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The Molecular Mechanisms of Taste and Aroma

  • Speaker: Alexander Gashti
  • Track: Quality
  • Homebrew Con 2023
  • San Diego

Dive into chirality, the structure and function of the tongue, soft palate, and structures of the olfactory system as they relate to brewing.


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Traditional & Modern Cask Ale Techniques

  • Speaker: Aaron Hyde
  • Track: Beer Styles & Techniques
  • Homebrew Con 2023
  • San Diego

Explore the history of cask ales, traditional styles and techniques, and modern pursuits that benefit from being served on a cask.


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Understanding Fruit and Mead

  • Speaker: Ken Schramm
  • Track: Beyond Beer
  • Homebrew Con 2023
  • San Diego

Gain a deeper understanding of the controllable parameters of fruit, and leave with the ability to make genuinely incredible mead.


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Women & Beer Competitions

  • Speakers: Melissa McCannMichele Wonder
  • Track: Clubs
  • Homebrew Con 2023
  • San Diego

Gain knowledge that will help you, your club, and your competition to give encouragement and direction to female and nonbinary homebrewers.


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Bear No Fruit: Making Novel Meads with Store-Bought Juice

  • Speaker: Dr. Arthur Franke
  • Track: Alternative Fermentation
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Learn how to build a melomel recipe around a specific juice; Discuss how to source and choose juices; Step through a case study illustrating how juice can be used and adapted to a recipe.


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Beer Soluble Hop Compounds: Translating Raw Hop Aroma to Finished Beer Aroma

  • Speakers: Ashleigh HaydenJosh WurzbacherSteve Thompson
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Methods for using beer soluble hop compound research to design efficient recipes; Targeted expression blends and how they manifest in beers; A description of the research conducted and its culmination into a graph of survivable (beer soluble) compounds by variety.


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Beer Styles: Past, Present, and Future

  • Speakers: Gordon StrongJulia Herz
  • Track: Beer Styles
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Knowledge of beer styles goes hand in hand with homebrewing. Join Gordon Strong, the principal author of the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) beer style guidelines, as he shares insights behind beer styles and how they have evolved over the years.


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Blending Sour Beer for the Homebrewer

  • Speakers: Aaron DeBoerMatt Johnson
  • Track: Beer Styles
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Learn how to evaluate and select sour beer for blending; Explore processes and procedures for blending sour beers to meet your goals; Understand acidity, funk, and complexity.


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Brewery Law for Beginners

  • Speaker: Aaron Weiss
  • Track: Other/Misc.
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Education about the key areas of law that affect breweries; How to best prevent legal issues, or handle them if they arise; Putting concerns at ease so a brewery can be prepared to handle any issues without frustration or stress


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Brewing Water Adjustment

  • Speaker: John Palmer
  • Track: Brewing Process
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Online Extra

John Palmer explains the Water chapters of How To Brew, outlining how he reviews his own tap water profile and uses the guidelines and software to adjust that water to best fit the recipe that he is brewing.


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Brewing with Ancient Grains

  • Speaker: Aaron Hyde
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Take a closer look at ancient grains, especially those that are not being commonly used in commercial beer right now; Learn techniques for cereal mashing and toasting ancient grains for use in beer; Walk away with recipes, both ancient and modern, that could make use of ancient grains.


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Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer

  • Speaker: Dr. Keith Villa
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

The topic of cannabis becomes more popular every year as additional states legalize its medical or recreational use. Many homebrewers have wondered about the possibilities of using hemp or marijuana in a brew.


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Brewing with Hemp: The Essential Guide

  • Speaker: Ross Koenigs
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Understand the many uses of cannabis that are relevant to homebrewers; Debunk some of the rampant myths and pseudo-science about cannabis; Explore the future opportunities in the cannabis beverage space


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English Ales: From Classics to Class

  • Speaker: Jason Chalifour
  • Track: Beer Styles
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Hear an overview of English malts and varieties of English base malts; Learn to create recipes where the flavor is driven by the base malt; Review different types of specialty malts and how to use them deftly in English styles


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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Zinc

  • Speaker: Kara Taylor
  • Track: Technical
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Learn what zinc contributes to fermentation; Understand how zinc changes in the hot side versus cold side; Hear best practices for adding zinc to fermentations.


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Hey! Where’d Everybody Go? Member Retention Dos and Don’ts

  • Speaker: Mike Todd
  • Track: Clubs & Competitions
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Understand common reasons why people leave member groups, specifically homebrew clubs; Identify areas in need of improvement within your own club; Walk away with actionable best practices for retaining members you can implement immediately.


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High Gravity: Pro Techniques for Homebrewers

  • Speakers: Brittany FreyJames Czar
  • Track: Brewing Process
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Understand high gravity and its impact on the brewing process and recipe design, and walk away with professional techniques that can be directly applied to homebrewing and recipe design for high gravity brews


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Home Smoking Malt for Rauchbier

  • Speakers: John HollJohn PutnamMichael Bury
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Learn how to smoke malt at home and then formulate the perfect smoke beer recipe utilizing your home-smoked malts.


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Homebrewing Economics

  • Speaker: William Bickerton
  • Track: Other/Misc.
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Gain the confidence to start brewing with a limited budget; Understand what distinguishes a premium homebrewing set-up from a budget set-up; Get money-saving tips and homebrewing hacks for beginners.


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Homebrewing for the Beginner

  • Speakers: Amy MartinJill Marilley
  • Track: Brewing Process
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Develop an understanding of the brewing process from start to finish; Become familiar with ingredients and equipment; Learn how to navigate different recipes; Understand how to implement homebrewing best practices.


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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Homebrew

  • Speaker: Megan Parisi
  • Track: Other/Misc.
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Learn how to relax, not worry, and embrace the joy of brewing up your own creations; Develop strategies for a brewing setup that work with the realistic circumstances in your life; Address considerations if you DO decide that you want to move forward into a more advanced or professional realm;


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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Biotransformation!

  • Speakers: Leandro MeinersMatias Cavanna
  • Track: Technical
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Understand that biotransformation is not a one-stop shop for explaining all the unknown changes of beer flavor and aroma when dry hopping during active fermentation; Learn the different types of biotransformation and their potential impact in beer flavor; Explain how to use exogenous brewing enzymes (or specific yeasts) that foster some of these types of biotransformation.


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Know Grain, No Pain: Understanding Milling and Mashing

  • Speakers: Jen BlairRachael Hudson
  • Track: Ingredients
  • Homebrew Con 2022
  • Pittsburgh

Understand why milling is a critical step in the brewing process and how it impacts the finished beer; Explore how to adjust mash parameters depending on grains used and desired final flavor profile, such as altering mash temperature, adding rice hulls, different mash regimens, such as step mashing and infusion mashing.


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