Summer scooping schedule

When a toper is tired of Reluctant Scooping, he is tired of life. But I want to remix the soundtrack this summer - here's ten things I want to do beer-wise. If anyone can help me out with them, let me know.

Brew again - only this time, I'll do more cleaning and shovelling. Any microbrewers fancy a spare pair of hands for the day?

On the road - I want to be a drayman's mate, get a feel (literally) for lugging barrels around. If it's a beer I've helped to brew, even better.

Be a barman - I've never pulled a pint. What's life like on the business side of the bar? Even better if I'm pulling pints of a beer I've had a hand in brewing and delivering.... can you see the connection?

Understand cider and perry - perhaps one for the autumn but I'd love to spend some time with a cidermaker. And Mrs Reluctant, being a perry-head, would like a look-in, too.

Work at GBBF; never worked a CAMRA fest before, never been to GBBF before so there's two birds with one stone. Anyone have advice to offer a newbie on what GBBF is really like on both sides of the bar?

Have a weekend in London; Southwark pubs and Utobeer, Sam Smiths architectural gems, meet up with Bloggers and Twitterers and Ratebeerians. All without having to stagger back to St Pancreatic and plead with East Midlands Trains to let me go home, even though my cheapo pre-booked train left two hours before.

Take a European beer trip that isn't to Belgium; I love the place but I'd like to try something different. Germany? Austria? Italy sounds like it has a thriving beer scene. Any other suggestions?

Trade beers with the United States; I haven't yet dipped my toe into the water of transatlantic beer trading. If anyone has experience of this - either via a site like ratebeer.com or off their own bat - I'd like to know. If you're Stateside and fancy trading, really do let me know!

Go fishing; no matter what fish, as long as the sun's on my back and the beers are in the cool box. To get a few people together who are keen and knowledgable about beer and fish but don't bore on about either for an afternoon. Eating beer-battered fish that evening would be a bonus.

Have a relaxing ratebeer.com European Summer Gathering; they'll be tons of ratebeerians, pubs, brewery visits, odd bottles... I want to meet old friends and make new ones, share local and rare beers, but not feel like it's a mental-merry-go-round. Chill in Sheffield with some hoppy summer beer and a few cupcakes.

Sheezh, looks like a busy summer. But OMGWTFBBQ it should be fun.