Homebrew Con 2023 Session Recordings

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Seminar	Description
Advanced Mashing for the Homebrewer	By understanding how to produce more efficient, fermentable, and stable wort for your beer, you can create delicious beverages!
Boza: Ancient Sourdough Fermented Drink	Find out how to make boza, a fermented drink with a history dating back many centuries that has many health and nutritional benefits.
Brettanomyces: From Spoilage Organism to Rising Star!	Learn all about Brettanomyces, including historical and contemporary brewing applications for homebrewers.
Business Plan Essential Prep: Your Checklist	Join four craft beer industry professionals who have worked with hundreds of breweries to discuss laying the foundation for your business plan.
Butter on the Side: Controlling and Testing for Diacetyl in Your Homebrew	Get into the greasy science of diacetyl production by brewers yeast and discuss how to keep the butter at bay in your homebrew.
Caesar’s Cervesia	Explore the efforts to recreate the beer of Julius Caesar’s troops by using experimental archaeology.
Cultivating an Equitable Homebrew Culture through Competitions and Events	Hear a discussion on why tapping into underrepresented communities is vital for the longevity of your homebrew club and competitions
Exploring Homebrewed Beers from Mexico	Join members of two Mexican homebrew clubs as they present beers relevant to Mexico’s brewing history and ones made with Mexican ingredients.
Exploring the Wild Side of Spontaneous Fermentation	The world of spontaneous fermentation is a blend of historical brewing methods, a unique reliance on mother nature, and a bit of luck.
From Nomad to Farmer: Brewing Local	Join us in raising a glass of to redefining locality and how you can make the biggest impact with brewing local no matter where you live.
Fruit, Fruit, Fruit! A Practical Guide to Modern Fruit Brewing Techniques	The recent proliferation of fruit beers has led to an explosion of new techniques, processes, and types of products to use in making the best fruit beers.
Gluten-Free Brewing: Industry Fireside Chat	Listen to a fireside chat about some of the newest innovations, techniques, and dos and don’ts of gluten-free homebrewing.
Home Winemaking	Winemaking, like beer or food, is part science and part art. Join 20-year winemaker Tim Tuttle in this session on home winemaking.
Homebrew Club Officer Bootcamp	During this session, homebrew club leaders discuss resources and best practices designed to empower your homebrew club for success.
Homemade Salsa Varieties with San DiFuego	Explore a wide variety of salsa and learn how to create your own salsa in this recipe-driven presentation.
How Sweet It Is: Brewing with Sugars	Understand how sugar can change your beer’s character and considerations to make during recipe development.
Level Up Your Mead Game: Meadmaking Tips for All Brewers	Explore modern meadmaking practices and advanced techniques, including challenges unique to experienced brewers.
Making Cider at Home	This panel of cider makers provides tips for getting started, making cider year round, and scaling up production.
Managing Bitterness while Pursuing Significant Flavor and Aroma from Hot-Side Hop Additions	This panel of cider makers provides tips for getting started, making cider year-round, and scaling up production.
Mastering the Mash: Control the Mashing Process to Produce the Wort You Want	Homebrew mashing is as simple as mixing milled grain with water, but the devil and the angels are in the details.
Modern Hopping Techniques in West Coast IPA	Join Denny Conn and Drew Beechum as they discuss the latest techniques and products for making stellar West Coast IPA.
No Alcohol, No Problem: Brewing and Evaluating Low-and-No Alcohol Beers	Learn how to brew low- and no-alcohol beers at home and understand how and why their sensory profiles differ from full-strength beer.
Pro-Up Your Homebrewing: Practical Tips for Brewing Great Beer at Home	Join Left Hand Brewing Company head brewer Gary Glass as he shares tricks and recipes to practically enhance the homebrewing experience.
Question and Answer Panel with Homebrewing Experts	Join brewing author John Palmer, BeerSmith creator Brad Smith, and Grandmaster beer judge Gordon Strong, for homebrewing Q&A.
Serving Your Homebrew: All About Draught Beer Systems	Learn the basics of beer draught systems all the way up to the most sophisticated and elaborate kegging setups.
Small Batch Brewing: Make Great Beer One Gallon at a Time	Learn how small batch homebrewing is the perfect low cost, low barrier-to-entry way to begin making beer at home.
Surf the Raddie! Fantastic Activities All Clubs Can Do	Join members of the Hogtown Brewers as they share ideas for your homebrew club to push your merry band of beer enthusiasts to a new level.
Taking Care of Fizzness: Understanding Carbonation in Beer	Carbonation is one of the defining features of beer and impacts appearance, aroma, flavor, and mouthfeel. Learn the ins and outs of the fizz.
The Hunter of the Lost Beers: A Trip Back into Extinct Beer Styles of Germany and Its Surroundings	Hear an overview of extinct beer styles in the German-speaking parts of Europe, understand why they became extinct, and learn how to brew them.
The Molecular Mechanisms of Taste and Aroma	Dive into chirality, the structure and function of the tongue, soft palate, and structures of the olfactory system as they relate to brewing.
Traditional & Modern Cask Ale Techniques	Explore the history of cask ales, traditional styles and techniques, and modern pursuits that benefit from being served on a cask.
Understanding Fruit and Mead	Gain a deeper understanding of the controllable parameters of fruit, and leave with the ability to make genuinely incredible mead.
Using Statistics for American Porter Recipe Development	Using four decades of award-winning homebrew recipes, Matthew Herrold provides guidance on brewing a world-class American porter.
Water, Water, Everywhere, But Only Beer to Drink	This presentation is directed toward new homebrewers who would like information about making improvements to their water when homebrewing.
Welcome Toast & Day 1 Headline Session	Relive the 2023 welcome toast, headline session with California Homebrewers Association’s Andrew Carter, and the AHA Governing Committee Recognition Award presentation.
Women & Beer Competitions	Gain knowledge that will help you, your club, and your competition to give encouragement and direction to female and nonbinary homebrewers.