So now that we have more staff than we see at family dinners, it seemed like a good time to do a monthly "all staff" meeting. Oh, how we've grown! I missed the first one at the end of Semptember, but I did get caught up on the two most important items on the agenda:
1) No staff use of the store bathroom during store hours. We all really stink. Some more than others.
2) At every staff meeting on the last Friday of each month (cause that's when we are always not so busy, right? :) a selected Beau's employee gets to design and brew under Matt and Alex's watch a mini-batch of beer of his or her choice during the day and meeting. At every subsequent meeting, all attendees get to sample last month's month's batch, and cheer for the new one on the go.
Item #1 has inconvenienced me once or twice, but item #2--oh yeah! In September, Laura got to brew first, and decided to do a pumpkin ale, since it would be ready on Halloween. No synthetic pumpkin flavour at Beau's... Laura chucked the whole gourd in, and then fished out the chunks. Since that was the meeting I missed (clever, hmmm, that was the one with no homebrew) no one was more surprised than I was to walk into my house all filled with pumpkinny goodness. Driven either by environmental passion to re-use, or a mega-addition to pie, Laura capped her brew day by pieing the pumpkin that went into the brew. Yahoo!
And then the moment of truthiness, when we got to sample the Pumpkin Ale in between Steve rambling off 50 million events we are part of in the next month ("we have the bodies, so it shouldn't be a problem"... famous last words), giving an update on how we are preparing for a Christmas spike in sales ("if we run dry, run, RUN for your lives!!!"), etc. It was received to rave reviews, and Steve, who says he rarely "Pumps" twice, went for a second round of Pumping.
Up next month will be Phil's oyster stout, an oyster infused brew with a $200 price tag in oysters alone... pop by on the 28th of November and see if it blows you down, matey.
Cheers! Jen
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Pics of First Annual Beau's Oktoberfest Party!
Young fraulein Ruby dances to celebrate the season, even though Mommy Beau is freezing.
Denise Beau gives a 50L keg the old heave-ho while the Master of Nightmarzen watches.
The afterparty at Steve's rages on with the wildest of guests...
Media papparazzi scramble to get photos of this exclusive shin-dig!
Steve pouring himself a little more Nightmarzen... the beer is awesome! We've got some left even after the party, come down to brewery for a sample while you can.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Oktoberfest Party this Saturday!
So the other day we took the last partial keg of of summer seasonal Festivale-Plus, and put it into six staff growlers... and then drank em. Sorry kids, but she's all gone now. I'd be sad if it wasn't for the fact that our new seasonal should be** getting kegged today! (see note after).
We had a number of names thrown into the hat for what to call this new beer, an Oktoberfest Marzen style. We wanted something kind of fall-like... how bout harvesty? Turns out "Harvest Moon" is already brewed in the US by Coors... (insert involuntary shudder, and move on.) Kev liked "Die Marzen, Die!" and while Dad thought "Horn of Plenty" had a nice ring, Steve much preferred "Plenty of Horn." (Steve did point out that his first choice was still "Dirty Old Hoe.")
We finally settled on Phil's suggestion, so our spooky fall seasonal is called Night.Marzen. We'll be launching it this Saturday at the brewery at our Oktoberfest party, 1-6 (and don't miss the afterparty at Steve's place!) We will be having fun stuff like a keg toss contest, Oktoberfest-style food, and brewery band The Oh Yeahs is rumoured to be having a practice sometime before then... (when is that again, guys? call me.) So they'll be rocking out, Steve says around 5.
Oh yeah, we're on a path of destruction and mayhem too: THINGS THAT HAVE BROKEN DOWN/GOT BROKEN THIS WEEK
The delivery truck, on the 417 Thursday night
The filter... don't worry, we're on it
Dad's back, again
Two jugs, in the cargo van
The cargo van, in Kingston Wednesday night
One ceramic, in Jen's car
**Matt is losing his mind because our filter keeps taking the day off without telling him. He hired an assistant brewer, Alex, perhaps to intimidate the filter into working better. Yay, new peeps at the brewery! We also have a new delivery hero, whose name we're pretty sure is Todd. Bumpers beware, he is a menace to both the van and the contents, and we're happy to have him and Alex kicking around. Nicole and Joanne are the other new smiley faces around the brewery--staff partys are now officially more than a gathering!
In other news, with the colder weather here, the brewery atmosphere has switched from smolderingly hot to freezingly cold. If you have a Beau on your Christmas list, we all need long underwear. STAT.
Hope to see you all on Saturday! Cheers, Jen
We had a number of names thrown into the hat for what to call this new beer, an Oktoberfest Marzen style. We wanted something kind of fall-like... how bout harvesty? Turns out "Harvest Moon" is already brewed in the US by Coors... (insert involuntary shudder, and move on.) Kev liked "Die Marzen, Die!" and while Dad thought "Horn of Plenty" had a nice ring, Steve much preferred "Plenty of Horn." (Steve did point out that his first choice was still "Dirty Old Hoe.")
We finally settled on Phil's suggestion, so our spooky fall seasonal is called Night.Marzen. We'll be launching it this Saturday at the brewery at our Oktoberfest party, 1-6 (and don't miss the afterparty at Steve's place!) We will be having fun stuff like a keg toss contest, Oktoberfest-style food, and brewery band The Oh Yeahs is rumoured to be having a practice sometime before then... (when is that again, guys? call me.) So they'll be rocking out, Steve says around 5.
Oh yeah, we're on a path of destruction and mayhem too: THINGS THAT HAVE BROKEN DOWN/GOT BROKEN THIS WEEK
The delivery truck, on the 417 Thursday night
The filter... don't worry, we're on it
Dad's back, again
Two jugs, in the cargo van
The cargo van, in Kingston Wednesday night
One ceramic, in Jen's car
**Matt is losing his mind because our filter keeps taking the day off without telling him. He hired an assistant brewer, Alex, perhaps to intimidate the filter into working better. Yay, new peeps at the brewery! We also have a new delivery hero, whose name we're pretty sure is Todd. Bumpers beware, he is a menace to both the van and the contents, and we're happy to have him and Alex kicking around. Nicole and Joanne are the other new smiley faces around the brewery--staff partys are now officially more than a gathering!
In other news, with the colder weather here, the brewery atmosphere has switched from smolderingly hot to freezingly cold. If you have a Beau on your Christmas list, we all need long underwear. STAT.
Hope to see you all on Saturday! Cheers, Jen
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