Friday, February 5, 2010

Beer & Blog, GoWalla, SuperBowl & More

One busy week sandwiched in between two busy weekends had caused me to fall behind in my blogging duties. Not to make it sound like it's a job or anything, but it is a lot of work in my spare time. So let's do a recap of what happened this week.

Beer & Blog last Thursday on another side of town, nice dynamic, nice turn out and super great service and co operation from Gordon Biersch (@Gordon_Biersch). We had a good time and some great discussion that evening.

Friday night featured the new tapas style addition to Town Square, Cana.  I enjoyed a couple cocktails and some tastes of serveral dishes, over all it was very good, but a tad pricey.  They are rolling out a happy hour menu very soon, so we are looking forward to a return visit.

Also rolled downtown on Friday night and enjoyed the new Hardway IPA at the Chicago Brewing Company, nestled atop the Four Queens Casino. 

Going into the weekend we had dinner trip planned to head out to the Nellis area of town and visit the Big Dogs Bar & Grill. Manya (@Manya) needed to add the location (along with a few from the Friday evening excursions) into her GoWalla Las Vegas brewery trip.  So we headed down there for a nice dinner at the older establishment.  Bit of a different vibe from the Draft House where we spend a lot of time, but same good beer and food.

Also did a ton of shopping over the weekend for our planned Super Bowl party this weekend. Got me a lot of stamps and visits in FourSquare (@FourSquare) and GoWalla (@GoWalla). Not as many as I would have liked in GoWalla as suddenly the ability to add new venues on mobile web for the Android platform was missing.

Moving into the week I ended up going out Monday & Tuesday, knowing I had plans on Wednesday for the previously mentioned GoWalla Swapmeet A large number of met up at Diablo's Cantina to exchange items, and get some swag that the kind folks that develop GoWalla sent along.

There may have been an excessive number of check ins that evening, but hey, when you are in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip... it's hard not to sneak a few drive by check ins.

Beer & Blog last night was back at the Frog, which had an excellent set of taps last night. All currently updated on Taplister.com (@Taplister), check it out to find out what craft beers are on tap around town. Another good turnout for Beer & Blog, the new year is starting out strong.

Finally heading into the 5pm on a Friday, anxious to get home and get prepping for the party on Sunday. Another huge week next week, pretty full with upcoming events.