I see full conference registration is already sold out. Amazing.
Well, to all of you that are going, have a great time. I went to the last two, but this it’s GABF for me. We may even enter a beer in the competition.
Yeah, pretty crazy.
I was at my computer at 12:06 pst and couldn’t even connect to the site till nearly 1:00 pst. the full thursday, friday, saturday was already sold out. I got the friday saturday only package instead.
Pent up East Coast Demand!
Half the US population lives within a 10 hour drive of Philly, including me - we are in.
Mort - get on the wait list for the full package.
Same here - it is amazing it is 2013 and we still have these crashes. But I am glad to see the enthusiasm of homebrewers!
Yep, took me an hour to get through. Took the Friday-Saturday package as well. I’m good with that though.
Dave
It’s okay,
I have to travel thursday anyway so I likely wouldn’t be in till the afternoon or evening. I can still do the social stuff thursday, just not the presentations. I actually thought that was a cool option for those of us who have to work wednesday. it’s only $10.00 difference in price but…
I was at my computer from the starting gun and I couldn’t get through for 45 minutes. Decided to try and commute home and wound up getting wait-listed for the full conference.
26 minutes later I was confirmed. Very happy.
nice little nod to the judges who give up their Thursday seminars too. It’s only $10 but little things like that are appreciated.
I luckily managed to get in for the full conference package.
You should note that even if you only got the Friday Saturday registration, you can still go to all of the same seminars from Thursday as these will be repeated through the Friday and Saturday sessions. CHIN UP GUYS and GALS! ;D
I can’t believe that I planned for this conference more meticuloulsy than a Shuttle launch and it all almost went to hell in a heartbeat. It was only with the help of someone else focusing on the hotel, me lucking onto the backdoor conference link to register (I think I must have got one of the last full packages), and the Grace of God that everythig worked out. I can’t believe that they were expecting so many people and everything still overloaded.
Next year AHA should just post direct links and not try to funnel through their own page. It’s a bad idea.
I just kept reloading the page and at 2 min to 3 it opened up so I got the package. Then the AHA posted the direct link on FB and I shared it far and wide.
I still think they should go back to a November sign up for the conference. That way it would be available for more than a couple of hours.
Like a frenzy today! :o
I’m happy for all East Coasters. Philly has turned into such a great beer city. Looking forward to the event. Hope to see many of you there.
The second hotel link went up today.
Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown
21 N Juniper Street
Philadelphia, Pa
19107 USA
I tried to register but was probably doubly cursed by my distance from the servers. By the time the page actually loaded, the full package was sold out, and I’m not spending $700 on airfare just for a single day.
Oh well… Maybe next year.
Phil, the Full-Almost package covers Friday and Saturday seminars, and all social stuff. It’s only the Thursday seminars you can’t attend (we don’t have the space because of another conference Thursday) and they are generally repeated on Friday or Saturday anyway. Plus you can judge and not worry about it.
Hey Tom, is there any method for someone who got the full package to pass along their Thursday seminar pass along to someone else. In reality I’ll probably be judging so I could give my pass to someone looking for the seminars that day.
+1
You better not back out on us! 
It’s going to be another stellar conference in one of the best beer cities on the planet! 
Mike… Either Tom or I can ask the powers to be at the home office and post the answer here.
It turns out we don’t have the cash to do it anyway (got some bad news in the mail today) so next year.