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

May Meeting – India Pale Ale

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I hope everyone is excited about our club meeting this Thursday, May 16th which features probably the most popular beer style – India Pale Ales.  The turnout for this meeting is usually the largest of the year and that includes the number of samples of members’ homebrew as well.  I know I will be bringing two beers to the meeting myself. If you do bring an IPA to the meeting, be sure to enter in the beer of the meeting competition for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate for Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  Besides sampling your fellow members homebrew, we will have a special guest: Bill Jablon, the owner of Lucky Hand Brewing out of Novato, CA.  His bottles are available at beverage Warehouse and area Whole Foods. Learn more about his craft at luckyhandbeer.com

Our commercial calibration features a wide variety of IPAs curated by Anthony Samaniego, from a standard American and English IPA to the newer black IPA and Imperials.  See how your homebrew stacks up to samples from the pros.  And finally, come to learn about the great upcoming events for the club, such as our Second Saturday at Tomm Carrol’s or the Summer Party on July 20th.  Looking forward to seeing everyone at Culver City Home Brewing Supply on Thursday at 7:30 PM!

Competition Corner – May 2013

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The time is now to get your entries ready for the California State Fair.  The deadline is Sunday, May 19th at the Culver City shop.  Thanks to the help of Peter Moran and his buddies, we have a chauffeured service of our entries up to Sacramento.  This means they don’t have to be packed for UPS shipping.  By now, hopefully, you have completed your registration process, which was due last week.  If you have forgotten the details, you can find more info here:    http://www.northerncalbrewers.com/state-fair-craft-beer-competition.html
 and  http://www.bigfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Homebrew-Quick-Reference-Guide.pdf

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California State Fair Entry Forms due May 3rd

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Registration forms for the 2013 California State Fair competition are due this Friday, May 3rd.  I’d suggest you fill it out NOW and get it in the mail by Monday morning along with a check for the entry fee.  Despite the claim by the Fair organizers, there does not appear to be an on-line registration process, though it looks like you can pay with PayPal.

The mail-in form and other info is available now at http://www.bigfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Homebrew-Entry-Forms.pdf   at http://www.northerncalbrewers.com/state-fair-craft-beer-competition.html

http://www.bigfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Homebrew-Quick-Reference-Guide.pdf

Although the Registration must be received by May 3rd, the bottles can be dropped off at the Culver City shop by May 12th.

By the way, we still need Mayfaire judges Saturday morning 4/27.  Details at http://www.maltosefalcons.com/comps/2013mayfaire

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator

 

Deadline Reminder: Southern California Homebrewers Festival

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Hey all .. a friendly reminder that you have 11 Days to purchase your California Homebrewers Association membership so you can attend the 2013 Southern California Homebrewers Festival on May 3-5, 2013 at Lake Casitas in Ojai.

If you are going to joining us for camping at the Pacific Gravity Festival HQ at Owl Court, please drop your camping fees off at Culver City Homebrewing Supply, and drop an email to Tim ( treasurer @ pacificgravity.com ) and me ( schbf @ pacificgravity.com ) so we can count you in.

Don’t miss out on this fun beer sampling event!

See you there.

Call For Beers: Southern California Homebrewers Festival

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Hey All!

The SoCal Homebrewers Festival is approaching fast, and WE NEED BEER. Please drop Carl an email at competitions@pacificgravity.com if you plan to donate a keg for us to highlight at our festival booth.

Don’t miss out on this excellent chance to share your brew with homebrewers from around the state.

Beer Judging Session Wednesday April 24 – Call for Judges

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We will be doing a small preliminary session for the Mayfaire Homebrew Competition this Wednesday, April 24th at the Culver City shop.  We plan to get started at 7:00 PM.

We need a total of six judges and two stewards.  If you can help out, please drop me a line at Competitions@PacificGravity.com.   Also, sign up on the Mayfaire website at http://maltosefalcons.com/comps/2013mayfaire .  Make sure you check the check-box for “preliminary session”.   And, or course, if you can join us for the main judging session on Sat, April 27th, check the box for that session too.

We are expecting some great beers, so this should be a good opportunity.  Hope you can come on by.

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator