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Falcons' Recipe Archive
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The recipes collected below come from a myriad Falcon sources. They include beers done by the club
for special occassions, our monthly shop brews, winners of our competitions, even winners of our chili cookoff. (For even more food fun, check out our Food Section. It's a cookbook for people who like tasty things)
If you'd like to explore the many styles the club has brewed, check our listing by style or find medal winning recipes and other special projects in our special category listings.
For many of our newer recipes we provide files for the popular ProMash Brewing Software.
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| Recipes by Date (Recipes by Style | Recipe by Category) |
| Jump to Year: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
2007
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| | Sticky Purple Steamweiser | Coming Soon! |
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| | Aitch's Baltic Porter | Coming Soon! |
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| | Mayfaire Best of Show:
Jamil Z's Traditional Bock | Coming Soon! |
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| | Mayfaire 1st Runnerup:
Jamil Z's Scottish Export | Coming Soon! |
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| | Mayfaire 2nd Runnerup:
Mike McDole's IPA | Coming Soon! |
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| | Falcons' Golden Bird Belgian Ale | Coming Soon! |
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| | Forever Brewing's Very Big Stout | 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 their annual Equijest this big rich
malty stout took the honors at the meeting. (Promash) (Imperial Stout) (Meeting Winner) |
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| | Hop Me Mr. Wizard Imperial IPA | Jeezy Peezy, I know it seems silly, but check it out. 2 months, 3 Double IPAs! Nancy enlisted the
assistance of BJ's brewer, David "Griff" Griffths both in formulation and in procurement. Thanks to Griff
Nance could throw a mess of Summit hops at the beast. Check out the absurd 49 ounces of knockout hops!
(Promash) (IPA/DIPA) |
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| | Burnside's Dougweiser | Rick Burnside returns to give folks a lesson in the Falcons' classic, Dougweiser. Appropriate since the club tours the A-B plant in February. Straight forward and with no way to hide, the Dougweiser always proves popular at our parties and the Southern California Homebrewers Festival. (Promash) (American Lager) |
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| | Stephen's Tangerine IPA | Our other club winner of the month is relatively new member, Stephen Linsley and his all Summit hop IPA. Summit is a new "dwarf" high alpha acid (17%AA) variety hop that is reputed to have strong citrus notes particularly Tangerine. (Promash) (IPA) (Meeting Winner) |
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| | Big Damn Throwback/Modern Mild | Drew tackles the first brew of the year and in honor of next month's AHA Club Only for Session Beers, the crew gets down to brewing the largest Mk II batch ever with 5 gallons of Throwback Mild and 50 gallons of Modern Mild. (Promash) (Mild) |
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| | Falcons' 2006 Noel | Easy month on the webmeister as the club winner this month was from Fletch's portion of his October Shop Brew! Ironically this was the dregs with all the trub, but it was redolent of caramel and spice and turned out great! (Promash) (Saison/Farmhouse) (Meeting Winner) |
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Longs Peak Pils | Coming in close to the wire for the 2007 Doug King Memorial was Thorton, CO's Rick Bobbitt and his Longs Peak Pils, a Northern German inspired brew. Rick's Pils was described by the judges as a pale gold and beautifully clear pilsner. The beer is crisp and lightly grainy with a bright, clean and lingering
bitterness. (Promash) (European Lager) (Doug King) |
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2006
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| | Blackwine Lite | Only Jonny Lieberman would consider a 1.090+ Imperial Stout a "lite" beer. This is the next in his series of "Black Wines" which have ranged as high as 17% abv! This coffee infused stout may not hit those heights, but it's a monster still! (Promash) (Experimental) (Imperial Stout) |
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| | BJ's Aitchie's Heavy | Zambo and the boys at BJ's were kind enough to let us take the Woodland Hills system for another spin around the ole homebrew block. Absorbing and tweaking John Aitchison's winning homebrew recipe, we've produced 7 Barrels (~210 gallons) of Wee Heavy to be released in Winter 2006. (Promash) (Scottish) |
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| | Brutal Bitter Falconed | Falcon John Aitchison attempts a slightly modified version of Falcon John Maier's (of Rogue Brewing) Brutal Bitter recipe. Thanks to the Johns for this Crystal infused "bitter". (Promash) (APA) |
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| | Brouwerij Van Citters Scotch Wee Heavy | Mr. Gregg did a masterful job with this Wee Heavy of his from an April brew session. Coming in just behind John's Aitchie Heavy, this is still a fantastic example of the Wee Heavy style, redolent of plums and prunes with just a hint of roastiness and smoke to add extra dimension. (Promash) (Scottish) |
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| | Nouveau Porter (California Black Ale) | Getting ready for his impending nuptials in September, Cullen borrowed the club's brew system and whipped up 20 gallons of one of his new world porters. Another benefit of being a Falcons' member, creating your own large batch of beer. (Promash) (Porter) |
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| | Gonzo Hemp Poppy Spirit Wine Tres | Fifth year doing the Alternative Barleywine series and Jonny and Drew choose an unbelievably scorching day to brew the third version of this beer that celebrates the life and death of Hunter S. Thompson. Check out this beer and it's fun dosing of Hemp Seeds, Poppy Seeds, Mushrooms, Tequila, Bourbon and more! UPDATE: The Gonzo took first place and first runnerup at the 2007 DKM, scoring 41.5 points! Judges described it as a wonderfully complex, hoppy and surprisingly well integrated Barleywine. (Promash) (Alternative Barleywine) (Barleywine) (Experimental) |
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| | Sal's Orange Blossom Ale | The Sal's (Junior and Senior) dropped a little Southern California magic on the club with their Orange Blossom Ale using carefully chosen fresh picked orange blossoms. This is a little different, since this beer was produced from a second runnings mash. (Experimental) (Meeting Winner) |
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| | Simple Sage Mead | Cullen's Sage Mead has knocked people's socks off before at our parties, but this time he takes the mead Club Only Competition slot with this simple preparation of honey and that California herb, Sage. (Mead) (AHA Club Only) |
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| | Elkwood Brown Ale | Kent returns to the kettles with his multiple award winning Elkwood Brown Ale. The Mk II surprises everyone again with extra efficiency and the largest volume brewed to date, 40 gallons. (Promash) (Brown Ale) |
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| Aitchison's Scottish 70 | Gearing up for the September taste-off, John Aitchison brewed up a double batch of beer, a strong Wee Heavy and this lighter Scottish 70 from one mash. The initial gravity was so high, his hydrometer couldn't measure it! (Promash) (Scottish) (Meeting Winner) |
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| | Sangreal Wheat | So what do you make on Palm Sunday? How about a Blood Orange Wheat Beer! Prepared for a swing at Temecula and Mayfaire, Drew and the gang got together and brewed a simple American Wheat beer flavored with the juice of 50 lbs of Organic Blood Oranges (Moro variety) in the secondary. (Promash) (Fruit Beers) (Wheat) |
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| | Mutant Double Down DIPA (Cask) | Since Kent and Drew always like to have a good cask beer for our festivals (and MB loaned us a firkin), they also threw together a mutant batch of the Double Down. (Promash) (DIPA) |
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| | Burnside's Barely Wine | Breaking Steve's stranglehold on the monthly tasting award, Rick Burnside brings his biggest beer ever! Rick based this beer on the Falconsclaws grain bills, but with his own American hop schedule to burn through the malt. (Promash) (Barleywine) (Meeting Winner) |
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| | Craig's Boont Amber | In a strange twist of brewing developments, Craig Shapland fired up the Falcons's Mark II to brew a beer that is fairly normal. We can't explain it, but the system must have rebelled because it pulled out all the stops and shot 9 points over the regular brew strength! (Promash) (American Amber) |
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| Drogo Doppel Maibock | It's been a while since the Falcons dropped a lager in the slot, so Drew comes back to the kettles with a bigger version of his Maibock. (Promash) (Bock) |
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| | Bobby Belgian Gold | The Bobby Belgian Gold returns to the club meeting and wins the month and the AHA entry slot. Check out the notes for the comparisons between the various products. (Steve Cook won the AHA's Club Only with his version!) (Promash) (Belgian Ales) (Meeting Winner) |
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2005
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| | G&C's British Brown Porter | While the gang drank in Temecula, George Mahoney and Craig Shapland presented this brew day of making a simple brown porter for drinking at the Mayfaire. (Promash) (Porter) |
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| | Pliny the Toddler XPA (Extra Pale Ale) | Jonny Lieberman and Drew teamed up to formulate this recipe with some advice from Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing. In a rare event the brewing takes place on the meeting day as Jonny Lieberman and Nick Salerno lead this brew deck session. In a not so rare development, we screwed up and produced Pliny the Unwanted instead. (Promash) (APA) |
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| | Elkwood Wheat | Kent Fletcher brings his award winning Elkwood Wheat beer to the first brew day on the brand new Falcons Pilot Brewery Mk II. To start to get a feel for the system, Kent laid in 25 gallons of brew from the new deck. (Designed and built by Kent) (Promash) (Wheat) |
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2004
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| | CD's Triple Fullers Brew | Inspired by a Fuller's Tasting and a talk by their President, Cullen grabbed some notes and produced this classical British Parti-Gyle brew. From one mash, we made three great beers. (Bitter) (Parti-gyle) |
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| | Double Down Round 2 (Draft!) | April Shop Brew - We decided we like the recipe so much, we had to do it all over again. This time for draft service! (IPA/DIPA) |
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| | Falcon's Chili Cookoff | Our annual chili cookoff was won by Gregg Van Citters. Like many a winning recipe, this recipe has a complex process that leads to a great complex flavor. (Chili) |
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1999
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| Recipes by Style (Recipes by Date | Recipe by Category) |
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Below, you'll find all of our recipes arranged into loose style groups. Below this listing of styles
you'll find a few special categories that aren't style arrangements, but logical groups of recipes, like our
chili cookoff winners or recipes from competitions, etc.
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| Recipes by Special Category (Recipes by Date | Recipes by Style) |
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While not styles, these are some special categories to view the beers above.
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