After an unprecedented multiple nominees at 2 positions and voting both at the November meeting and online, we finally have the results. Here are your new 2016 elected board members:

PRESIDENT

Lloyd Johnson

VICE PRESIDENT

Michael Musgrave

TREASURER

Tim Bardet

It was a close race between the contested positions with treasurer being within just a few votes difference. Congratulations to those that won and thank you for to those that didn’t for stepping up to the plate to make this club better. If you’d still like to contribute and help the new board out, please get in contact with board@pacificgravity.com and we will make sure the new board gets in touch with you.

We will announce the member of the year at the holiday party next month with more details to follow about the party. We will need volunteers for setup, teardown and cooking of food, so please let us know if you’d like to help out.

Thank to all who came to our Annual Chili Cook off and Election meeting this past Saturday. We had 10 chilis to taste and judge. All were amazing, but Neil Saund took home the prize for best chili, with Michael Musgrave’s as runner up missing the tie by one vote. A fabulous Pumpkin Mole by Parker Waechter won most unique chili.

Also going on at the meeting was brew led by our very own Dan White who made Carl Townsend’s Weizenbock that we had the privilege of brewing with Firestone on Halloween. We ended up with 18 gallons of beer that was put in 4 carboys. Carl and Dan plan to ferment each one with a different yeast. 6 gallons will be fermented with Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast, 5 with American Hefeweizen yeast, 5 gallons with both Bavarian and American Hefeweizen yeasts, and 2 gallons with dregs from Firestone Feral One, Russian River Consecration, and Allagash Farm to Face.

The other major event that took place was our election for next years board. Each nominee gave a speech to the attendees about why they should be selected. Here is a summary of what each person had to say:

PRESIDENT

Lloyd Johnson wants to

• help keep this club heading in a direction that benefits all members and see the growth of our passion, homebrewing. Finish the current ventures, that the current board has started, as well as bring back some of the old traditions we’ve lost, and hopefully start some new ones to come.
• help promote home brewing by bringing back the monthly style home brew competition, where club members bring their home brew in the style of the month to have the chance to win a gift certificate to the Culver City Home Brew Store.
• promote education by bringing back Big Brews where club members bring their brewing sets, to do multiple brews in one day, in one location so that they can see multiple processes in home brewing from many different levels of extract to all grain
• schedule different different education events such as hop evaluations, off flavor testing, Cicerone training, BJCP Judge training and evaluating the test requirements, and much, much more
• work on accomplishing our goal of becoming a 501(3)(c) non profit.

Ian Fraser wants to

• bring back some of that inclusiveness that created the growth of the club as well as the comradery that went along with it
• bring back the big brews to enhance the educational aspects, the bus trips to educate the knowledge of various breweries and the experiences of their brewers
• train the next generation of leaders so that they have a vision of the club going forward that maintains our history in the process

VICE PRESIDENT

Michael Musgrave says he is

• thankful for the great structure, reputation and relationships Brian, Tad and Ramesh have contributed and are leaving as their legacy
• honored to work alongside the existing board members and looking forward to growing the club together
• stoked and already mapping out our First Friday schedule for ’16!”

TREASURER

Timothy Bardet says

• hes been member since the second meeting
• he wants to come back as treasurer and serve as he did in previous years in this position
• he’ll do a great job because “Everybody likes to get paid out!”

Tania Musgrave says

• Our friendly club culture has drawn her to more and more meetings and events, and is proud to be a member.
• Having spent time with the current treasurer, Ramesh, she feels that she knows and is prepared for the position duties.Would be honored to take over as Treasurer.
• she is organized and has previous fundraising experience with a non-profit and love new challenges

Also up for voting is Club Member of the Year. The nominees are:

Ramesh Johnston
Tad Johnston
Andrew Whittle
Lloyd Johnson
Carl Townsend

If you were not able to attend the meeting, please send your vote no later than Saturday November 21st to board@pacificgravity.com.

We discussed at the meeting that the holiday party on December 12th will require lots of volunteers for set up, clean up, food and beer. Stay tuned for where to sign up.

Thank you to all who contributed to a successful meeting by bringing chili and beer.

Cheers

Ramesh Johnston

The day will official begin at 9:00am and you’re more than welcome to come when you please at or after this time. If you would like to get there early and be involved with the brew, Dan White would greatly appreciate the help I’m sure.

Voting for both board members and the chili cook-off to follow immediately after the speeches. You can vote for club member of the year at any time during the day. If you cannot make the event, you can email us your vote for board members and member of the year at board@pacificgravity.com.

You must have your vote in no later than 1 week (November 21st) after the event to have it count.
You also must be a member with current active status and dues paid in full in order to vote.

Chili Cook-Off

As usual, we will have a “Most Unique Chili” and a “Best Chili” so please plan on voting for both when trying each chili.

More info on this month’s club meeting can be found here.

Our club meeting is this Saturday and we have a few more updates on nominations. We now have another contested position, Treasurer, which now has Tim Bardet and Tania Musgrave running. Also, since Brian Holter won CMOY last year, he cannot be nominated this year for member of the year. There are however two recently added nominations to the list, Carl Townsend and Lloyd Johnson. There is still time to send us your nominations for both board positions and CMOY. Also, I’ve included a teaser (photo) of the commercial tasting at the bottom of the post.

Board Nominations For 2016:

Lloyd Johnson

Ian Fraser

Michael Musgrave

Tim Bardet

Tania Musgrave

Member of the Year Nominations for 2015:

Brian Holter (can’t be nominated after winning the previous year)

Ramesh Johnston
Tad Johnston
Andrew Whittle
Lloyd Johnson
Carl Townsend

If you’d like to nominate someone else (or yourself) for either a board position or member of the year, please do so by next Thursday (November 12th) at the latest. Also, if you can’t make the meeting and would love to vote, please email your vote for each to board@pacificgravity.com

Commercial Tasting

Here is what is going to be opened at the commercial tasting. I hope you all enjoy the tasting of some of my favorites when I’m gone

Brew Day

The brew day will start at 9:00am so come whenever, you’d like with most people probably getting there about 11:00am – 12:00pm for the main event. Dan could definitely use some help so if you feel so inclined to show up early and help it would be greatly appreciated.

Our club meeting this month has a lot going on, so please join us in all its glory.  We will be having our annual chili cook-off as well as a brewing session held by our very own Dan White.  We will be brewing Carl Townsend’s Weizenbock recipe that we just brewed at Firestone Walker. It’s going to be pretty cool to compare the two brews.  The biggest events during our meeting will be elections and member of the year.

Board Nominations For 2016:

Lloyd Johnson

Ian Fraser

Michael Musgrave

Tim Bardet

Member of the Year Nominations for 2015:

Brian Holter

Ramesh Johnston

Tad Johnston

Andrew Whittle

If you’d like to nominate someone else (or yourself) for either a board position or member of the year, please do so by next Thursday (November 12th) at the latest. Also, if you can’t make the meeting and would love to vote, please email your vote for each to board@pacificgravity.com

Commercial Tasting

Ramesh and Tad will be doing the commercial tasting this month which is pumpkin and spiced beers.  Tad won’t be able to make the meeting, but he’s picked out Ramesh’s and his favorite (pumpkin) beers.  You won’t want to miss this!

Brew Day

The brew day will start at 9:00am so come whenever, you’d like with most people probably getting there about 11:00am – 12:00pm for the main event.

This First Friday we’ll be going down to Phantom Carriage to support our fellow club members.  Simon has hooked us up with the Barrel Guild Room at 7pm.  Our own private room, pretty sweet! Another cool part about this First Friday, Simon will be giving us our very own tour at 8pm so don’t miss out!

Come out and support Phantom and their awesome one of kind brewery and brews!  They have some really good stuff!!!!

On another note, please be aware this months club meeting has moved up to Saturday, November 14th. Please make a note of it on your calendars as we have lots going on that day so you want to make sure you come.  We’ll have more info later this week about it.

Event Information

This months meeting will be at the brew store next Thursday.  We will be taking nominations for the next years board for ALL 3 voted on positions (president, vice president and treasurer).  If you can’t make the meeting, you can always send a nomination for any of these fine positions to board@pacificgravity.com and it would be great if you could do so before next Thursday.  Also, if you have an itch to help out the club in any capacity (we sure could use it), but don’t want to be any of the voted on positions, there are other positions that are appointed that you can also volunteer for like club secretary.

Speaking of volunteering, we need a volunteer to take on the commercial tasting for the meeting next week.  The style this month is wood aged beers, so anything pretty much goes as long as it’s been aged in some wood! Please email styles@pacificgravity.com if you’d like to volunteer.  It’s super fun to do and you get to pick beer out on someone else’s money :).

Can’t do this month but you’d love to do the tasking? You’re in luck and we need a volunteer for the November tasting as well!

Styles of the month information

http://pacificgravity.com/events/october-club-meeting-cchbs/

Also, they still have some Monkish beers on tap (sorry, doesn’t look like Triumphus is there any longer) and some other great beers.  And if you haven’t had their lasagna yet or the Spicy Bear pizza, you need to try them!

Spicy Bear Pizza

Just a friendly reminder that the club meeting is tomorrow at Casa Molloy. The style of the month is IPAs so bring your favorite IPA you’ve brewed or even a commercial one you love with a passion. Brian said he’ll be happy to debate with any of you that there is no better IPA than a Pliny.

Who doesn’t like IPAs???? Be there or miss out!

More info at: http://pacificgravity.com/events/september-club-meeting/

First Friday is upon us and this month we’ve changed it up and are going to Monkish.  The reason we decided to do this is because Triumphus is on tap!

What is Triumphus?  It is the best of show beer at the Los Angeles Belgian Brew Challenge (ran by Pacific Gravity) this year, that was won by our very own Brian Holter and Kingsley Toby!  Not only is it a delicious tripel, it will be entered as a pro-am for this years GABF!  Even more awesome, it also comes in corked bottles which are only sold at the brewery!  There are limited quantities so make sure you support the club and Monkish and buy some, it’s really good, as Henry and co have graciously supported us for this competition and even put the PG logo on the bottle! How cool is that?!