Re: Anniversary Beer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:30:38PM +0100, James Laver wrote: > As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer > for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) > > We need 120 bottles to make it worth their while and they'll deliver to > the june social (which will fall on the 4th and hasn't yet been > announced -- it is quite a way away). Don't forget to keep a few of them for the Lisbon auction. It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-) -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Be careful when you take one side or the other. You could wind up in the middle.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #33 (Epic))
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:52, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:30:38PM +0100, James Laver wrote: As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) We need 120 bottles to make it worth their while and they'll deliver to the june social (which will fall on the 4th and hasn't yet been announced -- it is quite a way away). Don't forget to keep a few of them for the Lisbon auction. It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-) Last year we had an offer of 4 cases for the YAPC auction that sadly never materialised. Handy, as it happens, since 4 cases were claimed by people who didn't pre-order but decided that actually, they wanted beer. I'll sponsor 6 bottles (12 quid IIRC) for the hell of it. Anyone else willing to do the same? --James P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer?
Re: Anniversary Beer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:58:51PM +0100, James Laver wrote: > P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer? Perhaps it is related to the problem of orgynising a piss-up in a brewery? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:52, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-) s/cheap beer/expensive ice-cold piss/
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 20 Apr 2009, at 23:12, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:58:51PM +0100, James Laver wrote: P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer? Perhaps it is related to the problem of orgynising a piss-up in a brewery? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done I seem to manage just fine, and I don't even have superpowers. Now, how about we organise a pissup in a brewery? Social at the fullers brewery tap? ;) --James
Re: Anniversary Beer
We've almost got enough to make it worth the brewery's while. Anyone interested who hasn't yet waved their hand? (All the people who bought what went unclaimed at the social last year, perhaps?) --James On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:30, James Laver wrote: As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) Yesterday, a london.pm member twittered about how much he enjoyed drinking some of it in the sunshine. This evening, another member IRCd about how much he enjoyed it. And then other people have said they really enjoyed it and wish they had some left. So I offered to reorder. This year we'll order it early to make the most of the summer. We need 120 bottles to make it worth their while and they'll deliver to the june social (which will fall on the 4th and hasn't yet been announced -- it is quite a way away). I've got 42 bottles confirmed so far. If you want in, please message me offlist. Please also make sure that you will be there to pick up the beer or make arrangements for someone else to. I'll put a 3 week cap on orders, so don't delay! Cheers, --James
Re: Anniversary Beer
Did anything happen about this? Is anniversary beer still on? I'm guessing with June social just days away it's not happening /this/ month, but did enough people get involved to make it happen at all? /joel On 1 May 2009, at 08:50, James Laver wrote: We've almost got enough to make it worth the brewery's while. Anyone interested who hasn't yet waved their hand? (All the people who bought what went unclaimed at the social last year, perhaps?) --James On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:30, James Laver wrote: As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) Yesterday, a london.pm member twittered about how much he enjoyed drinking some of it in the sunshine. This evening, another member IRCd about how much he enjoyed it. And then other people have said they really enjoyed it and wish they had some left. So I offered to reorder. This year we'll order it early to make the most of the summer. We need 120 bottles to make it worth their while and they'll deliver to the june social (which will fall on the 4th and hasn't yet been announced -- it is quite a way away). I've got 42 bottles confirmed so far. If you want in, please message me offlist. Please also make sure that you will be there to pick up the beer or make arrangements for someone else to. I'll put a 3 week cap on orders, so don't delay! Cheers, --James
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 29 May 2009, at 14:34, Joel Bernstein wrote: Did anything happen about this? Is anniversary beer still on? I'm guessing with June social just days away it's not happening / this/ month, but did enough people get involved to make it happen at all? /joel We hit critical mass, I just didn't get around to arguing. July. And thanks for giving me a boot up the arse to call the brewery. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 12 Jun 2009, at 09:31, James Laver wrote: Cases are of 12. If you have any number of complete cases, you get to choose which beer you want for them. Please write to me off-list indicating which of the bottle conditioned beers from http://www.merseawine.com/brewery.htm you'd like (or those of you who've ordered multiple cases get multiple choices) --James Fortune smiles upon us as it transpires that we've got 12 cases on order, which means we can create mixed cases. If you've ordered beer and want a taste of all the beers (with the exception of the pilsner), can you show your hand and I'll go ahead with manually creating mixed cases. It'll probably look like this: 2 Island Skipper 2 Pale ale 1 Oyster 1 Monkey per half-case. I also finally called the brewery and got prices. £12.50 per 6 bottles. 50p more expensive than last year. I'm sure we can cope with that. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer
On 12 Jun 2009, at 10:34, James Laver wrote: Fortune smiles upon us as it transpires that we've got 12 cases on order, which means we can create mixed cases. If you've ordered beer and want a taste of all the beers (with the exception of the pilsner), can you show your hand and I'll go ahead with manually creating mixed cases. It'll probably look like this: 2 Island Skipper 2 Pale ale 1 Oyster 1 Monkey per half-case. I also finally called the brewery and got prices. £12.50 per 6 bottles. 50p more expensive than last year. I'm sure we can cope with that. --James All cases will hereby be mixed owing to overwhelmingly positive feedback. If anyone else orders, they won't be able to take part in that (since i'm manually splitting the 12 cases ordered), but they can choose whichever beer they want. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed
2009/6/26 James Laver : > I got a call from the brewery this morning and they're not prepared to > deliver to paddington for our next social, leaving us a little bit in > the shit. Anyone got a shovel? > > I've formulated the following devious plans: > > 1. a kind, friendly soul with a car drives to the brewery/winery in > essex and drops stuff off at a convenient holding point (with lack of > volunteers, probably my flat), and I will get them to the social a few > cases at a time. When are you thinking of for this ? And where is the "brewery/winery" ? -- http://rabidgravy.com/ - Music http://gellyfish.co.uk/ - Everything else
Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM, James Laver wrote: > I got a call from the brewery this morning and they're not prepared to > deliver to paddington for our next social, leaving us a little bit in > the shit. Anyone got a shovel? I've left the brewery a voicemail saying we'll come back to it in september. Unless anyone is extremely selfless and fancies a daytrip in essex, that is. Not expecting anyone to. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > 2009/6/26 James Laver : >> I got a call from the brewery this morning and they're not prepared to >> deliver to paddington for our next social, leaving us a little bit in >> the shit. Anyone got a shovel? >> >> I've formulated the following devious plans: >> >> 1. a kind, friendly soul with a car drives to the brewery/winery in >> essex and drops stuff off at a convenient holding point (with lack of >> volunteers, probably my flat), and I will get them to the social a few >> cases at a time. > > When are you thinking of for this ? And where is the "brewery/winery" ? It would have to be either in the evening this week to make the social, or more likely next weekend and i'd have to distribute it from my flat. The brewery is in the arse end of essex, Mersea Island, which is not the most convenient place to get to at all. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed
That's near my folks' place, but alas I have no car and they have no immediate plans to drive to London, nor any storage space to spare. Otherwise, I would have been happy to help. Anyone have connections to Eddie Stobart? > The brewery is in the arse end of essex, Mersea Island, which is not > the most convenient place to get to at all. -- http://evolectronica.com - survival of the funkiest
Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed
Hi James, long time lurker, first time caller. as a really crap perl programmer but an avid beer consumer, I'd be willing to swap some gut size for guru status. I'm co9 < over by Braintree >, where are you ? have an estate so possible I can get the lot in ( unless you lot are really worse than me and, reading some of the posts, that's very possible ). ta DaveN On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:18 +0100, James Laver wrote: > I got a call from the brewery this morning and they're not prepared to > deliver to paddington for our next social, leaving us a little bit in > the shit. Anyone got a shovel? > > I've formulated the following devious plans: > > 1. a kind, friendly soul with a car drives to the brewery/winery in > essex and drops stuff off at a convenient holding point (with lack of > volunteers, probably my flat), and I will get them to the social a few > cases at a time. > 2. Similar, except we go next weekend and people pick them up from my > house rather than the social. > 3. a team of kind people arrange to meet at a tube station in eastern > zone 2 and proceed to help me carry beer to the social via the > hammersmith and city line. > 4. I organise a social at the bridge house for september and we have > the beer then (august is YAPC, remember). > > I'm not sure I can cat-herd effectively enough to make option 3 > happen, but does any kind soul with a car fancy a daytrip to a brewery > and winery in essex, or will we have to put it back to september? > > So, shovels anybody? > > Oh and we need to get artwork that still hasn't been drawn to the > brewery by the end of tomorrow if we're going to attack plan 1 or 2. > Any artistic shovels? > > --James
Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:39:43PM +0100, James Laver wrote: > > Last year, we were graciously donated a design by Kent Fredric of a > camel going through tower bridge. > > This year, of all the suggestions, I think I like the idea of St. > Pauls with a Perl Onion for a dome, the most. > > Is there anybody who will cut up some CC images and stick the onion on > the dome for us? I also have in my possession a small text in Dave Cross' handwriting written on a piece of cardboard, saying roughly: "The use of a glass of beer in association with the Perl language is copyright London.pm" (the plan is to make a unique T-shirt to auction at YAPC in Lisbon) I'm sure he'll be more than happy to adapt the text to suit and fit a bottle of beer. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) All life affects us... even that which is far from our gaze. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #59 (Epic))
Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > > I also have in my possession a small text in Dave Cross' handwriting > written on a piece of cardboard, saying roughly: "The use of a glass > of beer in association with the Perl language is copyright London.pm" > (the plan is to make a unique T-shirt to auction at YAPC in Lisbon) > > I'm sure he'll be more than happy to adapt the text to suit and fit a > bottle of beer. I will also be carrying a case of beer to YAPC for the auction. --James
Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry
On 17/06/2009 13:03, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:39:43PM +0100, James Laver wrote: Last year, we were graciously donated a design by Kent Fredric of a camel going through tower bridge. This year, of all the suggestions, I think I like the idea of St. Pauls with a Perl Onion for a dome, the most. Is there anybody who will cut up some CC images and stick the onion on the dome for us? I also have in my possession a small text in Dave Cross' handwriting written on a piece of cardboard, saying roughly: "The use of a glass of beer in association with the Perl language is copyright London.pm" (the plan is to make a unique T-shirt to auction at YAPC in Lisbon) I'm sure he'll be more than happy to adapt the text to suit and fit a bottle of beer. That text (and images thereof) is hereby released under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike licence :-) Cheers, Dave... p.s. I'd completely forgotten about that. Might need to save some money to bid on that shirt myself.
Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry
On 17 Jun 2009, at 13:47, Dave Cross wrote: p.s. I'd completely forgotten about that. Might need to save some money to bid on that shirt myself. duly noted. don't be surprised if there is a mysterious person in your blind spot bidding you up ;-) G.
