Maltose Falcons

Once again it looks like good ole ethanol works by causing us to miss out on details we normally obsess over:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/08/17/the-truth-behind-beer...

On Saturday, Sept. 11, the 3rd annual Brew-Haw-Haw will be held at Griffith Park (on the grounds of the Gene Autry National Center).  This is a beer tasting event (food also) held as a benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  For more info and to purchase tickets (tickets must be purchased in advance), go to:

http://www.losangelesbrewhawhaw.org/index.html

come on you lazy bastards!  the bus trip is in peril right now if we don't get a hell of a lot more people who's in?

cr

I went here during a business trip with my boss. If you come the wrong way on the road, you can easily miss the sign! The place is tucked into a tourist mall at the base of the mountain gondola and near the Nevada casinos, but the atmosphere is not touristy at all.

Now that the "baby" is 5 I am ready to get back into brewing.   I am working towards brewing a batch of my award winning Hefe in a couple of weeks, but, in the mean time, as Xandra has shown an interest in all things science (including brewing) I am looking to figure out how best to brew some soda with her.  We had some root beer extract stuff that was probably 5 years old, we mixed it with sugar and force carbonated in the keg....we want draft soda, but it didn't turn out as good as we would have liked.  Anyway, I started doing some searching on how best to &q

Coming back from Minneapolis here's the big word...

Next year's AHA Conference is in our neighborhood - San Diego.

Yes, we'll be involved and brewing and who knows what else. So get ready and no excuses since you've got plenty of warning!

To watch the promotional video and get psyched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZCSb8oCWU

Next week I'll be in the Tahoe/Reno area.  I'm trying to decide between the Stateline Brewery/REstaurant and the Silverpeak Brewery/REstaurant.   Does anybody have an opinion? 

I find myself in Solano county wanting dinner.  I just came back from touring the Jelly Belly factory (what fun) and was looking for  libation during the Lakers (Flakers) game.  Accross the street from my hotel was a local brewpub called the Blue Frog.   Why "the Blue Frog"? Apparently the founders/owners have been singing the Peter, Paul & Mary song since they were first married. 

Sunday's menu will be:

Beef Stroganoff with buttered noodles

candied carrotts

salad

dessert

All for the low price of $6.00. 

I want to put together a single hop IPA challenge where-in 10-15 brewers brew the same exact recipe IPA with a different hop.  Please let me know if you want to be part of the challenge!

thanks

cr

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. -- Humphrey Bogart

This is my first year growing hops. Got Cascade, planted in a perforated bucket for drainage and crown control. They have a southerly exposure and are pretty much just rocking along right now.

I thought I'd share with you this pic. See the two black marks? That's one day's growth up the rope. Damn, these things grow faster than I did as a teenager!

I know, there's no sense of scale in this photo, but that's 3 inches of growth in 24 hours! (or about an 1/8 of an inch per hour!)

I have Large HOP Rhizomes for Sale and I will Give you one free for every 5 bought
I have Northern Brewer and Cascades types.
Check out my add on Craigslist for Pics and Details

Attention Falcon beekepers!

A bee swarm is available NOW in West Covina.  Bees have swarmed into a lemon tree in my mother in law's backyard. No image available at this time.

No, I'm not a beekeeper, yet, so don't give me the bees.  But I would like to see these to go to a good home.

Contact me off line at schmitrw [at] earthlink [dot] net or better yet at 818-261-6464 to work out logistics.

I saw this featured on "Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives" on Food Network.  The restaurant is located at the marina in Long Beach.  As its name suggests, it features beverages in 'schooner' glasses.  While the bar is a prominent feature, the food here is very good!

Here is an announcement for a beer dinner next Sunday May 16th in Burbank at Ciao Cristina's owned by Falcon- Alan Donavan...
        The featured brewery is Greene King Brewery from the UK, their most popular beer is Old Speckled Hen, Alan serves it on nitrogen. Head Brewer John Bexon will be there and I assume some of the brewery's other great beer offerings. 

You know Falcons' users can a link to the Falcons website? Check out our other "Beer Links" section.

All of these are added by you and me. You'll see multiple categories, but you can make them up as you go along. In fact if you look all the way down at the bottom, you'll see a new link from me in a new category "Brewing Articles" and it's a geat article trying to prove the efficacy of starters.

To add Links of your own:

Consensus is that the SCHF on April 30 and May 1 was one of the best ever.  My article summarizing the course of events there is attached.

Bruce Brode