Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1649, 14 October 2013 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:09:15 -0600 (MDT) From: mead-request@talisman.com Mead Lover's Digest #1649 14 October 2013 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: 2014 American Homebrewers Associations National Homebrewers - Mead ("Frey,...) NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead@talisman.com. Use mead-request@talisman.com for [un]subscribe and admin requests. Digest archives and FAQ are available at www.talisman.com/mead#Archives A searchable archive is at http://www.gotmead.com/mldarchives.html Digest Janitor: Dick Dunn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 2014 American Homebrewers Associations National Homebrewers - Mead From: "Frey, Chris (C.P.)" Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:33:07 +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 mead and cider. 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 meads and ciders possible. Additionally, I am encouraging those who plan to attend this conference to consider bringing kegs of mead and cider 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 making twelve 5 gallon batches of mead using different yeasts to provide enough for a tap takeover of one of the bars at the conference next year (and a similar effort for cider on another night). If you have a deep breadth of mead 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 ------------------------------ End of Mead Lover's Digest #1649 *******************************