Brewing kegs for a fundraiser

OK,
I have a few cinsiuderations I am pondering, maybe you guys (and gals) can help.

I am brewing for a fundraiser. I will be doing 4 extract kits so that I have 4 5-gallon kegs. the beer will not be sold, but given out free as part of the admission donation (which is voluntary and we will not refuse beer to anyone over 21 yrs of age, in case you were going to bring up legalities). we usually buy beer but since I got my gegging system it will be easy to serve up fresh draught beer.

First,
I am not sure if i should do 2 kegs of 2 kinds of beer or just do the same beer for 4 kegs.

Next, The beers need to be somewhat light and mass consumable. both from a general appeal and from a session style rather than a heavy style. I am thinking along the lines of a blonde ale or something. (I havent tried a lager yet and dont have the fridge space for laggering). The event will be in late May.

Finally, I am also thinking I would like to kick up the ABV just a little bit to drive the auction prices up. maybe about 6-6.5% (my usual blonde is 5.1%)

what do you all think?

cheers

I'd stick with the lower, the blonde. Most people may not appreciate you slipping them a mickey.

UglyDude said:

given out free as part of the admission donation (which is voluntary and we will not refuse beer to anyone over 21 yrs of age, in case you were going to bring up legalities).

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The event should have liability insurance - and the insurance company needs to know you are serving alcohol.

Sounds like a clusterf@(k from top to bottom...


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I'd just rent one of those tapper trailers, filled with domestic kegs. Only because if anything goes wrong with your brews, it would really hurt the fundraiser.


If you're set on brewing yourself, I'd go a light blonde and keep a standard abv. Most people will drink that with few complaints. Although some people won't drink home brews because they think they can be dangerous. That probably is more for moonshiners than us, but once a bug gets in one persons ear...

You'd have far less of a headache with serving domestics though...

Thanks all.
of course the event will have insurance and the beer will not be the only choice for allcohol. this is not our first event, just the first time I will brew for it.
I will heed your advice and stick to the tried and true blonde ale, the same way I always brew it.

Blonde and maybe a steam beer? Steams are tasty and imo offer mass appeal.

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If someone has a few too many of your free beers, then wrecks their car on the way home and kills themselves, who does the family sue?

kombat said:

If someone has a few too many of your free beers, then wrecks their car on the way home and kills themselves, who does the family sue?

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ah... spoken like a fellow Canadian!

JDGator said:

ah... spoken like a fellow Canadian!

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I think its a valid question.

and i agree. that's the first thing i thought of when i read the OP.

kombat said:

If someone has a few too many of your free beers, then wrecks their car on the way home and kills themselves, who does the family sue?

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Anyone that has any money.