A who’s who of authors and beer celebrities were in attendance including Charlie Papazian, one of the founding fathers of the American current homebrew movement. Over 50 seminars were featured as well as book signings. Adam Mills of Cranker’s collaborated with Nathan Smith and Mike McDole of the Brewing Network for the BNA9 Session IPA which was tapped especially for this year’s event. Many of the clubs also participated in brewing a “KBS Clone” recipe which could be sampled on club night. The convention concluded on Saturday with a grand banquet and award ceremony. Next year’s conference is scheduled to be held in San Diego, California on Thursday, June 11th through Saturday June 13th in 2015.
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