Beer Tasting Schedule for 2010
The beer tasting schedule for 2010 club meeting has now been released. The list has three sets of beer to keep in mind. The most important is the club meeting homebrew keg styles of the month. Kegs of homebrew are the basic fuel that keeps our club meetings running, 
so we need several every month. Take a look at the list now to see what you can brew for the club this year. Each keg of beer brought to the monthly meeting in this set of styles will be eligible for “Best Beer of the Meeting” award. We’ll have a voice vote just before the raffle. The winner gets a gift certificate from the Culver City Home Brewing Supply Company. Note that we don’t have a keg style of the month for the summer party (which will be in August this year) or the Holiday Party in December. The reason for this, of source, is that we need kegs from everybody of all styles.
PACIFIC GRAVITY HOMEBREW CLUB
Styles of the Month 2010
| Month | Homebrew Kegs Styles of the Month |
Judging of Club-Only Competition Entries |
Commercial Styles of the Month |
Leader of Commercial Tasting |
| January 2010 |
English Pale Ales and Scottish/Irish Ales |
English Brown Ales (BJCP Cat. #11) |
English Pale Ales and Scottish/Irish Ales (BJCP Cats. #8-9) |
Reed & Mike |
| February 2010 |
Belgian and French Ales | N/A | Belgian and French Ales (BJCP Cat. #16) |
Jon Porter |
| March 2010 |
American Ales and Stouts |
American Ales (BJCP Cat. #10) |
American Ales and Stouts (BJCP Cats. #10, 13) |
Ian Fraser |
| April 2010 |
Extract Beers (all categories) |
Extract Beers (all categories) |
Smoke-Flavored/ Wood-Aged Beers, and Specialty Beers (BJCP Cats. #22, 23) |
Nathalie Caldwell |
| May 2010 |
Lager Beers | N/A | Pilsners and Bocks (BJCP Cats. #2, 5) |
Peggy Robinson |
| June 2010 |
Fruit Beers, Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beers, Smoke-Flavored/ Wood-Aged Beers, and Specialty Beers |
N/A | Fruit Beers and Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beers (BJCP Cats. #20, 21) |
Need a volunteer |
| July 2010 |
German Wheat/Rye Beers and Mead | Mead (BJCP Cats. #24-26) |
German Wheat/Rye Beers and Mead (BJCP Cats. #15, 24-26) |
Need a volunteer |
| August 2010* |
N/A | Sour Ales (BJCP Cat. #17) |
N/A | N/A |
| September 2010 |
India Pale Ales | N/A | India Pale Ales (BJCP Cat. #14) |
Need a volunteer |
| October 2010 |
Strong Ales | Strong Ales (BJCP Cat. #19) |
Strong Ales (BJCP Cat. #19) |
Need a volunteer |
| November 2010 |
Hybrid Beers | N/A | Hybrid Beers (BJCP Cats. #6,7) |
Need a volunteer |
| December 2010** | N/A | English Pale Ales (BJCP Cat. #8) |
N/A | N/A |
*The club’s summer party will be held in August 2010. No styles of the month will be designated.
**The club’s holiday party will be held in December 2010. No styles of the month will be designated.
The next column shows the Club-only Competition entries that will be judged each month. We will run a small judging panel with BJCP judges to select the best beer to send on to the national level. Quite often, this is the same list as one of the kegs of the month. If this is the case, you can use your keg to supply samples for the evening judging, but you’ll need to have at least 2 twelve-ounce bottles that can be shipped off. Bring 3 bottles if you don’t have a keg. Let the Competition Coordinator Carl Townsend know that you brought an entry. If you can, please remember to fill out the entry forms before the meeting, which you can download from the AHA website at: http://www.beertown.org/homebrewing/pdf/entry_recipe.pdf. The club picks up the entry fees and shipping for this one, so it is free to you.
The third column in the schedule shows the commercial style tasting that we’ll do at the club meeting. We are actively looking for volunteers to lead the monthly tasting sessions. The session volunteer gets to select which beers to buy and gets to espouse his or her knowledge of the styles during the pouring. The club has a budget set aside to buy the beers. Based on past experience, it is a good idea to go buy the beers a couple of weeks in advance. And of course, the more rare and exotic you commercial selections are, the better. Dean Sussman is our Style Tasting Coordinator, so drop him a line if you are interested in volunteering.
