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Also, this brew session came about after a number of discussions and one really big kick in the pants by Marty Velas, \u201cyoungest President in club history\u201d and Owner\/Brewer of Fanatic Brewing Company in Knoxville, Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marty convinced Sierra Nevada to brew a festbier because we\u2019re celebrating 50 years, it\u2019s our Oktoberfest, and the club really was founded with a deep and abiding love of lagers as demonstrated by Merlin Elhardt and Cal Moeller\u2019s obsession with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":364524,"template":"","beer-style":[2288],"issue_date":[4464],"recipe-type":[2839,2840],"topic":[],"writer":[4468],"class_list":["post-364523","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","beer-style-european-amber-lager","date-march-april-2025","recipe-type-all-grain","recipe-type-partial-mash","writer-drew-beechum"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary Festbier - Brew Your Own<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/byo.com\/recipes\/the-maltose-falcons-50th-anniversary-festbier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary Festbier - Brew Your Own\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Falcons and Sierra Nevada have had a long history and close relationship over the years. 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