers on the Monday
@rossa. Yes first sat oct was de plan for our harvest
The Oct bank holiday is the Galway comp and I would imagine they are going to need a lot of judges so that would be my primary concern - Taking judges from local events and at the same time diluting what Galway are trying to do is not great..that's why I thought the start of Oct. There are other very high profile events on the back holiday weekend too that might distract from what we are trying to do.
It's not set in stone but we seem to have enough events to run with it and create something to build on.
Will...you don't be wanna be doing homebrew stuff on your birthday...do you?
If we can organise a list of events we can push it for a month from the rds where we should get a huge audience.
Again, I don't mind moving it if there is a consensus. We just need to do it quickly.
Quote from: Rossa on August 14, 2014, 10:26:56 PM
Will...you don't be wanna be doing homebrew stuff on your birthday...do you?
Its the fek'n one day a year when I get to do what I wana do! So now I have to think of something else I can do
HoweverI am cool with Oct 4th.
Have tacit agreement from the rugby club for the following event:
We have a nice covered area:
Several brew demos ( AG: Gas/Electric/Brewmeister. Also demo Extract but
importantly Kit with LME/DME + all the tweaks
Club (at last) to sell bottles of craft beers (Kiss: O'Haras range at fixed price)
If possible a few kegs of craft beers (Club makes money from these sales)
We can do a BBQ (NCB gets this money)
Hopefully we get some sponsors on board for a raffle/kits.
Club will push this out to their mailing list (500+ peeps) and also the local shops and offys.
THIS COULD BE HUGH!What else would expect from the NCB?
Will change the booking to Sat 4th Oct
I'm cool with the forth as well, fair play will, that's going to be class !!
Fantastic Will. Sounds like a great day.
So far we have commitments from reps from
NCB
Capital
Garden county
South Central
Maiden
Liffey
Kildare
I think that is right? Did I miss someone?
What about the other big hitters around the island?
Breaking this out into local discussions would be a good idea to see what exactly is going on so we can include it in a program of events.
Kildare we will be doing a hop harvest festival and fresh hop brewing inc:
beer tasting,
braumeister fresh hop brew,
conventional mashtun fresh hop brew,
BBQ food
and of course all attendees will do some hop harvesting,
vacuum packing
and entertaining kids as well.
Key focus on a social outing with sensible drinking, local quality ingredients and beer as a food as an integral part of a healthy diet
Quote from: Rossa on August 18, 2014, 08:43:17 AM
Breaking this out into local discussions would be a good idea to see what exactly is going on so we can include it in a program of events.
Here's what we are planning:
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7490.0.html (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7490.0.html)
We are now less than 11 days from the start of the RDS :)
HOWEVER ( >:D ) in order to make the National Homebrewday a success we need to do some work now so we are ready with the info/flyers at the RDS: [Believes this is the whole point of the RDS follow up]
First thing we need is some artwork for the flyers at the RDS:
Anyone into graphic design?
Basically we need to include on posters/flyer that a club can customise:
National HB Day
National Homebrew Club
"Come learn how to make great craft beer at home"
In white space we can include:
Name of local club
Sponsors
Date/Time/Location/Contact details etc
Can someone come up with some artwork in 7 days?
If not its going to be some welsh crappity smakking artwork scribbles!
Will - anything at all will do, we don't need the Mona Lisa ! Simple text and image
Re the artwork for the RDS and later (around the locality). Here is a simple word doc with a poster that you can edit every which way. Ok its not Andy Warhol but its simple so edit away for your local events
However the site won't allow me to attach the docx as its too big!
Here's the pdf.
If you want the docx file please send me an email!
Fair play Will - your putting in a real shift for this gig, I think if we can promote it a bit at the RDS it will be MEGA !
I'll plan a gig in Midleton, but if nobody steps up to the plate in Cork, I could do it there.
If in the Well, its a bit silly bringing brew kit to a brewery though...
I sent out a mail to the local organisers this morning to get info on their local events. If you didn't get one let me know.
I've revised the weekend strategy to take in the new fledgling clubs in Meath and Crumlin who have meetups during that week. Now we are going for the entire week. It will now be known as The National Homebrew Week. This also enables anyone to have a small event midweek along the tasting lines and be included in the promo material for the week.
What's the timetable of events so far?