Jazzfest 2005
This year we had really great weather for Jazzfest 2005 in Iowa City. It was great to partner up again with Heyn’s Ice Cream, a small Ice Cream store on Iowa City’s Eastside, and do Rootbeer floats. Buckley and I spent all day saturday serving up rootbeer floats and Ice Cream Sundaes. Kudos to our friend Kyle for helping out for a bit too. On Sunday it was the Heyn’s crew’s day to work the booth, but I still stopped in to check on the rootbeer. They got a pretty good rainstorm in the afternoon, so I was pretty happy that we didn’t pull that day to work!
As usual, we had many, many people ask what type of beer we had on tap. We would then explain that there is an Iowa City ordinance restricting serving beer outside, and we would direct them to the Dublin Underground, which was right around the corner and serves our beer. There was also a rumor floating around that someone had received a permit to serve wine at the festival, but I never did see if that was actually happening. It certainly is strange to have such a big event be dry. However, I’m not too concerned about it, because if the did allow beer concessions, the big guys would probably lock us out anyway, and I’d still just be serving rootbeer floats.
Ready to serve! Teresa did the price sign on our new oversize printer… snazzy eh?
Serving the first of many customers. Scooping hard ice cream is really tough work!
Our new warehouse is coming along nicely. I think they just have a few more concrete sections to pour and then they will be putting up the main structure. They say they have been held up a bit by all the rain we have had. The main concrete floor has big drain going down the entire length, and you can see in tilt that they did a good job with the pour.. there should not be any ‘dead spots’ were water will well up. I have worked in more than one brewery that needed a squeege to get water out of the corners, I can tell you it gets old pretty quick! We’re not sure when or if we will actually be doing anything wet over there, but its the sort thing you can’t add later so were having done just incase.
We all can not wait until its finished, we so need the space!