AABC Judging and pre-Conference activities Thursday October 23
William Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne
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ANHC Update
People have been wondering what the future holds for the ANHC, so it's probably time to break our silence.
Firstly, thank you to everyone who supported last year's event. It was really great to see the national community come together under the one roof. We're really looking forward to the next time we can all get together.
There will be no ANHC in 2009. Sorry if that disappoints anyone, but here's the rationale...
with a relatively small community, we don't want people to start thinking the conference program was becomming "stale"
at the conference, most people we spoke with indicated that once every 2 or 4 years would be best
when the survey results came back in, the majority of people indicated that every 2 years would be preferred
So, although we're not going to promise anything at this stage, I'd start saving up for 2010.
Next up - where?
Although we're not opposed to the idea of moving the conference around the country, the 2010 will be in Melbourne again. Why?
having run the event only once, we would like to take what we've learned locally and get that established as a package that we are comfortable can be easily moved around the country where feasible
again from conversations at the conference, almost everyone we spoke with indicated that we should run the event in Melbourne again, based on the facilities and the presence of an established organisation to run it. We appreciate that others may want to have a shot at it, and that may be possible down the track
also again, the respondents to the survey indicated that we would get the best numbers by holding the event in Melbourne
Now, if you're still with us, that's not necessarily the end of things for 2009... We had a meeting the other night and we may still have a few tricks up our sleeves for this year. Stay tuned, and we may be able to find other ways to help you get that ANHC fix this year!
Oh, and if you're interested in being involved with the conference in future - particularly if you have any accountancy skills,
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- we're looking for people who are passionate about their beer and can dedicate some (lots of!) time and skill towards yet another fantastic conference in 2010!
Thanks again to everyone who backed the event without knowing how it would turn out - it was a blast putting it on for you, and we can't wait to do it all again!
The Yard Glass
“The Yard Glass” is a comprehensive round-up of the inaugural Australian National Homebrewing Conference. So if you couldn’t make it, or you’d like a reliable record of the event, this is the goods. We managed to film a few choice presentations, including John Palmer’s in depth look at hop utilisation and Ron Feruglio’s (Temple Brewing Co.) great description of his methodical approach to brewing. Most presentations are provided as an MP3 audio file, and all the presentation slides are available as PDFs.
The DVD is a data disc so it won’t play on all DVD players (the ones that are connected to your TV), but will work in most computers with a DVD player and Windows Media Player 9.
What does such an awesome DVD cost you ask? A pretty reasonable $40 (well, we think so). The DVD is only available from the ANHC shop.
DVD Preview: A quick peak at Ron Feruglio's presentation. All clips are in WMV format at 1024px by 576x.
Bonus Content: A sample of the comprehensive round up of Club Night on the DVD
Video
Full video presentations presented in WMV format from:
John Palmer: Hop Bitterness and Aroma Development
Mick Jontef (Fosters): Commercial Product Development
Pro Panel: The Things We’ve Learned Along The Way. Lessons For Amateur Brewers featuring Ben Kraus (Bridge
Road Brewers), Simon Walkenhorst (Hargreaves Hill Brewing Co) and Ron Feruglio (Temple Brewing Co.)
Audio
Full audio presentations in MP3 format from:
Jamil Zainasheff The Mindset of Brewing Better Beer
Tony Wheeler Australian Pale Ale: Preserved in Amber
Corey Chester (Joe White Maltings) The Art and Mystery of Producing Speciality Malts
Mick Jontef (Fosters Group) Commercial Beer Development
John Palmer Hop Bitterness and Aroma Development
Chris White (Whitelabs) Yeast Considerations for High Gravity Wort
Jess Caudill (Wyeast) Brewing with Brett
Michael Day English Bitter: An Ongoing Love Affair
John Herskovits (Five Star Chemicals) Craft & Homebrewer Cleaning and Sanitising: What Works, and Why Should I Care?
Phil Sexton (Innocent Bystander/Giant Steps) The History of Craft Beer, Where it is Now, and “Watch Outs” for the Future.
Pics & Presentations
Stacks of happy snaps and all the Powerpoint presentations from ANHC 2008 (in PDF format).
Done and Dusted
Thanks to everyone for making ANHC 2008 such a great event!
Don't expect anything too urgently but with a bit of luck we'll eventually have a whole heap of video, audio and still photos of the conference available. So stay tuned... but first we're all going to catch up on a lot of sleep.
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“The Yard Glass” is a comprehensive round-up of the inaugural Australian National Homebrewing Conference. So if you couldn’t make it, or you’d like a reliable record of the event, this is the goods. We managed to film a few choice presentations, including John Palmer’s in depth look at hop utilisation and Ron Feruglio’s (Temple Brewing Co.) great description of his methodical approach to brewing. Most presentations are provided as an MP3 audio file, and all the presentation slides are available as PDFs.