It's time to start booking your leave with work and the family, because you won't want to miss this!

The second ever Australian National Homebrewing Conference 2010 will be held from Thursday October 28 to Saturday October 30, 2010 at the William Angliss Institute, Melbourne.

This year's conference will feature another couple of iconic American homebrewers - Randy Mosher and Gordon Strong.

Randy is famous for penning the one book that every self-respecting homebrewer should own - Radical Brewing. He has also recently released Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink. At the conference he'll be schooling us on extinct Belgian styles, recipe formulation and, of course, radical brewing.

President of the Beer Judging Certification Program and a two-time Ninkasi Award winner, Gordon will give us all the judging info we can handle, including guided tasting panels and the first ever Australian pre-AABC judges' briefing.

All of your favourite events from 2008 will be returning. The Beer & Food Pairing Dinner will again feature food matched to beers from four of Australia's champion homebrewers, Club Night will be back in an expanded format and the Australian Amateur Brewing Championship judging will take place on the Thursday.

But we also learned heaps from the last conference, and have big plans to make this conference a whole lot better. New features will include:

• Judges dinner before the AABC judging led by Gordon and Randy
• More, expanded demonstration sessions
• System Wars: HERMS vs gravity vs brew in a bag!
• Beer cooking challenge

And of course we've got a whole new batch of presenters with some seriously interesting things to say. But we'll keep you in suspense on that front for now.

Want to sponsor ANHC 2010?

If you run, work for, or know of a business which would be interested in getting involved in the homebrewing event of the year, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a sponsorship brochure. We have sponsorship packages to suit all budgets, and received excellent feedback from sponsors at the 2008 conference.

It's back - the ANHC Blog

Yes, the world famous ANHC Blog is back for 2010. Check it out for all the latest conference info, plus plenty of random beer discussion.

We're also on Twitter. Check it out. We promise there will be something more interesting there soon.

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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!