GRABASS lunch this week (Raleigh, NC)

[Kaiser]

Guys,

It's time again to meet for lunch.

Here are the options: Greenshields or some other bar in the area, or a BYOB lunch at my place.

The latter depends on the weather. I can take orders for pizza/subs from Amante (http://www.amantepizza.com/index.html) and pick them up. We would then meet at my place where we can all bring beer or live off the Kaiser's stash. My place is close to Davis Drive.

What do you think? And what days would be preferred?

Kai

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I'm good with all of those options. Wed-Fri would work best for me.

 

[Kaiser]

Why don't we aim for Wednesday or Thursday. Lets keep and eye on the weather since I like the back-yard lunch idea since it is pretty cheap

Kai

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

It's a plan.

 

[Walker]

Wed and Thurs don't work terribly well for me this week. (Thursday NEVER works well, b/c I have a meeting that starts at 1pm).

Wed has a meeting at 2pm for me, so I could probably do it, but I couldn't dally too long and would need to scoot back to work PDQ. Friday is wide open for me. No meetings, but I do have to go for an MRI on my knee at about 3pm.

So, my preference is Fri followed by Wed. Thursday is essentially impossible for me.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Don't we all need to be back to work by 1? I do, or perhaps 1:30 latest. We should see if we can kill all of the Kaiser's kegs in an hour!

 

[Walker]

My schedule is flexible except for the meetings. On Tuesdays, I don't come in until 11am, and go home at about 8pm.

a 2 or 3 hour lunch is no problem here, unless I have a meeting that requires me to be back.

Then again... all of my meetings take place in CA and I call in on the phone, so I guess I *could* call in from Kaiser's deck while drinking. No one would know the difference.

This means you guys can't break into a rendition of "Ein Prosit!" while I am talking, but....

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

This means you guys can't break into a rendition of "Ein Prosit!" while I am talking, but....

Will there be lyric sheets? Should I bring an accordion?

 

[Walker]

No instruments needed. Ein Prosit is best done a capella.

Kai and I can give you lyrics, but if you want to be like most Americans in Muenchen, you just scream out whatever jibber-jabber sounds kind of like what Kai and I are signing.

The most inportant thing is knowing when to take a pull from your stein.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Jibber jabbering and pulling from steins are two things I'm great at. Where's BOSTON?

 

[Walker]

Where's BOSTON?

Massachusetts.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

That's Boston, not BOSTON. Unless BOSTON is in Boston. In which case he really gets around the East coast.

 

[Walker]

Yeah, I was just yanking your chain.

BOSTON is around. He started working on an IPA at 7am yesterda and called me at about 9:30am because he was pretty jazzed about a mini-mash/lauter tun that he built and used. It sounded nifty.

He won't be able to go the festival this weekend b/c he participates in a charity golf tournament every year and it falls on the same weekend as the festival, but me might be able to join the rest of us for lunch.

I don't think he sits in front of the computer slacking off all day like the rest of us, so he'll probably respond tonight or tomorrow.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I don't think he sits in front of the computer slacking off all day like the rest of us, so he'll probably respond tonight or tomorrow.

You mean there's something else we could be doing?

 

[Boston]

Just got back from the 'Canes game. Double OT loss to Les Habitants. Wed. & Fri. are not good. Thurs. is good. Kai's house sounds good.
Jeff

 

[Boston]

And another thing...did Kai really type the word GRABASS? Shame, shame
Jeff

 

[Kaiser]

It will be raining tomorrow, this is a no for Wednesday. But Thursday and Friday look good. But we have a problem, Thursday doesn't work for Walker and Friday doesn't work for BOSTON

Kai

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

But we have a problem, Thursday doesn't work for Walker and Friday doesn't work for BOSTON

Steel cage wrestling match?

 

[Boston]

Just a thought....maybe we should get together after the Raleigh BeerFest so we can chat about it.
Jeff

 

[Walker]

we have a problem, Thursday doesn't work for Walker and Friday doesn't work for BOSTON
Kai

Problem solved. My Thursday afternoon meeting was moved to Friday afternoon, so everything reversed for me; Thursday is good for me, Friday is bad.

THURSDAY IT IS.

-walker

 

[Kaiser]

Problem solved. My Thursday afternoon meeting was moved to Friday afternoon, so everything reversed for me; Thursday is good for me, Friday is bad.

THURSDAY IT IS.

-walker

Well then, Thursday it is.

Kai

 

[Ruy Lopez]

First Question: Can you gentlemen stand another denizen of Raleigh at your meetings? (Looking for local beerheads to trade some homebrew with.)

Second Question: Is the word "gentlemen" often misused?

 

[Boston]

Ruy,
We're meeting for lunch today @ 11:45 at Greenshield's in Cary. You are cordially invited to join us. Look for 4 extremely handsome guys drinking beer.
Jeff

 

[Walker]

Look for 4 extremely handsome guys drinking beer.
Jeff

and if you can't find those guys, you can always join the 4 of us.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

New guy pays?

 

[Ruy Lopez]

I'm sorry I couldn't make it today. I work all week during the day.

I'll take a rain check for a weekend.

-Damian

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I'm sorry I couldn't make it today. I work all week during the day.

I felt like that this morning.

 

[Ruy Lopez]

Or maybe it was "I work all day during the week."

You get the idea.

Teaching sucks during the year, but damn, a summer-long brewfest is not a bad thing to look forward to.

Do you guys do most of your shopping at American Brewmaster?

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Do you guys do most of your shopping at American Brewmaster?

Pretty much. I think the other guys do more than I do as I live in Fuquay which makes it 30 minutes each way for me. I try to buy there for the most part to support them, but I'll occasionally buy from Austin Homebrew, as well.

 

[Walker]

and we recently (3 of us) split a gigantic bulk hops order from hopsdirect.com.