Chili Cook-Off This Saturday 10/17 12:00 at Casa Molloy
Hola Pacific Gravity!
Please join us for the much-loved and feared Pacific Gravity Annual Chili Cook-Off this Saturday at noon, returning to its traditional location of Hacienda Molloy. All attendees vote for the “Best” and “Most Unique” chili, so amaze and baffle our palates as only PG can! Winners will receive the much-coveted “bragging rights and a beer”. Our style of the month is “Meads and Sours” or any other alternative fermentable or alternative fermenting organism, so it should compliment the heat/and weird well.
Additionally, this will be your opportunity to nominate candidates for next year’s Board (President, Vice President and Treasurer) and for Member of the Year. The election will held at our November meeting, so this is the time to get the nominations in!
CCBA Summit Festival 11/7
Porter informed us that there will be a big craft beer festival in Torrance on 11/17. Looks like they have signed up > 60 breweries so it should be pretty epic!
From Porter:
Torrance is hosting a huge beer festival Nov 7th! Grab tickets and drink beers from across CA. Laurie Porter is the chair of the event committee, so forgive the plug…it’s a good one though! Gonna be a great day and supports a great cause, CA craft beer.
https://californiacraftbeer.com/ccba-summit-beer-festival/
Holiday Party Saturday 12/5
We have a date for the holiday party! It will be on Saturday December 5 at Neil’s Swinging Party Pad ™. More details will come as we get closer, but we want to make sure everyone has the date in their calendar as soon as we can.
St Bernardus Day 12/12
This is a new event for us this year suggested by Scott Burnell- The Back Abby in Upland is hosting a St Bernardus day event – it should be a blast. We are planning on taking the train there. More details will come as we get closer.
Competition Corner
Congrats go to Andy Kleman for his first place ribbon for Burgermeister Meisterburger Märzen in the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup! Congrats also go to Carl Townsend, who picked up a second place ribbon for his homegrown Cascade wet harvest IPA in the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup. Rumor has it this beer will be on tap at the chili cookoff. Wahoo! With this win, Andy moves into a 1 point lead over Carl in the 2026 Brewer of the Year award. In the meantime, the last remaining competition is the California State Competition. Registration is now open at https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ . This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries. Bottles need to be received no later than October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA
October Monthly Meeting and Chili cook-off Saturday 10/17/2025 at 12:00 PM
Hacienda Molloy
6738 W. 87th Place (Please note, it is PLACE, not Street!)
Westchester, CA 90045
Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers
Upcoming Events
Oct 17: Club Meeting and Chili cook-off -Casa Molloy 12 noon (styles Meads and Sours)
Oct 22: Entry Deadline for Cal State Competition
Nov 6: First Friday – Potentially at new Exodus in Santa Monica
Nov 7: CCBA Festival 12-5 Torrance
Nov 19: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 pm
Nov 29: Holiday Party Setup
Dec 5: PG Holiday Party
Dec 12: St Bernardus Day event Back Abby, Upland
First Saturday October 3 at Rasselbock
Guten Abend Pacific Gravity!
Our October “First Friday” event will be be held this Saturday 10/3 12-3pm at Rasselbock in Mar Vista. It is Oktoberfest, so please join us for festivities and of course some most excellent German beer & food! Oktoberfest officially ends the next day (though Rasselbock and many others will keep it going a bit longer), so grab your lederhosen and join us for some fun!
We also have a bonus Friday event! Porter just informed us that this Friday 10/2 they will be tapping their GABF pro am entry, and Joe St John, the winner of last year’s Pacific Brewer’s Cup should be there as well. Joe will be arrive around 3pm. Head on down to Smog City Brewing to hang with Porter and support the Pro Am!
Chili Cook-off Saturday 10/17
As is our tradition, our October club meeting will will take the form of our much-loved and feared Pacific Gravity Annual Chili Cook-Off which will be held at Casa Molloy on Saturday 10/17. All attendees vote for the “Best” and “Most Unique” chili, so amaze and baffle our palates as only PG can! Winners will receive the much-coveted “bragging rights and a beer”. Our style of the month is “Meads and Sours” or any other alternative fermentable or alternative fermenting organism, so it should compliment the heat/and weird well.
Additionally, this will be your opportunity to nominate candidates for next year’s Board (President, Vice President and Treasurer) and for Member of the Year. The election will held at our November meeting, so this is the time to get the nominations in!
Holiday Party Saturday 12/5
We have a date for the holiday party! It will be on Saturday December 5 at Neil’s Swinging Party Pad™. More details will come as we get closer, but we want to make sure everyone has the date in their calendar as soon as we can.
St Bernardus Day 12/12
This is a new event for us this year suggested by Scott Burnell- The Back Abby in Upland is hosting a St Bernardus day event – it should be a blast. We are planning on taking the train there. More details will come as we get closer.
Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers
October First Saturday – Saturday 10/3/2026 at 12-3 PM
Rasselbock
3817 Grand View Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(310) 439-2938
Competition Corner
It looks like judging has been completed for the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup, so results should be out shortly at https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/. In the meantime, the last remaining competition in the 2026 Brewer of the Year Award cycle, is the California State Competition. Registration is now open at https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ . This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries. Bottles need to be received between October 10th and October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA.
Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator
Upcoming Events
- Oct 2: Smog City GABF Pro Am available
- Oct 3: First Saturday – Rasselbock 12-3pm
- Oct 17: Chili Cook-off – Casa Molloy
- Oct 22: Entry Deadline for Cal State Competition
- Nov 19: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 pm
- Nov 29: Holiday Party Setup
- Dec 5: PG Holiday Party
- Dec 12: St Bernardus Day event Back Abby, Upland
September Monthly Meeting – Thursday 9/17/2026 at 7:30 PM
Guten Tag Pacific Gravity!
Our September monthly meeting is this Thursday at our home-base Tortugo Brewing.
Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke Hoi Hoi Hoi! – yes, this will be always epic Oktoberfest meeting (yes, SLIGHTLY early, but…Oktoberfest!), and appropriately, our styles of the month are Festbiers and Amber Lagers, so please bring your marvelous Märzens, Fabulous Fests or whatever excellent homebrew you have to share!
There will be some traditional Oktoberfest food (suggested donation $10). There will be ONE, if not TWO, members in Lederhosen! Oans, zwoa, drei, Gsuffa!!!
I hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday!
Bis dahin!
Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers
September Monthly Meeting – Thursday 9/17/2025 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90302
(424) 227-9963
Competition Corner:
Judging for 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup Competition is this Saturday (9/19) at La Jara Brewing 13423 Excelsior Dr. Norwalk, Ca. 90650. I’ll be driving down to judge, so if you can help out either with judging or stewarding, we can carpool. Either way, please sign up at https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/ so they will have an accurate headcount.
I am delighted to report we have over 20 entries in the competition. With our boatload of entries, they will need help with judging. Please keep in mind that we will be running PBC next September and will need help from other clubs, so please chip in this year to help out Long Beach homebrewers. Contact me if you are interested in car-pooling to Norwalk on judging day.
After PBC, we have just one remaining competition in the 2026 Brewer of the Year Award cycle, that being the California State Competition. Registration is now open at https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ . This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries. Bottles need to be received between October 10th and October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA.
At the moment, we have a multi-way tie for the 2026 point count, so your opportunity for taking the Pacific Gravity Brewer of the Year Award is wide open.
Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator
Upcoming Events
- Sept 17: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company – Festbier and Amber Lagers
- Sept 19: Judging for PBC 8am (La Jara Brewing, Norwalk)
- Oct 2 or 3: First Friday or Saturday (haven’t finalized a Friday or Saturday as yet) – Rasselbock Los Angeles
- Oct 22Entry Deadline for California State Homebrew Competition
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