Rain, Rain, while you’re here, Keep things cool to lager my beer. With a new year upon us, I hope you are taking advantage of the cool winter weather to get some fresh batches of beer going. I’m currently working on a “garage lager”. At some point, it will need to go into the beer […]
The deadline the California State Homebrew Competition is rapidly approaching. This is the final competition for the 2018 Pacific Gravity Brewer of the Year Award. Thanks to an offer to drive from Michael Ritchie, we will have personalized hand delivery of our entries San Francisco. You can drop off your beers at one of two […]
Entries for the 2018 Pacific Brewers Cup are now being accepted and are due no later than Friday, September 14th. On-line registration is available at http://strandbrewersclub.org/pbc/bcoem/. Strand Brewers Club will be running the show this year. This is a large competition is hosted on a rotating basis between Pacific Gravity, Strand Brewers and Long Beach […]
What do you do when First Friday has too many options? Push it to Saturday, of course! Join us for a visit to several of the downtown area breweries. It also give many of a us an opportunity to take public transit. There are a lot of places to hit on this trip, so we […]
While most of us were having a blow-out summer party, (thanks Dean!) other diligent beer judges were hard at work judging the Los Angeles County Fair. Congratulations to Kingsley Toby, who picked up the overall second place Best of Show with his beer, Second Sleep, a whiskey-aged stout. It also picked up First Place in […]
Hey Pacific Gravity members, Want to cool off this weekend? Come join the Strand Brewers on our annual Beach Bar Bike Bash. We’ll be gathering with our bikes at The Rockefeller in Hermosa Beach at 11 AM Saturday (8/4). 422 Pier Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 Then we’ll explore some of the best beer venues […]
Entries for the 2018 Los Angeles County Fair are due this Friday, July 13th. Registration is up and running at http://competitions.maltosefalcons.com/. With the closure of the Culver City shop, make sure you leave time to drop off your entries. They can be left at the Eagle Rock homebrew shop, Woodland Hills Shop or Steinfillers in Long […]
We are moving into the heavy part of the homebrew competition season, so I hope your beers are ready. There are a number of deadlines to keep track of. First of all, the entry submission window for the National Homebrew Competition is now open. You should have gotten an e-mail from NHC with shipping information […]
Thanks to a generous offer by the Musgrave family, we will have personal hand-delivery service for America’s Finest City (AFC) Homebrew Competition. Drop off your entries at the Culver City shop no later than Noon Thursday, Feb 8th. If you haven’t already registered for AFC, registration is open at http://quaff.org/AFC-2018/#. The Musgraves get […]
Well, a new year is upon us as well as a fresh brewing competition season. Each year, Pacific Gravity honors the brewer (or team) with the most homebrew competition wins. I’m eagerly awaiting someone to knock me off my Brewer of the Year perch! I hope you took advantage of the cool weather over the […]
