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Recipes from the members of the Maltose Falcons and winners of our competitions and things that generally catch everyone's eye. To add a recipe, click "Create Content"->"Beer Recipe".

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102 recipes available

Recipe	Categories	Brewer	Brew Date	Description	Posted
"Courage" Imperial Stout	All-Grain, Personal Brew, Russian Imperial Stout	Tom Wolf	06/01/2000	Tom Wolf's clone of the famous abandoned brew.	1/1/2000
2001 Oktoberfest Brew Session #1 - CDJK Mild	Club Brew, All-Grain, Mild Ale, Festival Brew, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	10/01/2001	Our largest mass brewing event at a fest. Four teams, four semi-cobbled together breweries, one fest with a ton of beer flowing. This was the inauguration of a mild that I continue to brew to this...	10/1/2001
2001 Oktoberfest Brew Session #2 - Food for Tripel Belgian Ale	All-Grain, Belgian Pale Ale, Festival Brew	Anonymous	10/01/2001	Derek's food for his Tripel	10/1/2001
2001 Oktoberfest Brew Session #3 - Kevin's Lost Hops Milk Stout	All-Grain, English Sweet / Cream / Milk Stout, Festival Brew	Kevin Baranowski	10/01/2011	What happens when you forget your hops while brewing? Nothing much, if you're surrounded by the Falcons!	10/1/2001
2001 Oktoberfest Brew Session #4 - Weak Rhude Belgian Single	All-Grain, Belgian Pale Ale, Festival Brew	Ken Rhude	10/01/2001	The last brewing setup at White Rock.	10/1/2001
2004 February - AHA Commemorative Brew - Double Down Double IPA	Classic Falcon Recipe, Club Brew, All-Grain, Double ("Imperial") India Pale Ale	Drew Beechum	02/01/2004	This beer was brewed for the 2004 AHA Conference in Vegas as one of 3 beers (SNAFU, QUAFF, us) and a mead (SNAFU) presented to the attendees. The recipe is based on a previous beer brewed by...	4/1/2004
25th Anniversary IPA	Anniversary Brew, Award Winning Brew, Classic Falcon Recipe, All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, American IPA	MB Raines	02/01/2000	MB Raine's winning IPA recipe brewed for our 25th Anniversary at BJ's Woodland Hills	2/1/2000
5 Malt Lager	Club Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Work in Progress	Kevin Baranowski	09/01/2000	An experimental lager that uses 5 different malts including malted wheat and malted rye.	9/1/2000
Agave Mead	Award Winning Brew, Other, Mayfaire Winner, Mead, Other	Todd Etzel	04/01/2000	Todd Etzel's Mead that won Best of Show for the 2000 Mayfaire	4/1/2000
April Wheat	Club Brew, All-Grain, American Honey Wheat Ale	Drew Beechum	04/01/2001	A nice breezy summer honey wheat beer.	4/1/2001
Ball-A-Holic Hefe	All-Grain, Bavarian Hefeweizen, Mayfaire Winner	Steve Cook	04/02/2010	This is a traditional Bavarian Hefeweizen with the malt and hops perfectly balanced and backed with a banana and clove aroma and flavor that is the signature of this style. I have brewed over 20...	3/14/2011
Bar, Bean & Brew (Coffee Porter)	English Porter, Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), Personal Brew	Zack	11/13/2011	This beer could easily be mistaken as a breakfast drink with the addition of coffee and chocolate, but it is probably best saved for after dinner. The specialty comes in adding one 85% dark chocolate...	1/9/2012
Beaver Tail Melomel	Other, Wacky, Melomel, Work in Progress	PHB2234	10/19/2012	Prickly pear melomel	10/19/2012
Belgian Spiced Mead	Other, Personal Brew, Metheglin	brewmaster411	12/09/2006	Delicious. Let age in carboy 1 year before bottling.	12/4/2011
Big Ghost Saison	All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, Saison (Spring / Summer), Personal Brew, Wacky	Drew Beechum	10/01/2009	This is a big bold bugger of a Super Saison. Inspired by the idea generating factory of Fantome and using a culture of their strain grown in a batch of a smaller beer. This was a big hit at the 2011...	6/20/2011
Big Red A.S.S.	All-Grain, American Red and Amber, Personal Brew	Jim McGowan	08/08/2011	Dark red with a touch of spice and roast, hopped to hell and back, this beer would have been my entry in the "new grains" contest. As it turned out, I couldn't get off of work for that...	8/8/2011
Black Rye IPA	Club Brew, All-Grain, Black IPA	cybertonian	07/22/2012	Shop Brew for July 2012	7/25/2012
Bloody Head Stout	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Personal Brew, American Stout	Drew Beechum	07/01/2009	What happens when a brewer breaks in a new kettle? If you're me, your garage door tries to kill you by crushing your skull! Thankfully, it turns out the stout was awesome!	3/15/2011
Board Rye Barrel Barleywine	All-Grain, Doug King Memorial Competition Winner, American Barleywine	Brewgyver	11/10/2010	A classic, big bad barleywine brewed by the the Falcons Board members in 25 gallon batches. The first two batches were brewed in the end of 2010 to fill a fresh Rye Whiskey Barrel from Heaven Hill...	2/10/2013
Bruce's Traditional Mead	Award Winning Brew, Dialed In and Perfect, Other, Traditional Mead	Deacon	05/05/2001	This is a workhorse of a mead. Makes a fantastic sweet mead that both showcases the honey and serves as a base for experimentation.	5/1/2001
Bugged Out Oats	All-Grain, Saison (Fall / Winter), Wacky, Wild Ales	Drew Beechum	08/14/2011	Another in a series of oatty beers and a split batch for different effects. This is my exploration of the East Coast Yeast Company's Bug Farm Series (Bug Farm V) and the new Candi Syrup D-90 out...	9/4/2011
Buyer's Remorse English IPA	All-Grain, English IPA, Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	09/15/2010	Had to grow a bunch of yeast for the Mortgage Killer Brew so why not make something tasty? This English IPA uses a bunch of new British hops.	3/15/2011
BV's Dunkleweizen	All-Grain, Bavarian Dunkelweizen, Personal Brew	Deacon	10/08/2011	After 3 trips to Germany in the space of a year, Brian Vessa was hot to brew the trendiest beer style in Europe these days -- Dark Wheat Beer, or Dunkleweizen. Here is the recipe he came up with.	12/4/2011
Caledonian Saison	Club Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Saison (Fall / Winter), Scottish Export (80 Shilling)	Drew Beechum	07/25/2010	It's all the rage with music so let's play Beer Mashup. This Shop Brew combined the basic malt bill of a strong Scotch Ale with the yeasts and techniques of Belgium.	3/15/2011
Century Club Barleywine	Club Brew, All-Grain, American Barleywine	CTDFalconer	02/16/2013	This shop brew recipe used 99 lbs. of grains and somewhat more than a pound of hops, so with 100 lbs. of dry ingredients, and being a club brew, we called it the Century Club Barleywine. It uses some...	2/18/2013
Chipotle Porter	Club Brew, All-Grain, English Porter, Herb and Spice Flavored Beer	brewmaster411	04/10/2011	I have been brewing chili beers for the last 18 years. My first chili beer took 3rd at a home brew competition. Many types of chilies can be used, fresh or dried. Depending on the type and...	4/10/2011
Coffee & Cream Stout	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other	brewmaster411	03/03/2007	This is the third variation on a coffee stout. My first attempt was my 2nd brew ever. After the Drew Carey show introduced "Buzz Beer", I attempted my second batch. I have always been...	3/14/2011
Craig & George's Bobby Belgian Gold	Club Brew, All-Grain, Belgian Strong Golden Ale	HERMSman	01/01/2006	Craig Shapland and George Mahoney dealt with all the madness surrounding our time of taping for BBQ with Bobby Flay. The target for this brew is the upcoming AHA Club Only Competition.	1/1/2006
dave & Rich's Dark Mild -- "new grains"	AHA Conference Brew, All-Grain, Mild Ale	DaveL256	06/14/2011	Rich & i worked up a decently tasty dark mild and this is the adaptation using the Shop's 2011 "new grains". A moderately complex 1.040 beer that was dynamite on the hand pump!	7/14/2011
Dead Simple Hefeweizen	Dialed In and Perfect, Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), Bavarian Hefeweizen	Drew Beechum		Another easy as sin and easy to drink extract only recipe from the Everything Homebrewing Book	3/16/2011
Dopplebock	All-Grain, Falcons Competitions, Doppelbock	johnaitchison	01/18/2011	Dopplebock	3/31/2011
Dougweiser	Award Winning Brew, Classic Falcon Recipe, Club Brew, All-Grain, Class 1 American Pale and Dark Lager, Doug King Memorial Competition Winner, LA County Fair Winner, Mayfaire Winner, Personal Brew	Rick Burnside	01/01/2011	Budweiser clone, recipe formulated by Doug King. Why make a homebrew that tastes like Budweiser you ask? Valid question my frend and heres the answer. The challenge. This beer is difficult to make...	3/24/2011
Dr. Drew's Blueberry Ginger Rejuvenating Tonic	Other, Wacky, Soda	Drew Beechum	10/22/2011	Since the ABC frowns on homebrewers pouring homebrew during a beer festival, the folks at LA Beer Week could only allow us to pour soda. So you know what - pour soda we did - the world's finest...	10/24/2011
Electric Lemonade	Other, Wacky, Class 26 Mead	brewmaster411	09/02/2011	Some of the old time members might remember me bringing this dangerous concoction. You never taste the alcohol until too late. This started as a flight of fancy, and progressed to absurd heights...	9/2/2011
Elkwood Brown	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, LA County Fair Winner, Partigyle, American Brown Ale	Brewgyver	05/14/2011	This is a hoppy American Brown Ale. I recently revised the recipe to make use of some of the "New Grains" being stocked at the Home Beer, Wine and Cheese Shop, and it one the little New...	9/20/2011
Elkwood Wheat	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, American Wheat Ale	Brewgyver		This is a true American Wheat - not an American take on a Hefe. With a week or two of cold conditioning, it's crystal clear, pours with a fluffy white head, and is very refreshing. I've...	3/14/2011
End of the Rainbow Irish Red	All-Grain, Irish Red Ale, Oktoberfest Winner	Diane Van Wagner	07/13/2010	This was originally brewed for the 2010 April shop brew. I brewed up a second batch a couple of months later at home. This beer won Best of Show at the 2010 Octoberfest Competition. It is very malty...	3/31/2011
English Mild	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Mild Ale	Monster Mash	01/15/2011	I've brewed this beer many times and it has placed in every competition I have entered it in. I brew this beer twice a year because it doesn't stick around very long, it is a favorite...	3/30/2011
Express Mild	All-Grain, Mild Ale, Wacky, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	04/24/2011	The SCHF is in 6 days. Can I get a beer ready in time?	4/24/2011
Falcon Noel Douze	Club Brew, All-Grain, Class 21 Belgian Specialty Ale	Brewgyver	10/21/2012	The 2012 Falcon holiday beer, brewed at the Shop in October, with a crew of six Falcons each taking home 5 gallons of a fairly dark, slightly toasty chocolatey Belgian goodness. Pitched with the...	3/11/2013
Falcon's Gyre	All-Grain, American IPA, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	04/06/2011	A new hop blend was released in honor of fallen brewer Glen Falconer. The American blend is oriented toward west pales and IPAs, so who am I to argue? This one is a Rye IPA.	4/7/2011
Falconsclaws	Club Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Partigyle, Wacky, Work in Progress	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/1999	The Falcon's Samiclaus Clone - a partigyle brew in hopes of keeping the spirit of Sami alive.	12/6/1999
Falconsclaws 2000	Club Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Partigyle, Wacky, Work in Progress	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/2000	The clone attempt returns!	12/6/2000
Falconsclaws 2001	Club Brew, All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Partigyle, Wacky	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/2001	3rd Shot at the big beer.	12/6/2001
Fat Cat Sweet Stout	All-Grain, English Sweet / Cream / Milk Stout, Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	07/31/2011	Back around Memorial Day, I lost my one of my big fat silver blue sweetheart of a cat, Mark. In his honor, I whipped up this recipe	8/1/2011
Food Not Bombs Dubbel	Award Winning Brew, Abbey Dubbel, All-Grain, Mayfaire Winner	Mike Izbicki	05/29/2012	Michael Izbicki's Dubbel came close to the bird with his Dubbel, placing as the First Runner-up. Mike takes the monk thing seriously running a group at UC Riverside called "Food Not Bombs...	5/29/2012
Forever Brewing's Very Big Stout	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Club Meeting Winner, Russian Imperial Stout	Deacon	02/16/2007	Phew, we finally broke our Imperial IPA trend, but just to keep it smooth, the club voted for this Imperial Stout by the Forever Brewing Co boys (Bruce Brode, Les Jones and Brian Vessa). A big hit at...	4/1/2007
Fuddy Duddy Mild Ale	Club Brew, All-Grain, Mild Ale, Partigyle	CTDFalconer	06/01/2001	The second runnings of the Hippie Old Ale prove useful!	1/1/2001
Gang of Four (Minus One) Cream Ale	All-Grain, American Cream Ale, Personal Brew	PHB2234	06/09/2012	Cereal mash cream ale using Quaker Quick Grits and six-row barley	6/15/2012
Glen Heather Scottish Export	All-Grain, Personal Brew, Scottish Export (80 Shilling)	Diane Van Wagner	09/09/2009	I got the idea for this beer after reading the book Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, and the Scottish heather beer Froach. This beer is malty with a pleasing bitterness, and a spicy/fruity floral...	3/31/2011
Golden Goblet Gruit Ale	All-Grain, Doug King Memorial Competition Winner, Historical Beer	Steve Cook	12/04/2010	Gruit ales are an ancient brew, that were and are made without hops, instead they would use herbs. Gruits were brewed all over the European continent between 700 and 1700 AD. The typical Gruit herbs...	4/7/2011
Heaven Bohemian Pilsner	Club Brew, All-Grain, Bohemian Pilsner, Experiment Gone Wrong	johnaitchison	02/01/2001	The intended product of a massive decoction brew done on the shop system.	2/1/2001
Hell Imperial Pilsner	Club Brew, All-Grain, Experiment Gone Wrong, Imperial Pilsner	johnaitchison	02/01/2001	The actual final product of the decoction session. Notice we only gather half as much as we intended.	2/1/2001
Hippie Old Ale	Club Brew, All-Grain, Old Ale, Partigyle	CTDFalconer	01/01/2001	First runnings of a classic parti-gyle style brew session	1/1/2001
Historical Porter	Club Brew, All-Grain, Historical Beer, Experiment Gone Wrong, Wacky	Drew Beechum	10/29/2000	An attempt to recreate a classic London Porter from the early 1800's	10/29/2000
Honey Wheat	Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), American Honey Wheat Ale, Personal Brew	brewmaster411	03/03/2002	Nice and light with a sweet finish. Great session beer.	12/3/2011
Imperial Cakeweiser	All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Personal Brew, Russian Imperial Stout, Wacky	MB Raines	03/01/2001	The Imperial Stout produced from Doug's birthday cake. Brewed by MB Raines.	3/1/2001
Izzy's Wheat Wine	All-Grain, Club Meeting Winner, Wheat Wine	The Izzy	10/07/2010	Every year on my birthday I brew up a Barley-wine, but then have to wait several months to drink it, way after my birthday. So, this year I brewed a Wheat-wine (Barley-wine with a large proportion of...	4/14/2011
Jersey Red Ryder IPA	Club Brew, All-Grain, American IPA	cybertonian	01/20/2013	Our January 2013 Shop Brew Recipe was for a Red Rye IPA. This beer is intended to have a nice full body, a deep red ruby color, good rye presence in the malt flavors with a nice floral hop aroma...	2/5/2013
John's Westvleteren 12 Clone	AHA Conference Brew, All-Grain, Abbey Ale, Other	johnaitchison	12/17/2011	Beer won "favorite beer" of June meeting and 1st place 2012 LACF. Lots of dark fruit, some bubble gum, also a little banana. Flavor about halfway between Westvleteren 12 and St. Bernardus...	12/12/2012
King Leopold's Ghost	All-Grain, American Porter, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Personal Brew, Smoke Beers, Other	The Izzy	11/11/2011	This is one of my favorite and personal recipe, I've brewed a version of this beer every year since 2006. This was the last beer I brewed for 2011 on 11-11-11 around 11pm. This version of my...	3/4/2012
Lime Mint Soda	Other, Personal Brew, Soda	The Izzy	07/22/2012	When it's too hot to brew I make up a batch of soda. Lately on my days off, the last thing I want to do is stand in the blistering hot sun for a whole brew session. My kegs go empty and I grow...	7/26/2012
Little Ghost Saison	All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, Saison (Spring / Summer)	Drew Beechum	09/01/2009	This was the "starter" Saison that I brewed to generate my yeast cakes for the "Big Ghost". Don't discount this little guy, he's a keeper.	6/21/2011
Marzen Madness	Club Brew, All-Grain, Marzen / Oktoberfest, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	03/02/2000	The first in a series of Marzen experiments.	3/2/2000
Marzen Madness 2001	Club Brew, All-Grain, Marzen / Oktoberfest, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	03/03/2001	The second installment in the Marzen experiment.	3/3/2001
Mexican Xmas	All-Grain, English Sweet / Cream / Milk Stout, Experiment Gone Wrong, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Herb and Spice Flavored Beer, Personal Brew, Wacky, Work in Progress	The Izzy	10/07/2012	2nd Version of this Mexican hot chocolate (champurrado)inspired milk stout for xmas.	2/14/2013
Mike Riddel's Tripel Trouble	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Abbey Tripel, Mayfaire Winner	Anonymous	03/01/2000	Winner - Best of Show for the 2001 Mayfaire from Mike Riddle of Napa, CA	4/1/2001
Missed the Boat Stout	Club Brew, All-Grain, Foreign Style Stout, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	08/01/2000	Some of us didn't go to Catalina for Sunfest. Instead we brewed a stout inspired by the stronger Guinness found in bottles.	8/1/2000
Mortgage Killer 30 Year Barleywine	All-Grain, English Barleywine, Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	10/05/2010	I bought a house, what better reason to brew a beer. This beer is intended to age for 30 years with one bottle opened per year and hopefully it'll be aged beautifully to the end time of October...	3/15/2011
Oatmeal Brown with Coffee	All-Grain, Club Meeting Winner, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other	Rocky	10/09/2011	The beer has smooth mouthfeel to accentuate the sharp coffee roast in the beer.	11/28/2011
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Celebration Ale	Club Brew, All-Grain, Wacky, American Brown Ale	Drew Beechum	02/19/2012	A beer brewed in celebration of Drew's dog's recovery from spinal surgery. A beer that should be sweet, spicy and tasty with oats galore and rum soaked raisins.	2/19/2012
Oceanside Rye IPA / Yorkshire Lad Rye	All-Grain, English IPA, American IPA, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	04/14/2012	Another split batch of beer to provide cannon fodder for the SCHF. The Oceanside proved to be very popular with a sweet flavor from the large dose of Citra in the finish.	5/12/2012
Oho! Orange Honey Red Ale	All-Grain, Club Meeting Winner, American Red and Amber	Steve Cook	11/13/2011	This unique red ale is the inspiration of Cookie Kaplan my assistant brewer as well as my every day honey. Speaking of honey that was a big part of the inception of this brew. The Orange Blossom...	12/5/2011
Old Smokey Barleywine	Award Winning Brew, Classic Falcon Recipe, All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, American Barleywine	Tom Wolf	03/01/2000	Winner of the grand prize at MCAB II and pretty much a guaranteed medal winner wherever it gets entered!	3/1/2000
Plainweiser Pub Ale	Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), Personal Brew, American Blonde Ale	Drew Beechum		The simplest recipe you could ever make. This Blonde Pub ale is a great place to start your brewing career. Think American macro beers with a little bit of ale character. Can be brewed in under 3...	3/15/2011
Rich's Smoked Porter	Club Brew, All-Grain, English Porter, Smoke Beers, Other	PHB2234	03/02/2001	Rich Schmittdiel steps up and brews us an awesome Smoked Porter.	3/1/2001
Saison d'Hiver	Club Brew, All-Grain, Saison (Fall / Winter), Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	11/01/2001	Drew and Jim inspired by a trip to the Fantome Brewery, we present a Winter Saison Style (It does exist!)	11/1/2001
Saison for the Bee Keepers	All-Grain, Saison (Spring / Summer), Wacky	The Izzy	09/03/2011	This is more of a story about the brewing of a beer than anything else. My original brew partner (Daniel) has had two children since we first started brewing five years ago, so we rarely get to brew...	11/13/2011
Saison Guacamole	AHA Conference Brew, All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, Saison (Fall / Winter), Wacky	Drew Beechum	05/30/2011	This was another of the giant collection of "California Saisons" that I made for my 2011 AHA talk and Club Night. Awesomely weird and inspired by the Avocado trees in my backyard. I know...	6/20/2011
Saison Ordnaire	All-Grain, Saison (Spring / Summer), Personal Brew	Drew Beechum	10/07/2010	This is my no fuss, no muss, easy going table Saison recipe. It makes a great test bed for additional flavors and a great work day beer.	3/15/2011
Schutzen Lite Lager	Club Brew, All-Grain, Class 2 European Pale Lager	Doug King	05/15/1999	The last Shop Brew wrangled by Doug King and the first shop brew for the webmaster.	5/15/1999
ScotchBrewman - AKA November Club Brew	Club Brew, All-Grain, Wee Heavy (Strong Scotch Ale)	Captain Llama	11/18/2012	Here is the November Shop brew scaled down to a 5-Gallon batch. It is a Strong Scotch Ale, which is also known as a "Wee-Heavy" and my favorite style of beer. The ingredients used in this...	1/30/2013
Scottish Double Batch	Club Brew, All-Grain, Partigyle, Scottish Export (80 Shilling), Wee Heavy (Strong Scotch Ale)	brewmaster411	01/01/2002	Mark Poliner led this big Scottish brew	1/1/2002
Second Bastard Belgian	Club Brew, All-Grain, Partigyle, Belgian Specialty, Other	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/2000	The leftovers from the Falconsclaws 2000 batch	12/6/2000
Second Bastard Dunkelweiss	Club Brew, Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), Partigyle, Bavarian Dunkelweizen, Wacky	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/1999	When you have all those second runnings, you can't just let them go to waste!	12/6/1999
Second Dunkel	Club Brew, All-Grain, Partigyle, Munich Dunkel	Kevin Baranowski	12/06/2001	Can't waste those runnings!	12/6/2001
Son of AHA Big Brew Pale Ale	Club Brew, All-Grain, American Pale Ale	Drew Beechum	05/01/2000	We're always at the SCHF whenever the AHA Big Brew happens. This year we decided to do it the next week!	5/1/2000
Stonehenge Gruit Ale	Club Brew, All-Grain, Historical Beer, Herb and Spice Flavored Beer	Drew Beechum	11/19/2000	John D's received all the herbs necessary to make a classic gruit ale. Here's our first attempt	11/19/2000
Summer Even Bloodier Summer Ale	Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), American Red and Amber, Work in Progress	Drew Beechum	04/18/2011	No blood spilt this time through (or lost fingers), this is an updated batch based off remnant notes from the first time through. Plenty of bright American hop character with the zest of orange and...	4/20/2011
Survivor Pale Ale	All-Grain, American Pale Ale, Personal Brew	Gonzobrewer	01/22/2011	Our Family and Friends have been watching and betting on the Survivor winners for years. This is the beer we drink on this occasion Two kegs end up empty before each season is over. A medium body...	3/29/2011
Szechuan Cherry Tonic	Other, Wacky, Soda	Drew Beechum	09/29/2012	Another year, another LA Beer Week Festival and this time, we brought a "soda bar". Folks from Pacific Gravity and Strand Brewers joined us to pour a set of refreshers for the crowd.	10/1/2012
Tempting Fate	Award Winning Brew, All-Grain, Dialed In and Perfect, Personal Brew, Wacky, Wild Ales	Drew Beechum	05/18/2007	Inspired by Russian River's Temptation. This beer appears both in BeerAdvocate the Magazineand the Everything Homebrewing Book.	3/23/2011
The bro Porter	All-Grain, English Porter, Personal Brew	Emendoza1214	04/07/2013	A porter I brewed with my bro. A nice easy drinking porter with toasty and roasted flavors and coffee on the nose. Enjoy the recipe and cheers.	4/7/2013
THE EARL OF DENBIGH'S METHEGLIN	Other, Personal Brew, Metheglin	brewmaster411	04/25/2011	For all the mead makers out there! This is a historical recipe taken from a 1500's source. The recipe is verbatim from the book. Notice how the author determines gravity, by the must...	4/25/2011
The Hump	All-Grain, Belgian IPA, Personal Brew	Rocky	06/14/2009	Belgian IPA with Honey. It was my first all-grain beer and we have made it about 15 times...	3/15/2011
Tom Yom Thai Mead	Other, Metheglin, Work in Progress	brewmaster411	12/03/2011	I was recently in Columbia, SC where a creative mixologist gave me a drink with all the flavor elements of Tom Yom Khai soup. My imagination, being the way it is, devised a mead recipe with the...	12/3/2011
Valentine Mead	Dialed In and Perfect, Other, Melomel	brewmaster411	01/21/2004	Beautiful pink color and a sweet fruit/honey character will warm the heart of an female on her special day. I have made this recipe for 3 different weddings.	3/17/2011
Vermont Viper	Other, Wacky, Mead, Other	brewmaster411	12/09/2006	While thinking of other sugars to ferment, my mind went wandering into unusual places. I was thinking of different sugar sources to ferment while eating pancakes. Maple syrup? It's about 70%...	3/17/2011
Very Berry Melomel	Extract (with or without Steeping Grains), Personal Brew, Melomel, Work in Progress	PHB2234	09/29/2012	Attempting to produce a semi-sweet mead with 14% alcohol and 2% residual sugar. If it comes out even half as good as Wickham's killer raspberry melomel, I'll be well pleased.	9/30/2012
Wee Heavy, no sparge and 60 shilling small beer	Club Brew, All-Grain, Partigyle, Wee Heavy (Strong Scotch Ale)	brewmaster411	01/05/2002	This was my first brew on the old shop system. I had experimented with different historical techniques. Most of my inspiration was from Cindy Renfrow's book "A Sip Through Time" and...	3/20/2011
Wickedly Witty Ginger	All-Grain, Witbier, Personal Brew	Diane Van Wagner	05/08/2010	This is my Belgian White Ale with an addition of dried ginger. The ginger adds a nice spice that compliments the corriander and bitter orange peel. It is very refreshing anytime, and I have requests...	3/31/2011
Y'allternative Oatwine	Alternative Barleywine Series, Club Brew, All-Grain, Experimental and Specialty Beer, Other, American Barleywine	Drew Beechum	07/24/2011	The alternative barleywine series returns! Taking advantage of the Shop now carrying Thomas Fawcett Oat Malt, we bring you some oaty goodness. And since I'm an old school movie fan we made this...	7/26/2011

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