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35th Annual National Homebrewers Conference 2013

Post #1 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
35th Annual National Homebrewers Conference Philadelphia Pa. USA
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - Saturday, June 29, 2013

I just got my reservation completed. :party: If you want to go get it done NOW! :drink:

I will keep a log of the doings starting in June 2013. Anyone else who is going let me know so I can Avoid you! :party:
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tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
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Post #3 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
swamproad,

Thanks for the warning! I will see you Saturday on Sunset lake!
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Post #6 made 12 years ago
by shibolet
We're registered for the conference and booked the hotel rooms.
now we just need to tell the wife...
Cube:
fermenter: Sourdough Spelt Ale, Classic Lambic, Oud Brune, Barrel Aged Belgian Dubbel
Kegs: Bob's Black IPA, Blanc Blond, Soda...
to be brewed:

Post #7 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
Noam,

Coward! I don't see what the big deal is. I didn't have trouble telling her? Oh, and don't go home. She said a lot on things in Hebrew that sounded like swearing? Good luck!!
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tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #8 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
swamproad,

I may be not brewing Saturday. I will just record the event for YouTube? My recent fall on the ice has caused problems with balance and I don't think it would be safe! You and your son will have to carry the BIAB banner! See you there! I hope?
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #9 made 12 years ago
by swamproad
Jon would gladly help you with brewing. All you would have to do is supervise. I decided to do a 8 gal batch of Fat Squirrel clone. Think Jon is doing a 10 gal batch of his Munich SMASH.

Post #10 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
swamproad,

Thanks for the generous offer. I will brew another "Fish Pee" for tradition sake. 8 pounds total weight (3.6 Kilo). I will tough it out! You two guys will be busy enough picking on each other! I will pick on you too! See you there. I will be the one with Gripons on my boots and a Packer helmet on my head. (maybe a pillow tied around my butt?)
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #11 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
All,

Here is a link to Gary Glass talking about the National Homebrewers Conference (NHC) 3400 home brewers. :argh: The biggest turn out yet. Last year it was 1800 brewers.

The venue for the 2014 NHC is Grand Rapids Mi. :thumbs:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/ ... snhc13.mp3

The last part of the interview is about homebrew legislation in the last two stated not to legalize home brewing. You can skip it if you don't live there? :nup:

http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=radio
Last edited by BobBrews on 14 Feb 2013, 22:26, edited 2 times in total.
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #12 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
NHC participants!

I will be leaving for the NHC (Via, pit stop to rest at my daughters house) Tuesday June 25th. I will be arriving at the Hotel after lunch on the 26th?? For the first afternoon classes. It's 1,134 miles (1825 Kilometers )and 17+ hours of driving. No problems. I will use this post for a blog so anyone can chime in.

Thursday | June 27

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Process Improvement and Beer Enhancement: The Nano Experience
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Alternative Wood Aging Techniques
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Methods of Creating and Maintaining a Wild House Culture
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Beer Recipe Design
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Stepping Up Your Sensory Game: How to Be a Better Taster
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Blame the Maltster: An Overview of Malting Operations and How They Influence Your Beer

Friday | June 28

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Yeast Culturing 101
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Building a Walk-In Cooler
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Process Improvement and Beer Enhancement: The Nano Experience
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Because Not Every Beer is Stone Enjoy By IPA: Preserving Hop Aroma
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
The Science of Beer Flavor
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Biochemistry and the Mash
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Geeking Out in the Cellar
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
How to Improve Club Events and Empower Leaders
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Beers of our Founding Fathers
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Gluten-Free Brewing
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Hop Growing 101: An Introduction for Everyone, Including Non-Gardeners
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Cider Revolution: How to Brew Great Cider from Everyday Ingredients
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Mead and Chocolate: Experience Excellence
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Brewing Better Beer: Practical Applications
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Alternative Wood Aging Techniques
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Waste Not, Want Not: Sustainable and Frugal Homebrewing

Saturday | June 29

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
A Simple Fermentation Monitoring and Control System
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Historic Water
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Brewing Chemistry 101: pH and Buffering
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Beer Recipe Design
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Step Up Your Starters: Insight Into Yeast Propagation for Homebrewers
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Come One, Come All- Wait a Minute: Assessing the Elastic Limits of Opportunity
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Practical Malting
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Brewing with Induction
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Serving with Style
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Current Techniques and Recent Developments Used for Brewing Great IPAs
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Stepping Up Your Sensory Game: How to Be a Better Taster
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Going Pro Panel
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Stand on Your Two Brewing Feet!
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Methods of Creating and Maintaining a Wild House Culture
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
It’s Not Done ’til It’s Done: Post Fermentation Mead Tweaks
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Hops vs Malt: A Smackdown with Cheese
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Mastering Mead
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Fermenting on the Flip Side: Alternative Fermentations & Practices
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Blame the Maltster: An Overview of Malting Operations and How They Influence Your Beer
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Colonial Brewing Practices and Beers with Historical British Influences
Last edited by BobBrews on 25 Jun 2013, 02:52, edited 2 times in total.
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #13 made 12 years ago
by joshua
Bob, Have a good trip and meeting!!! Please keep us updated!!!
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Post #14 made 12 years ago
by mally
Bob - 3 words (well technically 2 "apostrophe'd" words); I'm jealous!

Need to see if i can save up for Grand Rapids 2014!
G B
I spent lots of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I squandered
I've stopped drinking, but only when I'm asleep
I ONCE gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life
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Brewing Up A Revolution.

Post #15 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
mally,

Start saving! It will probably be the cheapest city to go to in years? What a blowout that would be? Maybe if you win the prize money in Cheesestradamus?? :lol: I have never been to Grand Rapids Michigan before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan

Joshua,

I will be entering a (diary - blog??) here each day. I have a lot of friends going this year. Most of them I have never met! I hope they are not cheapskates or expect me to pay for my meals? :whistle: Maybe I should start my beer diet again? I have a unlimited and free non stop bar for three days! :drink: :drink: Lets just hope that I make it there safely?
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Last edited by BobBrews on 25 Jun 2013, 04:03, edited 2 times in total.
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tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #16 made 12 years ago
by Yeasty
Have a safe trip Bob and try not to get too sober !!

If I win the Euro million lottery tomorrow ( £157,000,000) me and Mally are going to gate crash.. :luck:

:salute:

Yeasty
Why is everyone talking about "Cheese"
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Post #17 made 12 years ago
by shibolet
have at least one sour for me Bob.
In a parallel universe i'd be on my way to Philly right now.

see you next year in Grand Rapids !
Cube:
fermenter: Sourdough Spelt Ale, Classic Lambic, Oud Brune, Barrel Aged Belgian Dubbel
Kegs: Bob's Black IPA, Blanc Blond, Soda...
to be brewed:

Post #18 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
All,

I made it to Michigan. I will take the day tomorrow and practice drinking beer. I Will leave for Philiy about midnight and drive thru the night. I hope to get there for the afternoon classes? Cheers!

Having a fun night swatting Michigan's state bird. The Mosquito! The bugs bite but they fall off me quickly! To much alcohol in my blood system. Or is it to little blood in my alcohol system?
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #19 made 12 years ago
by joshua
BoB, "I made it to Michigan."

Did you have a boat, or did you need to swim??? I-80 is the best way to get to Philly!!!!
Honest Officer, I swear to Drunk, I am Not God.
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Post #20 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
Joshua,

Now you tell me! OK. I will I-80 tomorrow night! (I did take I-80 around the south of Chicago today) :thumbs:
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #21 made 12 years ago
by PistolPatch
BobBrews wrote:All,

I made it to Michigan. I will take the day tomorrow and practice drinking beer. I Will leave for Philiy about midnight and drive thru the night. I hope to get there for the afternoon classes? Cheers!

Having a fun night swatting Michigan's state bird. The Mosquito! The bugs bite but they fall off me quickly! To much alcohol in my blood system. Or is it to little blood in my alcohol system?
For God's sake, I have no idea why we have a Funniest Posts You've Seen Written By Brewers thread here when all any of us have to do is click on BobBrews profile and pretty much read any post he's written...

Gold as always Bob :lol: :lol: :lol:.

Have a great time fella and don't skype me again at 3am your time like you did last year, okay?*

:peace:
PP

P.S. Just joking. You can call but if my Skype is busy it means I am still talking to your daughters. Try calling back maybe?
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Post #22 made 12 years ago
by BobBrews
OK! I’ll admit it! It’s 12:10 and the last party goes until two AM and I am back in my room! But I have an excuse. I haven’t slept in eleven zillion hours (there about’s)? I left Lansing Michigan and drove 11 hours and arrived in Philadelphia at rush hour. Which is a oxymoron because we traveled about ZERO miles an hour on the EXPRESS way for a hour? I was passed by my shadow, twice!

I then spent 45 minutes trying to get into my hotel! The 45 minutes were spent circling a group of sky scrappers wondering why my GPS said I had arrived, when I hadn’t! I found the perfect way to have some local resident point me to the proper direction. I parked my car in a Philly taxi stand and let the cab drivers tell me where to go, and they did!!!

The hotel was nice enough and the stroll to the next hotel where the convention was held was short enough to make me forget the unhappiness encountered when I found out the convention hotel was full, until the thunder and lightning began. Who knew that you could get totally soaked in two seconds?

I went out with the crew from Basic Brewing Radio for lunch! I had a Philly cheesesstake. Surprise! Very good but since I am from Wisconsin I had provolone rather than cheese wiz! It’s not cheese, surprise!

I met the winner of Cheesestradamus! He thanked me for the first place prize. A lake home in Switzerland. Play this year and maybe you will win a lot next to him? I also met some face book friends and members of my brew club!

The acoustics in the hall were bad and you had to shout! We made ourselves heard but it was a nuisance. The high metal ceiling was made to annoy me and it did! The largest group of home brewers in world history! 3400+

The dignitaries were all on stage getting their just accolades for a job well done. I was privilege to be on the stage with them. However it was because people were tripping over me so they laid me out there? Hey, I was on stage! I am going to bed I am getting woozy.

More tomorrow! Sorry for the weak narrative but I am whipped!
tap 1 Raspberry wine
tap 2 Bourbon Barrel Porter
tap 3 Czech Pilsner
tap 4 Triple IPA 11% ABV
Pipeline: Mulled Cider 10% ABV

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Post #23 made 12 years ago
by Yeasty
A nice drive, lunch with a couple of super stars, a few beers then carried back to a top rate hotel. WOW Bob it sounds like your having a ball and its just the beginning.

Pace yourself dude, don't peak too early and make sure you convert at least one 3V idiot to Biab :thumbs: :thumbs:

Yeasty
Why is everyone talking about "Cheese"
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Post #24 made 12 years ago
by smyrnaquince
Livin' the dream through reading your posts! Great stuff, as long as I keep my office door closed so no one hears me laughing. Looking forward to the next report.
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