David Mauceli – Pacific Gravity

Early Afternoon Rain Forecast

David Mauceli — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:15:08 +0000

According to weather.com it should clear up before the party, but just in case, if you have an easy up to volunteer for the club, please bring it by Neil’s house tomorrow during setup.

Final Holiday Party Setup

David Mauceli — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:49:32 +0000

Greetings members, we will be doing final preparation for the holiday party at Neil Saund’s duplex at 11 AM on Saturday. We’ll be putting table cloths on tables, doing final prep in the kitchen, trimming the tree, and the like. This is also a great time to drop off your beer as we will be setting up the CDS and other serving areas. Finally, if you have equipment to loan for the party, please also bring it then. See you Saturday at 11!

Holiday Party Preparation

David Mauceli — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:41:05 +0000

Quick reminder, we will be setting up for the holiday party tomorrow (Sunday) at noon. If you can make it, please come by Neil’s duplex (12966 Rubens Ave. LA, CA). Also please plan to volunteer the day of the party for final setup and the day after for clean up. Email vicepresident@pacificgravity.com to let us know about your plans.

If you can bring easy ups, tables, heaters, or other things we need at the party, please email President@pacificgravity.com . We haven’t had many submissions, and we really need tables to pull off dinner.

Please email kperiolat@gmail.com with the dish you are bringing for the potluck if you would like a label made.

Most importantly, please email competitioncoordinator@pacificgravity.com with the beer you are bringing. Please include the style, quantity, and ABV.

Member of the Year Vote

David Mauceli — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:39:54 +0000

If you didn’t vote for member of the year at the club meeting, you can do so via email. Please send your vote via email toPresident@pacificgravity.com You may cast up to two votes.

Dean Sussman
Tim Bardet
Carl Townsend
Noelle Cross
Terry Molloy
Jon Porter

Also, you may vote for one of the following candidates for Treasurer:

Tim Bardet

Ramesh Khalili

Pacific Gravity Holiday Part December 7th

David Mauceli — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:02:10 +0000

Greetings members, I’m happy to announce that the Pacific gravity Holiday Party will be on Saturday, December 7th. The party is being graciously hosted by Neil Saund (address below). We will get started at 6 PM and are schedule to complete the festivities at 11. Members in good standing are invited and may bring a guest. We’re all adults, so use you judgement when inviting people.

Neil Saund’s duplex

12966 Rubens Ave. LA, CA
Saturday Dec 7th @ 6:00 pm

Bring Food!

This is a potluck party, so we are depending on YOU to bring your favorite holiday dish to share. Please know that there will be lmited cooking and prep space, so bring your offering ready to eat and hot (if appropriate) in a disposable container (Smart & Final is a great resource for this). If you must bring it in non-disposable dish, please be prepared to take that dish home with you at the end of the party. We already have several volunteers to bring fried turkey, grilled lamb, ham, and carbonade, but we need help rounding out our main courses. Bring sides or holiday staples like stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, creamed corn, veggies, and salads. Bring appetizers and finger food like shrimp, pig in a blanket, egg rolls, stuffed mushrooms. Bring you family recipe or holiday traditions. There will be no “service” but dinner should commence by 7 PM. Please email kperiolat@gmail.com with the dish you would like to bring so we can make a label for your food.

Bring Yourself!

We need volunteers to help pull off a 150+ person party! We will be doing preliminary setup on Sunday, December 1st at noon where we will setup everything that can survive being rained on (you never know). Final setup will be done on the morning of the party on December 7th. If you can volunteer for setup duty, please email VicePresident@pacificgravity.com. If you can’t be there to setup, please come to help with the cleanup. We need to start cleanup at 10 AM on Sunday morning. Again, email VicePresident@pacificgravity.com to volunteer.

Bring Stuff!

We are renting some things, but we need the membership to help with much needed equipment. Please email President@pacificgravity.com if you can bring any of the items listed below to the party:

Easy Ups (in case of inclimate weather)
Patio Heaters
Jockey Boxes
CO2 Tanks
serving tables

We already have things for the raffle, but if you have lightly used equipment, glassware, or other schwag to donate, please contact FundRaiser@pacificgravity.com

Bring Beer!

Please email Carl at CompetitionCoordinator@pacificgravity.com with your beer’s name, style, ABV, and keg volume so that he can make labels. Feel free to bring home brew or special commercial beers in bottles to share with other guests as well.

A note about parking for tomorrow’s meeting

David Mauceli — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:47:01 +0000

Parking is a flat fee of $10 for tomorrow’s meeting. Please plan accordingly.

September Meeting at Four Points LAX

David Mauceli — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:42:25 +0000

Greetings members, I’m happy to announce the the Four Points Sheraton at LAX will be hosting our September meeting. I’ve you have been a member for any amount of time you will be familiar with this hotel and their extensive support of craft beer culture through hosting our First Friday events as well as beer tastings and beer pairing dinners. The focus of the meeting will be sampling member’s home brew, giving constructive feedback, announcements regarding upcoming events, a raffle, and sampling of the beers that Four Points has on tap. Four Points will make available a meeting space exclusively for our meeting on Thursday, September 19th. Here are some important details:

– The style of the meeting is lagers. You may bring bottles, growlers, and kegs of home brewed beers. The club will purchase tastes of beer from the hotel, hopefully they will have some good examples of the style.

– The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM and end at 10 PM. Please encourage the hotel to host us again by planning on eating dinner at the hotel beforehand. Light snacks will be provided during the tasting, but it won’t be enough to replace a meal.

Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles Airport
9750 Airport Blvd · Los Angeles, CA 90045 · United States · Phone: 310-645-4600

August 15th meeting at the Richmond Bar and Grill

David Mauceli — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:27:10 +0000

Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that we will be holding our August meeting at the Richmond Bar and Grill on August 15th at 7:30 PM. I encourage you to reward our gracious host’s decision to accommodate our club by coming early to enjoy dinner. We will have the back building and can spillover into the patio space if we are over capacity. The meeting style of the month will be meads, ciders, gruits, and fruit beers. Although the club only competition has been discontinued by the AHA, I would encourage members to bring a bottle of their appropriately styled beverage to share with other club members. The focus of the meeting will be sampling member’s home brew, giving constructive feedback, announcements regarding upcoming events, a raffle, and sampling of the beers that Richmond has on tap. Remember, the focus is on sampling homebrew, so keep the size of what you bring reasonable (no kegs, magnums, etc). We’ll target concluding the meeting at 9:30 PM although the Richmond stays open later if you would like to stay. As Carl mentioned, be sure to bring entries to the meeting for the Pacific Brewer’s Cup. We might try to arrange another pickup closer to the deadline, but right now this is your best opportunity to have the club assist you with the logistics of entering the competition.

This is a bit of an experiment, so I’d welcome constructive feedback on how this goes.

The Richmond Bar and Grill is located at 145 Richmond St El Segundo, CA 90245

Goose Island Events and Summer Party Planning

David Mauceli — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:04:05 +0000

Hi everyone, Happy Friday. I wanted to let you know about some free events in July that feature some rare Goose Island products. But first, I want to talk about volunteering for the Summer Party. There is an organizing meeting on July 11th at Dean’s house. If you are available to do some of the heavy lifting for the summer party (buying supplies, transporting kegs, renting chairs), we’d appreciate it if you could attend. Email me at president@pacificgravity.com so I can get a headcount since Dean will be providing dinner. If you can’t make the organizing meeting but would like to help and you didn’t sign up for it at the last club meeting, email me at president@pacificgravity.com and we can work out if you would like to help before during, and/or after the party. Finally, make sure you mark your calendars for July 20th for the summer party. And as I announced at the March meeting, unless you have heard otherwise from me your guests must pay $10 to attend the party in order for us to make up the costs.

Now for the Goose Island announcements:

“On Wed., July 10 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Beer Belly, we’ll be tapping a Bourbon County Stout Single Barrel, Bourbon County Stout Coffee (2012) and Bourbon County Stout Cherry, along with The Illinois, Sofie Paradisi, Matilda, Madame Rose (2010) and Juliet (2012). Brewmasters from Goose Island will be in attendance to talk great beer. Beer Belly is located at 532 S. Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90020.

Also, on Thur., July 11 from 6 – 9 p.m. at the Surly Goat, we’ll be sampling – Bourbon County Stout Single Barrel, Bourbon County Stout Cherry Rye, Bourbon County Stout Coffee (2011), Bourbon County Stout Vanilla (2010), as well as Sofie, Sofie Paradisi, The Illinois, Madame Rose and Night Stalker. Surly Goat is located at 7929 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046. Unfortunately, our brewer will not be around for this event.”

Summer party is July 20th! And June meeting next week

David Mauceli — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:14:49 +0000

Hey everyone a quick announcement to let you know that the summer party is scheduled for July 20th. We’ll be returning to our classic location at Dean’s house on Amalfi Drive and the theme is South of the Border. More details coming but mark your calendars. Also be prepared to help before, during, and after to make this the best summer party ever!

You can learn lots more at the June meeting coming up this Thursday the 20th. The beer theme is wheat and spelt beers so if you made something neat at the monster brew consider bringing it. Noelle will be hosting the commercial tasting and we will be awarding a gift certificate for best beer of the meeting. Finally, this will likely be the last meeting at the usual location, so come with some ideas about how you would like club meetings to be conducted in the future.