Homebrewing Chats with Annie Johnson

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Homebrewing Chats with Annie Johnson

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Aug 27, 2021

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In 2013, Annie Johnson won the American Homebrewer Associations' Homebrewer of the year award. She is now a brewmaster, a certified beer judge (BJCP), a chapter leader in the Seattle Pink Boots Society Chapter, and a member of the Governing Committee for the American Homebrewers Association. She shares her story and some tips along the way for homebrewers everywhere.

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Aug 27, 2021

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