2nd Saturday! LA METRO BEER ADVENTURE!! | 7/12/14

Trains. Craft beer. Duck fat fries.

Who’s in?!?

Check out the link below for details

http://pacificgravity.org/event/2nd-saturday-la-metro-beer-adventure/

Pacific Gravity Cask @ City Tavern 7/16/14 @ 6:30pm

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The date has been set!  On July 16th the first cask collaboration with LA Ale Works is going to take place at City Tavern in Culver City.  So please join us at City Tavern – Culver City for the tapping our cask collaboration with Los Angeles Ale Works! This one of a kind cask includes Lemongrass, Kefir Lime Leaves, Ginger, Coconut Sugar and Kumquats! CRAZY!

Tapping to commence at 6:30pm!

Facebook Event Page – LINK!

Cheers!

Competition Corner – June 2014

So, you have witnessed the Kings win the Stanley Cup, Logo-rev0 World Cup soccer is now occupying your attention, and we have reached the summer solstice. What next? BREW NOW!!  The 2014 Pacific Brewers Cup is almost here! But what about the hot weather? Not to worry, there are plenty of styles that do well in to heat. Hefeweizens, Belgian specialties and even some American ales can do well in the warm weather. And there are plenty of tricks to keep your beer cool. For more details, check out the hot weather brewing article in the Picobrewery archives.

But, while you are contemplating your next brew, take a moment to check out the Pacific Brewers Cup website! Tad Johnston and Kip Barnes have done an outstanding job getting it up and running. We’ve got all the information, rules and sponsorship info posted and will be putting up more content as the deadlines arise. You can sign up for judging or stewarding now and soon will be able to register your beers too. What, you don’t know what you are entering? Well for heaven’s sake, BREW NOW!!  You have just enough time with some of those quicker beers. The entry deadline is August 22nd, with judging on September 6th at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church. We are looking for everyone to put their best foot forward and get those fermenters going.

Along the way, we have a few other competitions to mention.  Congrats go to Michael Patterson, Read more

**REMINDER** PACIFIC GRAVITY CLUB MEETING | THURSDAY JUNE 19TH | NEIL SAUNDS HOUSE

Hello PG Members!

Just a freindly reminder that June’s PG Club Meeting is this Thursday night @ Neil Saunds House! So get your homebrew ready to share and come on over! Original link below with meeting details!

http://pacificgravity.org/2014/06/pacific-gravity-club-meeting-thursday-june-19th-730pm-neil-saunds-house/

Cheers!

Kingsley
VP | Pacific Gravity Homebrew Club

Cask Competition – Winner Announced!

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Not to get lost in the shuffle of what has been a busy week so far, we wanted to announce the winner of our first collaborative cask competition with LA Ale Works.  We received a lot of really awesome submissions, which I passed along to the LA Ale Works team of Kip & John.  I removed the names from each submission to keep the results anonymous.  John and Kip told me that there were a lot of really awesome ideas on the submission list but eventually they were able to come to a consensus on the winning entry, which is:

Toby Sandland

Toby’s winning submission had the following ingredients which will be added to LA Ale Works Saison:

  • Priming Sugar: Coconut Sugar (Thai)
  • Special Ingredient #1: Lemon Grass
  • Special Ingredient #2: Kaffir Lime Leaf
  • Special Ingredient #3: Ginger
  • Targeted Pouring Location: City Tavern in Culver City

Congratulations Toby!  That sounds like it will be an awesome addition of ingredients to a Saison.

Toby, Kip should be reaching out to you shortly to coordinate when you guys can get together to make the cask.  I hope everyone enjoyed getting to be a part of the submission process and thank you to everyone who submitted entries.  Many of you submitted more than one entry which I think is an awesome way to enter into this competition – the more entries the merrier.

Once the LA Ale Works guys can organize up an event to pour the cask at I will be sure to post it on here so that we can get as many members together to try Toby & LA Aleworks Cask.

Cheers!

Brian Holter

FIRST FRIDAY < > | FRIDAY JUNE 6TH | THE DOUGHROOM (MAR VISTA)

Sorry for the last minute switch up PG members! We have to change the venue for this weeks FIRST FRIDAY!!! PLEASE HELP PASS THE WORD!!!!!

Tomm & Denise regrettably have to bow out of hosting this week due events beyond their control…the flu!!!

So…we will be meeting @ THE DOUGHROOM in Mar Vista!

Delectable Pizzas! Cool vibe! and OMG…check out their tap list!!!  (link here)  Aside from these the owner said he’s gonna throw something special on for Pacific Gravity members! You have got to check this place out.

They are reserving the communal table exclusively for PG members and will have open seating at the bar…

SO PLEASE HELP PASS THE WORD ABOUT THE LOCATION CHANGE!!! …and join us at this weeks new FIRST FRIDAY location…

THE DOUGHROOM
3409 Overland Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
www.thedoughroom.com

AGAIN>>>HELP PASS THE WORD!!!  We’ll raise a glass to a fast recovery Denise!

Cheers

Kingsley
VP|Pacific Gravity

PACIFIC GRAVITY CLUB MEETING | THURSDAY, JUNE 19th @ 7:30pm | NEIL SAUNDS HOUSE

Hello PG Members! This months Pacific Gravity Club meeting will be held at longtime member, all around good guy and stout enthusiast Neil Suand’s house. You may remember (or not remember 😉 it as the home of the PG Holiday Party!

STYLE OF THE MONTH | HYBRID BEERS!
Bring out your Cal Commons, Alt Biers, Cream Ales, or your Wheat or Rye beers! Smack down at the head of summer, this refreshing style is the perfect partner to your chaise lounge. So bring your home brew of this style (or as always any style) to share and compare during the commercial tasting hosted by PG member Adam Ward.

Check out these BJCP guidelines for more info:
LIGHT HYBRIDS: www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category6.php
AMBER HYBRIDS:  www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category7.php

PG RAFFLE!
And the raffle is back! Terry promises to have some items in the mix that every home brewer and beer lover will enjoy! One buck and a little luck and you could be the envy of every raffle ticket holder…

As always, we’ll have some light snacks and water to hydrate.

So join us on Thursday, June 19th @ 7:30pm –

NEIL SAUNDS ABODE
12966 Rubens
Los Angeles, CA 90066

(At the corner of Rubens and Alla)

Cheers big ears!

Kingsley

 

 

Bite At the Beach – Recap!

Pacific Gravity Signage

Pacific Gravity Signage

On May 17th Pacific Gravity took advantage of our first opportunity to pour beer under the 2013 law AB1425 that allows homebrewers to donate their precious homebrew @ a public event as long as that event is benefiting a non-profit organization.  Matt McIvor reached out to our club to ask if we were interested and after many of you showed interest in donating and serving your beer to the public Pacific Gravity was signed up to pour beer.

We were also joined by a few brewers from Strand Homebrewers Club who brought along some meads and ciders to share as well.

I wanted to post some pictures for those of you who were in attendance, along with those of you who were unable to make the trip / pay the entry fee.  Those of us who donated beer were allowed to enter the festival for free – which was really an awesome advantage.  The event was a food and beer pairing event where every tent was 1 brewery and 1 restaurant.  One of my personal favorite food pairings was the Brown Ale from King Harbor paired with a Smoked Clam Chowder – it was delicious!

The highlight of the entire event though was when our very own Terry Malloy and Rives Borland gave a homebrewing demonstration during the VIP hours.  Due to ABC law we couldnt actually brew any beer, but we had an entire all grain setup with us along with some barley and hops to share with the festival attendees.  Terry got up in front of the stage and gave a fantastic presentation while Rives walked around and shared the raw brewing ingredients with the crowd.  I for one had a blast listening to Terry break down the science of homebrewing on the fly – it was a really special event.

The second really awesome part of the event is that we had 4 different beers on tap that were Monster Brews from Smog City.  Adam Ward brought his Kolsch fermented with White Lab’s

Tad and Ramesh filling out the wave of beer.

Tad and Ramesh filling out the wave of beer.

Kolsch strain, Kingsley and I brought along our Kolsch fermented with East Coast Yeast’s Kolschbier, Terry Malloy brought along his batch which he had turned into an American Blonde Ale and Rives Borland / Jesse Tice brought their Brettanomyces Pilsner from the monster brew.  It was really awesome to get to share those beers with the festival attendees and get to explain to them that all four beers were from the same batch.

We handed out numerous membership forms, along with a lot of membership pamphlets for Strand Brewers Club as well.

To those of you who donated your time and beer I just wanted to say thank you for both coming out and for the beer.  I think PG was really well represented with the beers, meads and ciders we had on hand.  To those of you who were unable to attend I hope you can make it out for the next event – I will be reaching out to future festivals to gauge their interest in our clubs involvement.  I am hoping that with the next event we can organize our beers a bit more – maybe even choosing a list of beers that we would like to have on hand to pour before hand, rather than having it be a free for all in beer styles.

Cheers!

-Brian

REMINDER: PG CLUB MEETING TONIGHT! @ Terry Malloy’s House!

Hope to see you and your lagers at tonight Club Meeting! Link below!

http://pacificgravity.org/2014/05/may-pg-club-meeting-thursday-may-15th-2014-terry-malloys-house/

MAY PG CLUB MEETING | THURSDAY, MAY 15th 2014 | TERRY MALLOY’S HOUSE

Hello Pacific Gravity members:

May’s PG Club Meeting wiull be held @ longtime PG’r and board member Terry Malloy’s house in Westchester.

CASA MOLLOY
6738 W. 87th Place (NOT STREET)
Westchester, CA 90045

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(NOTE: THERE IS ALSO 6738 W. 87TH STREET NEARBY – PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB TERRY’S NEIGHBORS AND DOUBLE CHECK YOUR DIRECTIONS! – REMEMBER “PLACE” is the PLACE !)

May’s style of the month: ALL LAGERS! So bring your pilseners, doppelbocks, helles’, dunkels, maibocks, Rauchbiers, and vienna lagers! (to name a few). We’ll have some pro selections during our commercial tasting for you to compare side by side.

Also, brings some cash for the raffle! New items are in play that you could land for only a buck!

So please join us on Thursday May 15th and swap, share, and mingle among your brewing brothers and sisters! 

And I would like to thank you all! Due to the move of CCBS and ABC law our meetings have been a bit nomadic when it comes to location. Thanks for your continued patience and attendance at PG events!…and special thanks to those who invite 50 of thier closest friends into thier homes for these meetings and events. We appreciate it and owe you a beer…or two. 

Cheers!

Kingsley
VP | Pacific Gravity Homebrew Club