Lake Arrowhead Brewfest is back! Here is a chance to get out of the August heat and enjoy the fresh mountain air in the town of Blue Jay! Last year's event was amazing!

Who:     Any Falcons Member and guest can participate!

What:    8th Annual Lake Arrowhead Brewfest

When:   Saturday, August 12, 2017: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Where:  Blue Jay Village Parking Lot next to Jensen’s Fine Foods - 27264 Rte 189, Blue Jay, CA 92317

Now that summer is here, let us look ahead longingly to autumn... and OKTOBERFEST, the biggest Maltose Falcons party of the year!

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**Festivities shall commence @ 12pm Noon Saturday October 21st 2017**

Details and tickets TBA...

(okay one little detail - we're staying close to home and returning to the DAV in Woodland Hills!)

Come check out gorgeous hand-crafted glass art and jewelry and sample some delicious locally produced wines at the Fused Glass Show and Wine Tasting, Saturday, June 24, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM at Camarillo Custom Crush Winery in Camarillo. 300 S. Lewis Rd., Camarillo. Meet the artist behind the work, Nancy Gold of Ocean Glass Glassworks. Taste a flight of six Custom Crush wines $10.

July 9!!  NOT July 2!  With Independence Day on a Tuesday this year, we're shifting the July meeting back a week in case people want to stretch a four day weekend.  Now you can make holiday plans with confidence.  And beer.

Sunday, July 9th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

On Saturday, June 10 Roger Taylor and John Aitchison will be leading a Mead Class, Tasting, and Brew.  It will be held at Tavern Services Warehouse at 18217 Parthenia in Northridge.  Mead makers will get to taste a bunch of meads, learn more on how it's made and take home a gallon in a glass bottle which is provided.  We're making a cherry ciser with King Orchard's Montmerency Cherry Juice.  Honey and juice are expensive, the whole thing costs $50.  You can get additional mead for $20 a gallon as well.  Downright cheap compared to the cost of buying mead.

Falcons, we have been invited to host a homebrewed soda bar wtih LA area homebrew clubs at the Kickoff Festival for the 9th Annual L.A. Beer Week on Saturday, June 17 at Center Studios in Downtown L.A.

Sunday, June 4th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting (no club meeting in May because of Mayfaire). All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month (in this case, the region of the month - beers of Asheville, NC courtesy of David Sherfey!) and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

Sunday, April 2nd - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month "Something Something Fool's Gold" and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

And then lunch, where Burgerfrau Jenna will be preparing a taco bar with homemade carnitas and other goodies!

Saturday, May 20th, come join us at the KOA in Acton for another fun weekend campout! If you haven't gone before, the KOA has a nice grassy area for us to camp on, a sunny deck for lounging, a pool to cool off in right next to our sites, and a grill for burgerfrau Jenna to whip up some delicious camp grub. Come take the short 40 minute drive to hang out and enjoy a beer or two and the Pacific Crest Trail!

Our annual "Brew with a Falcon" day is set for Saturday, March 25th! Here's the skinny: a few members of the club will be opening up their homes to other folks to brew together. Most of these sites will be unlike a shop brew - there will be no wort for members to take home. Instead, brewers will signup and on Saturday, March 25th you'll go to your chosen location and hang out, learn and help out.

Sunday, March 5th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. Substitute Grand Hydro - John A - will present "beers from Falcons who went pro" and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

Then we'll move on to our lunch, currently also TBD but I know Burgerfrau Jenna has something up her sleeve.

Join Board Publicity Director Matt Myerhoff in a Belgian IPA on Sunday, February 26 at the Home Beer Wine and Cheese Making Shop. Here are the top-rated examples. Belgian IPA, (Category 21B, Specialty IPA) is a pretty new style, emerging in the mid 2000s. Homebrewers and microbreweries simply substituted Belgian yeast in their American IPA recipes. Belgian breweries added more hops to their tripel and pale ale recipes, so there are all different styles among the great ones, including Brewery Vivant Triomphe, Houblon Chouffe, Epic Brainless IPA, Green Flash Le Freak, Stone Cali-Belgique, and Flying Dog's Raging Bitch. This one will have some of the rich, creamy mouthfeel and strong complex yeast aromas of a Belgian blonde, with a wild bouquet of hops. 

Southern California Homebrewers Festival & Maltose Falcon Club camping is back at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula & will be held the weekend of May 6th.  Come join your fellow Falcons & 35 other homebrew clubs! See complete list of events on the CHA site.

Sunday, February 5th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month (TBD) and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

For those of you that haven't heard, we have been invited to brew at Figueroa Mountain Brewery in Westlake Village by their head brewer Nic Bortolin. We will be brewing 15 barrels of a very big adambier that we have named Deacon's Nightcap.

Nic has invited as many Falcons as want to go, so there is no limit as of now. However, Nic needs a headcount as soon as possible, so please sign up here.

The specifics: 

This event is open to CURRENT PAID MEMBERS, each member may bring ONE guest over 21 years of age.

Brewing at Figueroa Mountain Brewery,  

Sunday, January 8th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month "Big in LA" and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

The December Shop Brew Session had to be postponed to Sunday, January, January 15. The signups are carried with the date, including the wait list.

Board Member & Grand Hydrometer Drew Beechum will lead the crew in brewing Falcons Claws, the our version of Samichlaus, a monster dark Swiss lager that was once the strongest beer in the world at 14% ABV. It started in 1979 when Swiss-based Hürlimann Brewery decided to brew a Christmas lager on December 6—St. Nicholas Day (feast day). Until its doors closed in 1997, Hürlimann Brewery produced Samichlaus every year on December 6, and built up a loyal fan base along the way. Be ready for a year of lagering before bottling, and you'll be enjoying it next Christmas by the fire! READ MORE.  

Entry Due Date: Friday, April 7,2017
Check-In: Sunday, April 9, 2017
Judging: Friday April 21, 2017; Saturday April 22, 2017

2017 Doug King Memorial Homebrew Competition!

It's that time of year again when we fondly remember our compadre Doug King. Doug was a brewer's brewer - always there to lend a hand to the club or another brewer. He was also fond of experimentation and was well known for his crazy experiments (loafs of rye bread, potatoes, tortillas - all in the mash) and his love of lagers. He won the 1996 California State Fair for his Dougweiser.

The Falcons annual competition committee meeting is this Monday, Nov. 21 at 7PM. We'll be meeting at Hand Brewed Beer at 9771 Variel Ave. in Chatsworth. This is when we plan the competitions, change style guidelines, and plan judging activities for the next year. All are welcome, we need all the participation in our contests as possible.

Let Ed or John know at vicepresident@maltosefalcons.com so we'll have enough pizza for any who want to attend.