Beer Forum

Our club would really like to participate in Club Night at the 2013 NHC. However, I'm not sure how many of our members will actually attend. I don't want to sign up now and then have to kill myself on Club Night with hardly any help. What is the realistic cut-off date that our club has to give to participate? I probably won't know for sure until it's time for people to pony up the cash for tickets and the hotel.

It all depends on how much you want to put into it.
Some clubs have a table with some kegs and picnic taps and maybe wear a club t-shirt.
Others build an elaborate booth, wear costumes and put on all kinds of gimmicky shit.

How many beers do you think you'll be able to pour?
How will they get to Philly? (somebody has to transport them there).
Does your club drag ass on shit? Or do you have a few guys that will want to bust ass?

My advice:
1) pick guys to help you that you can trust.
2) give them specific tasks and make a schedule in writing where everything is laid out and everyone knows what they are responsible for and when.
3) Start forming committees now. You'd be surprised how fast time goes by, besides, some beers need a year to be ready.

HTH-



PS- The biggest issue for a lot of the clubs here was tickets. We had several
clubs that had to pull out because they only had 1 club member get a ticket. We ended up issuing club-only tickets for about 100 folks,
but there were still clubs that couldn't field a big enough team. Make sure you have an email list that you hammer your club with on
how many tickets are left. I sent an email every couple of hours as I heard reports on how fast the

When we landed the event in 2009, our proposed 1800 person event would have easily set the record as the biggest event to date. Then, San Diego blew the record out, and we had even more demand. Of all the things about NHC, that was one of the things that bothered us the most. Hopefully, next year the tickets won't sell out in 48 hours.

BDawg wrote:It all depends on how much you want to put into it.
Some clubs have a table with some kegs and picnic taps and maybe wear a club t-shirt.
Others build an elaborate booth, wear costumes and put on all kinds of gimmicky shit.

How many beers do you think you'll be able to pour?
How will they get to Philly? (somebody has to transport them there).
Does your club drag ass on shit? Or do you have a few guys that will want to bust ass?

My advice:
1) pick guys to help you that you can trust.
2) give them specific tasks and make a schedule in writing where everything is laid out and everyone knows what they are responsible for and when.
3) Start forming committees now. You'd be surprised how fast time goes by, besides, some beers need a year to be ready.

HTH-



PS- The biggest issue for a lot of the clubs here was tickets. We had several
clubs that had to pull out because they only had 1 club member get a ticket. We ended up issuing club-only tickets for about 100 folks,
but there were still clubs that couldn't field a big enough team. Make sure you have an email list that you hammer your club with on
how many tickets are left. I sent an email every couple of hours as I heard reports on how fast the

When we landed the event in 2009, our proposed 1800 person event would have easily set the record as the biggest event to date. Then, San Diego blew the record out, and we had even more demand. Of all the things about NHC, that was one of the things that bothered us the most. Hopefully, next year the tickets won't sell out in 48 hours.

Thanks for the advice, from someone who's been there. We have a meeting tonight. Guess it's time to form a committee.