Beer and Blog Las Vegas

The Libation Blog event scheduled for tonight, Thursday 10/20, has been cancelled. However, Sean has arranged another event! The new date will be November 4th at Red Rock Casino on the patio of T-Bones. In addition to the free appetizers, everyone who signs up for this event either on Twtvite or Facebook will get a free full sized version of the demo drink. Sorry, signing up on both doesn’t get you twice the drinks! Please spread the word.

Hey, Vegas Beer & Bloggers. Mark your calendars! It’s been a while, but Libation Blog will be taping at Hachi in Red Rock on October 21st at 7 p.m. Join Sean as he mixes two drinks and the bartenders mix another three drinks. There will be free drinks and free appetizers. Come thirsty and prepared to possibly be on camera as the drink recipes will be filmed. Hope to see you there!

Rally wrote a great piece on the state of B&B Vegas, so I won’t rehash it. Simply put, Thursdays are busy days and quite often overlap with other tweetups and LVIMA (like this Thursday). We want to see the group grow and thrive again, and need your help to keep it going. Please take this survey to help get Beer & Blog Vegas back on track. And if you’re interested in volunteering to help out the elder drunks with planning and venue coordination, please make sure you leave your email in question #8. Thanks, and hope to see you at our next meeting.

Also, there’s a Stone Beer Dinner happening at Whole Foods on Las Vegas Blvd on Thursday, June 10th.  Cost is $30 per person, and the apparently have some tasty brews and bites. More information can be found here or you can RSVP with Sara in Marketing at sara.taylor@wholefoods.com.

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!

Whuffaoke kicks off in San Francisco

For everyone who wasn’t at Beer & Blog tonight, Whuffaoke’s stop #3 is Vegas, baby! The main event is Friday at Town Square from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.  The Winnebago will be parked somewhere around the Yardhouse.  Bring your requests and a sense of humor.  Stop by and say hello to the Whuffaoke team: Tara, Tony, Alex, Emma, Karen, and Ridley the Tweeting pug. Special thanks to Liza for running ground support for Whuffaoke!  Also, if you’re looking for some new threads, why not sport them Whuffaoke style? Get them through SpreadShirt.

And send good thoughts to the team… the Winnie had a rough go of desert traveling from San Francisco to LA today.  They made it, but will need lots of “I think I can!” thoughts to get over the mountains and into Vegas.

(Photo by Rod Begbie and used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 license)

On July 17th & 18th, Tara @missrogue Hunt is bringing her Winnebago to Vegas for some karaoke fun.  Think Cash Cab except in an RV with singing… bound to be a ton of fun!  You can check out the Whuffaoke web page for more details, follow them on Twitter @whuffaoke, or check out the Facebook page for more information and events.    The official hashtag for the event is #WhuffaokeLAS.  I’ll post updates as the events unfold!

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)

I hope to see you all there!

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.

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

Come meet and mingle with @coreymathews, @rwang0, @forrester, and others.

Forrester Research will be hosting a Tweetup at Dos Caminos in The Palazzo Hotel & Casino.

Join us for snacks, cash bar, and a great time!

Website: http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2374

We’d like to host some occasional (about monthly) talks about blogging-related topics at Beer & Blog.

Is there someone you would like to see as a guest speaker at Beer & Blog? Is there a blog-related topic you’d like to learn more about? Please post your suggestions for speakers and/or topics in the comments, and comment on others’ suggestions.

Feel free to suggest speakers who live out of town, too… the great thing about living in Vegas is it seems like everyone visits eventually. We’ll let them know we’d like to organize something during their next trip.