Pacific Brewers Cup Entires due Saturday, Aug 31

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OK folks, time is running out to get your entries ready for the 2013 Pacific Brewers Cup.  Entries are due by Noon, this Saturday, August 31st.    This year, Long Beach Homebrewers, are proud to present this 17th annual homebrew event.  The competition rotates each year between Long Beach, Pacific Gravity and the Strand Brewers Club.

Because the Culver City shop is temporarily closed, you will need to take your entries down to the South Bay Brewing Supply  at 1311 Post Ave in Torrance, or Eagle Rock Home Brewing Supply at 4981 Eagle Rock Blvd.

The competition will be held September 14, 2013 at Smog City Brewery in Torrance.   Read more →

August 15th meeting at the Richmond Bar and Grill

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Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that we will be holding our August meeting at the Richmond Bar and Grill on August 15th at 7:30 PM.  I encourage you to reward our gracious host’s decision to accommodate our club by coming early to enjoy dinner.  We will have the back building and can spillover into the patio space if we are over capacity.  The meeting style of the month will be meads, ciders, gruits, and fruit beers.  Although the club only competition has been discontinued by the AHA, I would encourage members to bring a bottle of their appropriately styled beverage to share with other club members.  The focus of the meeting will be sampling member’s home brew, giving constructive feedback, announcements regarding upcoming events, a raffle, and sampling of the beers that Richmond has on tap.  Remember, the focus is on sampling homebrew, so keep the size of what you bring reasonable (no kegs, magnums, etc).  We’ll target concluding the meeting at 9:30 PM although the Richmond stays open later if you would like to stay.  As Carl mentioned, be sure to bring entries to the meeting for the Pacific Brewer’s Cup.  We might try to arrange another pickup closer to the deadline, but right now this is your best opportunity to have the club assist you with the logistics of entering the competition.

This is a bit of an experiment, so I’d welcome constructive feedback on how this goes.

The Richmond Bar and Grill is located at 145 Richmond St  El Segundo, CA 90245

Competition Corner – July 2013

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As July comes to an end and the hangover from the summer party fades from view, we have two more judging opportunities in rapid succession.   We will be holding a small local judging session for the Los Angeles County Fair Homebrew Competition this Wednesday, July 31 at 7:00 PM.  Because the Culver City shop is closing, fellow brewer Steve Cook will be hosting at his residence on 11730 Iowa Ave Apt #6 in Santa Monica. (On the corner of Iowa and Stoner, second floor).  If you can make it drop both Steve and me an e-mail. Steve is at scook4208@msn.com

Also please register for the main County Fair judging session at the Woodland Hills shop on Saturday, August 3rd at 9:00 AM.  Read more →

It’s Almost Party Time – This Saturday July 20th @ 2pm

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Hi Members,

The Summer Fiesta at Dean’s is just a few days away, here are a few reminders:

-Please have a designated driver or plan on calling a cab

-Bring CASH! This year we will be featuring a silent auction along with our famous raffle that will not disappoint! You’ll need money as well to pay for any guests at $10/each (kids are free)

-We are still in need of Lights, Extension Cords, EZ Ups, Charcoal Grills as well as Folding Tables. If you have any of these items please email me asap at vicepresident@pacificgravity.com

-Bring your own chair as well as hats and sunscreen

See you there,

Noelle

2013 Pacific Gravity Summer Party – Saturday July 20th

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Please join us for another awesome summer party. Dean Sussman will once again be hosting us and this year’s theme is South of the Border.
Location: 1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades, 90272
Time: 2pm-10pm  **Please have a designated driver or Read more →

LA County Fair Homebrew Competition Deadline is Thusrday, July 18th

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Amongst all the preparations for the summery party, the deadline for the Los Angeles County Fair is rapidly approaching.  Your entries must be registered by midnight Thursday July 18th at the Maltose Falcons website at http://www.maltosefalcons.com/comps/2013LACF  . The bottles can be left at the Culver City shop and will be picked up sometime Friday the 19th.  I’d recommend getting them there no later than Thursday, since they might come early in the day.   Read more →

Summer Party – Beer List and other info

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Hey, we have less than a week to go until the summer party on Saturday, July 20th, and some of you haven’t let me know what beers you are bringing.  Please drop me a line at Competitions@PacificGravity.com to let me know what you have.  Some of you had listed “TBD”, so if you know what it is, please send me an update.

We need sodas too!   I have a couple listed, but we can use some more.  Sodas go a long way to breaking up the heat on a long summer day.  As usual, we will be voting Read more →

Goose Island Events and Summer Party Planning

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Hi everyone, Happy Friday.    I wanted to let you know about some free events in July that feature some rare Goose Island products.  But first, I want to talk about volunteering for the Summer Party.  There is an organizing meeting on July 11th at Dean’s house.  If you are available to do some of the heavy lifting for the summer party (buying supplies, transporting kegs, renting chairs), we’d appreciate it if you could attend. Email me at president@pacificgravity.com so I can get a headcount since Dean will be providing dinner.  If you can’t make the organizing meeting but would like to help and you didn’t sign up for it at the last club meeting, email me at president@pacificgravity.com and we can work out if you would like to help before during, and/or after the party.  Finally, make sure you mark your calendars for July 20th for the summer party.  And as I announced at the March meeting, unless you have heard otherwise from me your guests must pay $10 to attend the party in order for us to make up the costs.

Now for the Goose Island announcements:

“On Wed., July 10 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Beer Belly, we’ll be tapping a Bourbon County Stout Single Barrel, Bourbon County Stout Coffee (2012) and Bourbon County Stout Cherry, along with The Illinois, Sofie Paradisi, Matilda, Madame Rose (2010) and Juliet (2012). Brewmasters from Goose Island will be in attendance to talk great beer. Beer Belly is located at 532 S. Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90020.

Also, on Thur., July 11 from 6 – 9 p.m. at the Surly Goat, we’ll be sampling – Bourbon County Stout Single Barrel, Bourbon County Stout Cherry Rye, Bourbon County Stout Coffee (2011), Bourbon County Stout Vanilla (2010), as well as Sofie, Sofie Paradisi, The Illinois, Madame Rose and Night Stalker. Surly Goat is located at 7929 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046. Unfortunately, our brewer will not be around for this event.”

Summer party is July 20th! And June meeting next week

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Hey everyone a quick announcement to let you know that the summer party is scheduled for July 20th. We’ll be returning to our classic location at Dean’s house on Amalfi Drive and the theme is South of the Border. More details coming but mark your calendars. Also be prepared to help before, during, and after to make this the best summer party ever!

You can learn lots more at the June meeting coming up this Thursday the 20th. The beer theme is wheat and spelt beers so if you made something neat at the monster brew consider bringing it. Noelle will be hosting the commercial tasting and we will be awarding a gift certificate for best beer of the meeting. Finally, this will likely be the last meeting at the usual location, so come with some ideas about how you would like club meetings to be conducted in the future.

First Friday June 7th at Cinco in Westchester

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Hi members, just a quick announcement that this month’s First Friday will be at the newly opened Cinco, which has received good reviews so far from members who have sampled their wares.  They have a pretty extensive tap list focused on LA and OC breweries with a showing of old favorites in Southern California like Lost Abbey.  The menu is Latin driven small plates and is reasonably priced.  There is plenty of parking and they have reserved the lounge area for us.  Hope to see you on Friday!

http://cincola.com/

7241 West Manchester Ave
Los Angeles, California 90045