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.

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 myself (Drew Beechum) and Jim Kopitzke - the Double Trouble IPA. Since this brew is intended to represent the club the recipe was presented to the club for comments. Great comments were collected from everyone, but in particular there should be callouts to MB Raines, Ken Rhude, John Aitchison, Jim Moorman and John Aitchison. The hopping schedule on this beer seems utterly absurd, but it was spurred by some comments that MB made when I came to the conclusion that I wanted a balanced hop character. To see the logic behind the hopping schedule check out the Hop articles on the tech section of the website. Cullen Davis whipped up a great label and homage to Ralph Steadman. Check it out! The beer was bottled up by a six man team who managed to bottle up 400 bottles in 2.5 hours. Thanks to Steve Cook, George Mahoney, Don Knott, Kent Fletcher and Don Knott for their bottle donations. The intrepid bottling team consisted of Matt Udall, Kent Fletcher, Cullen Davis, Steve Cook, Jim Kopitzke, Jay Babchuk and myself. Special thanks to Kent Fletcher for taking care of the ferments and providing a great bottling setup

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 day.

What happens when you forget your hops while brewing? Nothing much, if you're surrounded by the Falcons!

Derek's food for his Tripel

Winner - Best of Show for the 2001 Mayfaire from Mike Riddle of Napa, CA

A nice breezy summer honey wheat beer.

The second installment in the Marzen experiment.

Rich Schmittdiel steps up and brews us an awesome Smoked Porter.

The Imperial Stout produced from Doug's birthday cake. Brewed by MB Raines.

The actual final product of the decoction session. Notice we only gather half as much as we intended.

The intended product of a massive decoction brew done on the shop system.

The second runnings of the Hippie Old Ale prove useful!

First runnings of a classic parti-gyle style brew session

The leftovers from the Falconsclaws 2000 batch

The clone attempt returns!

John D's received all the herbs necessary to make a classic gruit ale. Here's our first attempt

An attempt to recreate a classic London Porter from the early 1800's

An experimental lager that uses 5 different malts including malted wheat and malted rye.

Some of us didn't go to Catalina for Sunfest. Instead we brewed a stout inspired by the stronger Guinness found in bottles.

We're always at the SCHF whenever the AHA Big Brew happens. This year we decided to do it the next week!

Todd Etzel's Mead that won Best of Show for the 2000 Mayfaire

The first in a series of Marzen experiments.