Inaugral Queensland Home Brewing Conference - November 5

[Brewers Choice]

Hi Brewers - early advice on the Inaugral Queensland Homebrewing Conference - 05 November 2011

Planning has commenced and more details will follow soon. In the meantime, the basics are:

Place: Southbank Institute of Technology, South Bank, Brisbane

What: A one-day conference for home brewers, from aspiring kit and kilo brewers to all-grain experts. There will be talks ranging from the use of basic (and more exotic) ingredients, recipe formulations, starting your own micro-brewery, new brewing techniques and products, system wars, trade displays and a whole lot of quality craft-brewed beers to taste.

Who will be presenting:

Brewers:

Brad Rogers Stone and Wood Brewery, Byron Bay

Ben Krause - Bridge Road Brewery, Beechworth

Jaron Mitchell 4 Pines Brewery, Sydney

Product Specialists:

Bintani Malts

Hop Products Australia

And a bunch of great local home brewers.

And afterwards?

A Beer and Food Matching Dinner
If you want more great food and beer, then book in for the Beer and Food Matching Dinner straight after the Conference Under the guidance of Matt Kirkegaard, founder of Good Beer Lunches and beer website Australian Brews News, a fantastic four course meal has been designed with matching beers. Rory Gibson, beer columnist for the Courier Mail will be entertaining us with stories of his journey from beer consumer to beer critic.

What else:

- A single style brewing competition with the winning beer served as one of the five beers at our Dinner.

- A bag full of free samples, great food and beer, and 200 other like-minded lovers of home brewing.

- There's loads more being planned and we'll update you with more information and costs as soon as they are finalised.

Where will you find us:

Go to www.theqhc.com.au and stay up to date with the conference as it all comes together.
(Website re-directs to Brewers Choice website until construction is finished)

For more information, call David at Brewers Choice (www.brewerschoice.com.au) on 07 3879 3882

If you are interested in helping with the planning or the running of the Conference, we would love to hear from you.

 

[Bribie G]

Wow, looking forward to more details as the site is constructed, and the single style competition details as well. Please, please not yet another American Hop Monster blow-in

 

[winkle]

Hi Brewers - early advice on the Inaugral Queensland Homebrewing Conference - 05 November 2011

Planning has commenced and more details will follow soon. In the meantime, the basics are:

Place: Southbank Institute of Technology, South Bank, Brisbane

What: A one-day conference for home brewers, from aspiring kit and kilo brewers to all-grain experts. There will be talks ranging from the use of basic (and more exotic) ingredients, recipe formulations, starting your own micro-brewery, new brewing techniques and products, system wars, trade displays and a whole lot of quality craft-brewed beers to taste.

Who will be presenting:

Brewers:

Brad Rogers Stone and Wood Brewery, Byron Bay

Ben Krause - Bridge Road Brewery, Beechworth

Jaron Mitchell 4 Pines Brewery, Sydney

Product Specialists:

Bintani Malts

Hop Products Australia

And a bunch of great local home brewers.

And afterwards?

A Beer and Food Matching Dinner
If you want more great food and beer, then book in for the Beer and Food Matching Dinner straight after the Conference Under the guidance of Matt Kirkegaard, founder of Good Beer Lunches and beer website Australian Brews News, a fantastic four course meal has been designed with matching beers. Rory Gibson, beer columnist for the Courier Mail will be entertaining us with stories of his journey from beer consumer to beer critic.

What else:

- A single style brewing competition with the winning beer served as one of the five beers at our Dinner.

- A bag full of free samples, great food and beer, and 200 other like-minded lovers of home brewing.

- There's loads more being planned and we'll update you with more information and costs as soon as they are finalised.

Where will you find us:

Go to www.theqhc.com.au and stay up to date with the conference as it all comes together.
(Website re-directs to Brewers Choice website until construction is finished)

For more information, call David at Brewers Choice (www.brewerschoice.com.au) on 07 3879 3882

If you are interested in helping with the planning or the running of the Conference, we would love to hear from you.

Nice work David.

 

[McFeast]

Nice work David.

Fantastic! I will drive 12 hours to attend this conference! (from Mackay)

Looking forward to more details.

 

[Brewers Choice]

Bribie G - I am with you on the American Hop Monsters. This one should be something a little out of the ordinary - a light German lager style - Kolsch, Munich Helles, Munich Dunkel, I hope. We plan to match it with scallops if we can get the Chef to agree! Should have the definitive style in the next couple of days.

 

[jayse]

There is a bit of a clash of dates with this just two weeks after AABC in Adelaide, I don't know many brewers who can swing two weekends for beer trips that close together.

 

[Bribie G]

AFAIK this year, whilst it's the AABC finals and important in its own right and I'm sure many interstaters will be keen to attend and support, it's a bit of a "minor" year, in the sense that it isn't also the national Conference as well (as it was in Melb) so probably not too much of a clash compared to last year. I would expect the proposed QLD conference, being a one-dayer, will be of more interest to South QLD, NSW down to Coffs, whatever.

Edit: hang on wasn't that the year before last? time flies when you're hammered :wacko:

 

[Fatgodzilla]

There is a bit of a clash of dates with this just two weeks after AABC in Adelaide, I don't know many brewers who can swing two weekends for beer trips that close together.

Only the strong and the terminally stupid will try and do both!

Who's with me?

:icon_cheers:

I'll assume that someone like the BABBs will plan a pre-conference drink on the Friday and a post conference drink on the Sunday .. won't they?

 

[winkle]

Only the strong and the terminally stupid will try and do both!

Who's with me?

:icon_cheers:

I'll assume that someone like the BABBs will plan a pre-conference drink on the Friday and a post conference drink on the Sunday .. won't they?

I think you'd be pretty safe with that assumption.


Edit: did somebody say "pubcrawl"?

 

[Paul H]

Bribie G - I am with you on the American Hop Monsters. This one should be something a little out of the ordinary - a light German lager style - Kolsch, Munich Helles, Munich Dunkel, I hope. We plan to match it with scallops if we can get the Chef to agree! Should have the definitive style in the next couple of days.

& how about we qualify the entrants such as "entrants must have 12 consecutive years of Babbs membership". That'll stop the blow ins.

:icon_cheers:

Paul

 

[Bribie G]

Will BABBs be participating?





h34r:

 

[altstart]

& how about we qualify the entrants such as "entrants must have 12 consecutive years of Babbs membership". That'll stop the blow ins.

:icon_cheers:

Paul

Hey Mate careful who your calling a blow in I found that offensive. I have been on this forum just as long as you and for my own reasons I do not belong to BABBS but that does not mean I dont take my brewing seriously.
Altstart

 

[clarkey7]

Will BABBs be participating?





h34r:

Yes BribieG....we'll also be presenting.

If you show up to the June Meeting h34r: , we'll fill you in.

PB

 

[stillscottish]

Poop! I'm in Sydney that weekend. :angry:

 

[Bribie G]

Hey Mate careful who your calling a blow in I found that offensive. I have been on this forum just as long as you and for my own reasons I do not belong to BABBS but that does not mean I dont take my brewing seriously.
Altstart

Chill pill You'd have to understand Pauls ultra dry (almost Carlton - esque) sense of humour. He was referring to my relentless success at BABBs comps which I will once again be steamrollering all the other contestants with this year in the September competition.
Hang on, checking the diary ... make that July.

Gawd I'd better order some shit from Ross in a hurry

edit; sorry PB I missed the May as I'd done my back big time and couldn't drive down. Bottled my mild last week B)

 

[winkle]

Poop! I'm in Sydney that weekend. :angry:

PPP


I think that there is a lot of scope to have fun and explore the system wars concept - off the shelf HERMES, RIMS, Braumeister systems pitted against home built ones, and three tier gravity, BAIB, "Antique roadshow" kit (oh, sorry, you'll be in Sydney) with maybe a very experienced brewer doing a kits and bits with the resulting beers being judged - but also with additional info on, cost, power/water used, time taken etc etc. The results could be very interesting if not definative.

 

[Bribie G]

I wonder if there are going to actually be some brewing sessions or is it all talkfest? We'll know soon enough.

 

[NickB]

Bottled my mild last week B)

Slightly OT - Kegged my Mild for the mini-comp on Saturday, and somehow about a third of the keg has evaporated since h34r:

1469 FTW - You're up for a challenge this year Bribie

Cheers

 

[Bribie G]

:icon_offtopic: Just to try it I actually used Ross's dry yeast mix - the mild got as far as the Nats but was marked down as too fruity which I put down to the Ringwood. Looking forward to comments.

 

[NickB]

:icon_offtopic: Just to try it I actually used Ross's dry yeast mix - the mild got as far as the Nats but was marked down as too fruity which I put down to the Ringwood. Looking forward to comments.

Bring a spare bottle along as will I, and we can compare

Looking forward to this month's comp


Now....


Back to the Conference!!!

Cheers