Promoting Membership

Thank you for your interest in serving the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) as an AHA Evange-Ale-ist. AHA Evange-Ale-ists help the AHA remain a grassroots organization. We are excited to have your help as an ambassador of homebrew!

Talking Points

Please use the AHA Membership Benefits when promoting AHA membership. Another resource is the History of Homebrewing.

AHA Materials

AHA marketing materials are available to help with your AHA presentation. Available materials include, but are not limited to the following:

AHA member benefits & Evange-Ale-ist membership form
Zymurgy: An Introduction to Homebrewing: A special edition Zymurgy magazine created just for the first-time homebrewer. These are great for club meeting, beer festivals and homebrewing events.
AHA Logo, 8x11 poster
AHA Banner with return UPS label

Sign-up AHA Members

Help people join the AHA; read our helpful hints on how to sign-up AHA members. There is also a special AHA Evange-Ale-ist membership form which provides discounted dues to the member. This form is only available via AHA Evange-Ale-ists.

Explain the benefits of AHA membership to new AHA members.
Complete an AHA membership form for each new/renewing AHA member. Family members need to fill in the names and emails of all the people associated with the membership (must be 21 or over, 3 additional max).
Current Membership dues are listed on the Evange-Ale-ist / AHA membership form.
Acceptable forms of payment are Check, Cash, Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. Attach checks to the AHA membership form; fill in the credit card number on the form. Please do not send cash in the mail!
Inform the new or renewing AHA member which issue of Zymurgy s/he should expect to receive. Zymurgy mails at the end of each even numbered month.
Inform new members they will receive a new member packet, including an AHA Member Card, within 3-4 weeks.
Please promote HomebrewersAssociation.org as a resource for new members.
Mail, scan or fax AHA membership forms, with attached payment, within 48 hours to the Evange-ALE-ist contact.

AHA Evange-Ale-ist Rewards

Evange-Ale-ist Rewards are tracked by a point system. You earn one point for every AHA membership year turned in. Points are cumulative over time and are never reset. Every member counts!

Points	Rewards
1-year AHA membership = 1 point 2-year AHA membership = 2 points 3-year AHA membership = 3 points Lifetime membership = 10 points AHA Rally Participation = 10 points	10 points: AHA T-shirt 30 points: $20 credit on Beer Enthusiast Store Merchadise 50 points: A Lifetime membership to the AHA