NHC 2015 San Diego- roll call!
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Not attending the conference, but as a SD local I feel really spoiled reading this thread☺. BTW if you are going to ballast point in Miramar there is a new brewery called Duckfoot around the corner that is really excellent (and I happen to know one of the owners)
Duckfoot was at the Pro Night in the first area. Surprised me since they just had the official opening a week ago today.
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I missed it I was in a different seminar. Craig gave the talk I believe and I will tag him to see if he can chime in on that. @msbrewblog
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I had a great time having dinner with you. It was a pleasure getting to know you. Thanks!
Right back at you Yooper. I had a great first NHC. See you next year if your plan comes to fruition.
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Incredible time as usual.
Can't wait for the next one!
Can't wait for the next one!
I had a great time as well. Ended up walking into the Mead Panel on the fly (forgot to plan that session) and fell in love with the mead; probably drank several times more of that stuff during the conference than my entire life (I usually have avoided it at all costs due to having bad ones and horrible headaches).
I also had the best Vienna lager I have had and it was the homebrew version of Devils Backbone instead of the actual brewery version. This was at the Bringing the Brewery Home seminar.
I also had the best Vienna lager I have had and it was the homebrew version of Devils Backbone instead of the actual brewery version. This was at the Bringing the Brewery Home seminar.
It was great meeting everyone! Yooper (still my heroine!), AZ_IPA, Shooter and Soper! Ya'll made my first NHC a blast!!! I couldn't believe how many sours there were all week! Most memorable beers for me were a Sour Stout & Mango Lambic from Club Night, a Bochet Dubbel, a Honey Tai Chili and a Raspberry Serrano. Not sure if I will make NHC a yearly event, but I'm planning on perhaps every 2 years. It was a great time all in all.
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Yep, I was one of the speakers. My portion was on changing beer laws grassroots style.
Let me know if I can provide any info. The audio and presentation will be up on the AHA soon.
Just wondering how much they specifically talked about the change in CA homebrew law. I know there was a lot of grumblings about homebrew and commercial brew having to be separated. It is my understanding that one of the speakers was Tom McCormick from the California Craft Brewers Assoc. I heard that his group was the one that inserted that language into the new law. Just wondering if that subject was mentioned. Thanks!
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Hey, I just got a note from the guy that made that raspberry Serrano beer that we both like so much. It was by @LVGriff from this forum.
I met so many new friends at this conference. I am still in San Diego, and I did not know @brewbien was looking for someone to have a beer with yesterday evening. Sorry about that. Soper and Sacc we're still in San Diego until this morning. I went fishing (as planned) with @sudbuddy and @agrazela what really was the highlight of this whole trip for me, although hanging with you guys and having beers with you was right up there as well. This was definitely one of my favorite conferences.
never mind check this thread, I wondered why nobody else was talking about it already...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=530567
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=530567
amazing time as always. thanks to Youps for reigning us in, and to Soper for creating reasons to need to be reigned in 
so much sour beer at club night... my tummy was feeling it saturday morning
to all crazies i saw in SD: hope to see some/most of you in ol' balwmor next year, hon!
so much sour beer at club night... my tummy was feeling it saturday morning
to all crazies i saw in SD: hope to see some/most of you in ol' balwmor next year, hon!
Well Yooper... sorry we didn't connect. I guess you weren't looking for me. Maybe next time. I was the fat tall guy with the horns.
Then again - I have some memory loss from San Diego.
Maybe next time. I was the fat tall guy with the horns. Then again - I have some memory loss from San Diego.
Very cool! I was able to find out that it was the Pacific Gravity Club that had been pouring on Friday, but leave it to you to find the brewer!
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Well Yooper... sorry we didn't connect. I guess you weren't looking for me.
Then again - I have some memory loss from San Diego.
Hmmmm- maybe someone horny in a green shirt????!!!!???😀
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Finally got home at 2:00 this morning after 2 extra unscheduled days in San Diego due to weather around the country. So worth it!! NHC was a blast this year, and I especially enjoyed hanging out with you @yooper and @agrazela. Fishing in the bay was awesome, and I can't tell you how cool it felt to pull up some fish off the stern of the USS Midway. Thanks to all the great people I met, I had a wonderful time.
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That fat guy, about 6' 4"' with glasses wearing a historically inaccurate plastic Viking helmet? No idea who that is.
Welcome home!
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I am home, and unbelievably, my luggage made it too!
As of 8 AM PDT, I still had no confirmed flight home but they put me on a plane to Minneapolis where I expected to stay overnight. They tried sending me all over the place- Detroit, Green Bay, Minneapolis, Wausau (Wisconsin), Chicago- and couldn't get me close to home. I had several confirmed flights to places I didn't want to go, but couldn't get into northern Wisconsin or Upper Michigan as "all of the flights were oversold" per Delta.
Suddenly, I was at MSP and a lightening bolt hit. I kid you not. That meant ALL flights were not allowed to take off, or to land. "The ramps are closed" was the announcement. As I sat and just realized that I was in a horror movie, they said, "We can board" as I had requested as a stand-by.
Since the planes in the air were circling and not landing, and of course this flight was oversold as well, the plane boarded and ONE seat was left unfilled by some poor schmuck still trying to land. They told me it was MINE- and I had no boarding pass or anything at that moment as they worked it out, but I jumped on as I frantically called Bob to leave right away to pick me up (it's 1.5 hours to the airport). No answer, but I still was grateful to have a seat actually going to a state that was next to my home!!!!!! I ended up in central Wisconsin at 3:30 this afternoon and Bob got there about 20 minutes after the plane.
I'm HOME! And I'm never ever flying again.
Until next time.
As of 8 AM PDT, I still had no confirmed flight home but they put me on a plane to Minneapolis where I expected to stay overnight. They tried sending me all over the place- Detroit, Green Bay, Minneapolis, Wausau (Wisconsin), Chicago- and couldn't get me close to home. I had several confirmed flights to places I didn't want to go, but couldn't get into northern Wisconsin or Upper Michigan as "all of the flights were oversold" per Delta.
Suddenly, I was at MSP and a lightening bolt hit. I kid you not. That meant ALL flights were not allowed to take off, or to land. "The ramps are closed" was the announcement. As I sat and just realized that I was in a horror movie, they said, "We can board" as I had requested as a stand-by.
Since the planes in the air were circling and not landing, and of course this flight was oversold as well, the plane boarded and ONE seat was left unfilled by some poor schmuck still trying to land. They told me it was MINE- and I had no boarding pass or anything at that moment as they worked it out, but I jumped on as I frantically called Bob to leave right away to pick me up (it's 1.5 hours to the airport). No answer, but I still was grateful to have a seat actually going to a state that was next to my home!!!!!! I ended up in central Wisconsin at 3:30 this afternoon and Bob got there about 20 minutes after the plane.
I'm HOME! And I'm never ever flying again.
Until next time.
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I've heard some people claim it's Chris Colby, but I wouldn't swear to it. I thought he'd be shorter.
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Welcome "home"! I thought you were leaving after me, but apparently my canceled and aborted flights kept me in SD longer. What a great time we had together! Thank you for buying my lunch the other day (Monday?) and the fun times!
yup, ended this past saturday. more info: http://www.ahaconference.org/
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amazing time as always. thanks to Youps for reigning us in, and to Soper for creating reasons to need to be reigned in
so much sour beer at club night... my tummy was feeling it saturday morning
to all crazies i saw in SD: hope to see some/most of you in ol' balwmor next year, hon!
Haha- you know how Soper started the saying a couple of years ago, "NHC is over when I say it's over"?
Eric (Sacc) told me a new one last night, due to my travel travails: "NHC is over when DELTA says it's over"!
Delta sucks, by the way. I may have mentioned that.
Untrue. For Yooper, it just ended today.
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