GrokMeetUps are back like we tried before but better this time. Another reboot like our GrokTALK! podcast, and it’s time to get them rolling again.
In no small part, I love talking with all of you and, better, listening to you folks! And for this reboot, we’re going back to our roots – to where these started.
Area 23 Craft Beer and Ciders
254 North State Street Unit H
Concord, NH 03301
6 to 8 pm
Phone at Area 23 is 603-552-0137
If you don’t remember, or have attended the couple of GrokMeetups we held there in the past, it’s a small, intimate area. We’ve known the owner for years. He and his co-founder were lobbyists who worked to get craft brewing legalized here in NH and appeared on the second iteration of GrokTALK! a number of times.
That was successful – and then, after watching other start-up craft bars, decided to do the same. Liberty-minded to boot! So, we’re heading “home.”
As always, it will be “lightly agenda’d”; mostly just talking amongst ourselves but we may well do other things.
In future Grok Meetups we’re planning on introducing some new “features” but not just yet – let’s just get comfortable. There is one change, however…
We have normally charged a cover fee, mostly $5/head depending on the location (sometimes a bit more). But with Bidenflation, everything has gone up in price so we must as well to continue to provide the “light fare” that we’ve always done. We need to up that cover fee to $10/head/event. But we’re throwing in a new wrinkle!
We DO appreciate that quite a few of you have become monthly supporters/subscribers to help us pay the bills (especially the new server) and we want to say “thank you!” and reward your generosity.
So, if you are donating $5 or more per month, the cover fee is waived. Not just for this one but any GrokMeetups in the future (that’s the plan).
The plan is also to try to do one every couple / three months. We may also sneak in a “subscriber-only” version every now and then but what makes them “special” – Steve and I are still grokking that.
And we are still looking for places to hold these. One in Manchester that we’ve used before used to be free and now it is a $500/hour food buy-in and if that level isn’t reached, GraniteGrok pays the difference so I ruled that out for this iteration.
Why? Lockdowns almost killed them off are my thoughts.
So, the more places we can find around the state (for free or cheap?), the better. All over the state. We want to do these in different parts of New Hampshire, not just the Nashua-Concord corridor.
And the more we do, the better I can estimate attendance and figure out if we can “do this” in places that will charge a fee. And who knows, maybe we’ll end up at that Manchester location after all. However, I need locations (as I have done before – all over the State.
So, comments, please!