Canadian Homebrewers Association

Our CHA Speaker Series: Experimeads is starting shortly! You won't want miss Stephen's presentation on how to make crushable short meads in a week!

This month's CHA Speaker Series: Experimeads will doing a presentation on evidence based short meads that are crushable only after one week! You won't want to miss it! To get the meeting details, login to our website and head to the Speaker Series page for more info!

Our Annual General Meeting is starting in a few minutes! If you're a member, head to https://canadahomebrews.ca/annual-general-meeting/ to get the meeting details!

Just a reminder to our members! We are having our Annual General Meeting tomorrow night @ 6 pm PST 7 pm MST & CST 8 pm CDT... 9 pm EST 10 pm ADT 10.30 pm NDT The meeting details and agenda are on our Annual General Meeting page, which can be found under the Events tab on our website. You should have also received a couple of email notices about. Let us know if you have any questions or issues! See you tomorrow night!

Just a reminder to our members! We are having our Annual General Meeting tomorrow night @ 6 pm PST 7 pm MST & CST 8 pm CDT... 9 pm EST 10 pm ADT 10.30 pm NDT The meeting details and agenda are on our Annual General Meeting page, which can be found under the Events tab on our website. You should have also received a couple of email notices about. Let us know if you have any questions or issues! See you tomorrow night!

While a lot of the homebrew competitions have been cancelled this year due to the pandemic, it doesn't mean that you can't start planning for one next year! This Thursday, our CHA Speaker Series: Matt Anderson will talk you through the ins and outs of running a homebrew competition! Our monthly educational seminars are free for our members, and the meeting details (and recordings of our previous Speaker Series seminars) is available on the Speaker Series page of our website!

Earlier this year, we asked all of you for submissions for Best Homebrew Store of the Year, and our board reviewed all the submissions. We are so excited to announce that the winner of CHA Best Homebrew Store of the Year 2020 is Short Finger Brewing Co.!! Congratulations!

TODAY IS THE DAY! We hope to see all your lovely faces later with our great line up. Head to our conference page for instructions on how to join in! Canadian Homebrewing Summit

Darren Campbell from BrewVic, a homebrew club in Victoria, shares about his club's recent bottle share with SMaSH (single malt single hop) beers. https://tinyurl.com/y4yb6tp4

We hope you're excited for our very first Canadian Homebrewing Summit this Saturday, because we are! And if you're on the fence about getting a membership to check the conference out, we've made our members-only Speaker Series talks available to everyone this week on Youtube! There are some great Canadian homebrewers out there, and it's always exciting to have them share what they're passionate about with us. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4WL3k2W7-vAVioaWmVtrVg

Our Northern regional rep Shawn Paul Brennan was featured recently in local news about his club's homebrew competition in memory of Andrew Debogorski, one of the club's co-founder. https://cabinradio.ca//in-memory-of-andrew-debogorski-yk-/

We're so excited to share our lineup for our very first Canadian Homebrewing Summit! It's happening on September 12, 2020, so mark that on your calendars! It's free for CHA members, but it's only $20/yr for your membership. We'll also be announcing best Homebrew Supply Store of the Year during the conference, so watch out for that!

So you've started some hop plants this year, and they've got some cones on the vines. Now what? Mike Chowns walks through when and how to process those hops, and a suggestion on how to use them in this month's Mash Out! https://canadahomebrews.ca//mash-out-brewing-with-homegro/

Just a reminder that our very own CHA Director Kathy Yan Li will be leading a guided malt tea tasting on Saturday for CHA Speaker Series: Kathy Yan Li! If you'd like to join in the discussion, don't forget to prepare your malt teas in advance! If you're using regular coffee filters, the teas might take longer than expected to steep. And you'll want to print four copies of the BJCP Malt Sensory Wheel so you can make your tasting notes on it! https://dev.bjcp.org//01/BJCP-Malt-Sensory-Training-Wheel. We'll be tasting four base malts2 Row Pale malt, Pilsner malt, Vienna malt and Maris Otter malt!

Chelsea Meisner is an award-winning homebrewer from Nova Scotia and has some very cool homebrewing roots. Her parents founded the North Queens Homebrew Association in the 80s and ran Beerfest! Read more about it here: https://tinyurl.com/y4tojed9

Want to start making some big beers for winter, but your brewing system won't quite accomodate the extra grains you'll need to mash in? No problem! Mike Chowns will walk you through reiterated mashing here in last month's Mash Out!: https://canadahomebrews.ca//07/mash-out-reiterated-mashing/

There was a brewery warehouse worker strike in the 50's which caused a shortage of beers at Ontario LCBOs. Matt Ballyk's grandmother Lillian had to learn how to homebrew and apply for a homebrewing permit to keep beer flowing in her household. Read more about it here: https://tinyurl.com/y3c4ayf3