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After the success of last year we are upping our game in 2016. An absolute educational must for any Home or Pro Brewer.
More info in the coming weeks.

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A bit more about this from Irish Goat, hope plugging it here is ok?

"This year’s theme “Pushing the Boundaries” will focus on furthering your education and teaching you how to turn your good beers, into great beers!

Gordon Strong, President of the BJCP is this years BrewCon 2016's keynote speaker. Also speaking, Chip Walton of Summit Brewing, former videographer/editor/producer of Brewing TV and presenter of Chop & Brew, a blog and web show about unorthodox ingredients and fermentations.

Great presentations from our own members, all aimed at how to improve your brewing knowledge and make better beer.
Like the National Brewing Championships we are expecting high demand and once we have hit capacity that will unfortunately be it as the venue has a strict maximum attendance.

We’ll have the usual goody bag stuffed with loads of goodies (worth as much as the ticket alone), food and drink at the main break and entry to the beer tasting session in the food hall after the last talk where you will have the opportunity to have one on one discussions with any of the speakers. I'm particularly excited about this as we have lined up some great beers this year to serve up!

There has been a unique link sent via email to all NHC members. If you haven't received the email please drop me a PM."

Tickets go on general release next week.

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We have announced another speaker, Dr Bill Simpson[/url:26s2xd27]. Dr Simpson is a very highly qualified expert in the brewing industry and will be coming over to speak on the flavour profiles of some popular beers. In his presentation he’ll share with us some of the key flavour attributes of some well-known styles of beer and show us how we can use this approach to improve our ‘blind’ identification of beer styles and to brew better beer.

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[size=130:1a2g8y51][b:1a2g8y51]BrewCon 2016[/b:1a2g8y51][/size:1a2g8y51]


After the success of last year’s first homebrew conference, aimed solely at all levels of brewers in Ireland,[b:1a2g8y51] BrewCon 2016[/b:1a2g8y51] is back and will be held on [b:1a2g8y51]Saturday, 23rd April[/b:1a2g8y51] in Dublin, at the historic [b:1a2g8y51]Smock Alley Theatre[/b:1a2g8y51].

We have once again gathered a wide mix of industry experts, including professional brewers and highly qualified brewing scientists from all aspects of the brewing community

We have once again gathered a wide mix of industry experts from and a sell out crowd are expected to hear from all aspects of the brewing community including professional brewers and highly qualified brewing scientists.

One of the premier aims of the[b:1a2g8y51] National Homebrew Club [/b:1a2g8y51]is education of our brewers, with this is in mind the conference is aimed at furthering their education by putting together a day of talks and discussions in a friendly and informative atmosphere.

This year, [b:1a2g8y51]BrewCon 2016[/b:1a2g8y51]'s keynote speaker will be [b:1a2g8y51]Gordon Strong[/b:1a2g8y51], [i:1a2g8y51]President of the BJCP[/i:1a2g8y51].

[b:1a2g8y51]Gordon Strong[/b:1a2g8y51] is an award-winning homebrewer, beer judge and author. He is the author of [i:1a2g8y51]Brewing Better Beer: Master Lessons for Advanced Homebrewers[/i:1a2g8y51], and [i:1a2g8y51]Modern Homebrew Recipes[/i:1a2g8y51]. He is the only three-time winner of the coveted [i:1a2g8y51]Ninkasi Award[/i:1a2g8y51].

Among the notable line-up of qualified and well respected speakers from the industry, will be:


[b:1a2g8y51]Dr. Bill Simpson[/b:1a2g8y51] [i:1a2g8y51]Cara Technologies[/i:1a2g8y51] - specialist in Beer Flavour Standards
[b:1a2g8y51]Chip Walton[/b:1a2g8y51] [i:1a2g8y51]Summit Brewing[/i:1a2g8y51] / [i:1a2g8y51]Chop & Brew[/i:1a2g8y51] blog, podcast and webshow
[b:1a2g8y51]Dr. Gearoid Cahill[/b:1a2g8y51] [i:1a2g8y51]Altech[/i:1a2g8y51] - Dublin Beer Cup Head Judge
[b:1a2g8y51]Rory Sheils[/b:1a2g8y51] Ex Master Brewer
[b:1a2g8y51]Dr. Peter Dudley[/b:1a2g8y51] Water Treatment Specialist
[b:1a2g8y51]Brendan Murphy[/b:1a2g8y51] Award Winning Homebrewer

A great [b:1a2g8y51]Q&A[/b:1a2g8y51] session:

Former NHC President [b:1a2g8y51]Rossa O’Neill[/b:1a2g8y51], is on the couch with [b:1a2g8y51]Alex Lawes[/b:1a2g8y51], Head Brewer, [i:1a2g8y51]Rye River Brewing Company[/i:1a2g8y51], discussing his journey from homebrewer to professional and fielding questions from the audience.

Some of the highlights at [b:1a2g8y51]BrewCon 2016[/b:1a2g8y51] will include:

• [b:1a2g8y51]Speciality Ingredients[/b:1a2g8y51] – Chip Walton from [i:1a2g8y51]Chop & Brew[/i:1a2g8y51] will discuss how to get the best out of speciality additions such as spices and fruits.
• [b:1a2g8y51]Water Treatment[/b:1a2g8y51] – How to tweak your water profiles to match distinct beer styles
• Lunch, sample beers & refreshments
• [b:1a2g8y51]Drinks reception[/b:1a2g8y51] – showcasing some of Ireland’s finest commercial and homebrewed beers.

The infamous [b:1a2g8y51]BrewCon Swag Bag[/b:1a2g8y51] returns – including vouchers for your favourite homebrew retailers, commemorative [b:1a2g8y51]BrewCon 2016 [/b:1a2g8y51]materials (pen, pad, etc) to keep all your notes in one place, an issue of "[b:1a2g8y51]Zymurgy[/b:1a2g8y51]" Homebrew magazine (with some great recipes, news, etc), and even more extras on the day....

Speaking at the launch, [b:1a2g8y51]Thomas Carroll[/b:1a2g8y51], [i:1a2g8y51]President of the NHC[/i:1a2g8y51] said:
[i:1a2g8y51]"Building on the success of last year’s phenomenally well received conference; we have once again focused on offering Irish brewers a truly educational as well as enjoyable experience.”[/i:1a2g8y51]

[b:1a2g8y51]There are still a limited number of tickets available at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.nhcconference.com/tickets">www.nhcconference.com/tickets.[/url:1a2g8y51]
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For further information about this event contact us at [email:1a2g8y51]brewcon@nhcconference.com[/email:1a2g8y51]

More about the National Homebrew Club[/url:1a2g8y51]
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anyone willing to put me up (put up with me) sat eve? Beeribery will be provided...