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Seminar | Description |
Advanced Mashing for the Homebrewer | By understanding how to produce more efficient, fermentable, and stable wort for your beer, you can create delicious beverages! |
Boza: Ancient Sourdough Fermented Drink | Find out how to make boza, a fermented drink with a history dating back many centuries that has many health and nutritional benefits. |
Brettanomyces: From Spoilage Organism to Rising Star! | Learn all about Brettanomyces, including historical and contemporary brewing applications for homebrewers. |
Business Plan Essential Prep: Your Checklist | Join four craft beer industry professionals who have worked with hundreds of breweries to discuss laying the foundation for your business plan. |
Butter on the Side: Controlling and Testing for Diacetyl in Your Homebrew | Get into the greasy science of diacetyl production by brewers yeast and discuss how to keep the butter at bay in your homebrew. |
Caesar’s Cervesia | Explore the efforts to recreate the beer of Julius Caesar’s troops by using experimental archaeology. |
Cultivating an Equitable Homebrew Culture through Competitions and Events | Hear a discussion on why tapping into underrepresented communities is vital for the longevity of your homebrew club and competitions |
Exploring Homebrewed Beers from Mexico | Join members of two Mexican homebrew clubs as they present beers relevant to Mexico’s brewing history and ones made with Mexican ingredients. |
Exploring the Wild Side of Spontaneous Fermentation | The world of spontaneous fermentation is a blend of historical brewing methods, a unique reliance on mother nature, and a bit of luck. |
From Nomad to Farmer: Brewing Local | Join us in raising a glass of to redefining locality and how you can make the biggest impact with brewing local no matter where you live. |
Fruit, Fruit, Fruit! A Practical Guide to Modern Fruit Brewing Techniques | The recent proliferation of fruit beers has led to an explosion of new techniques, processes, and types of products to use in making the best fruit beers. |
Gluten-Free Brewing: Industry Fireside Chat | Listen to a fireside chat about some of the newest innovations, techniques, and dos and don’ts of gluten-free homebrewing. |
Home Winemaking | Winemaking, like beer or food, is part science and part art. Join 20-year winemaker Tim Tuttle in this session on home winemaking. |
Homebrew Club Officer Bootcamp | During this session, homebrew club leaders discuss resources and best practices designed to empower your homebrew club for success. |
Homemade Salsa Varieties with San DiFuego | Explore a wide variety of salsa and learn how to create your own salsa in this recipe-driven presentation. |
How Sweet It Is: Brewing with Sugars | Understand how sugar can change your beer’s character and considerations to make during recipe development. |
Level Up Your Mead Game: Meadmaking Tips for All Brewers | Explore modern meadmaking practices and advanced techniques, including challenges unique to experienced brewers. |
Making Cider at Home | This panel of cider makers provides tips for getting started, making cider year round, and scaling up production. |
Managing Bitterness while Pursuing Significant Flavor and Aroma from Hot-Side Hop Additions | This panel of cider makers provides tips for getting started, making cider year-round, and scaling up production. |
Mastering the Mash: Control the Mashing Process to Produce the Wort You Want | Homebrew mashing is as simple as mixing milled grain with water, but the devil and the angels are in the details. |
Modern Hopping Techniques in West Coast IPA | Join Denny Conn and Drew Beechum as they discuss the latest techniques and products for making stellar West Coast IPA. |
No Alcohol, No Problem: Brewing and Evaluating Low-and-No Alcohol Beers | Learn how to brew low- and no-alcohol beers at home and understand how and why their sensory profiles differ from full-strength beer. |
Pro-Up Your Homebrewing: Practical Tips for Brewing Great Beer at Home | Join Left Hand Brewing Company head brewer Gary Glass as he shares tricks and recipes to practically enhance the homebrewing experience. |
Question and Answer Panel with Homebrewing Experts | Join brewing author John Palmer, BeerSmith creator Brad Smith, and Grandmaster beer judge Gordon Strong, for homebrewing Q&A. |
Serving Your Homebrew: All About Draught Beer Systems | Learn the basics of beer draught systems all the way up to the most sophisticated and elaborate kegging setups. |
Small Batch Brewing: Make Great Beer One Gallon at a Time | Learn how small batch homebrewing is the perfect low cost, low barrier-to-entry way to begin making beer at home. |
Surf the Raddie! Fantastic Activities All Clubs Can Do | Join members of the Hogtown Brewers as they share ideas for your homebrew club to push your merry band of beer enthusiasts to a new level. |
Taking Care of Fizzness: Understanding Carbonation in Beer | Carbonation is one of the defining features of beer and impacts appearance, aroma, flavor, and mouthfeel. Learn the ins and outs of the fizz. |
The Hunter of the Lost Beers: A Trip Back into Extinct Beer Styles of Germany and Its Surroundings | Hear an overview of extinct beer styles in the German-speaking parts of Europe, understand why they became extinct, and learn how to brew them. |
The Molecular Mechanisms of Taste and Aroma | Dive into chirality, the structure and function of the tongue, soft palate, and structures of the olfactory system as they relate to brewing. |
Traditional & Modern Cask Ale Techniques | Explore the history of cask ales, traditional styles and techniques, and modern pursuits that benefit from being served on a cask. |
Understanding Fruit and Mead | Gain a deeper understanding of the controllable parameters of fruit, and leave with the ability to make genuinely incredible mead. |
Using Statistics for American Porter Recipe Development | Using four decades of award-winning homebrew recipes, Matthew Herrold provides guidance on brewing a world-class American porter. |
Water, Water, Everywhere, But Only Beer to Drink | This presentation is directed toward new homebrewers who would like information about making improvements to their water when homebrewing. |
Welcome Toast & Day 1 Headline Session | Relive the 2023 welcome toast, headline session with California Homebrewers Association’s Andrew Carter, and the AHA Governing Committee Recognition Award presentation. |
Women & Beer Competitions | Gain knowledge that will help you, your club, and your competition to give encouragement and direction to female and nonbinary homebrewers. |
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