Maltose Falcons

There will be a special Hair of the Dog event on Friday March 5th at 6:00 pm. Meet Alan Sprints founder and brewer of Hair of the Dog. Luckys will be tapping the following beers:

2001 Adam

2003 Doogie Claws

2003 Fred

2007 Doggie Claws

2007 Fred

2009 Adam

2009 Fred

Blue Dot just brewed

Mystery Keg

Luckys will be celebrating all weekend long with this event.

Saturday March 13th and Sunday March 14th will be a special Russian River weekend.

This is just a reminder to all of the brew crew members that tomorrow is the big day. Please be on time at the shop, and don't forget to bring a clean, sanitized fermenter and airlock with you. The brew crew are the following people:

Steve Cook (leader)

Irene Ferguson

Carrie Love

Gabriel Gonzales

Kevin McNamara

Ryan Clark Moriarty

Of course all interested people are welcome to come on by to observe and party with the crew.  Beer and snacks are always appreciated to share.

See you there!

Diane

Just a reminder to all that the next shop brew is Sunday November the 15th at 8:00am. It will be held at the Home Beer Wine and Cheese Making Shop in Woodland Hills. The style is American pale ale, and the brew crew leader will be our president, Steve Cook.

This is a reminder that the October shop brew is this Sunday at 8:00 a.m. The style for this month is "Falcon Noel" Christmas ale.

The brew crew is as follows:

Kent Fletcher (crew leader)

Nancy Gold

Scott Wyse

Kris Schmidt

Jim Mc Gowan

All brew crew members please be at the shop promptly at 8:00 am. Bring a clean, sanitized fermenter and airlock for you portion of the beer.

Today will be the last day to drop off your entries for Stern Grove at the Shop. Please have them there by closing time, 7:00 p.m. I will be picking up all entries tomorrow and driving them up to San Fransisco to drop off.

So get those last minute entries in and make the Falcons proud! Remember, Anchor looks at Stern Grove entries for the home brew club of the year.

Diane

I spent another wonderful day brewing yesterday again with my brother Eric. We brewed up a batch of Belgian IPA. This recipe was modeled after the February club shop brew called Falcon - Belgique, which was led by Jim McGowan.

I was pleasantly surprised that my brother liked this style of beer, and suggested we brew it. It has a load of hops, which he is normally not too fond of, and was fermented with Wyeast 1214 yeast. Of course there was a good malt backbone to this beer too.

The date for the October shop brew has been changed to Sunday, October 25th. We still have one spot left for this crew. Please contact me at publicity [at] maltosefalcons [dot] com to sign up for this event. See the main blog for more details about qualifications to be on the crew.

Cheers!

Diane

Hey September brew crew members! Today is day 4 of fermentation. You should transfer your beer to secondary no later than today. I just transferred all 15 gallons today as primary fermentation had stopped completely.

So far so good. The beer tastes great, and there is a distinct difference in taste between the White Labs WLP-002 English ale yeast and the Nottingham yeast. There will be 5 gallons of each batch at the Falcons 35th anniversary party in October, so be there to taste them.

Wednesday morning, the 16th of September, was a very comfortable temperature for a brew day. My younger brother Eric, loves my Heather Wheat Ale so much, (and he drank so much of it!) that he paid for a new batch to be brewed. Eric has always been just the average guy beer drinker too. But he has been developing his beer chops quite a bit with my home brew.

  Eric also wanted to help brew the batch as well. Boy was he in for a surprise! He did not have a clue as to what would be involved with the brewing process. I also thought, free labor for all of the clean up.