Nine years ago this month I attended my first Homebrew Con. At the end of Homebrew Con 2023 in San Diego, which regrettably I was unable to attend, the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) announced that Homebrew Con would be taking place at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). When that was announced, a lot of people smelled a rat. Those concerns were validated at least to some extent when the AHA announced that Homebrew Con was on hiatus, and in it's place was "Homebrew HQ at GABF".
This revised event was to have some educational seminars, but what it won't have is a vendor expo with homebrew clubs pouring during the day, or the highlight of Homebrew Con: Club Night. The AHA was seemingly putting on a homebrewing event without homebrew. In the end they had an improvised Club Night, but by all accounts it was not the same.
