Entries by Brian Holter

First Friday October 7th at Venice Ale House

After a fun First Friday last year at the newly opened Venice Alehouse, we’ll be returning this year for our October First Friday on the 7th!  It is located right on the Venice Boardwalk at the end of Rose Ave and provides wonderful people watching and beautiful sunsets over the ocean.  By October the summer […]

Long Beach Pub Crawl this Sunday October 2nd!

Don’t forget to come out and join us for an afternoon walking pub crawl in Long Beach this Sunday led by club member Tom Rierson. We will be meeting at Rock Bottom in Long Beach (One Pine Avenue Long Beach, CA 90802) at 1pm for a quick beer, then heading over to the NEW Beachwood BBQ […]

PG Club Meeting Sept. 15

Hey PG’ers. it’s that time of the month again! The club will meet at 7:30 PM a behind Culver City Home Brew Supply. This month the styles are English Brown (Cat. 10) and English and Scottish Strong Ales (Cat. 11). Please welcome our latest style hosts, Kyle and Lindsay Suta, who will be leading the […]

Long Beach Pub Crawl Sunday October 2nd

Join us for an afternoon walking pub crawl in Long Beach on Sunday October 2nd led by club member Tom Rierson. Plan:  1) Meet at Rock Bottom in Long Beach (One Pine Avenue Long Beach, CA 90802) at 1pm for a quick one. 2) At 1:30 go to the NEW Beachwood BBQ (210 E 3rd […]

Club Meeting August 18th

This month’s Pacific Gravity Homebrew Club  meeting will feature Fruit Beers, ciders, Perries and Meads (BJCP Cats. 24-26). Those of you who were at Dan and Anne Hakes’  house on August  6th  for Mead Day know how good some meads can be. If you enjoyed them,  then come to this meeting and try some more. Better yet, […]

Fall Northbound Road Trip!

Heya PGers, I just wanted to officially announce the next PG road trip. Going north won our little survey handily, so that is what we’re going to be doing. Saturday November 12th we’ll be going north to Island Brewing (Carpinteria), Surf Brewing (Ventura) and Ladyface (Agoura Hills). All three breweries are thrilled to have us, […]

Big Brew & Annual Chili Cook-off August 27th

We will be conducting our annual Chili Cook-off and club Big Brew on Saturday August 27th at the home of our Competition Coordinator and Brewmaster, Carl Townsend. BIG BREW: Carl will be brewing on his all grain system and we’re also looking for a member interested in doing a partial mash to help demonstrate that […]

President’s Message

By now, the PG Summer Party has ended, Dean’s house has been cleansed of our presence, and we’re on to other events. I’d like to thank Dean, his gracious wife, Chiara, and the Dynamic Duo of Laura and Peter Sussman, for once again allowing us to throw our summer shindig at their house. Dean and […]

Mead Day Saturday August 6th

The first Saturday every August is the official AHA National Mead Day since it began in 2002.  So we will be celebrating on August 6th at the home of Dan & Anne Hakes by brewing, tasting and talking about mead.  For those of you who are new to mead making, we have some very experienced […]

Club Meeting June 16th

This Thursday is the June Club meeting, featuring Lagers. As always, the meeting will take place at Culver City Homebrew Supply, running from 7:30-10pm. I’ll be at the AHA Conference in San Diego, so will be missing this month’s meeting. Veep Reed Wilson will be taking over for me and making the announcements.  Our Activities […]