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Chicago enterprise acknowledged for group stewardship
Pittsburgh, Pa. — Gnome Brew of Chicago was acknowledged because the Homebrew Store of the 12 months on the 2022 Nationwide Homebrew Competitors, organized by the American Homebrewers Affiliation® (AHA) – the nationwide not-for-profit group devoted to advancing the pastime of homebrewing. Winners of the world’s largest beginner homebrew competitors have been acknowledged for essentially the most excellent selfmade beer, mead, and cider, concluding the forty fourth annual Homebrew Con™ in Pittsburgh.
“The American Homebrewers Affiliation is happy to award Gnome Brew the 2022 Homebrew Store of the 12 months,” mentioned Julia Herz, government director. “Gnome Brew has constructed an inclusive group for homebrewers of all talent ranges by offering academic alternatives and supplying the freshest and newest substances. Nominations cited proprietor David Odefey and the Gnome Brew workers for going above and past, dedication to in-person and digital group stewardship, and rising the pastime of homebrewing.”
“We’re thrilled to have received the 2022 Homebrew Store of the 12 months due to the assist and nominations of our wonderful prospects. We opened Gnome Brew as a store to offer a house for the homebrewing group in addition to for training, assist, and encouragement for these beginning out on this enjoyable and rewarding pastime. We’re proud to be Chicago’s native homebrew store, and for these elsewhere and not using a native store, we’d be honored to be your homebrew store,” David Odefey, proprietor at Gnome Brew.
Gnome Brew was chosen from amongst 138 homebrew store nominations and evaluated by the American Homebrewers Affiliation Governing Committee on the deserves of group assist, training, customer support and engagement, promotion of homebrewing, and accountable enterprise practices. Gnome Brew is the fifth recipient of this award because it started in 2018.
This 12 months’s competitors noticed greater than 2,940 entries from 1,187 homebrewers positioned in 48 states, Washington, D.C., and 7 international locations. In whole, 159,770 entries have been evaluated for the reason that inaugural AHA Nationwide Homebrew Competitors in 1979 in Boulder, Colo.
An entire listing of winners of the 2022 Nationwide Homebrew Competitors may be discovered right here.
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The AHA Homebrew Store of the 12 months is sponsored by BSG HandCraft.
The 2022 Nationwide Homebrew Competitors and Homebrew Con have been made attainable partly by the beneficiant assist of sponsors.
In regards to the American Homebrewers Affiliation®
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