The Queensland Homebrewing Conference (The QHC)

[Brewers Choice]

Brewers Choice is excited to announce to you that The Queensland Homebrewing Conference will be back again in 2013!

It is on the 13th July and it will kick off the 2013 Queensland Beer Week celebrations. We will once again be holding it at the Southbank Institute of Technology and we can promise you that it is going to be even bigger and better than last time. There’s an array of high status speakers already in the mix:

Ben Krause (Bridge Road Brewing)
Josh Uljans (Moon Dog)
Ian Watson (Fortitude)
Wade Curtis (4 Hearts Brewing)

PLUS

You can also expect some great presentations, such as using professional grade brewing equipment and minimising oxygenation in your beer. There will even be some smaller break away groups like a presentation from Spiegelau Glasses, Mashing for Whiskey and Beer Tasting – How to do it & explain it. There will be also be some 2011 favourites like Club Wars, plenty of beer and the conference food and beer matching dinner!

Tickets on sale 1st May at www.theqhc.com.au (Please note this website will be updated within the week with all the 2013 info). To stay on top of all the lastest QHC info follow our event page here.

The Details
Who: Brewers of all levels welcome - from kit to all grain.
When: 13th July, 2013.
Where: Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane.

 

[Est.91]

Can't wait to hear what Josh Uljans has to say! And of course our local men Ian and Wade. Looks like it's shaping up to be a really awesome event.

 

[Womball]

Looking forward to it. Any chance that Spiegelau Glasses will bring along their new IPA glasses for sale/sample at the QHC?

 

[Florian]

Any chance that Spiegelau Glasses will bring along their new IPA glasses for sale/sample at the QHC?

I was hoping they'd be the standard handout conference glasses in the goodie bags.

 

[lukiferj]

Looking forward to seeing the agenda

 

[Brewers Choice]

Last Days for Early Bird Discount on Conference Tickets

Early bird ticket prices finish on 31 May. If you are planning on going to the conference, pick up your tickets now. You can buy the Beer and Food Matching Dinner and Speigelau Glass Tasting tickets later if necessary.
The program is just about sorted with the topics for main speakers all now finalised:

- Ben Krause - Barrels, flowers, bees, muesli and fruit toast
- Josh Uljans - Make beers from anything - Moon Dog Brewery does!
- Wade Curtis - Brewing full flavoured, low alcohol beers - it can be done.
- Ian Watson - Minimising Oxygenation in your beer - a big trap for home brewers.

There is will be talks on using commercial grade brewing equipment for home brewing, parti-gyle beer brewing - two beers for the price of one, and more, from keen home brewers and product specialists. We'll also have some smaller break-off groups including:
- Mashing for Prohibition-style whiskies,
- Making Sake,
- Doing Yeast starters,
- Speigelau Glasses - Do good beer glasses make a difference?
- Tasting Beers - How to do it, describe it and write about it.

Finally, there is the Club Wars - seven Queensland Home Brew Clubs vying for best beer in a blind tasting by all attendees.
So don't delay. To get your tickets at the Early Bird discount, buy them now at www.theqhc.com.au
PS - Videos from the 2011 QHC are also now available at www.theqhc.com.au

 

[Brewers Choice]

UPDATE on the Qld Homebrewing Conference

The Conference is starting to fill up quickly now - we have just about reached our previous attendance figure already, with still a month to go. The Spiegelau Glass session is a limited session and is almost half full, and the Beer and Food Matching dinner is also filling quickly.

The major news is that Ian Morgan, senior brewer at Holgate and keen home brewer (he has a three-tier gravity system), will be doing our hops presentation. This brings the number of serious professional brewers presenting at the conference to 5. Ian will be bringing a keg of Road Trip for us to have at Afternoon Beers, so the number of different craft beers available through the day should be roughly 15! All up, there will be 16 sessions through the day, including 2 panel sessions with all our presenters. If you can't get the answers to any brewing question you have, by the end of the day, you're not really trying.

For a select few (those who get in early and buy the tickets), we will be trying a range of Spiegelau glasses and seeing whether they really do make a difference to how your beer tastes. The tastings are normally $55, but for those at the conference, you can attend the tasting and walk away with 4 Spiegelau Glasses, for just $45. The glasses themselves have an RRP of $59.95, so this is a great opportunity to drink four more beers, save some money and experience something quite unexpected.

Our door prize give-away list is growing as well with contributions from various bars around Brisbane.
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Matt Kirkegaard (the Beer Mat, editor of Australian Brews News and organiser of Hump Day events) has finalised the menu for the Beer and Food Matching Dinner. The food sounds spectacular and will be matched with 5 beers, brewed by past and current Presidents of various Qld home brew clubs.

Finally, we will again be holding a pre-conference get together. The guys at Archive have set aside the Next Door Bar from 7.00pm, Friday,12 July so you can meet other brewers and catch up before the conference. Guaranteed to have a few special beers on tap for us as well.

Check out the videos from the 2011 Conference (on www.theqhc.com.au) to see what to expect this year, just bigger and better!

Make sure you get your tickets as soon as possible - the earlier we have numbers, the more we can spend on improving the conference and giving away more free stuff.

Tickets and further information are available at www.theqhc.com.au

 

[Brewers Choice]

Freebies and beer list is growing. Tipplers Tap, Archive and Bitter Suite have all signed on to provide lucky door prizes for conference attendees. Green Beacon and Brewhouse Brisbane have offered a couple of kegs each. The guys from Brewbake at the Big Pineapple will be coming down with a keg and Ian Morgan from Holgate will be bringing a keg of Road Trip as well, to ensure we have enough beer for the day.

Last conference we had 576 litres of beer to consume in 16 hours. Hoping to outdo that this year!

 

[davidk]

The beer and freebies list keeps growing!

Four more beers to enjoy - Fortitude Brewing have signed on to provide a beer from each of their arms - Fortitude and Noisy Minor. Ben Krause at Bridge Road has offered to supply a keg. And local brewer, Wade Curtis, at 4 Hearts, will be giving us a taste of his latest beer - Cluster F$%K!

On the Freebies front, Archive, Scratch, Bitter Suite and Tipplers Taps are all throwing in a bunch of vouchers. The lucky ones will be able to enjoy a serious session at the bar, on them.

We have enough additional volunteers now, besides Brewers Choice staff, so no more are required. Thanks to those who put their hands up.

The Spiegelau Glass session is filling up, so get in soon or you will miss out. This session will definitely have limited seats and not too many are left.

And finally, don't forget the pre-conference drinks at Archive on Friday,12 July at 7pm. A great chance to catch up with others, maybe even those whom you only know by AHB handle!

Book now and annoy those who haven't yet. More tickets sold = More freebies!

Tickets available at www.theQHC.com.au

See you there.

 

[tummedea]

All booked in and ready to go. Even tested the marriage to the limit by arranging for my better half to pick me up after the event...

 

[tazman1967]

Woohoo... All booked in,

 

[sillyboybrybry]

All booked in and ready to go. Even tested the marriage to the limit by arranging for my better half to pick me up after the event...

My wife is definitely picking me up - that way she knows I am coming home.

 

[tazman1967]

Public transport for me, guarding some Spiegelau glassware with my life LOL

 

[davidk]

The QHC Program is now posted on the website. There should be something for everyone and with the amount of knowledge all together in one place, you should get an answer to just about any question you have! All shaping up really well.

See you there.

 

[tummedea]

I heard a whisper we're going to get some info on low alcohol beers (and how to make them taste less like water). Is that right?

 

[menoetes]

I was at my Brewers choice in Chapel Hill yesterday and the extremely helpful gent there gave me the brochure. It looks epic! count me in for a few events and two tickets!

 

[Parks]

I heard a whisper we're going to get some info on low alcohol beers (and how to make them taste less like water). Is that right?

Seeing as it's listed in the program, I would think so

 

[Adr_0]

I heard a whisper we're going to get some info on low alcohol beers (and how to make them taste less like water). Is that right?

High mash temp, SG in the 30's and a low attenuating yeast - e.g. Windsor?

Lots of awesome events all over the place and sounds like a great week.

 

[Parks]

High mash temp, SG in the 30's and a low attenuating yeast - e.g. Windsor?

Lots of awesome events all over the place and sounds like a great week.

I would think the yeast wouldn't matter. You wouldn't want any simple sugars left, only dextrins so it's not sweet, just full body.

 

[davidk]

Wade Curtis from 4 Hearts will be doing a presentation on low alcohol beers. I have had to do a few low alcohol beers in times past (due to Doctor's orders and sky-high cholesterol levels!). It's no easy thing to make a decent one. And as we are all responsible consumers of alcohol, and can't help forcing our beers onto anyone that drops in, being able to knock up at least one good LA beer and having it in the fridge, is no bad thing. Probably should also pick up a few tips on just getting maximum flavour for your buck - low alcohol or normal.