HOToberfest Launch Party Elite Event at Ormsby’s

How can you not have fun with free beer, free food, and a bunch of cool opinionated people like you? It’s good to be elite. Thanks to Kathleen, Ormsby, Unilocalers and all the free beer. I’m not a huge shrimp and grits fan and I enjoyed it. Creamy with some beer to compliment.

Awesome event (as always) got to meet a few new Unilocalers as well! I liked this event very low-​key for a Sunday evening, great drinks and food-​the shrimp and grits were very tasty! I also liked the idea of Elite’s only it really made people mingle more opposed to the everyone staying to thier own «group» which happens at some events. Props to K&K for another great event!

HOToberfest Launch Party… What can I say that hasn’t been said before. Like Kristin B. I like beer, and it was a beer drinker’s delight. I also like free… and it was free. So, I’m good on those accounts. It also got me super excited about HOToberfest. Sounds like a total blast. Beer and Music Festival… all for charity? Yes please.
Oh, and the food? Lets just say that my initial complaints about Ormsby’s have been resolved.

Last night at Ormsby’s can be summed up with a simple equation:
Good beer + strangers + x = Very competitive games of x while drinking with strangers (where x = skee ball, bocce ball, or jenga).
Had a blast last night. Alcohol consumption was probably a bit more than anticipated, as reflected in fierce games of skee ball. Met some new people and we ended up staying for dinner, all the while trying to not lose at jenga or having blocks spill over our entrees. Their gourmet BLT was delicious. So were their onion rings, which were so large they had their own gravitational pull, and likely influencing the outcome of jenga.
Thumbs up for HOToberfest and Unilocal for putting this together and making it not feel like a Sunday night!

Ormsby was a pretty cool place. We had some intense games of bocce and Apples to Apples. I also got a t-​shirt. That always gets an extra star for me.

I like these more relaxed, laid back elite events. I like them even more when they’re on Sunday nights so I can go! (Boo law school, yay Sundays!).
Since the reason I’ve missed just about every elite event in the past year because they were on nights I had class, here’s what I learned from last night’s event in law school outline form:
1. Libations
(A) I like beer
(I) Not just sweet, light, fruity beer
2. Food
(A) Corn dogs have come a long way
(B) A bar can have good shrimp and grits
3. Free Stuff
(A) I’ve come to the point in my life where I don’t automatically grab a free t-​shirt just because it’s free
(B) I’ve NOT come to the point in my life where I don’t automatically grab free chapstick
4. Random Knowledge that may or may not be on the final exam
(A) The Scoutmob 24 hour redemption record is 14 (Go Pam and Taylor!)
(B) Unilocalers are just as nice as I remembered

Ormsby’s is fun, especially when you have your own private room to eat, drink, and play games. In my few years of Unilocaling, this was the first time I’ve been to an event that was strictly Elites only. I thought it was a good idea, especially for a smaller venue like Ormsby’s. I saw several new faces and met some recently crowned Elites.
The food was good and the beer was flowing. My favorite was the corn dog with spicy mayo. A group of us played several intense games of bocce, guys vs. girls. The guys won. We broke out some Rainbow Jumbling Towers (Jenga) and Apples to Apples too. I think I spent all of my time at this event playing games.
Thanks to Kathleen, Ken, the photographer, the folks at Ormsby’s, the beer people, the tree people, and the Uganda mission people. I’m going to wear my HOToberfest t-​shirt tonight.

Yes. This event was so awesome. Not only did I get two Unilocal Chapsticks and a thingy of mints, I also got try some really delicious beer (Innis & Gun? Holla!) and meet lots of nice people. This was my first event as an ‘Elite’ and I have to admit, ya’ll ain’t half bad.
Oh yes… I am totally going to Hotoberfest now.

Awesome event. Many thanks to the folks who put this together.
All the sponsors were great folks, most of whom I already love. I met some new beers and some new great people. I’m going to have to work Hotoberfest into the schedule and budget if this is the quality we get to look forward to.

This event came at a great time as I am a newly beer drinker. Loooved the Sweetwater Blue and those mini corn dogs with the spicy mayo.
Props to the awesome Hoctoberfest people for letting us sample awesome beers and expanding my knowledge of the tasty beer world.
I’m back in ATL people! Here’s to an awesome Unilocal year. Cheers :)

Finally a chance to check out Ormsby’s! Tonight’s beer tasting was utopia for beer drinkers — I’m a lightweight so I only tried one glass of the Innis and Gunn rum cask. Nice rich flavor! Of course I’m more about the food — my favorite of the evening was the shrimp & grits! Wow probably ranked as one of the best shrimp & grits ever! The subtle sweetness made me think cream was probably the secret ingredient and looking at the menu later … yup, sherry cream :) A couple other apps I tried was the prime rib w/​horseradish and the lamb sausage. I missed out on the corn dogs :(I didn’t play any of the games either — I think I was more interested in eating … haha, we ended up sticking around and ordering dinner too.
I saw more new faces tonight than ever before … sadly I only managed to meet two new people: Blair, and the lady at the Missions table. I’m a huge supporter of world missions so I thought it was awesome to find out the funds raised for HOToberfest will go toward helping the children in Uganda.
Overall, always good to see all the familiar faces at these events. And thanks to HOToberfest for the t-​shirts and cups! And thanks to our lovely hosts Kathleen, Ken, and Ormsby’s!