To kick off the Blog World / WordCamp weekend, let’s all get together for giant Beer & Blog meetup! There will be hundreds of people in from out of town, and I’ve already been approached by at least half a dozen who are looking forward to coming out and tipping a pint with the Vegas crew.
When: Thursday October 15th at 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Bar Louie in Town Square
Bar Louie has Happy Hour from 5pm – 7pm with food and drink specials.
I would like to give the bar a heads up as to roughly how many people are going to show. Head over to the Facebook event page and RSVP there! Thanks!
Last week at the Monster Vegas Tweetup held at Diablo’s, I was introduced to Shelly O’Connor from Whole Foods. She mentioned an upcoming event called “Beer – Animal Style.” I think you’d agree that by name alone, that’s an event that our group will definitely want to attend!
So here’s the scoop.
Beer – Animal Style is beer tasting event where you pay five bucks and get to sample 40 beers. Your five bucks doesn’t stop working for you there, either. You’ll also receive a souvenir glass, there will be 3 restaurant demos and, of course, the Famous Whole Foods Market Sampling. Oh, and if that’s not enough, proceeds from the event will be going to the Lied Animal Shelter!
Here are the details:
Date: June 27th, 2009
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: Whole Foods Market inside Town Square
Cost: $5 (cash at the door)
If you haven’t noticed already, it’s starting to get warm out. That can only mean one thing; it’s time to hit up Beer & Blog to cool off with an ice cold beer!
Thursday, June 11th from 6-8pm, come join us at Bar Louie inside Town Square for Beer & Blog.
Don’t forget that Bar Louie’s happy hour is from 5-7. Get there early to take advantage of their cheap drinks ($3 draft beers) and great food specials.
As usual, if you plan on attending, please let us know by leaving a comment or sending a direct message on Twitter to @beernblogvegas, @rally666, @vegasgeek or @sara_mooney. One of us will be happy to add you to the RSVP list below!
Thursday night from 6-8PM we’ll be taking over Bar Louie once again for Beer and Blog! Our turnout lately has been really decent and hope to keep that trend! On top of the normal emphasis on the beer aspect, we’ve had several blog and social media related discussions. Crazy, I know!
If you plan on attending, go ahead and send an RSVP tweet to @vegasgeek, @sara_mooney or @rally666 and we’ll get you added to the “Who’s Attending” list below!
Before we get to the attendees, a little bit of BnB Business to conduct. Recently the nice folks who run our parent site, beerandblog.com, upgraded the system to use BuddyPress. In short, BuddyPress is “Facebook in a box”. It’s basically a way to create your own little social network. As an attendee of our weekly BNB events, we’d like to invite you to have your own account on the BNB site. It will be an easy way to communicate with other BNB attendees in a less public forum than our beloved Twitter. There is but one drawback. There is no online signup available. To signup, please see me at the event tomorrow to fill out the pertinent information. I’ll then create your account for you. You can check out my profile here.
The votes are in, the community has spoken. Bar Louie is the winner!
I just got off the phone with the general manager from Bar Louie. We discussed the outstanding issue having to do with putting everybody on one check. He confirmed with me that it would be no problem to separate the checks out so nobody gets stuck with the bill at the end of the night.
I plan on getting there a little early this week to make sure we get seated at some tables either by the front door or back door so we aren’t crowded in right by the bar.
So, who’s coming this week? Go ahead and leave a comment here letting us know if you’ll be making it. Or, send a direct message to @sara_mooney, @rally666 or @vegasgeek and we’ll add you to the list!
If you haven’t figured it out already, Beer and Blog takes direction from what the community wants. There’s nobody in charge dictating the when and the where. The goal is to make as many people happy and comfortable so that we can focus on far more important things… like beering and blogging.
Last Thursday we ventured outside of the Freakin’ Frog to try out a new place; Bar Louie. We had a pretty decent turn-out with 25-30 people drifting in and out all evening long. Everybody seemed to have had a good time (I know I did). We did run in to an issue with the fact that they put our entire group on one tab making it a little confusing for who owed what at the end of the night. But aside from that, all the comments I received about the place were positive.
At the beginning of the evening I spoke with the manager about possibly moving our weekly meeting to Bar Louie. He said that if we had a set day and time (we do), he would be more than happy to set up reserved tables for us and would even include power strips for the laptop users. I will be speaking with the manager again today to discuss the issue with putting the entire group on one tab and I’m sure he’ll be more than happy to comply with our need for separate checks.
So, assuming the issue with the check is a non-issue, Bar Louie seemed like a pretty nice fit. But, like I said, this is more about what the community as a whole would like to do. So, I ask you, Where do you want to meet? If you don’t care for Freakin’ Frog or Bar Louie and have a suggestion for another location, please leave a comment on the post or in the poll.
It’s time for a change of scenery! This Thursday we will be moving our beering and blogging to a new location: Bar Louie!
This Thursday, May 7th, join us at Bar Louie for Beer And Blog from 6pm until 8pm!
We are testing out a new location to see if it works out as a place where we may be able to host other events that would include presentations or speakers. As much as we all love the Freakin’ Frog, it’s not very “user friendly” for having conversations with more than 2 or 3 people at a time. Please tell everybody you know that we are at a new location this week!
Bar Louie is located in Town Square right above the Yard House. They have happy hour specials from 5-7pm including $3 pints of beer. View Larger Map
As usual, if you plan on coming out to BNB, we’d love to have you RSVP by commenting below or sending a DM via twitter to @sara_mooney, @vegasgeek or @rally666. One of us will get you added to the list below!
There will be a group of the regulars BNB folks attending a Tweetup on Monday, May 18th. We wanted to invite you to join us. Here’s the information:
Forrester’s Las Vegas Tweetup – 2009
Monday May 18, 2009 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm Dos Caminos inside the Palazzo Hotel/Casino
3325 Las Vegas Blvd.
South Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Are you attending Forrester’s IT Forum 2009 or do you live in the Las Vegas area?
Suggested Topic: The pros and cons of SaaS vs. on-premise
It seems like just a week ago we were preparing for another Beer and Blog… Oh, wait… it WAS just a week ago.
Time to start RSVPing for this Thursday’s Beer and Blog. As per usual we will be meeting at the Freakin’ Frog on Maryland Parkway across from the UNLV campus from 6-8 PM.
Don’t forget that the Freakin’ Frog offers happy hour 2-1 beer specials and they have a menu for ordering some bar food as well.
Please send your RSVPs via twitter to @beernblogvegas or @rally666 or leave a comment on the post below!
At last week’s Beer and Blog event we were treated to something a little different. Sean from LibationBlog.com had scheduled some time upstairs in the Whiskey Attic in order to film several videos for his blog. Each video was Sean behind the bar mixing up some tasty drink. The best part was of course getting to drink all the concoctions once he was done filming each segment. One of the drinks was called the Mind Eraser. Apparently it lives up to it’s name because nobody can seem to remember the names of any of the other drinks he made that night. We’ll just have to keep checking out LibationBlog.com to refresh our memories as the videos get released.
As usual, we’d appreciate it if you could please send a quick RSVP if you plan on attending BNBLV on Thursday night. Feel free to DM @vegasgeek or @sara_mooney and we’ll add you to the list.
I’m looking forward to seeing the following people tomorrow night!
Justin Kistner
Jacqueline Mason
John Hawkins
Sara Mooney
Michael Wilder
Michelle Fox
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