Over the last few months I’ve been trawling through a giant stack of Maltose Falcons newsletters, internet archive expeditions, and poking members for their “key” recipes. Jamie Crawford and I have stitched it together into a book that’s now available for purchase.
Kindle Version: Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary Recipe Book: Recipes from 50 Years of Homebrew Silliness - Kindle edition by Falcons, Maltose, Beechum, Drew, Crawford, Jamie. Cookbooks, Food & Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Paperback Version: Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary Recipe Book: Recipes from 50 Years of Homebrew Silliness: Falcons, Maltose, Beechum, Drew, Crawford, Jamie: 9798340285089: Amazon.com: Books
The book includes 129 recipes that cover - all of our collaboration beers with breweries from the tiny to giants like Sierra Nevada and Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
All of the Anniversary beers that we’ve done every 5 years since our 20th Anniversary (fun fact - that first one survived the Northridge earthquake)
Recipes you’d always expect to see at a Falcons gathering like Kevin Baranowski’s Apricot Lager or John Aitchison’s many Bohemian Pilsners or my mild.
There are recipes with lore behind them like Doug King’s “Dougweiser” that was George Reisch approved or the Steelhead “Bombay Bomber” that was liberated from the brewery (but the actual recipe creator - Teri Fahrendorf - says is nothing like the recipe she created).
Silly things like my clam chowder saison.
Strong things like the various Falconsclaws, Russian Imperial Stouts, Richard Webster’s stupendously outrageous 18+% beers.
Some fun silly things in the book:
- the first recipe from a Falcon found in the newsletter involved boiling a cup of black patent malt for 30 minutes.
- John Maier’s 1988 AHA Homebrewer of the Year winning barleywine recipe was featured in the infamous Kathy Ireland issue of Zymurgy (hat tip to Julia Herz for grabbing that one for us)
- Most of the club’s first logos (also included in the book) were designed by Chuck Bennet who you may know for designing the early labels for Sierra Nevada Brewing
- Doing a project like this is hazardous for your sense of permanence when you realize how many things you’ve forgotten that you did!
All proceeds for the book go directly to the Maltose Falcons so buy a copy and support America’s Oldest Homebrew Club