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Planning for the next ANHC in October 2010 is well underway and the Committee is working hard to make the next Conference bigger and better than the last. Aside from our international keynote speakers Randy Mosher and Gordon Strong, we have a few places we’d like to fill with the next generation of home-grown homebrewing rock stars. Topics we want to cover at the conference include: ingredients, techniques, styles and much more.

So if you’re passionate about your hobby and you’ve got something that you want to share with your homebrewing amigos at the biggest homebrewing event in the Southern Hemisphere then give us a call. Hell we don’t care if you dob in one of your brew buddies for the gig.

Please email the following details to the program committee chairman Phil Yeung:

• Topic/idea
• Desired length of presentation: 20 minutes /30 minutes /45 minutes
• Name
• Contact phone/email
• Closing date for submissions: Monday 31 February 2010
• Send to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Program Committee

For more information or to discuss your input, please contact the program committee:

Phil Yeung 03 9654 5079, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Mark Hibberd 03 9580 0372, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

John Preston 03 9687 0061, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lovers of out-there beers rejoice! Randy Mosher, the author of ‘Radical Brewing’, and poster boy for all things weird in beer, will be a keynote presenter at the Australian National Homebrewing Conference 2010, to be held in Melbourne next October.

Mosher – famous for radical brews such as Electric Aunt Jemima Maple Buckwheat Ale and Mister Boing Boing Cherry Barley Wine – will present some of his favourite topics from the world of brewing on the edge.

As well as being an expert on brewing on the edge, Mosher is also a keen home metallurgist. His Buckapound Brewery is world renowned and Mosher’s inventions have provided inspiration for homebrewers with a bent for DIY for many years.

Also headlining is the USA’s most famous homebrew judge, Gordon Strong. As president of the 3000-member strong Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP), Strong has judged at 196 homebrew competitions over the last 12 years. He estimates that over that period he has judged around five thousand beers!

If you who missed out on the 2009 ANHC Beer and Food Pairing Dinner at William Angliss... You really lucked out... Here's a short clip which sums up the menu's co-creator, BeerMason's Chris Badenoch, and his views on beer's place within contemporary cuisine. Chris and David Whitfield cobbled together a carnivore's dream which was designed to complement the stellar beers - brewed especially for the event - from John Kingston (Vic), Lyndon Wilson (SA), Scott Simpson (NSW) and Geoff Daly (Vic). Enjoy!

For those who missed out, the inaugural Australian National Homebrewing Conference in '08 was a real hoot. Along with array of cracker international and domestic presenters, some of the best moments of the conference were the side events like the Beer and Food Pairing Dinner and Club Night. Apologies in advance if see yourself being interviewed by ANHC blogger extraordinaire Lach Strong after spending far too much time hanging around the Canberra stand which was pouring the Galaxy APA.