Entries for the California State Fair Homebrew Competition are due at the Culver City shop by April 18th. Since we need to ship these entries off, your bottles must arrive packaged for shipping. This means plenty of bubble wrap and packed into suitable shipping boxes. Cost for each entry is $10, but the club will […]
Here we are in the rapidly-warming month of April and we are in the thick of the homebrew competition season. Coming up this Saturday, April 10th is the due date for Maltose Falcon’s Mayfaire competition. We are collecting entries for this at the Culver City shop. On-line sign up is here: http://maltosefalcons.com/comps/2010Mayfaire Note that […]
Entries for the world’s largest homebrew competition are due by this Friday, March 26th: the American Homebrewers Association’s National Homebrew Competition. Entries for this event must be registered on-line at http://www.brewingcompetition.com/NHC/nhc.php . You only need to submit one bottle per entry for this round, but if you beer advances to the finals, you need to […]
For many beer drinkers, March is associated with the consumption of mass quantities of Guinness Stout, or, all too often, fizzy yellow beer that has been colored to make it green. For those of us in homebrew clubs, however, March is the warm-up month for homebrew competition season.
On Thursday, February 18th at the Club meeting, we will hold a special vote for the Brewer of the Year Rules. The ballot language is included below. Please review the issue now, so that you are prepared to vote. Voting at the club meeting will be conducted by written ballots at approximately 8:15 PM and […]
I hope you are all planning to join us at Tustin Brewing’s Second Annual Monster Brew, on February 27th, hosted by our very own Jon Porter. We’ll be brewing up a batch of medium-gravity amber wort. Where it goes from there is up to you! We’re hoping to have as many variations on the theme […]
There has been overwhelming demand for the BJCP classes and as a result, they are now full. I’ve sent an e-mail to everyone who has reserved a spot. To confirm your reservation, please bring a check for $50 made out to Carl Townsend or cash to the Culver City Shop. Please also check your information […]
Ahh, the cool days of January are here and it is time to get some beer fermenting. We have a fresh slate of competitions to enter in 2010, and now is the time to prepare. First up on the docket is the Club-Only competition for English Brown Ales, BJCP Cat #11. We will judge these […]
Pacific Gravity has announced a new set of classes and exam for the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). Here are the details so far. As more details are available, they will be posted at http://www.picobrewery.com/bjcpinfo-08.html. We will meet alternating Sundays at 5:00 pm at the Culver City Homebrewing Supply Co at
Raise your beer mug and give a toast to Chris Simental, the winner of the 2009 Pacific Gravity Homebrewer of the Year Award. Chris was honored at the Holiday Party on December 12th and presented with an engraved trophy mug. He was the run-away winner for the second year in a row, having garnered a […]
