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Subject: Cider Digest #1815, 14 October 2013
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Cider Digest #1815 14 October 2013
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
2014 American Homebrewers Associations National Homebrewers ("Frey, Chris ...)
AWRI 350 (Richard Schoeler)
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Subject: 2014 American Homebrewers Associations National Homebrewers
From: "Frey, Chris (C.P.)" <cfrey@ford.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:30:52 +0000
Hi - I just joined today, but I wanted to get a message out to anyone who
might have interest.
The 2014 AHA NHC will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 12th - June
14th, 2014. Registration for the event will begin this coming January,
and next month there will be a call for speakers. Typically there are
approximately 40+ speaker sessions available. The conference is expected
to host 4,000 homebrewers from around the country, and sessions could
approach 1,000 members each.
As the co-chair of the volunteer effort, I am attempting to create day long
speaker tracks on both cider and mead. While in years past there have been
speakers on these topics, there typically hasn't been the concentrated
effort to ensure a day long track of speakers have the opportunity to
collaborate and work together to provide as much good information on how
to create the best ciders and meads possible.
Additionally, I am encouraging those who attend this conference to consider
bringing kegs of cider and mead for shifts during the hospitality suite
as well as if their clubs are participating in Club Night. For instance,
one of my clubs (the Ann Arbor brewers Guild) is collecting 5 gallons of
eight different heirloom varietal ciders in two weeks to provide enough for
a tap takeover of one of the bars at the conference next year (and a similar
effort for mead on another night). With the bumper crop here in Michigan,
it will be a wonderful opportunity to showcase and teach about cider.
If you have a deep breadth of cider making skills and you would like to
be considered to collaborate & speak on this subject, I will be sharing
the link where potential speakers can submit a brief abstract on what they
would like to present. I anticipate that this link will go live in just a
few weeks. If you have any recommendations, please provide their contact
information (not just a name) and what you know about their expertise. These
presentations are put on gratis, but speakers get comp'ed for the conference
(and a guaranteed ticket is a hot commodity seeing as 3,400 tickets sold
out in less than a day last year, and that included a 15 hour server crash).
If you want to recommend someone, please feel free to contact both me and
Craig Belanger (lincman@comcast.net). Craig is the conference Speaker
coordinator.
Chris P. Frey
Program Manager - Personal Lines
One American Road, MD: 7480
Dearborn, MI 48126-2701
T: 313-594-1641
F: 313-248-7225
cfrey@ford.com
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Subject: AWRI 350
From: Richard Schoeler <rcschoeler@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:04:10 -0400
I was all set to try this yeast this year and now find I do not have
access to it. Davis is sold out, Kent won't sell to me as I am not (yet)
commercial, and I can't identify another source. I only need 100 grams and
could live with just 50. Can anyone direct me to an additional source or
would one of you "Big Guys" be willing to help me out? Feel free to contact
me off-list at rcschoeler@yahoo.com. I'm willing to pay for all expenses.
Thanks Much,
Richard S.
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