WI (Midwest) Meetup

[HoffmanMyster]

Okay, this is it, people.  The greatest region-specific GH meetup.   

A little disclaimer: I did have a hard time organizing a MN meetup a few months ago. I am confident that being out of school will make this much easier for me.   

So the details...
Date: October 25th <-- set in stone
Time: 1:00-6:00pm (tentative)
Location: My house in eastern WI (that's right! I'm opening my house to you weirdos      )  I will PM everyone confirmed to attend at a later date with the address.

As the title implies, I'm hoping to get some interest from all the Midwest folks. Hopefully someone is willing to make the drive?

Post a comment to express interest or questions/concerns!


Tentative List of Attendees:

• HoffmanMyster (definitely)
• CPTBadAss (definitely)
• exitfire401 (definitely)
• The_Beast (probably? if he bothers to drive 2 hours)
• Melvang (definitely)
• Alexiss (definitely)
• dustinhxc (if he can make the drive)
• Joey Quinn (most likely)
• halodub (probably)
• Synjin (definitely)
• cinnamonrollz (definitely)
• prdlm2009 (probably)

Edit:
Tentative date has been included now.
Date is set, tentative time is up, attendance responses are updated.

[exitfire401]

If it's during a weekend, I may be able to do it. Just depends on the financial situation at the time.

[The_Beast]

Madison would work best, but I'd be down for a small drive


Be aware that I only have my unsaver and titanium GH60 with me over the summer. I might have to go back home sometime, so I could pick up some of my other boards when I'm there

[Melvang]

I would be interested as well just need a bit of time in advance for the wifes work.

[dustinhxc]

Not sure if I can make an Eastern WI Trip but Ill be watching this. 

[vivalarevolución]

I'll be in if somebody wants to charter a private plane for me to fly in from Indianapolis.  We could make a landing in Chicago to pick up anybody from there.

[CPTBadAss]

Think I'll be around. Was supposed to visit Hoff anyways

[HoffmanMyster]

To address the location issue:

I know it's not ideal, but I figure if we're driving somewhere anyway, a free and reliable venue is worth it.  If anyone is interested, I am more than willing to let you sleep on my couches/floor. 

My biggest issue with setting up the MN meetup was finding a venue that didn't cost $200 and wasn't inlikeflynn's workplace ( ), so I wanted to just eliminate that issue altogether.

It will be a weekend.  Part of the stage I'm at now is selecting the weekend, so if anyone can offer a time that does or does not work, that will give us a starting point. 

[CPTBadAss]

August and September is looking busy for me now. So October maybe?

[exitfire401]

August and September is looking busy for me now. So October maybe?

October would give me plenty of time to save up for the trip.

[HoffmanMyster]

And this - CPTBadAss will be there.  So y'all better show up.   

Think I'll be around. Was supposed to visit Hoff anyways

Also, this may dictate the date.   

[HoffmanMyster]

August and September is looking busy for me now. So October maybe?

October would give me plenty of time to save up for the trip.

Sounds like it might be late October, specifically the weekend of the 25th.  How does that work (or not work) for people?

[exitfire401]

August and September is looking busy for me now. So October maybe?

October would give me plenty of time to save up for the trip.

Sounds like it might be late October, specifically the weekend of the 25th.  How does that work (or not work) for people?

To the extent of my knowledge, I have nothing going on that weekend. I'll ask my fiance though.

[CPTBadAss]

Tell fiance you'll be busy eating Culver's with us, admiring Hoffman's keyboard collection.

[Lurch]

HMMMMMMM.

[Smasher816]

Well I'm in the Midwest right now. But I'll be in Californiafor school starting this September so sadly I don't think I will be able to make it to your house Hoff. Luckily there we will Kiibohd meetups for me to attend.

[Joey Quinn]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

[HoffmanMyster]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

Oooh, yer in da yoop der ey??

Michigan Tech?

I hope so too! 

[exitfire401]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

Oooh, yer in da yoop der ey??

Michigan Tech?

I hope so too! 

I was about to ask if he was a husky haha.

[Joey Quinn]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

Oooh, yer in da yoop der ey??

Michigan Tech?

I hope so too! 

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

[exitfire401]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

Oooh, yer in da yoop der ey??

Michigan Tech?

I hope so too! 

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Congrats! Have fun in the desolation haha. My best friend is a recent alum from there (computer science) and he loved it. I spent a weekend up there and couldn't wait to leave XD

[HoffmanMyster]

Hopefully I'll be able to escape school in da up for a weekend and attend my first meetup!

Oooh, yer in da yoop der ey??

Michigan Tech?

I hope so too! 

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Nice!  That should be fun.  I work with a ton of people who either graduated from there or are going there.

Also, if you are considering coming down for a meetup it would be about a 4 hour drive for you.   

[Joey Quinn]

Congrats! Have fun in the desolation haha. My best friend is a recent alum from there (computer science) and he loved it. I spent a weekend up there and couldn't wait to leave XD

I'm an outdoorsy guy fishing, camping, climbing that sort of thing so I love the location. 

Nice!  That should be fun.  I work with a ton of people who either graduated from there or are going there.

Also, if you are considering coming down for a meetup it would be about a 4 hour drive for you.   

4 hours actually isn't bad but I don't have a car so I'd need to see if I could take a bus there.

[CPTBadAss]

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Best major. You'll work your ass off and then hopefully get to do some great stuff

[Joey Quinn]

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Best major. You'll work your ass off and then hopefully get to do some great stuff

I got my schedule a few weeks ago and it does indeed appear that I'll be working my ass off but I've had a few internships so I know I enjoy doing the work. 

[halodub]

Where would you be in Eastern WI? I'm about 10-15 minutes outside of downtown myself.

[Smasher816]

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Best major. You'll work your ass off and then hopefully get to do some great stuff

Computer Science here (possibly double majoring in E.E.). Starting of with Calculus III to get the ball rolling.

[CPTBadAss]

Computer Science here (possibly double majoring in E.E.). Starting of with Calculus III to get the ball rolling.

I'm sorry. Best of luck to you

[Joey Quinn]

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Best major. You'll work your ass off and then hopefully get to do some great stuff

Computer Science here (possibly double majoring in E.E.). Starting of with Calculus III to get the ball rolling.

Computer science at MTU? If so we should totally meet up!

Edit: Just noticed your earlier post

[HoffmanMyster]

As it turns out I am a husky, about to start freshman year for mechanical engineering!

Best major. You'll work your ass off and then hopefully get to do some great stuff

Computer Science here (possibly double majoring in E.E.). Starting of with Calculus III to get the ball rolling.

That's a good one.  Seriously.  I loved those classes.

Where would you be in Eastern WI? I'm about 10-15 minutes outside of downtown myself.

Fox cities.  I see that you're down by mke.      I'm from down there originally, but came up here for work. 
If you're interested in coming, let me know. 

[halodub]

Fox cities.  I see that you're down by mke.      I'm from down there originally, but came up here for work. 
If you're interested in coming, let me know. 

Nice! Yeah, I'm about 15 minutes (normally) from the airport. It's construction season though so going anywhere is like an extra 10-15 minutes -_- I'd definitely be interested in going though when the time comes

[Synjin]

Definitely interested in this since it is only 50 minutes to travel to Fox Cities from Steven' Point

[HoffmanMyster]

Alright guys, with a tentative (very probable!) date of October 25th, I'm hoping to get some more solid responses than "maybe".    I know there are still going to be some uncertainties, and that's fine, but it helps me plan things if we know a little more about who might be here. 

I've put together the worst list in the world, where everything is a 'maybe', in the OP.  If you want your status changed, make a post saying so!  Or else you will forever be tentative.

[VesperSAINT]

I'LL BE THERE!!!......




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[CPTBadAss]

There will be a mandatory ice cream frozen custard trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

[The_Beast]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

[CPTBadAss]

K, I'm good with that.

[HoffmanMyster]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

[Joey Quinn]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

This meet up is sounding better and better I really need to figure out a way to get down.

[Melvang]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

Do you have a charcoal chimney?  If not I will bring a nice one for you.  Here is the trick to getting awesome brats when cooking for large crowds.  Have beer with onions very coarsely chopped in a slow cooker just low enough that it doesn't boil, cook said brats on grill then put them in the beer.  The grill will dry them out but the beer puts it right back in.  By keeping the temp above 180 but below 212 the alcohol cooks out but the water don't, for those that have an issue with consuming it.  If not it works great to keep them juicy and good flavor.

[The_Beast]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

Do you have a charcoal chimney?  If not I will bring a nice one for you.  Here is the trick to getting awesome brats when cooking for large crowds.  Have beer with onions very coarsely chopped in a slow cooker just low enough that it doesn't boil, cook said brats on grill then put them in the beer.  The grill will dry them out but the beer puts it right back in.  By keeping the temp above 180 but below 212 the alcohol cooks out but the water don't, for those that have an issue with consuming it.  If not it works great to keep them juicy and good flavor.

What a joker, trying to tell people from Wisconsin how to cook brats

Best joke I've heard all day!

[Melvang]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

Do you have a charcoal chimney?  If not I will bring a nice one for you.  Here is the trick to getting awesome brats when cooking for large crowds.  Have beer with onions very coarsely chopped in a slow cooker just low enough that it doesn't boil, cook said brats on grill then put them in the beer.  The grill will dry them out but the beer puts it right back in.  By keeping the temp above 180 but below 212 the alcohol cooks out but the water don't, for those that have an issue with consuming it.  If not it works great to keep them juicy and good flavor.

What a joker, trying to tell people from Wisconsin how to cook brats

Best joke I've heard all day!

Not trying to tell him, just offering a method I have used when cooking brats for larger events (around 500 brats).  Mind if I bring up some beer from a local micro brewery?  If is from Millstream Brewing.

Little back story on this stuff.  The first year my dad got a keg for a 4th of July party, everyone was complaining that they don't drink dark beer.  Well, 4 hours later the keg was gone.  He goes and gets a keg of regular Bud and it was still half full the next morning.  But nope, they don't drink dark beer.

[The_Beast]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

Do you have a charcoal chimney?  If not I will bring a nice one for you.  Here is the trick to getting awesome brats when cooking for large crowds.  Have beer with onions very coarsely chopped in a slow cooker just low enough that it doesn't boil, cook said brats on grill then put them in the beer.  The grill will dry them out but the beer puts it right back in.  By keeping the temp above 180 but below 212 the alcohol cooks out but the water don't, for those that have an issue with consuming it.  If not it works great to keep them juicy and good flavor.

What a joker, trying to tell people from Wisconsin how to cook brats

Best joke I've heard all day!

Not trying to tell him, just offering a method I have used when cooking brats for larger events (around 500 brats).  Mind if I bring up some beer from a local micro brewery?  If is from Millstream Brewing.

Little back story on this stuff.  The first year my dad got a keg for a 4th of July party, everyone was complaining that they don't drink dark beer.  Well, 4 hours later the keg was gone.  He goes and gets a keg of regular Bud and it was still half full the next morning.  But nope, they don't drink dark beer.

I was just making a joke. People from Wisconsin (should) know how to cook brats

[Melvang]

There will be a mandatory ice cream trip....and probably a trip to the fountain pen store in town .

**** ice cream, we're getting custard.


non negotiable

Culver's, it's a done deal. 

Also, I will be buying cheese curds.  And some beer.  Oooooh and we could grill some brats!  Oh man oh man oh man.

Do you have a charcoal chimney?  If not I will bring a nice one for you.  Here is the trick to getting awesome brats when cooking for large crowds.  Have beer with onions very coarsely chopped in a slow cooker just low enough that it doesn't boil, cook said brats on grill then put them in the beer.  The grill will dry them out but the beer puts it right back in.  By keeping the temp above 180 but below 212 the alcohol cooks out but the water don't, for those that have an issue with consuming it.  If not it works great to keep them juicy and good flavor.

What a joker, trying to tell people from Wisconsin how to cook brats

Best joke I've heard all day!

Not trying to tell him, just offering a method I have used when cooking brats for larger events (around 500 brats).  Mind if I bring up some beer from a local micro brewery?  If is from Millstream Brewing.

Little back story on this stuff.  The first year my dad got a keg for a 4th of July party, everyone was complaining that they don't drink dark beer.  Well, 4 hours later the keg was gone.  He goes and gets a keg of regular Bud and it was still half full the next morning.  But nope, they don't drink dark beer.

I was just making a joke. People from Wisconsin (should) know how to cook brats

All good man,  I think I have had my jimmies officially rustled 3 times in the last 12 years or so aside from the occasional spat with the wife.

[CPTBadAss]

New goal for this meetup, everyone try to rustle melvangs jimmies

[Synjin]

There is actually a micro brew in our area called Ozo, otherwise we have the Point Brewery right in my town ^^

[HoffmanMyster]

There is actually a micro brew in our area called Ozo, otherwise we have the Point Brewery right in my town ^^

Point is good!  And there's a place in town here that brews beer, but I'm not sure if you can get it outside of the restaurant.

I will, of course, have some New Glarus.  Because Wisconsin.  I don't think you're allowed to host an event and not have New Glarus.

[HoffmanMyster]

I just bought a grill today so here's a picture to tease everyone and help convince you to come here. 

[CPTBadAss]

Steaks and brats?

[Melvang]

@Hoffmanmyster, congratz on not buying a gas grill, I am so proud of you.

@CPTBadAss, that will be a Legendary level achivement if anyone can get my jimmies rustled at the meetup.