Brew City Wingfest 2011 was a Tremendous Success!

Brew City Wingfest 2011 was a Tremendous Success!

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We came, we ate, we saw, we recorded, we ate, we drank, and we conquered!

Yesterday the 1st Annual Brew City Wingfest was held at Potowotomi Bingo and Casino and from start to finish this event was a blast. aWingThing.Com came in with cameras blazin’ and empty stomachs and we were treated to the best wing related event this side of Buffalo, NY. A couple of us went to the Chicago Wingfest, which has been going on for years, and this event blew that one out of the water. On it’s first try!

Congratulations to the guys at Tomken’s for winning the best wing voted by the judges. As we were going around interviewing people it was clear you guys were going to win. So again, congrats.

Congratulations to Ronn and the team from The Saloon for winning the hottest wing at the event with their Ghost Pepper and Habenaro infused sauce that was so hot a mere shot of it could have you with your head hanging over a trash can and drooling uncontrollably  (we have video evidence of such an event happening).

Congratulations to the guy from Stubby’s on murdering those wings in the wing eating contest. I thought for sure our guy, Nick ‘ The Piranha’ Amezquita, had it in the bag but he didn’t stand a chance.

I also want to thank Roman Torrez and also Meghan from MetroThief.Com for letting us be a part of the event.

And last but not least I want to thank all the great restaurants, bars, and pubs that brought there great wings out for Milwaukee to enjoy all under one roof. Thanks again!

That’s it for now. I just wanted to say a little something about the success of the event. I feel bad for the wing fans out there that missed out on this great event. We will have a full review, pictures and videos in the near future. First look for a short teaser by next week and the full movie to follow.

So did YOU go to the event? What did you think? Did the right places take home the win?

  • Greg Gosdeck

    Mel where are your pics/vids of people doing shots of the Saloon’s hotsauce?

  • disappointed wing fan

    It makes me mad to find out this all ready happened. Didn’t hear about this on T.V or radio any where not any radio stations even but I guess you must wanted anyone to know about this. To bad would of been fun.

  • Mel ‘Boneyard’ Russell

    Hey Disappointed Wing Fan,

    Sorry you missed the event. We only sponsored the event we didn’t organize it or weren’t in charge of promoting. However we did do our best to promote the event ourselves. We had the parked on our homepage for a couple months, and we constantly had posts about the event on our facebook page. I also got in touch with Kramp and Adler on 102.1 and they gave us and the event a shout out on Friday morning. And, Roman (the guy who put the event together) and Horny Goat Brewery were on Fox 6 Wake-Up News on last week talking about it.

    So it was put out there and the fact that they sold out 800 tickets makes me believe they did a pretttty good job getting the word out.

    Sucks you missed out, but I don’t think it was for lack of trying on their part or ours.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Exitspeed Mel H Russell III

    Hey Greg, they’ll be up soon. We’re still recovering from the whole event and it takes us a while to go through things. A teaser vid will be out soon.

    The pics will be up in a the next few days.

  • Noeggs4u

    Mel it was great to meet all you guys and gals.My only wish was that where more vendors who should have been there to represent themselves,per are conversation we both agreed on this..Roman and metrothief put on a great show for there first time.If you needed anything you got it and we were asked at least 3 times during the event if we needed anything and if all was going well.. hats off to them and can not wait till next year..

  • Herossportspub

    Who won the people’s choice for best wings….not the judges…??? where can we find that info???

  • http://www.facebook.com/Exitspeed Mel H Russell III

    It’s on the website for Brew City Wingfest. It was Tomken’s. ;/

  • Greg Gosdeck

    Its been almost a year.. has this video been uploaded yet?