I also used to make beer and wine and went into the homebrew convention that year and sampled a few beers. I was pretty much disappointed as everything that I tried was really heavy on the hops which I do not care for. The other neat convention that I got to go to was a few years ago when Comic-con was at SP at the same time as the chip convention. I found out that the comics that I sold for $110 in the mid-70's (about what I paid for them at $.12 each when I was in 9th grade) are worth about $250,000 today. GEEZ!