Meet'n Greet

Unfortunately, something important has come up and I too will not be able to attend this one. I've been jonesin for a great cheesesteak too!!

I was there yesterday, and Matt is all ready......looks like a great time for everyone. Talk a little, learn a lot, even take home a load from the breakers. Lots to see and do, and new friends to meet. If you are touring the DiRenzo Plant, don't wear high heels, the grates will trip you. ( Stoker Scotty sometimes breaks them out when he is out on the town..........................)

A word of advice Matt, don't leave Scotty with the bar keys while you are out touring. He holds the speed record for 'chuggin' back at home. 39 feet per second is one heck of a flow rate for an active beer tube!! Keep it between the navigational beacons when you get into Scranton around the bridge rehab. I spent some time waiting for wreck to get cleared last night!

Not happy... will not be able to make it.

After a strech of unemploment, I am now back to work and it is overtime and out of town to boot.

Matt,

Thanks for everything you have done for this gathering.
Also, count me out for the Friday intenery as well.

Looking forward to pictures after the fun and festivities

McGiever wrote:Not happy... will not be able to make it.

After a strech of unemploment, I am now back to work and it is overtime and out of town to boot.

Matt,

Thanks for everything you have done for this gathering.
Also, count me out for the Friday intenery as well.

Looking forward to pictures after the fun and festivities

I feel you. I too had to back out and am not happy myself. Also for financial reasons. I was hoping my wife and I would be in a little better position this weekend and I could still go but we aren't.

Sorry to see some won't make I'm sure this won't be the last event I organize. Maybe things will work out next time. If my calculations are correct we sill have about 25 people attending, not bad! Looking forward to meeting everyone See ya Saturday.

Matthew

just got the text message that my coverage for the store cant do it , family emergency...

we wont be able to make it

no arm wrestling for me tomorrow....

were out also came home sick as hell and not going to chance trying to push myself and get worse

I’ll be there tomorrow morning, looks like my beer quota went up

Who has the link to the live streaming bar cam at the meet'n greet?

http//www.toodrunktospeakandIpeedmy pants.com/stokerscottstolemy beer

You R way too cute!!!!! Hahahahahah.

Well what a great day. It was nice to meet everyone who attended. Matt was an awesome host and had a good day planned, and by the way does make an awesome cheesesteak . There were even gifts from yuengling for everyone. My wife brought our camera and took pictures of most of the day, however the pics will have to wait till tomorrow. I don't know how to do all the uploading and posting, and my wonderful wife said she would post them in the morning. So stay tuned for pics in the AM.



Have a great day everyone, Eric

Great!... I would have been severely disappointed if no one posted pics..

I have to thank MATHEW D. for a great Meet’n Greet Saturday. He was most generous with his time in setting this up and being our Pottsville tour guide as well as giving the use of his establishment as a base of operation for the day.

The Keystoker tour was very interesting and it was god to see all the bare stove bodies and boilers setting around. No shortage yet. Don was the tour guide there and he is the go to guy if you have questions about your Keystoker. Down in the warehouse we got to see the Keystoker BFB, that would be the biggest boiler they make, the grate assembly is quite impressive. They also report some exciting developments for the future.

The Historical Society of Schuylkill County is an interesting place. We did a short stop there to see some of their mining artifacts and pictures and maps. This is a place I will return to on my own some day. Anyone with roots in Schuylkill County and or an interest in the civil war can find things of interest there. Folks from out of the area may find it less interesting.

The Yuengling tour was my second go round so it was nothing new except we did learn that the first $18 of every barrel goes to the Feds and the next $2 and change goes to the Commonwealth. Also note that the government meter measures the volume made not the finished product so beer spilled or lost in the bottling and caning process is already taxed. Thanks to Yuengling for the free stuff! Mathew was able to set us all up with some very nice glasses and bottle openers as well as a few shirts and other items that were distributed via a drawing of names.

We then ended up at a hole in the ground. The nice thing about looking at this hole in the ground was it was an excellent look at how the coal lays between the rocks within the mountains of the anthracite region. It was a nice cut away section of the mountain with a coal vein in it.

Our last stop was DiRenzo Coal Company. We can talk coal processing all day and how it is done but you have to see the machine up close and personal to better grasp and appreciate it. We saw centrifugal separators and shakers and screeners and even some big magnets if you need an MRI and are on a tight budget or lack insurance. We got to meet three DiRenzo brothers, a handsome one and two others, they know who is who so I won’t mention names. It was a most interesting tour to see what takes place between a load of black stuff out of the ground and nice cleaned and sized anthracite out of the loading chute.

We concluded at The Brass Tap for cheese steaks and beer. The cheese steaks lived up to the hype. Nice and big, full of meat made to order on a toasted roll. My wife is planning on stopping by again on a future cheese steak night. The cheese fries were also excellent.

Many thanks again to Mathew, Keystoker, The Historical Society of Schuylkill County, Yuengling Beer, and DiRenzo Coal Company. It was a good day and nice to get to see and no some fellow forum members and coal burners.

A second here,here on the tour and thanks to Matt.
I'll wait to see what pictures are posted and try to fill in
any gaps if there are any. The DiRenzo tour was most impressive.
With the capital invested in digging and processing, coal is a great bargain.

I'll give the cheese steaks a 10 out of 10 along with the hospitality.