Quick updates about the upcoming conference in Portland:
- We are at 83 people registered!
- The Doubletree hotel has extended its discounted rate of $134 to August 5th for late registrants. Please reserve your room online now to get this rate.
- The Night of Many Beers is back! This was the highest rate event of the conference in Boulder. We’ll post exclusively about this next week.
- We have booked Karl Ockert from Master Brewers Association of the Americas for a talk on The Beer Steward Program. Here is the summary: Beer is often described in terms of process and style. Separating the two main families of beer into Lagers and Ales makes sense to brewers who formulate recipes and make the beer but means very little to the consumers who drink them. Doppel Bock has more flavors in common to a Brown ale than to its Pilsner cousin. In an effort to simplify flavor descriptions for all beer styles, whether they are Lagers or Ales, the Beer Steward Program of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas looks past the traditional family beer tree so that we can place any particular beer into one of four flavor-driven groups: Malt-Driven, Hop-Driven, Fermentation-Driven, and Flavored Beers The flavor group scenario makes more sense to the beer drinker, who is looking for a particular flavor and does not care about its production process, and is easier for the beer professional to describe and explain.
- We have six of the eight spots filled for the 15-minute blogger presentations on Sunday morning of the conference. This is your chance to talk about something of interest to you in the beer blogging world. Let us know if you’d like to speak! Here is the list so far:
- Beer Travel by Gerard Walen of Road Trips for Beer
- Pairing Outside the Box with Zach Rosen, Santa Barbara Craft Beer Examiner
- Getting a Scholarship to the Beer Bloggers Conference by Tatiana Peavey of A Strong Fuggly Brew and Carla Companion of The Beer Babe
- Blogging With Humor by Anne Fitten Glenn of Brewgasm
- Dictation Software by Sean Jansen of 2 Beer Guys’
- Content Curation by David Jensen of Beer 47