American Homebrewers Association
The American Homebrewers Association is a division of the Brewers Association focused on homebrewers of beer, cider, and mead. The AHA was founded in 1978 by Charlie Papazian in Boulder, Colorado. The AHA runs the world's largest homebrew competition and also organizes several homebrew events in the United States and Canada. Gary Glass is the current director. The AHA publishes the magazine Zymurgy six times per year to its 30,000 members.
Every year the AHA hosts the following events:
- National Homebrew Competition
- National Homebrewers Conference (including the finals of the National Homebrew Competition), held the third week in June
- Big Brew, held the first Saturday in May
- Mead Day, held the first Saturday in August
- Learn to Homebrew Day, held the first Saturday in November
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