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.

Special guest Brendan Sindell, President of House Beer, will stop by to pour some House for the house and chat with us about the business and marketing side of running such an unusual brewery.

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.

Sunday, December 4th - 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, Strong, and Holiday" 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 - POTLUCK! If you would like to bring a dish to pass, please comment below so Burgerfrau Jenna can organize the line up.

Falcons, sign up now for the November Club Shop Brew Session as Board Member John Aitchison leads the crew in brewing an Adambier. Get ready for some deep knowledge, technique and be ready to wait for a looooonnng fermentation for this huge beer. How many decoctions do you think John will attempt??

Calling all Falcons! You are cordially invited to a unique tasting of hard to find seasonal and vintage beers at the world famous Stuffed Sandwich in San Gabriel, CA on Saturday, December 10th, 2016!

Come join the club for our November meeting!

We'll have food!

We'll have beer!

We'll have Troubleshooter's Corner and whatever silliness we can make.

Bring a six pack, growler or keg to share!

STONE ENCORE ANNIVERSARY BEER TAP TAKEOVER!!!

AT DRAUGHTS RESTAURANT & BAR
NOVEMBER 10TH, 11am-Close

STONE 5TH ANNIVERSARY IPA

STONE 10TH ANNIVERSARY IPA

STONE 14TH ANNIVERSARY EMPERIAL IPA

STONE 15TH ANNIVERSARY ESCONDIDIAN IMPERIAL BLACK IPA

Come out and spend a Day drinking remakes of some of the best Stone Anniversary beers ever created!

More beers to be added!

Location:
398 N. Moorpark Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(In the Best Buy Plaza, next to Total Wine)

Falcons, sign up now for the October Club Shop Brew Session as Board Member and original "Brewgyver" Kent Fletcher leads the crew in brewing a Big Ass Holiday Ale that you will have ready just in time to be sipping by the fireplace as chestnuts roast this winter. There's no single type of Holiday Ale, but they tend to be dark, high gravity, complex, warming, and malty brews, often with spices added. Notable examplars include Anchor Brewing's "Our Special Ale" (Christmas Ale), and Sierra Nevada's Celebration Holiday Ale. 

If you can judge on Oct. 24, the Long Beach Homebrewers can use the help.  There is a morning session only.  All the contact information can be found at http://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/.