With the combination of beautiful weather, a strong musical line-up and super attendance, we had not adequately planned on beer stations for the size of the crowd. In other words "we really blew it". Although we identified the problem by 4:30pm in the afternoon, it took a few hours for the third beer truck to arrive to relieve the pressure of the beer lines. I apologize to both our loyal fans and our new Summit friends who experienced this frustration.

In an expression of sincerity I have cut off internal use of the Ratskeller taps for the week of Oct. 9th. That means no beer breaks for the staff and I. To make sure we're not accessing the taps at the brewery (except for tours) we have set-up a WebCam. Like beer lines, the webcam program can only serve so many at a time, but we wanted to give you chance to check-up on us.

Most humbly yours,