Smog City Monster Brew March 8th

On March 8, 2014 Smog City Brewing Company and its Brewmaster, SmogCityLogo PG’s Jon Porter, will be hosting their first Pacific Gravity Monster Brew.  Porter is bringing the tradition from Tustin Brewing where we have had several excellent monster brews in the past. Read more

Join Strand Brewers at Stone’s AHA Rally in March!

Hey Pacific Gravity!

Strand Brewers Club is making final arrangements for a bus trip to the AHA Rally at the Stone Brewery on Saturday, March 15th….and Pacific Gravity members have been invited to join!

Cost will be $35 for transportation to and from Stone Brewery in Escondido and some other stops as noted below.

Note—you have to be a member of the AHA to get in for free. If you are not a member, you can sign up before the Rally at Stone Brewing for $38 which gives you a year’s membership, subscription to Zymurgy magazine, and discounts at other events.

Or if you don’t want to join the AHA, you can ride along to the Lost Abbey Brewery which we’ll hit before the Rally, enjoy the fine bistro restaurant and tasting room at Stone on your own, and come with us to White Labs afterwards.

We need you to commit by Friday, March 7th. Just respond to this E-mail. Then, based on the honor system, you can bring a check made out to The Strand Brewers when you get on board on March 15th.

Here are the details.

There will be two pick-up spots:

9:00 AM–Redondo and Marine Park&Ride lot on the Green Line (2406 Marine Ave., Redondo Beach, 90278) 

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9:30 AM–Willow Station Park&Ride lot on the Blue Line  (2750 American Ave., Long Beach 90806)

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Each lot has plenty of free all day parking.

11:30–If we get to Escondido by 11:30, we’ll stop at the Lost Abby Brewery for an hour.

12:30–leave Lost Abbey to go down the street to Stone Brewing.

The Rally goes from 1 PM to 4 PM. Expect to taste some incredibly interesting home brewed and commercial beers.

On the AHA site:

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/events/stone-brewing-world-bistro-gardens-2014/

On the Stone Brewery site:

http://www.stoneworldbistro.com/aharally/

4 PM—bus ride down to White Labs tasting room. If you haven’t been there, this is one of the most educational experiences for any brewer. They serve you a four glass flite of the same beer brewed with different yeasts, and the results are eye opening.

6PM—head back north, arriving at Willow Street around 7:30 PM and Redondo & Marine by 8 PM.

Please contact me ASAP ( vicepresident@pacificgravity.com )to reserve your seat. Don’t forget you have to be an AHA member to attend the Rally (but not to come on the trip) and you’ll need to bring a check for $35 made out to The Strand Brewers Club when you show up on March 15th.

There will be beer and refreshments on the bus.

 

Cheers,

 

Kingsley

 

February Meeting Recap and Upcoming Events

First off I want to thank Ian Fraser again for hosting us on Saturday.  We had a great turnout and a ton of great beers on hand.  I also want to thank Carl for hosting the commercial beer tasting for us.

For those of you who were

 

  • March 2014 Meeting – The March club meeting will be on 3/20 @ Culver City Homebrew Supply.  Details to be posted within the next week.
  • March 2014 First Friday – March’s First Friday (3/7/2014) is going to be @ Irish Times @ 7pm.  Thank you to Ryan and the City Tavern crew for hooking us up for the night!
  • 2014 National Homebrewer’s Competition – The rules have changed this year so make sure you read up about how to get your beer entered into the comp.  Here is a good link to review for important dates (CLICK).  Carl will get more information out in an upcoming competition post.
  • 2014 Southern California Homebrewer’s Fest – There was a new law posted last October that has put the festival in jeopardy.  The AHA and CHA are working to fix this interpretation so that the fest will be allowed to secure a permit for the fest.  Stay tuned to this site for future updates which will go into greater detail and provide you with a template letter to send to your local representatives to try to fix this problem.
  • Culver City Homebrew Supply – The store is back open and is stocked with the supplies you need to get your next batch fermenting!  You can park in any of the spots in front of the store – “LA Pizza” does not exist.  You can also park on “Little Culver” just next to the Avis.  It is a frontage type road that has ample parking and is free.  Your membership in Pacific Gravity gives you a 5% discount at the store so make sure your membership is paid up and get that discount.
  • Pacific Brewers Cup 2014 – We are hosting this year’s competition and are looking for volunteers to help us organize the event.  If you are willing to volunteer your time email Carl @ competitions@pacificgravity.com.
  • Club Membership dues are coming up in March.
  • Lastly our first monster brew of the year is now officially scheduled for 3/08/2014 @ Smog City.  We will post more details as we get closer to the event.

All of the events with dates listed above have been added to the websites calendar.  Thanks again to everyone who made the trek down to Smog City on Thursday and I look forward to seeing you all at future events.

Brian

CLUB MEETING | SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22nd 2014

Hello PG Members:

This months PG Club meeting will be held on Saturday, February 22nd @ longtime club member Ian Fraser’s house.

We will take advantage of California’s weather and have it in his back yard…meeting starting @ 2pm and going till 5pm.

We will also have some more news for you about the Monster Brew @ Smog City, upcoming competitions,  and events.

Style of the Month is English | Scottish ales and the commercial tasting will be run by Carl our competition coordiantor. He has hand picked exapmles of the styles and will overview what goes into a good english and scottish ale!

Also, the PG raffle is back! We have some new items that you wont want to miss out on.

So bring your homebrew and join us for good beer, good eats, and good times.

Cheers,

Kingsley

FIRST FRIDAY!! | March 7th, 2014 | IRISH TIMES

Hello PG Members!

Top of the mornin’ to ya! Keeping with Pacific Gravity tradition, March’s Frist Friday will be held @ IRISH TIMES in Palms.

Join us on March 7, 2014 @ 6:30pm. Share a dirty limrick, share a pint, grab some grub, and get warmed up for St. Pat’s day. Happy hour runs till 7pm and there will be LIVE music starting @ 9pm.

Also, If you made February’s First Friday you’ll have another chance to redeem yoursleves. I’m bringing back the “Guess the ______” game. Where correct answers could get you a pint on me!

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IRISH TIMES
3267 Motor Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Corner of Motor Ave/National Blvd
www.theirishtimesla.com

CHEERS!

Kingsley

AFC Entries Due Friday Feb 7th

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Entries are now due for America’s Finest City homebrew competition, hosted by QUAFF. Bottles can be dropped off at the Culver City shop any time before February 7th.   Entry registration is up and running now at http://www.quaff.org/AFC-2014/ .  Two bottles are needed per entry, and the cost is $7.00.  This is a great tune-up competition for the AHA Nationals, and typically draws the same judge pool. 

FIRST FRIDAY!! | February 7th, 2014 | CITY TAVERN (Culver City)

Hello Members!

February’s First Friday (2/7/14) will be held at CITY TAVERN Culver CIty! They have reserved seating for us in close proximity to the bar and will be granting Pacific Gravity members extended happy hour pricing on food and beverages (6:30p to 9:30p).

Our friends at City Tavern host some of the best draft selections of local craft and beyond. Pair up one of their hand picked pints with a CT Burger and you’re good to go!

Come out and raise a pint with us!

Friday, February 7th, 2014 | 6:30-9:30pm

CITY TAVERN (Culver City)
9739 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
310-838-9739
www.citytavernculvercity.com

Cheers!

Kingsley

 

 

Pacific Brewers Cup – Kickoff Meeting Thursday Jan 30th

Pacific Gravity is holding our Kick-Off meeting Logo-rev0 for the 2014 Pacific Brewers Cup this Thursday, January 30th at 7:30 PM.  Although it seems like Pacific Brewers Cup is a long ways off, you’ll hear a lot about it in the upcoming months because this year, we are running it!    The last two years Strand Brewers Club and Long Beach Homebrewers did a bang-up job and have set the bar high.  This is one of the best competitions we have going.

Everybody is welcome to attend.  We will be meeting at Kingsley Toby’s place at 11169 Braddock Ave in Culver City.  We are soliciting help from folks who can help out with the organization.

We need help with several of the key positions, including soliciting sponsorships, steward coordination, publicity, finance and a host of other details.   As we go forward, we will be asking for help in the bottle organizing session, and help day-of with judging, stewarding and clean-up.   And or course, you need to brew and enter!

If you can attend, please RSVP to Kingsley at VicePresident@PacificGravity.com and me at competitions@pacificgravity.com.

Thanks, and hope to see you there.

Carl

Competition Corner – January, 2014

Well, a new year is upon us as well as a fresh brewing competition season.   Each year, Pacific Gravity honors the brewer (or team) with the most homebrew competition wins.  See the official rules below for which competitions are eligible and how the points are totaled.  We are less than a month into 2014 and already we have two big competitions to get ready for.

First up is registration for the American Homebrewers Association National Homebrew Competition.  As a result of the massive registration overload they had last year, Read more

January Meeting Recap and Upcoming Events

IMG_0056I hope you all had a great time on Thursday.  I had a blast hanging out with everyone and sharing beers.  It was also great to see a number of new members and prospective members meet up with us.  Also another thank you is due to Porter and everyone at Smog City for hosting us for our meeting.  I cant think of a better place to get together.

As a practice we are going to get in the habit of posting recaps of meeting information for club members who were unable to attend or maybe couldn’t hear us at the meeting.  Or maybe you killed off enough brain cells that night that you need a refresher.  Either way here is our monthly meeting recap:

 

  • February 2014 Meeting – Next month’s meeting is going to be on 2/22/2014 at Ian Fraser’s house in Venice.  This month’s meeting will be on a Saturday.  Kingsley is going to post an update in the next week with the time of the meeting and an address.
  • February 2014 First Friday – February’s First Friday (2/7/2014) is going to be @ City Tavern in Culver City @ 7pm.  Thank you to Ryan and the City Tavern crew for hooking us up for the night!
  • 2014 National Homebrewer’s Competition – The rules have changed this year so make sure you read up about how to get your beer entered into the comp.  Here is a good link to review for important dates (CLICK).  Carl will get more information out in an upcoming competition post.
  • 2014 Southern California Homebrewer’s Fest – There was a new law posted last October that has put the festival in jeopardy.  The AHA and CHA are working to fix this interpretation so that the fest will be allowed to secure a permit for the fest.  Stay tuned to this site for future updates which will go into greater detail and provide you with a template letter to send to your local representatives to try to fix this problem.
  • Culver City Homebrew Supply – The store is back open and is stocked with the supplies you need to get your next batch fermenting!  You can park in any of the spots in front of the store – “LA Pizza” does not exist.  You can also park on “Little Culver” just next to the Avis.  It is a frontage type road that has ample parking and is free.  Your membership in Pacific Gravity gives you a 5% discount at the store so make sure your membership is paid up and get that discount.
  • Pacific Brewers Cup 2014 – We are hosting this year’s competition and are looking for volunteers to help us organize the event.  If you are willing to volunteer your time email Carl @ competitions@pacificgravity.com.
  • Club Membership dues are coming up in March.
  • Lastly our first monster brew of the year is now officially scheduled for 3/08/2014 @ Smog City.  We will post more details as we get closer to the event.

All of the events with dates listed above have been added to the websites calendar.  Thanks again to everyone who made the trek down to Smog City on Thursday and I look forward to seeing you all at future events.

Brian