2011 San Diego NHC

[Bobby_M]

I'm not calling anyone out BTW.

I'm saying that a plane ride make it prohibitive for some. Those people don't even consider going. Period.

Those that live a car ride away are more likely to say they are going to go and hold on to that intent longer.

Therefore, you'll literally see way more people in the greater Philly area declare they are going and then don't make it for a number of (valid) reasons. I'm sure that happened this year too.

We had our first club meeting last night since Philly 2013 was introduced and it's obvious that the whole club is giddy excited about it. We pub-crawl Philly quite a bit so it would be really odd to not see at least half of them there. Of course, the full conference pass is probably twice as much as what you'd spend on a crawl. Add in a weekend of hotel and food and it's still an expensive weekend for most. So far, airfare has been 30% or less of the whole NHC cost.

 

[Cape Brewing]

We'll be tossing the bars on the trailers and going down in a caravan (long line of trucks, not the minivan).

Should be interesting even though it is a long way off.

I'm thinking there may be something pig related coming out of the SSBC booth. (South Shore Brew Club)

 

[olllllo]

This has so much of this it's not even funny:

 

[Cape Brewing]

I smell a newwwww nicknaaaaaame

 

[AnonyBrew]

Maybe I'll have a booth next year to sign shirts & other "don't get Sopered" shwag.

 

[thataintchicken]

Maybe I'll have a booth next year to sign shirts & other "don't get Sopered" shwag.

then you'd need the

"I got Sopered" Shirts

"Sopered In Seattle" -- "I'll have what he's having shirts."

"A wild Soper appears" "uses beer" " Is super-effective" meme based shirts.

I'll donate my share of profits to charity of course...

 

[Zen_Brew]

I'm saving up for Seattle already! I have it on my calendar for next year. I really wanted to go this year, but life got in the way. I think I'm going to have to go every other year, and not every year, to keep peace in my family.

I've gone to 2008, 2010, and I'll go 2012. It'd be nice if it would be closer to me, like in Chicago, sometime. An expensive plane ticket along with the hotel, and of course the cost of the conference itself has been prohibitive for me. It's about a $1200 weekend, and I go alone. That's tough.

Love to see you in Seattle Yoop. You've got a year to scare up a fellow female brew partner to share a room with. That should cut down on the cost a bit. I'd offer up our spare bedroom, but we live like 20 miles away and with all the alcohol that just isn't going to be practical. We've already decided we're staying at the convention center.

By the way all, the actual location is in Bellevue WA, which is a high tech/financial based city just across the lake from Seattle.

 

[thataintchicken]

By the way all, the actual location is in Bellevue WA, which is a high tech/financial based city just across the lake from Seattle.

pub crawling will be tough, unless there is an organized bus or a Designated Driver to haul the soon-to-be-sopered HBT members around.

I know that an HBT party at Naked City is Imperative. :rockin:

 

[Saccharomyces]

I know that an HBT party at Naked City is Imperative. :rockin:

Absolutely. Maybe Don will make up something special for the occasion...

 

[Saccharomyces]

I think I may have set a record for the least amount of beer ever consumed at NHC! I was definitely at less than 3 pints/day. I guess that's one of the advantages (?) of having heart problems!

Heh, I think I only drank about 2 pints/day of beer but that's because I drank about 3 pints/day of mead.

 

[humann_brewing]

Absolutely. Maybe Don will make up something special for the occasion...

oh man that sounds awesome!

 

[olllllo]

then you'd need the

"I got Sopered" Shirts

"Sopered In Seattle" -- "I'll have what he's having shirts."

"A wild Soper appears" "uses beer" " Is super-effective" meme based shirts.

I'll donate my share of profits to charity of course...

As requested.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/soper-meme-thread-252907

 

[Zen_Brew]

pub crawling will be tough, unless there is an organized bus or a Designated Driver to haul the soon-to-be-sopered HBT members around.

I know that an HBT party at Naked City is Imperative. :rockin:

Pub crawling is going to be a challenge. Several of the local clubs are engaged in conversation on this topic with our state homebrew organization. Many of the best nano breweries are spread out across a braod region. We are pretty sure a bus will be run into the downtown Seattle area to hit a few of the big boys down there like Pike Brewing, Pyramid, Elysian. But we are considering individual charterred pub crawls as well to hit some of the outliers. This would only be practical the day or two before the conference starts.

 

[chriswilkes33]

as requested.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/soper-meme-thread-252907

awesomeness

 

[homebrewbaron]

Hi, there.

We are going to have a bunch of bus tours around to the breweries all over the Sound. North South, East Sound, South Sound, Fremont, etc.

For downtown, we are actually going to recommend a self tour using Sound Transit. From the Bellevue Transit center there is a bus that will take you straight downtown EVERY 15 MINUTES for $2.50! We may organize one group tour together but we are going to recommend that everyone take the time to do a tour at their own pace this way and also enjoy the downtown sights.

We are already working on the walking tour guide as we speak!

Cheers,
Mark Emiley
Conference Co-Bitch

 

[SPLASTiK]

Nice, thanks for uploading those. I saw someone else recording, not sure if it was you, looks like we had a lot of overlap.

Of the ones you didn't record, I recorded (but haven't transferred yet):
Going Pro Panel
A Saison for Every Season
Doing it the German Way
AHA Members Meeting
Choosing the Right Yeast

 

[EricT]

Thank you for posting, great info in the Hop Boil chemistry segment.

 

[Shooter]

I'll have to give these a listen. Looks like I only overlapped with your choices for one seminar.

 

[bumstigedy]

Thanks

 

[kappclark]

Thx for posting these ... do u have to listen in realtime, or can I dl for play in the car ?

 

[thesanch]

Um, not to be a stick in the mud, but did you get permission from all the speakers and the AHA to record these?

I just sent Gary Glass an email.

 

[thesanch]

Thx for posting these ... do u have to listen in realtime, or can I dl for play in the car ?

I made them all downloadable. Just click the download on the left.

 

[dunnright00]

I made them all downloadable. Just click the download on the left.

Thanks for uploading these!!

But the High gravity session is still not D/L-able.

 

[chriswilkes33]

Um, not to be a stick in the mud, but did you get permission from all the speakers and the AHA to record these?

At some point the AHA should post all of the seminars anyway. These are not intellectual property and can be shared freely.

 

[Denny]

At some point the AHA should post all of the seminars anyway. These are not intellectual property and can be shared freely.

I agree that the AHA should post them. They do post the Powerpoints. But the presenters are asked first if that's OK. I don't understand "These are not intellectual property and can be shared freely." That's not the way I see it. Not to mention, it's just good manners to ask the presenters.

 

[thesanch]

Thanks for uploading these!!

But the High gravity session is still not D/L-able.

My fault! Check again.

 

[olllllo]

They are disabled on HBT for the time being.

 

[Shooter]

They are disabled on HBT for the time being.

Seems reasonable.

Just as an aside, if anyone is waiting for a Powerpoint presentation of the High Gravity session, don't hold your breath...there wasn't one.

 

[weirdboy]

At some point the AHA should post all of the seminars anyway. These are not intellectual property and can be shared freely.

Really? I dunno about you, but I paid something like $190 to attend these seminars, and they were closed to anyone not attending the conference. I am not sure WHO owns the content rights...that is, whether it is the speaker or the AHA or the attendees, but at the very least you could consider this content work-for-hire and proprietary.

I think it is very nice that AHA puts up the powerpoints on their website, but I don't think they are obligated to make it freely available to the public by any means, especially to non-AHA members and/or non-conference attendees.

 

[Fletch]

This was an incomplete thought. Those that were there will get the point. http://wherenhchomebrewersmightsleep.tumblr.com/

That was funny!