Registration closes tomorrow, Friday, April 17. Go to www.calhomebrewers.org to sign up.
Remember, it is a 2-step process:
(1) Purchase an annual membership in the California Homebrewers Association for $10. This is necessary so the festival meets California ABC regulations.
(2) Register for the festival ($35).
Don’t delay. Sign up now.
If you are planning to attend this year’s festival, get your self over to www.calhomebrewers.org and sign up. Registration ends on April 17.
As a reminder, you must be a member of the California Homebrewers Association ($10 fee) in order to register for, and attend, the festival. Festival registration is $35.
PG has reseved a group of campsites less than 1/2 mile from the festival site. 2 nights of camping is $25, payable to the club; pay at next weeks meeting, or drop off a payment at Culver City Homebrew Supply and send an email to {treasurer at pacific gravity dot com} and we will reserve your slot. We are not coordinating club meals this year, but I am sure a meal group or two will be forming.
More info to follow at next week’s club meeting.
April is already here and that means it’s time to get your homebrew competition entries going. Registration is now open for Mayfaire hosted by the Maltose Falcons. Entries are due April 9th at the Culver City Shop. On-line registration is up and running at http://www.maltosefalcons.com/events/sat-04252015-0900-2015-mayfaire-homebrew-competition. Note that they use their own style guide, so check category numbers before entering. Please sign up to judge and steward too; they will need our help. Judging will take place on Saturday April 25 at 9:00 AM at St Martins in the Fields Church 7136 Winnetka Ave Winnetka CA, 91306 (click for map). We may also do a prelim judging on the Westside. Check back for details in a week or so.
Also due in early May is the California State Fair. Entries are due May 3rd. Entry information and registration is available Read more →
No major updates this week. I just hope all of you are brewing some awesome beer for all of the upcoming events! Ive seen a few of you post pictures of your brew day’s for Bite at the Beach on various social media accounts which is really awesome to see.
Im really excited about this month’s First Friday. Kaveh and crew at the Doughroom are hosting April’s First Friday which we are putting together as a bottleshare:
Bring along some rare beers that you have been holding onto along with your appetite for some of the best pizzas around.
LABBC T-Shirts
We are still waiting on some logos from our sponsors before I can submit the artwork to our T-Shirt screenprinters. As soon as we get the last few in I will place the order and have the shirts at the following meeting.
Cheers!
For those of you that were unable to attend last week’s club meeting – for shame. You missed out on some fun stuff:
Bite At the Beach
Firestone Walker Brew
LABBC
April First Firday
Membership Renewals
Check out the LABBC website HERE to see the results! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to everyone who submitted beers, volunteered and helped organize.
March Club Meeting & LABBC
Reminder that this month’s club meeting is this Thursday at Culver City Homebrew Supply. We will be announcing the winners from our first Los Angeles Belgian Brew Challenge which took place over the weekend. Ribbons will be on hand for those of you who took home some prizes! We will have signup sheets on hand for LABBC shirts if you are interested in picking one up!
SCHF
Start brewing up beers for the So Cal Homebrewers Fest. The festival is a little over a month away and we want to have a good showing of kegs on hand.
Bite At the Beach
Just a reminder that signups are open for Bite at the Beach 2015! We still have around half of the spots open, but they are going quickly! Send an email to board@pacificgravity.com to signup.
AHA National Homebrewers Conference
Just around the corner from SCHF & Bite At the Beach is the AHA conference in SD. Get your beers ready!
-Brian
Pacific Gravity is thrilled to be just 1 day out from our inaugural Los Angeles Belgian Beer Challenge, that means in just 1 week, winners will be announced! This is super exciting because, as a ProAm competition, the Best of Show winner will have their beer brewed by our friends over at Monkish Brewing Company. 
Monkish happens to be the best Los Angeles Belgian brewery around and if you haven’t visited the taproom, you need to make a trip!
Located at 20311 S. Western Ave., Torrance, CA 90501, the tasting room offers a wide variety of their Belgian brews on tap, as well as growlers and bottles to take home. As you sit in the brewery on bags of malt – sipping on delicious beers, nibbling on peanuts and pretzels, dreaming of what they have aging in the stacks of barrels, mingling with fellow beer lovers – you feel like you could stay for hours! And you should, because you need to try a little bit of everything – from spiced tripels to brett saisons, Belgian dubbels to hoppy 
Belgian pales, brown farmhouse to strong dark ale, the list goes on!
The newest venture for the Monkish team was put in motion last summer with the arrival of their 5 foudres, which they will use on their journey into wild and sour beers. In addition to creating much anticipation for the results of these 1400 gallon experiments, the foudres have an aesthetic quality that stands out beautifully amongst the typical stainless steel fermenters.
Not only is the beer incredible and the environment inviting, the people are warm and welcoming. So get in there, say hi to brewmaster and owner, Henry and his team who are always more than happy to share their beers and show you around!
I hope this post’s title grabbed your attention. There are a LOT of events coming up over the next 2-3 months that will be made even cooler if everyone gets after it and starts brewing up some beer.
SoCal Homebrewers Fest
The SCHF is right around the corner at the beginning of May. This is a great opportunity to show the homebrewing community how amazing our club’s brewers really are. The club will have our draft system setup but we need you to bring beer to the festival.
Bite at the Beach
Two weeks after SCHF is Bite At the Beach where we have been invited along with Strand Brewers to donate our homebrew and serve it at a beer festival. Last year we showed up with 10 kegs of beer and our setup with the CDS was the toast of the event (in my opinion). Terry and Rives were up on stage talking about the great homebrewing hobby and community while the rest of us were sharing our meads, beers and ciders with the masses. So the way I see it, if you are brewing for SCHF why not make it a 10 gallon batch and allocate one keg to SCHF and one to Bite at the Beach. I just posted about this tonight – sign ups are open for one of 21 slots available on the draft system – but we can bring jockey boxes if we end up getting more than 21 participants.
National Homebrew Conference
Right around the corner from Bite at the Beach is the National Homebrewers Conference which is taking place in San Diego. We have placed the club’s name down on a list to have space to pour beer. Let’s show off what we can do for the homebrewers around the country who are making the trek out to the west coast. If we do not get enough participation for this event we will probably let this space go. Carl will have sign up sheets for next week’s Club Meeting at CCHBS for beers @ SCHF and the AHA conference.
I hope to see some of you at our first annual Los Angeles Belgian Brew Challenge this weekend. We are going to announce the winners @ next week’s club meeting so make sure you show up and cheer for your fellow PG member’s who take home ribbons.
Cheers everyone.
Everyone-
Its time for Bite at the Beach 2015! Last year we had the opportunity to take advantage of a shift in alcohol law that allowed homebrewers to donate their beer to non-profit events/orgs and have our beer on tap at a small craft beer festival. You can read all about last year’s event HERE.We have been asked to do this again by the MBCC. Just like last year, donating a keg (5 gallons) of homebrewed beer/cider or 2.5 gallons of mead or cider to the festival grants you access to attend as well (1 person per). Last year was a lot of fun – a very unique opportunity to share our beers with the public. Lets do it again!
Here is the flyer for this year’s event:
We’re happy to announce that this year we will be partnering, once again, with Strand Brewing Club to brew beer for a good cause! We’ll be pouring with Strand at Bite at the Beach on May 16th and we need your homebrews!
| Tap # | Brewer | Beer |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Rives Borland | IPA Challenge – Nelson Sauvin |
| 02 | Adam Ward | IPA Challenge – Amarillo |
| 03 | Brian Holter | IPA Challenge – Pacifica |
| 04 | Ryan Penrod | IPA Challenge – Citra |
| 05 | Lloyd Johnson | IPA Challenge – Simcoe |
| 06 | Anthony Brownstone | IPA Challenge – Centennial |
| 07 | Kingsley Toby | IPA Challenge – Sorachi Ace |
| 08 | ||
| 09 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Katie Collier | Keg – German Hef |
| 13 | Tania Gamez | Keg – Hard Apple Cider |
| 14 | Kevin Collier | IPA Challenge – Cascade |
| 15 | Chris Remensperger | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 16 | Chris Remensperger | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 17 | Ryan Penrod | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 18 | Terry Malloy | Lil’ Bo Steam |
| 19 | Michael Musgrave | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 20 | Rives Borland | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 21 | Jesse Tice | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| Non-Tap | Jesse Tice | Meads (Bottles) |
| Non-Tap | Jay Ankeney | Mead/Melomel (Bottles) |
