Speakers Bureau

American Homebrewers Association Speakers Clearinghouse

Are you looking for an experienced speaker for a club meeting, festival, or other event?  If so, then you should check out the speakers and topics found in the AHA Speakers Clearinghouse.

The Speakers Clearinghouse is a list of knowledgeable brewers from across the United States who are interested in speaking at homebrew club events.  All of the brewers are experienced speakers, many of whom have delivered talks at the AHA National Homebrewers Conference. If your club or festival is planning to host an event and would like to find individuals to speak on beer/brewing-related topics, feel free to contact any of the speakers listed here via the email address provided.

If you know of any skilled, beer/brewing-related speakers not listed in our Clearinghouse, please encourage them to contact the AHA via e-mail or at 888-822-6273 to find out how to participate.

Speakers 

Raj Apte, PhD
Palo Alto, CA
Suggested Topics: Lambic and Flemish Red Ale, Ciders, and Mixed Fermentations.

Russ Bee
Rockwall, TX
Suggested Topics: Pale Lagers: To many homebrewers this is a challenge because of the delicate balance of flavor, color, and clarity. Russ has won 2 national gold medals in these categories.

Scott Birdwell
DeFalcos Home Wine & Beer
Houston, TX

Louis Bonham
Houston, TX
Suggested Topics: General Homebrewing How-To's; No Sparge Brewing; Beer Spiking and Sensory Evaluation; QA/QC/Lab Techniques for Amateur or Small Scale Brewers.

A.J. Delange
Fairfax, VA
Suggested Topics: Brewing Water Chemistry; Laboratory Analysis of Beer Components, such as alcohol content, diacetyl, protein content, polyphenols, color; Principal Components Analysis of Beer Visible Absorption Spectra: replacing the SRM color measure with a more robust metric; pH and pH meters; Wort Chiller Design; Mashing; and Lager Beers.

Roger Deschner
Chicago, IL
Suggested Topics: Dusseldorf Altbier Style; Kegging - why do it, equipment, procedures, tips and tricks.

Pete Devaris
Anchorage, AK
Suggested Topics: Revival of America's old indigenous beer style, Spruce Tip Ales; Belgian Ales, especially Lambics; Russian Imperial Stouts; how to be a Yeast Hunter; yeast propagation.

Fred Eckhardt
Portland, OR
Suggested Topics: Craft-Brewing History; Lowering the Drinking Age.

Dean Fikar
Ft. Worth, TX
Suggested Topics: Warm Weather Brewing.

Steve Hamburg
Chicago, IL
Suggested Topics: British Beer Styles; Cask Conditioning; Beer Travel in the UK; Overall Beer Appreciation; Intro to Styles; Critical Tasting and Evaluation.

Lynn Hoffmann, PhD
Author of "The Short Course in Beer"
Philadelphia, PA
Suggested Topics: Beer and Food, Brewing with the table in mind, Beer evangelism: turning people on, Modern gruit—a return of an old tradition.

Dave Houseman
Chester Springs, PA
Suggested Topics: Talks on Brewing; Brewing Classes; Mead; Beer and Food; Judging; Beer Styles.

Colin Kaminski
Downtown Joes
Napa, CA
Suggested Topics: Equipment and Process Theory.

Alan Meeker
Baltimore, MD
Suggested Topics: Brewing Yeast; Biology; Fermentation Performance; Yeast Ranching and Culturing.

Randy Mosher
Chicago, IL
Suggested Topics: British Beers You Never Knew: Post-medieval, pre-industrial beers; The Family of White Beers: From Moscow to Cornwall; Herbs and Spices in Brewing; Junk, Stuff and the Buckapound Brewery; Recipe Formulation and Calculation in the Home Brewery; Outlaw Beers of Germany: Lingering Pre-Reinheitsgebot Brewing Traditions in Northern Germany; The Flavorful World of Malt; How Homebrewers Created the Craft Brew Revolution; Building a Vocabulary of Beer Flavors.

Tom Nickel
O’Brien’s Pub - Del Mar
San Diego, CA
Suggested Topics: IPA, Cream Ale, Stout and Porter, Oktoberfest/beers of Germany, Intro to Beer Judging, Cask Ales

Alex Puchner
Chicago Pizza/BJs Brewery
Huntington Beach, CA
Suggested Topics: Belgian Ales; Historical Beer Styles; BJ's Basic Lab/QC Techniques Applied to Homebrewers; Making the Transition from Homebrewer to Pub Brewer.

Jeff Renner
Ann Arbor, MI
Suggested Topics: Classic American Pilsner; Beginning Brewing; and Beer Appreciation.

Susan Ruud
Harwood, ND
Suggested Topics: How to Make a Better Homebrew; General Homebrewing; Mead Making.

Fred M. Scheer
Nashville, TN
Suggested Topics: Brewing and Fermenting; Ingredient Evaluation; Brewing Procedures; Techniques; Flavor Development; Pilot Brewing; Tasting and Evaluation; etc.

Phil Sides
Silver Springs, MD
Suggested Topics: Judging/Tasting; Beer Styles (particularly Scottish, Brown Ales/Milds, Porter and Stout); Structured Tastings; Brewing History/Style Evolution; Mashing; Yeast Banking/Management for the Homebrewer; Sensory Training/Off-Flavor/Beer Doctoring.

Mitch Steele
Stone Brewing Co.
Merrimack, NH
Suggested Topics: Brewing and Fermenting; Ingredient Evaluation; Brewing Procedures; Techniques; Flavor Development; Tasting and Evaluation; etc.

Bernadette Wasdovitch
Briess Malting Co.
Chilton, WI
Suggested Topics: Malt, Bernadette will coordinate speakers from Briess.

Chris White
White Labs
San Diego, CA
Suggested Topics: Fermentation, Yeast Biochemistry, Yeast Choices.