FIRST FRIDAY! OCTOBER 3rd 2014 | THE EL SEGUNDO TRIFECTA!

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Hello PGrs!

We’re trying something a little different for FIRST FRIDAY for October…THE EL SEGUNDO TRIFECTA!

EL SEGUNDO BREWING COMPANY
http://www.elsegundobrewing.com/

RICHMOND BAR AND GRILL
http://www.richmondbarandgrill.com/

ROCK AND BREWS
http://www.rockandbrews.com/elsegundo/

We’ll start out @ El SEGUNDO BREWING COMPANY’s tasting room for the newest selections of hoppy goodness from Rob Croxall and crew. When we are ready for some grub we can walk the up the street to the RICHMOND BAR AND GRILL for more brews and burgers!

Also, if it’s up your alley, ROCK AND BREWS is having “ROCK-TOBERFEST” as well if you want a night cap.

So join us at one, two, or all three locations this Friday, October 3rd starting @ EL SEGUNDO BREWING COMPANY @ 7pm!

State Competition Entries Due Oct 1st at the Culver City Shop

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Thanks to Rives Borland, we can drop off entries for the California State Homebrew competition at the Culver City shop and he will hand carry them to Berkeley.  Entries are due Wednesday, October 1 at the close of business (7PM).

Registration and other details can be found at http://nchfinfo.org/castatecomp/.

If you miss the drop-off date, you can still ship them for arrival by October 11th.

Competition Corner – September 2014

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Ok, folks, we had an awesome Pacific Brewers Cup this year. With 501 entries, this has been our biggest one yet by a huge margin. Congratulations to all the winners! If you haven’t checked them out yet, all the results can be found on the PBC website. While you’re at it, how about a round of applause for all the judges, stewards and volunteers and all who made this competition the rousing success it was. And of course, don’t forget to stop by the sponsors and buy a beer or two while you are there. If you didn’t pick up you prizes or scoresheets, they are available at the shop. Oh yeah, thanks for our cooler. If you didn’t get yours back, contact Terry.

With PBC behind us (whew!) don’t forget we have one more contest to enter this year. Registration is now up and running for the California State Homebrew Competition at http://nchfinfo.org/castatecomp/. Like usual, we need a volunteer to drive our entries up to Berkeley. If you can help out, the club will reimburse you $125 for gas money. Entries would need to be hand-delivered between October 4 and October 11, 2014. Please drop me a line by October 2 at Competitions@pacificGravity.com. Read more →

SEPTEMBER CLUB MEETING | THURSDAY, September 18th (7:30pm) | TERRY MALLOY’S HOUSE

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Hello Pacific Gravity Home Brewers!

Our next PG Club meeting is Thursday, September 18th @ Terry Malloy’s House (7:30pm) and you won’t want to miss this one!

PACIFC BREWER’S CUP WRAP UP | RESULTS ANNOUNCED!
We are presenting ribbons for winning Pacific Gravity members at the club meeting! Wear something that looks good with a ribbon! Immediately after we will officially announce full results online on the Pacific Brewers cup website and Facebook page, including the Best of Show beer!

PACIFIC BREWER’S CUP GEAR!
Ribbon winners will receive a Pacific Brewers Cup T-Shirt as part of their prize! For the rest of us, these very stylish shirts will be available for sale. They are a perfect memento of the largest Pacific Brewers Cup to date. Wear it with pride! Wear it with a pint! $15 in men’s and women’s styles.

 PACIFC BREWER’S CUP | COOLERS!
If you were generous enough to let us borrow your cooler for the Pacific Brewers Cup, we’ll have it for you at the meeting. If you need your cooler before Thursday – please contact Kingsley via email at vicepresident( at )pacificgravity.com to reunite you with your cool friend.

OCTOBER BUS TRIP – LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP!
Saturday, October 18th. TAPS FISHOUSE & BREWING’s patio will be out first stop for brews and grub. BOTTLE LOGIC is on the docket; with a third stop @ VALIANT BREWING COMPNY. Cost is $25.00 for the bus ride. Seats are going quick – so get on the list if you want to join us! It’s going to be a lot of fun @ some of the best breweries in OC. Come to the September 18th PG Club meeting @ Terry Malloy’s house and sign up! Details about pick up location(s) and time(s) to follow.

SEPTEMBER COMMERCIAL TASTING HOST NEEDED | SOURS & CIDERS!!!
Bring your sours and ciders! We’ll be hosting a commercial tasting to compare.

As always, bring a brew that you’re proud of, or a bottle of your favorite to share with you fellow PG Home Brewers! See you @ Terry’s next Thursday, September 18th (7:30pm).

 

CASA MOLLOY

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

(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 !)Cheers!

Kingsley

VP | Pacific Gravity Home Brewer’s Club
        Celebrating 20 Years in 2015!

Monster Brew! Strand Brewers w/ King Harbor Brewing

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Hey everyone!

Our friends at Strand Brewers Club have extended an invitation to Pacific Gravity to join them on their Monster Brew scheduled for September 27th at King Harbor Brewing!

If you are interested in participating send an email to Ryan (Strand Pres) @ president@strandbrewersclub.org

They will be opening up positions to other clubs on 9/15.  From what I understand the beer is going to be approximately 1.080 OG and will be a malty brown base.  More information about the beer will come out later, but if you are interested in participating make sure you send your email soon!

Brian

Here is the information passed along:

Monster Brew Update

King Harbor Brewing and the Strand Brewers Club are hosting a monster brew on September 27th starting at 9:00 AM.

Finish the LA beer week festivities by attending a monster brew at King Harbor. If you aren’t familiar with a Monster Brew this is a great chance to observe and learn from a commercial brewing session and bring home 5 gallons of wort.

Please respond to this email or at the September meeting if you would like to purchase wort, and let me know if you would like more than 5 gallons. Pending the interest level it should be possible to purchase more than 5 gallons of wort.

An important change to my last email: Bring plastic bucket type fermentors or corny kegs to collect wort.  No glass or better bottle PET carboy shape fermentors.

The brew session will start at 9AM, the tasting room will be open, and wort should be ready to be dispensed around 2PM. This is a great opportunity to observe and learn from a commercial brewing session.

5 gallons of wort will be 30 dollars for any member of a homebrew club and 35 for any non-brew club member. Wort needs to be collected in plastic fermentation buckets or corny kegs; no glass. This will allow everything to be filled with a brewery hose.

There should be a food truck on hand for lunch as well.

 

Pacific Brewers Cup | WE NEED YOUR COOLERS!

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PBC is fast approaching and we need your coolers to help keep your hard work cold during judging. If you have a cooler you can lend us – please bring them to the August 21st APacific Gravity Club meeting @ Culver City Home Brew Supply! BE COOL AND BRING A COOLER!

Cheers!

Kingsley

Pacific Brewers Cup – Entry Deadline Friday Aug 22nd

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 Logo-rev0OK, folks, we are coming down to short strokes here.  The
entry deadline for the 2014 Pacific Brewers Cup is this Friday, August 22nd.  As I scan through the database, I see that many of you haven’t entered yet!  Now is the time!  The on-line registration page is up and running at http://pacificbrewerscup.pacificgravity.com/comp/. For your convenience, we recommend you bring your bottles to the club meeting on Thursday, August 21st at the Culver City Home Brewing Supply Co.  If you can’t make it to the Culver City shop, the full list of sites you can drop off entries at any of the homebrew shops listed here.  Please note that some of these shops close at 6:00 PM.  Each entry requires 3 bottles, and has an entry fee of $7.00.  Also, we need to borrow just about every ice chest this club can come up with.  Bring them by the club meeting or take them over to Kingsley’s place by Sunday, the 24th.    Make sure they are well labeled.

Also NOW!  Volunteer to Judge or Steward!  The very same registration page has a sign-up space for both.  We are looking to have 60 judges and 30 stewards and as of the moment we are only half-way there.  Read more →

AUGUST CLUB MEETING | THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st (7:30pm) | CULVER CITY HOME BREW SUPPLY

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Hello Pacific Gravity Home Brewers!

 Our next PG Club meeting is Thursday, August 21st @ Culver City Home Brew Supply (7:30pm)

 We have a lot of news to share at this meeting, so your attendance is appreciated! Some notes about the meeting….

PACIFC BREWER’S CUP | ALL CALL FOR COOLERS!
PBC is fast approaching and we need your coolers to help keep your hard work cold during judging. If you have a cooler you can lend us – please bring them to the August 21st Club meeting @ Culver City Home Brew Supply! BE COOL AND BRING A COOLER!

 …and a reminder that August 22nd is the deadline for entries! Go online and register now and bring your bottles to the Club Meeting!

OCTOBER BUS TRIP – SIGN UP!
Our bus trip coordinator Kurt Periolat has organized a Fall trip down to some favorite OC’s breweries on Saturday, October 18th. TAPS FISHOUSE & BREWING’s patio will be out first stop for brews and grub. BOTTLE LOGIC is on the docket; with a third stop @ VALIANT BREWING COMPANY. Cost is $25.00 for the bus ride with limited seating available. Details about pick up location(s) and time(s) to follow. Come to the August 21st PG Club meeting @ Culver City Home Brew Supply and sign up!

SUMMER PARTY LEFTOVERS!
Well…it’s not any of the delicious food served up at the party…pretty sure Dean took care of that! It’s some miscellaneous items like kegs, easy ups, and jockey boxes. These lost and found items will be available for pick up @ CCHBS during the August 21st Club meeting. After that they are going into deep storage and will not be easily available. COME AND GET IT!

AUGUST COMMERCIAL TASTING HOST NEEDED | WHEAT BEERS
We’re looking for a host(s) for our Style of the Month Commercial tasting of Wheat Beers! Here’s how it works…go out and grab a selection of beers reflecting the style on Pacific Gravity’s budget. That’s right – we’ll be your sugar mama! Then share some information about your picks while you pour at the August meeting. Win friends and influence people – with BEER! Contact me @ vicepresident ( at ) pacificgravity (dot) com ASAP to enlist! WHEAT NEED YOU! 

PACIFIC GRAVITY GEAR!
If you didn’t grab one of our new PG T’s, PG Tasting glasses, and/or PG lanyards at the Summer Party – now’s your chance! We’ll have them available for purchase @ the meeting! **If you purchased a PG lanyard at the Summer Party – your custom fit aluminum PG Tasting glass holder ring is available for pick up! Free of charge with new PG lanyard*** So come and get your PG gear! You don’t want to be the odd man/woman out during our PG class picture.

 As always, bring a brew that you’re proud of, or a bottle of your favorite to share with you fellow PG Home Brewers! See you @ CCHBS next Thursday, August 21st.

 Cheers!

 Kingsley
VP | Pacific Gravity Home Brewer’s Club
         Celebrating 25 Years in 2015!

Summer Party Recap and Pictures!

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I hope everyone had an awesome time.  I want to thank everyone who helped setup and cleanup for the event, cooked food, anyone who donated beer, supplies, tables, etc.  This was my first experience being on the board for one of our big parties and I was amazed at how much many of you stepped up to help put on another great party.  Of course I also need to thank Dean and his family again for opening up their backyard for the party again this year, it really is the perfect setting for a club party.

I wanted to review some of the items discussed at the party for those of you who either couldnt attend, couldnt hear me, etc.

  • Road Trip!  We are putting together a road trip to breweries in Orange County on October 18th.  Mark it down on your calendars!  Kurt is working on the lineup of destinations and we should have a more formal announcement and instructions sometime in the next week or two.  I created an event on the club calendar which you can access on the right column of this page.
  • Pacific Brewers Cup is a little over a month away from now.  If you have never participated in a homebrew competition this is the time to start.  We are looking for all of our members to volunteer to help put on the fest.  We will need help before the actual competition day to organize, but we will also need a lot of volunteers for stewarding and judging on the day of the event.  To signup for volunteering please go to http://pacificbrewerscup.com/
  • Speaking of Pacific Brewers Cup, if you havent brewed a beer yet there is a small window of time to get beers ready.  Entries are due by August 22nd, so if you havent brewed yet for it make sure you put something together this weekend!  This is our year for hosting the event and we would like to be the high point club!
  • Tomorrow night is First Friday @ Najas Place in Redondo.
  • Next club meeting is on August 21st @ Culver City Homebrew Supply
  • If you purchased one of our new awesome beer lanyards at the summer party we will be handing out the larger aluminum rings that will fit our new glassware.  This will give you two different lanyards that fit larger and smaller glasses – a perfect combo!

I took a few pictures on Saturday which I have included below.  Cheers!

Neil setting up the CBS

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FIRST FRIDAY!! | AUGUST 1st 2014 | NAJA’S PLACE (Redondo)

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The summer sun will be setting just off the taps @ NAJA’S PLACE  – So what better place for AUGUST’s FIRST FRIDAY!!

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While this FF location is slightly out of our nest of Culver CIty, the payoff is well worth it! 88 plus taps of liquid pleasure, grub, and LIVE music along side the waters of Redondo. LIke the sirens luring you to the rocks – the draft list will lure you to the barstool!

Grab some freinds and carpool  – or even ride your bike – to NAJA’S PLACE this Friday @ 6:30pm.

Cheers!

Kingsley

http://pacificgravity.org/event/first-friday-august-1st-2014-najas-place-redondo-beach/