Australian National Homebrewing Conference

Announcing the Thursday Microbrewery Tour

Hooray! We're finally in a position to give you more information about the Thursday microbrewery tour and sell tickets.

The itinerary is as follows:

2pm departure from William Angliss Conference Centre (dependent upon the timely conclusion of the AABC judging)
Beers and brewery tour at Mountain Goat
Beers and brewery tour at 2 Brothers
Dinner and beers at the Normandy Ale House from 7pm

The price of $49.50 (GST inclusive) gets you bus travel, the brewery tours and beers at the breweries. Plus you'll get the opportunity to hassle some of the presenters and try and suss out how your beers went in AABC from the judges!

Tickets are now available through the ANHC Shop. Tickets are limited, so get in quick to avoid disappointment. If there is overwhelming demand we may run a second bus. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to let us know of your interest if you miss out.

Dinner and drinks at the Normandy are not included in the price, so be sure to bring some cash. The Normandy is going all out for us beer-wise - they're letting us pick some of the finest microbrews from around the state to have on tap. It also has easy access to the city via public transport for when you finally drag yourself away. A taxi split a few ways into the city probably wouldn't cost much more than a tram ticket either.

Massive Conference News!

What's the best thing to drink when spending two days talking about beer? That's right, beer!

Thanks to the incredible generosity of Fosters Australia, the inaugural Australian National Homebrewing Conference is going to have its own beer!

But wait, there's more! Not only will there be a conference beer, there will also be a commemorative beer to take home and enjoy at your leisure.

The conference beer - an Oktoberfest - will be launched on the Friday evening before dinner, and will available on tap at the conference from then on. The commemorative beer will be an 8.5% barleywine, bottle-conditioned in 750mL bottles for conference delegates to take home.

The beers were brewed at CUB's pilot system at the Abbotsford plant by the brilliant Mick Jontef of New Product Development.

We went along and took part in the brewing of the Oktoberfest - see a full report in the ANHC Blog.

And if that's not enough, we went along and filmed the brewing of one of the beers - check it out here.

We're also holding a contest to name the two beers. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it your best ideas - on top of the glory and bragging rights, the two winners will score 750mL bottles of the barleywine to take home.

Want to brew your own version of these beers to bring to the conference and compare? No problem, the recipes are also posted on the blog! We'd love to see as many possible versions of these beers at the conference as possible.

Want to try these beers? You'd better buy a ticket to the conference!

Speakers Update

Bios are now available for every presenter at this year's conference. Click on the Speakers menu, or follow the links through the Program page.

Abstracts for all presentations will follow closer to the day.

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