Best AHA Conference Seminars

General Homebrew Discussion
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Audio and slides from this year’s AHA conference is now available to members at http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/lets-brew/homebrewing-seminars/2012.  What were some of the best seminars?

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I’d say Michael Fairbrother’s Mead Excellence was my favorite, but some of that is because I was there drinking his awesome mead.  8)
Best one to read/listen to now?  I’d say Greg Doss’ Exploring Fermentation Attenuation is my current vote.  Still have to listen to a few of them though.

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I’ll throw my hat in the ring for the Berliner Weisse presentation.

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I’ve listened to the AHA Members meeting (missed it when I was there…I must have been drinking or something ), and Neva’s Fermentation Myth Busters.  Currently listening in the car to Brewguyvering (well not this second), but it’s really hard since I think Kent had a lot of stuff there to show.

This is a great idea…thank you for recording these!!  Maybe next year you can get directional mic’s to hear the questions being asked in the audience  :wink:

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I’m enjoying the Berliner Weisse one right now.  But I’m a BW fan and just began dabbling with this style.

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I learned quite a bit at that one, too.

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Fermentation Mythbusters was great.  I think maybe my favorites were Greg Doss on attenuation and Stan Hieronymous on hops.

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Just listened to Neva’s “Fermentation Myth Busters” yesterday and really enjoyed it and got quite a bit out of it.  Not ashamed to admit that I answered a few of those myths wrong and really taken aside at how “little” extra cell count a  1L yeast starter produces compared to what I thought and was told it did.

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I agree that Fairbrother’s talk was great.  And I stewarded for him (and Gordon Strong) at the mead table. Both very nice guys, and while I had never had meads before, I’ve bought a few since.  And bought Schramm’s book.  Maybe someday…

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Same here!

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Jennifer Talley’s presentation “Thank You, I’ll Have Another,” which is about session beers is quite interesting.  It starts out really slowly about what is a session beer, but once it gets more technical it gets to be quite interesting.