Aug 11, 2026 · 0 min · 10 segments
!https://www.experimentalbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Asheville_Hospitality_Bar-300x225.jpg HomeBrewCon Was Back! But how was it? Of course, Drew is biased, but Denny and guest, Eric…
Drew BeechumHost
Eric PierceGuest
Denny ConnHost
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the things I'm really happy about day we were talking about before we started doing all the mics is, you know, there was a lot of talk, you know, we've purposely are making homebrew con a little bit smaller, you know, because it's gonna have to be right size for everything, you know, we don't have the risk in the budget, yada, yada, yada.
And initially, we had had had the thought of like, okay, we'll have fewer speakers.
Yeah, man, when I looked at the schedule, my first thought was, man, this is like twice as many speakers as there generally are.
But it feels like, wow, this is a lot of people here, you know? Because, I mean, it really right-sized it, I think.
Like, we had to walk a million miles to get to the media room here, but, you know, okay.
Asheville is a really nice city, but as somebody said, everything is uphill both ways.
Well, but also because I'm trying to remember, I think this ended up being like 1,300 people or somewhere in that neighborhood.
But what's really cool is that because it's not the monster planned out like 3,000, 4,000 people, we can come to Asheville.
If this had been a couple years back when it was all at the big booming stage, there's no place in Asheville that would have been able to sustain us.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the things I'm really happy about day we were talking about before we started doing all the mics is, you know, there was a lot of talk, you know, we've purposely are making homebrew con a little bit smaller, you know, because it's gonna have to be right size for everything, you know, we don't have the risk in the budget, yada, yada, yada.
And initially, we had had had the thought of like, okay, we'll have fewer speakers.
Yeah, man, when I looked at the schedule, my first thought was, man, this is like twice as many speakers as there generally are.
But it feels like, wow, this is a lot of people here, you know? Because, I mean, it really right-sized it, I think.
Like, we had to walk a million miles to get to the media room here, but, you know, okay.
Asheville is a really nice city, but as somebody said, everything is uphill both ways.
Well, but also because I'm trying to remember, I think this ended up being like 1,300 people or somewhere in that neighborhood.
But what's really cool is that because it's not the monster planned out like 3,000, 4,000 people, we can come to Asheville.
If this had been a couple years back when it was all at the big booming stage, there's no place in Asheville that would have been able to sustain us.
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