First Saturday at Library Alehouse
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Pacific Gravity Holiday Party
Greetings Pacific Gravity!
We are throwing a holiday party on Saturday 12/10/2022!
But first we need your help! On Saturday 12/03/22 we will be decking the halls and doing the set up (and drinking beer!) over at Neil’s, so come on down and lend a hand!
Then we will make merry the way we know how!
Holiday party
When: Saturday, December 10, at 5:00 PM.
Where: 12966 Rubens Ave, Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
The Holiday party will be a Neil’s Duplex on December 10th at 5:00PM. Rumor has it that Santa will be making an appearance. Also, we will announce the Member of the Year Award and the Brewer of the year award, and introducing the new officers for 2023.
You can help! Because although the club will be providing much of the main dishes this is still a pot luck party and your favorite party dish will sure be appreciated! The menu should mostly reflect past holiday parties featuring Carbonnades ala Flamande, meat on the BBQ, deep fried turkeys, spiced ham and much more!
So if you have a favorite family holiday recipe and want to share it with the rest of us, this is your chance! If you have any questions about what to bring you can ask me [email protected]. Suggestions would include any kind of main dish but especially all side dishes, veggie dishes, salads, desserts and appetizers!
Beer
Got beer? We need all types of beer, meads, cider and sodas for this event. Pull out your favorite holiday beverage, dust off the bottle or keg and bring it down! We’ll have the Wave of Beer set up to help dispense your holiday homebrews. If you plan to bring beer, soda or other seasonally festive beverage, please contact Carl at: [email protected] & let him know what you will bring. Everyone who signs up in advance will have a festive tap tag.
Equipment:
We need a few more EZ-Ups, heat lamps and fire pits so please donate them if you can. Bring a chair if you can!
We need lot & lots FIREWOOD! If you can bring wood please do so. December evenings can be cold so please help bring some wood so we can all stay warm.
This is an outdoor event…it will be cold! Please plan accordingly!
We ask that all attendees are vaccinated and can provide proof of same upon request.
See you there!
Cheers and Happy Holidays!
Ian Fraser
President
Pacific Gravity Club Meeting, Chili Cook-off and Elections
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Upcoming Styles of the Month
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Club Meeting 10/20, Order Your Polo Shirts
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September First Friday at Tortugo Brewing!
Greetings Pacific Gravity!
It is September already!
For our First Friday in September, we have decided to head back to Tortugo for our home court advantage.
First Friday: September 2nd, 2022 @ 7:00 PM at Tortugo Brewing Co, located at 916 W Hyde Park Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90302
Note: We will not be gathering in the meeting area, but will have a table near the bar.
We hope to see you all Friday!
It is great that we can all get together in person, but as always we encourage and expect everyone will be vigilant about their own health to ensure the groups safety! Please observe all safety precautions and stay home if you do not feel well.
Yeastside Brewers San Diego bus trip next month, September 17
The YS is planning a bus trip to some San Diego breweries for September 17th and we wanted to extend an invite to PG. We’re still in the planning stages and looking to get as good a deal as we can for the bus and for us, so the more, the merrier, and cheaper. We also have a call out to the WASH folks for interest.
Breweries we’re considering stopping at are White Labs, Setting Sun (sake), Lost Cause Meadery, Duck Foot, Pure Project, California Wild Ales, and Black Plague. Ambitious, but a few of these are very close to each other and we’ll be making adjustments as necessary on the day of. Some of these breweries should have food trucks, so no dedicated eating stop – we’ll all be responsible for ourselves.
We’ll meet at Union Station and be on the bus and on our way at 10am latest. We expect to be back around 8pm or so.
Cost will be approximately $35 to $50 per rider depending on how well we can do on the bus / turnout. Payment could be via email / Venmo, or we might have a Square on the bus, and cash.
Anyone interested should contact Terry Molloy (brewfest @ pacific gravity)
Club Meeting Thursday (8/18) at Tortugo Brewing
Hope your summer is going well! We have one more chance to party before fall sets in. Please join us Thursday August 18th at Tortugo Brewing Co, located at 916 W Hyde Park Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90302. We will get started about 7:30 PM. We will have a recap of the Summer Party (thanks Dean!), as well as announcements of upcoming events such as club elections, upcoming First Friday or Second Saturdays, and important news about upcoming homebrew competitions such as Pacific Brewers Cup and the California State Homebrew Competition.
Our President Ian will be be pouring commercial samples of our styles of the month Wheat and Witbier. And, of course, if you bring your homebrews to share, we will have a full slate of enjoyment.
We have no organized food plan this month, so please plan on dropping a few buck on Torgugo’s grill, or eat before the meeting.
Hope to see you there!
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 18: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Co, located at 916 W Hyde Park Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90302
September 2: First Friday at Tortugo
September 15: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Co.
September 3 – 25: Entry Drop-off Window for Pacific Brewers Cup
October 8, 15: (Maybe other dates too) Judging at Project Barley Brewery & Pizzeria
STYLES OF THE MONTH
- August – Wits and Wheats
- September – IPAs
- October – Festbiers and Amber lagers
- November – Dark beers
- December – Holiday Party, all styles
Competition Corner August 2022 – Here Comes Pacific Brewers Cup
Call for Entries- 2022 Pacific Brewers Cup
It is my pleasure to announce this year’s Pacific Brewers Cup Homebrew Competition will be hosted by Strand Brewers Club. This most prestigious event is hosted on a rotating basis with Pacific Gravity Homebrewers Club, Long Beach Homebrewers Club and Strand Brewers Club.
Registration for Entries for the 2022 Pacific Brewers Cup Homebrew Competition is now open at:
https://strandbrewersclub.org/pbc/bcoem/
We are also seeking Judges, Stewards and Competition Volunteers for this event. Registration for these positions will be available at the same website beginning August 15, two weeks from now. 2022 PBC T-shirts and other perks will be available when registering as a Judge, Steward or Competition Volunteer; please consider helping Strand Brewers Club with this event. Breakfast snacks and lunch will be provided to all Volunteers at the Final Judging on October 15.
Final Judging for the 2022 Pacific Brewers Cup will be held on Saturday, October, 15, 2022 @ Project Barley Brewery & Pizzeria, 2308 Pacific Coast Hwy. Lomita, Ca., 90717, starting at 8:30 AM. We are planning a morning and afternoon Judging session.
This is a BJCP and AHA-sanctioned competition. This is also a full-category Competition based on the 2015 BJCP Guidelines, including meads and ciders.
As this Competition will be judged live and in-person and the PBC Organizing Committee cannot predict future Covid-19 activity, we are asking that all judges and stewards be fully vaccinated. Please be advised that the PBC Planning Committee and Project Barley Brewery & Pizzeria will be doing everything possible to ensure a safe Event, in compliance with current L.A. County and BJCP/AHA recommendations. We will also ask everyone to observe COVID protocols such as wearing a mask whenever possible and your nose is not inside a taster cup, as a courtesy and precaution.
Judges, Stewards and Competition Volunteers are invited to submit entries as well. Due to limits on comfortable size and space, we will be limiting the competition to 300 total entries, as an added safety measure. Registration of Entries will run from August 1 to September 25, 2022. Please note the deadline for Competition Entries is September 25, 2022. For more information, including conveniently located drop-off locations, as well as an Entry Mail-in Location, please refer to the above website.
Cheers & Thank You
Jeffrey Hoy, Organizer, 2022 PBC
Upcoming Events
August 15: Registration starts for Pacific Brewers Cup
August 18: Pacific Gravity Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing
September 3 – 25: Entry Drop-off Window for Pacific Brewers Cup
October 8, 15: (Maybe other dates too) Judging at Project Barley Brewery & Pizzeria
Pacific Gravity Summer Party Saturday, July 23rd
Greetings Pacific Gravity!
Time for some blether, braw and fizzy juice!
This year’s summer party is set for July 23, 2022 and will be held at Dean Sussman’s Highland’s home located at 1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades. It is sure to be a wee beastie!
The theme for this year’s summer party is the Scottish Highland Games! So, grab your kilt, your sporran and your brogues and join the fun! We will feature a haggis and our own poet laureate Reed will offer up our address to the haggis! There will be other Scottish inspired foods as well, Scottish eggs, clapshot, salmon, and more!
However, this being a ‘bring a plate’ potluck event we want you to bring your favorite dish along to the event as well; any dish is welcome, so the menu is WIDE open for you to bring your best scran and show off your culinary skills!
The summer party is a volunteer’s event, and we need lots of volunteers! Volunteers will be needed for set up the day before and clean up of Dean’s house the day after. We pay all volunteers in beer at the event, all-you-can-drink in fact; the only catch is we need you to brew the beer so we can use it to pay the volunteers! Lot’s of beer!
We also need your sodas for the non-alcohol drinking crowd, if you have a good soda recipe; this is a great place to show it off.
Along with our best beer of the party judging we will also host this year’s drink competition! Bring a batch of your favorite non-beer or non-alcohol (sodas count!) summertime drink and we will judge it and announce a winner at the event!
As always with the pandemic, we expect everyone to be fully vaxxed and/or non-symptomatic. Please be careful and remain safe at all times.
Stay tuned for additional details!
Pacific Gravity’s Summer Party Checklist
Saturday, July 23, 2022 – 2pm to 10pm
Location: Dean Sussman’s – 1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades, 90272
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IMPORTANT: PLEASE EMAIL US WITH WHAT YOU WILL BRING AND HOW YOU CAN HELP!
Checklist for ALL party attendees:
- Bring BEER, BEER & more BEER! Also, bring sodas or a non-beer beverage for the Beverage” competition! Please email what you are bringing to Carl at [email protected]
- FOOD – sign up to bring any dish to our POTLUCK party. (the club will supply some food but we need YOUR dishes too!) We need ALL kinds of food: appetizers, sides dishes, main dishes (pre-cooked), desserts, etc. All your specialty dishes are welcome! We need LOTS of food to go with all the beer so please email us at [email protected] what dishes you will add to our feast!
- VOLUNTEERS – we need YOU to help make this a successful party! Please email us at [email protected] . We have lots of volunteer opportunities!
- Setup on Friday night – starting at 6pm
- Food prep on Friday – please contact Chef Ian to help
- Cleanup on Sunday morning – starting around 10am
- Bartender shifts – 1hr. (please see Carl on Saturday to volunteer)
- Beer Equipment (email Carl at: [email protected])
- Jockey boxes
- CO2 cylinders
- Bags of ice for jockey boxes
- Other Equipment needed for the party. Please let us know if you have any of the following and would be willing to loan to us for the party. Please email us at: [email protected] . We will email confirmation back if we need you to bring items on Friday night during setup.
- Tables
- EZ Ups/Canopies
- BBQs
- Power/extension cords
- Extra coolers/ice chests
Don’t forget to bring and things to know:
- Bring BEER & other beverages
- Bring FOOD – Scottish themed or any food that goes with beer!
- Fee for all adult guests is $10 per guest. Kids are free. (Current members are free.)
- Payment for past due membership – cash or credit
- Chairs and Blankets
- Bathing suits and towels, if you want to use the swimming pool.
- Sunscreen
- Jackets & sweaters for the evening
- Cash for Raffle tickets
- PG merchandise will be available for sale at the Front Desk.
- Note for food contributions, we will NOT have use of a kitchen for heating or cooling so please plan accordingly. Please label your food containers so that we can get them back to you.
It is great that we can all get together in person, but as always we encourage and expect everyone will be vigilant about their own health to ensure the groups safety! Please observe all safety precautions and stay home if you do not feel well.
Second Saturday at Project Barley Taps and Grill
Greetings Pacific Gravity,
I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable 4th of July!
For our First Friday (on second Saturday) in July, we are headed down to Kings Harbor to visit Project Barley’s new tasting room located at:
Project Barley Taps and Grill
136 International Boardwalk,
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
https://projectbarley.com/
We will get started at about 12:30 PM on July 9, 2022.
I have heard good things about his food vendor as well so come hungry: https://www.proudlyservingla.com/
This new location is just doors down from Naja’s and King Harbor Brewing Co. so those so inclined can make it into a pub crawl!
This will be a great way to spend an afternoon exploring new and old beer locations! See you there!
Cheers,
Ian Fraser
President
Pacific Gravity
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
1 very important date:
July 23 – Summer Party at Deans. The Highland games! Scottish foods!
Pacific Gravity Club Meeting Thursday, June 16th at Tortugo Brewery
Greetings Pacific Gravity!
Our next club meeting is on June 16, 2022 at Tortugo Brewing Co, located at 916 W Hyde Park Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90302. (424) 227-9963
We will get started about 7:30 PM.
We will discuss upcoming events, the next First Friday and the Summer Party!
We have restarted the ‘style of the month’ effective with the May meeting, which you can find here. For June, the official beer is Pale Ale. Of course, at any meeting, any beer you have brewed will be gladly accepted and drank!
Our monster brew last month at Smog City Brewing was a rousing success. Seventy-five batches were sold using a modified recipe of Little Bo Pils. We hope to see many of these beers with a diversity of modifications at summer party! Thank you Porter for a great time!
Results have been release for the 2022 Mayfaire homebrew competition. Congratulations to Carl Townsend for his first place at IPAs with his “Let the Wookie Win” black IPA, and for his second place ribbon for Czech Dark Lager. Full results can be found at https://competitions.maltosefalcons.com/2022Mayfaire/
We had a great showing for our First Friday on Second Saturday at All Season Brewing in Korea town. The IPAs were quite solid as was the fruited Berliner weisse. We wish to thank the team for their recent sponsorship of Pacific Brewers Cup.
It is gratifying that we have resumed gathering in person, but as always we encourage and expect everyone will be vigilant about their own health to ensure the groups safety! Please observe all safety precautions and stay home if you do not feel well.
I hope to see you all at our meeting!
Cheers,
Ian Fraser
President
Annual Dues
It’s time to renew your annual membership dues for the Pacific Gravity Home Brewers Club. Your dues are the primary way we fund such club activities as club parties, monthly meetings, club brews and much more. Your paid membership also ensures that you’ll continue to receive the many club benefits available, access to various brewing activities, discounts and information. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming members only opportunities!
Individual Membership = $36/yr – Renew now with PayPal: https://py.pl/BiB2I
Couples Membership = $54/yr – Renew now with PayPal: https://py.pl/2T086cDIgzz
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