Hey Everybody! Golden Road Brewery is hosting a Homebrewer's night on June 6. They are featuring the finalists for their Pro-Am, so come out and support Fellow Falcon John Aitchison!

From the website:

Come one, come all! We are hosting a special Homebrewer's Night at our events space Chloe's on June 6th! This event will be the Final Round of judging for our GABF Pro/Am "Mystery Hop" Competition, so come on out and help us decide which beer we'll be bringing to Denver with us!

As if we didn't already have the best IPAs on tap. Now we're giving you even more!

Join us on Saturday, June 1, 2013 for an
I.P.A. Tap Takeover
Starting @ 11:00 AM

We will bring you over 10 Amazing I.P.A.s on Draught

BEAR REPUBLIC BLACK RACER
BEAR REPUBLIC CRAZY IVAN
FLYING DOG CITRA SINGLE HOP
OSKAR BLUES GUBNA
HERETIC EVIL COUSIN
CLOWN SHOES TRAMP STAMP
NINKASI TOTAL DOMINATION
FIGUEROA MOUNTAIN HOPPY POPPY
+MORE

Limited Supplies - come early to not miss out on the great beer.

This is an event not to be missed by any beer lover!

Over the May 3-4 weekend I attended the Gaslight Gathering convention in San Diego. This is the 3rd year this convention has been held.

On Saturday I presented a beer appreciation panel. The presentation room was full and after a 5 minute talk about the history of beer, we started the sampling. The sampling list:

Hitachino Red Rice Ale
Chechvar
Weihenstephan Hefe-Weiss
Baltika Porter
Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale
Guinness
Chimay Blue
Leffe Brown
Petrus Aged Red
Delirium Tremens

Basically it was a world tour of beers.

It is now Sunday afternoon. Home again after a wonderful weekend spent at the Acton KOA enjoying beer, outstanding dinner (yay Peter!) and great snacks brought by everyone.
But best of all was being surrounded by fellow Falcons. Though we were a smaller group than I was expecting, everyone was in great spirits....

Perhaps a trifle late to be trying to stimulate the subject, but I'm bringing a keg of Steve and Reenie's OHO! Orange Honey Red Ale. You can find the recipe right here on the Falcons website in the recipe section, from 2011. It's a good'n.

And I'll dig up a couple of old/weird things for the Dead Palates Society meeting (beer re-animation projects?).

Earlier this morning I wrote an article for ExperimentalBrew.com talking about the recent crossing of the finish line in regards to all 50 states becoming fully legal.

Of course the Falcons feature in the mix as do our newsletters!

http://www.experimentalbrew.com/node/28

This was my first experience with a competition. Was nice to see the score cards and see what I can make better. Are ribbons given out if you place or just for BOS. Thanks again.

I'm basically at Pico & Fairfax. Just let the water run for a minute or two.
My building is somewhere between 80-90 years old and might be a slight factor.

This after going through a GE Household high flow filter

Cedd Moses in Brewery Battle

So, what this story says is that LA Nightlife force Cedd Moses is planning a 17,000 square foot brewpub/pizza joint/skeeball alley on the first floor of the old Crazy Gideon's place in the Arts District downtown. He's getting the usual flack for it from neighbors, you know the types.

When is the Best Of Show going to be judged?

Join us on

Friday, All Day on May 10, 2013

Call for Reservations

Featured Beers:
- Ommegang Witte (Wheat Ale)
- Ommegang Rare Vos Belgian Amber Ale
- Ommegang Hennepin Farmhouse Saison

Limited Supplies

Location:
398 N. Moorpark Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(In the Best Buy Plaza, next to Total Wine)

For More Info
Draughts - (805) 777-7883
info [at] draughtsrestaurant [dot] com
www.draughtsrestaurant.com

Join us:
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Congrats to the following Falcons for placing in the 1st round of the NHC!

Jason Byl with:
1st Place Scottish / Irish

A.D. Liebig and Sean Johnson
3rd Place Strong Ale

Dave Lester
3rd Place Mead, Other

Chris Rockwell and Bret Goldhorn
1st Place, Wood Aged and Smoked

Craig Schriber
3rd Place IPA

You folks should enter your recipes on the site!

I wanted a simpler system for cleaning beer lines. I have a bunch of picnic type taps that I use for party serving and a couple of kegerators that I have for everyday use.

I used to fill up a corny with a couple of gallons of BLC (or PBW in a pinch) and push the solution through the lines, through the tap and back into the keg. I would then run water through to rinse. If I got really jazzed up, I would use an acid wash and/or a caustic cleaner. 5 star has a list of their chemicals for this purpose right here: http://www.fivestarchemicals.com/breweries/craft-brewers/line-cleaning/

The 2012 water quality report from Golden State Water company can be found at this url:
http://www.gswater.com/documents/water_quality_reports/WaterQuality_Simi...

Here's the main Simi Valley report page:
http://www.gswater.com/simivalleyCCR/

And here's the official report from the city itself. It's numbers differ from those from the Golden State Water Company:
http://www.simivalley.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=3605

Other locals serviced by them (Ojai, Culver City, etc) can be found here:
http://www.gswater.com/annual-water-quality-reports/

This is after a dual cartridge particulate/lead/cysts/odor carbon filter.

Josiah inspired me to post this water report for the Highland Park/Eagle Rock area. My guess is DWP blends and may change sources in the summer, so it may be a bit out of date.

[This is after a dual cartridge particulate/lead/cysts/odor carbon filter.]

Riley

Here is a Ward Labs water report (dated 2/8/13) for the West Los Angeles area. Specifically from:

11685 Montana Ave
LA, CA 90049

Here is an independent water report for Thousand Oaks, enjoy!

Crazy Harry's is hosting a Sierra Nevada Tap Takeover this Wednesday May 1st! We'll be pouring 7 fantastic Sierra Nevada beers, including 5, that's right 5 IPA's. Beers being poured:

Summerfest
Pale Ale
Torpedo
Southern Hemisphere
Sleight of Hand
Ruthless Rye
Hoptimum

Don't miss out!

All the entries are judged!

Now we wait to complete the Best of Show Round and then the results will be posted!

UPDATEThe Scoresheets have been emailed. Check your inboxes and spam folders for links to your entries.

UPDATE 2: The BOS has been scheduled for Thursday night (May 9,2013)! Results posted later that night.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came to today's Mayfaire Competition. To all of you judges who are probably home nursing their writing hands from the MANY entries that you had to judge today and to Peter who made a fabulous meal for everyone. But especially to my rockin' stewards. I was amazed by how many of you turned up to help out for the long day. Not only did you do all the running and checking scores, with Dave filing the completed score sheets (thanks Dave). You stewards also helped clean up things as well and....

If you happen to find yourself in need of an after work pick me up or just need to drown your sorrows, we’ve found a pretty neat website for you that’s basically the drunk version of Yelp.

Created by UK creative consultancy, Coolography, ”WHERE THE FUCK SHOULD I GO FOR DRINKS” gets straight to the point. This bleep-tastic website starts out by asking for your location and spits out a random business close by that you should “fucking go to”

http://www.wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com/

An exciting month ahead. Read all the news that is news inside.

Saturday, May 18, 2013
11:00am

Join us during American Craft Beer Week,
on Saturday, May 18, 2013 for the
Port / Lost Abbey Brewing Tap Takeover
Starting @ 11:00 AM

We will bring you multiple Port / Lost Abbey beers on Draught

- Lost Abbey Avant Garde
- Devotion
- Lost and Found
- Red Barn
- Shark Attack
- Midnight Sessions Lager
- Mongo
- Old Viscosity
- Older Viscosity
- Hot Rock Lager

Limited Supplies - come early to not miss out on the great beer.

This is an event not to be missed by any Port / Lost Abbey beer lover!

Location:
398 N. Moorpark Rd.

SCHF is right around the corner - what are you bringing to the party? Help us plan and tell what you've got to pour. It will help our bar guys coordinate and we can plan ahead.

Seriously, take 30 seconds and tell us! If you want to leave some beer at the shop for us to bring and serve for you, let us know that below as well!

For instance if you've got a few things to bring, just leave a comment saying:

"IPA
Cherry Stout
Golden Road Mystery Hops Beer"

Thanks!

Friday April 12. Another Epic Tasting including three of the best Hoppy Session Beers, a Mystery Beer (you be the judge!) and Clown Shoes Beer - seven wicked good beers from Ipswich, Mass. RSVP please!

$30 includes all tastes and parking!

Three of the best hoppy session beers you'll ever taste.
plus...
a Mystery Beer - put your beer judge hat on. What is it and where did it come from?
plus...
Clown Shoes Brewing
- Clementine
- Tramp Stamp
- Brash Item 9
- Muffin Top
- Chocolate Sombrero
- Vampire Slayer
- Porcine Unidragon

Our monthly Club Shop Brew is set for this Sunday, April 14th at 8:00 a.m. Mr. Ex-President and Mayfaire Best of Show Winner Steve Cook will take over leading the crew this month. He will lead a brewing of his famous Best of Show winning Hefeweizen!