4 | Brewers Association Homebrewers Association along with Charlie Matzen. Five years later, in 1983, this group was organized as part of the Association of Brewers with the goal of assisting the fledgling U.S. craft brewing community. In 2005, the Association of Brewers merged with the Brewers’ Association of America to form what is now known as the Brewers Association, a trade group that remarkably represents 99 percent of the beer that is brewed in America. Four primary events are held and highlighted annually by the BA. The Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® is an industry-only event and the largest annual gathering of brewing industry professionals, featuring educational tracks, seminars and, bi-annually, the prestigious World Beer Cup®. The BA also organizes SAVORSM: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience, the nation’s benchmark craft beer and food pairing event, as well as the its largest event; and the Great American Beer Festival®, a fall celebration that compels 50,000 beer lovers from around the world to travel to Denver and savor the flavors from more than 600 American brewers. The American Homebrewers Association, a division of the BA, also annually hosts the National Homebrewers Conference, an event that serves to
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