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I'm planning on attending and bringing homemade beer if that's acceptable. TOCD, Peripatetic Packrat On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Eric & Opal Doerr <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hi, Mag Mor. > Octoberfest (or OctoBeerfest) is on Thursday, October 10, at the Lancaster > Co Event Center. Because that's the same day I'll be having shoulder > surgery, neither Volkmar nor I will be able to attend. Can someone please > help coordinate this demo? I'm happy to share all I know about it. > > - Jim Krysl is the contact (402-730-8755),[log in to unmask] > - We should plan to show up as soon after 4:30 pm as possible to get > set up. There's a VIP hour (people who pay to get in early) from 5:30 to > 6:30 pm > - Here's the info from the event center calendar: > - Nebraska Stroke Okto Beer Fest > Location: Pavilion I > Benefit for the Nebraska State Stroke Association > VIP 5:30-6:30pm > Beer Tasting Food Sampling Silent Auction > 6:30-9:30pm > - 4100 N. 84th Street, Lincoln, Ne 68507 > > > - Last year we had Shrewsbury cake and gingerbrede samples along with > the wine, liqueur, mead, etc samples. We still have lots of recipe cards > stapled to baronial business cards. I'll make gingerbrede samples, Gwyneth > said she'd make the Shrewsbury cake samples. I've also still got lots of > those little paper cups for sampling. > - We tried to have a few other crafts visible at the table, and -- > hopefully -- fighting and/or dancing and/or music for the stage area at 7 > pm. Ceiling height is NOT a problem! The stage may be smallish for > fighting, but -- with a couple of constables -- there's space in front of > the stage that worked well in the past. > - There will be plenty of free food there from many, many booths, so > anyone helping with the demo can just plan on eating supper there. > > Please contact me if you can attend -- I'll pass that information along to > whoever ends up coordinating that day. > > -- Isadora > >