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Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

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Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:26 pm
by Bugeater
Ali Hamm will be teaching a home brew class in conjunction with a hands on hop workshop for home brewers. Grow your own for your own ! Several Brewmasters will also speak on styles of beer and different brewing techniques. Dr. Ron Godin Phd. will give a presentation on hop growing and the nutrients the plant needs during different stages of its life cycle. Glen Fuller will conduct a hands on segment in the hop yards. Several brews will be made during the class and students will participate in all steps of the process.

The cost for this class will be $100.00 and is limited to 75 people.
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Ali has been studying hops since 2007 as part of a master’s thesis in Horticulture from Colorado State University that is funded by New Belgium Brewing Company, Odell Brewing Company, and an American Society of Brewing Chemists Graduate Scholarship. Her research has been broadly focused on assessing the viability of growing hops organically in Colorado while helping encourage the industry both in the brewery and on the farm. She has managed two research plots comparing 20 hop varieties and their performance in Colorado. Her final thesis is written on the demand for local hops as determined by a brewery survey. Her research has been featured in several media publications such as Modern Brewery Age, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include an “Give Your Homebrew Terroir” featured in Brewer’s Association Zymurgy magazine, as well as “Colorado Hops: Brewery Survey Results” soon to be published in CSU’s Ag Experiment Station Bulletin series. She has also served as CSU’s “brewmaster” for the undergraduate Brewing Science and Technology course and has been instrumental in establishing the new CSU “brewery” using the Sabco BrewMagic system. Ali has an undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley in Molecular and Cellular Biology where she focused on cancer research and toxicology. The first practical application of her bachelor’s degree was to learn how to homebrew when she moved to Fort Collins, CO in 2006, and the rest is history.


Contact
Glen Fuller
Rising Sun Farms
16540 Grange Road
Paonia Co 81428

organichops@rof.net

970-274-1256

http://www.coloradoorganichops.com/?page_id=157

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:34 pm
by BadRock
I'm going to try and attend!

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:12 pm
by HopRunner
Ali Hamm seems very cool! I thought she was great on the show and I really enjoyed the Zymurgy article she wrote. I planted a bunch of hops this year so the timing was perfect.

Bet it will be a fun class.

I hope someone gives her a Brewing Network shirt!

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:06 pm
by BadRock
I contacted Glen and here is his response.....

"Adam, We will be adding more information on the web site over the next 2 weeks. We will have a agenda up shortly as well as links to area hotels and B&Bs. We will also be adding a sign up sheet and purchase buttons. Cheers Glen"

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:58 am
by dontblake
Ali is indeed very cool. She came down to Left Hand Brewing last week and several members of our club participated in a hands-on hop planting workshop (we re-planted half of their hop yard). She stuck around for our homebrew club meeting and we had a really cool Q&A session all about hops.
She also did mention that Glen is trying to line up purchasers of his hops in the fall - both commercial and homebrewing quantities will be available. I'm not exactly sure of the varieties, but you can bet that Cascade and Chinook will be in there.....and they're organic.

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:02 pm
by Ali Hamm
Hey everyone (including all you calling me Ami.... yup nice pictures of me) :

I've launched a website to answer the many hop questions I get. There are a few blogs on organic hop farming activities and research, organic hop farms in the country, and hop activities in Colorado


www.organichops.info


Give me some business!


And yes, I am dealing with sales of Colorado organic hops: 2oz and 4oz nitrogen flushed packages or mini-bales (approx. 20lbs). Whole dried hops, mostly Cascade and Chinook available from Rising Sun Farms. 20+ pound orders only.

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:45 am
by HopRunner
Ali Hamm wrote:Hey everyone (including all you calling me Ami.... yup nice pictures of me) :

I've launched a website to answer the many hop questions I get. There are a few blogs on organic hop farming activities and research, organic hop farms in the country, and hop activities in Colorado

http://www.organichops.info

Give me some business!

And yes, I am dealing with sales of Colorado organic hops: 2oz and 4oz nitrogen flushed packages or mini-bales (approx. 20lbs). Whole dried hops, mostly Cascade and Chinook available from Rising Sun Farms. 20+ pound orders only.


What are Organi Chops? ... Just Kidding

http://www.organichops.info - Bookmarked!

Re: Ali Hamm home brew class and hop workshop.

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:50 am
by ddgbrewing
Just called and Talked to Glen.. they are still working on some details and will have it posted on the website... I'm going to try and go.. just a short 5 hour drive from my place...

:jnj

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