No Bottling Today
Chris has the flu. So we are not bottling today. Its okay, we can wait a few more days. Its better that he get sick this time of year, than in the summer.
This morning i’m going to clean the taps in the sales room so the beer is nice and fresh for the tour that we are giving to the employees of New Pioneer Coop tonight. We feed them brats and give them free beer, its a good way to treat your important accounts!
Not much going on this week. The maifest is done fermenting, and i’m going to put the cooling on it on wednesday.. we are not going to have time to brew this week. I’m going on vacation on friday to take a trip to New Mexico, so we will have to brew when I get back. We need to get more malt in before we can brew anything, so its just as well.
But Teresa is busy planning for this summer. So far she has a bus trip lined up for the Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison. Tickets will be 50$ and will include free beer on the bus. The bus doesn’t want us to bring kegs, only bottles though. Strange I would think it would be the other way around. Email teresa if you are interested (teresa@millstreambrewing.com).
Also we are doing a brewery to Johns Grocery Bike Ride. This used to be the brewery to brewery ride, but with the closing of Stone City, its has a new destination. We have a new name for it, the Tour de Brew. This will be on July 17th, so mark your calenders. We’ll have more information coming soon.
On the legislation front, it seems the chance to change Iowa’s law on alcohol percentage has slipped by us again. Instead we are narrowly avoiding an increase on the beer tax, and are probably going to get stuck with this silly keg registration law. Sigh. Next year we are going to have to get more people involved, our voice was just not heard.
If you would like to read more about the Keg Registration Law, here is the House version.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/Bill.pl