PG First Friday, May 6th at Richmond Bar & Grill

Please come join us for our May First Friday at one of our favorite spots in town: The Richmond Bar & Grill in El Segundo. A few special beers will be awaiting us! And, as is becoming PG tradition, we will gather in the private room in the back with its own private patio. 

Beer is served in pitchers for our group and we will pay as we leave. Recently, Michael & Luis went on a “scouting mission” (ok just their excuse to have some beer and chat with Jeff & Patty, the owners) and to discuss the beer wish list for our May First Friday.

The wish list includes: Porterhouse Oyster Stout, Alesmith’s Old Numbskull, Speedway Stout & Wee Heavy, Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, Oskar Blues Ten Fidy, Lenny’s Rye IPA and a few more. 

The food is excellent and moderately priced with most everything less than $10. Tasty pub grub fare: burgers, dogs, sandwiches and salads. And, of course, their delicious homemade chips served with most entrees.  

Please note that the Richmond Bar & Grill is CASH ONLY! No credit cards. They do have an ATM on the premises.  

Our official start time is 7pm but feel free to arrive early to get the party started!

Please note: Early Birds will pay for their pints individually before the group event gets started.  

For those new to Richmond Bar & Grill, it’s located in downtown El Segundo – convenient to the westside and the beach cities. Plus, parking is hassle-free!  

The details: 

Richmond Bar & Grill

145 Richmond Street

El Segundo, CA 90245

www.richmondbarandgrill.com

310.322.7397

 Looking forward to seeing you all on May 6th.

Cheers!

Audrey & Mimi, PG Activities Directors

Southern California Homebrew Festival – FINAL PUSH!

Well, kids – the Brewfest is next weekend, April 29th – May 1st. Thanks to all of you who’ve paid your camping fees and are ready to go.
There’s still time to sign up and camp out with PG and to join the CHA, but you need to act quickly – you can conveniently pay for your camping fees through the Paypal link on the PG website (see my previous post), or you can drop your fees off at Culver City Homebrewing Supply; if you opt for the latter, please shoot me an email at [email protected] and let me know. Remember that to gain admission to the Brewfest, you must purchase your CHA membership in advance (no sales at the gate!), and the calhomebrewers.org website will shut down the advance sales on Friday the 29th at noon – so don’t delay!
Thanks again for your interest and support.

Special Raffle at April 21st PG Meeting!

Come one, come all to our “special” raffle at tomorrow’s Monthly Meeting. The Pacific Gravity Board of Directors has decided to donate ALL raffle proceeds to a worthy Japanese charity. Activities Director, Mimi Bardet, and Tomm Carroll have been contacting friends in Japan in order to find an appropriate charity. A final decision on which one we will send money to has not yet taken place, but rest assured, it will be one worthy of our efforts.

If you have any equipment, glasses, or beer you would care to donate to this (or any other) raffle, please bring it to the meeting. All donations are welcome.

Don’t forget to bring cash to the meeting so that you can purchase tickets from Terry Molloy, our Grand Fundraiser. Lets see if we can break a record, and send a nice fat check to relieve the suffering in Northeastern Japan.

Michael Steinberg,

President, Pacific Gravity

Club Meeting-April 21

Wow! Time flies when you’re drinking beer. Seems like we were just drinking Stouts and Bocks. Now it’s time for the April styles, Porters, Smoke Flavored and Wood-Aged brews. If you have any homebrewed beers in these styles, please bring kegs or bottles to share at the meeting. As usual, the beer voted Favorite of the Meeting will get the brewer a $25 CCHBS gift certificate.

As usual, Audrey and Mimi, our esteemed Activities Directors will have a selection of fine snacks. I may bring some smoked popcorn (or maybe just burned).

SCHF:

If you are going to the Southern California Homebrew Festival (4/29 – 5/1) and haven’t paid, PLEASE show up at the meeting and see Vic Macias, SCHF Coordinator. Vic will also be holding a short meeting of those who will be going to the Fest, in order to give out some very important information, as well as answering any questions you may have.

ROAD TRIPS:

Kurt Periolat is going to start working on our next road trip, so if you have any suggestions for destinations, please let him, or one of the other Board members know. You can always send Kurt, VP Reed Wilson, our Activities Directors, or me an E-mail with any ideas you may have.

COC:

There will be a Club Only Competition held at the meeting featuring BJCP Category #22C-Wood-Aged Beers. If you have any of that style you’d like to enter in the COC competition, please bring a bottle or two to the meeting. The one chosen by our judges will be entered in the AHA Club Only Competition-at no cost to the entrant. PG will pick up the tab for the entry and shipping.

Meeting starts at 7:30pm behind Culver City Homebrew Supply and ends at 10. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Michael Steinberg

President-Pacific Gravity

Ladies Club Meeting: Thursday 4/14

Hey PG ladies just wanted to remind you that tomorrow night is our monthly ladies meeting. The meeting will start at 7:30 at the Culver city homebrew store. There will be beer tasting and possibly a brewing demo. hope to see you all there!

Competition Corner – April 2011

The thick part of the competition season is here!  Entry deadlines have been announced for California State Fair (April 17th) and Mayfaire (April 22nd).

Entries for the California State Fair must be packaged for shipping, but you can drop them off at the Culver City shop.  Since these are going to Sacramento, make sure there is plenty of padding.  The club will cover the shipping, but any entries not properly packaged will not be sent..   You can download an entry form at http://www.bigfun.org/pdfs/competitions/home_brew/HomeBrew_Forms.pdf, as well as find additional information.  Read more

SoCal Brewfest – Call for KEGS.

Greetings, all. As you well know by now, the Brewfest is coming up fast the weekend of April 29th – May 1st. We have 22 taps on our CDS to provide for, plus we need beers for “PG Central” at Owl Court. Some of you have already told me what you’re bringing, but if you haven’t, please email me, the sooner the better, at [email protected] and let me know. Please provide the name and style of the beer, the volume of the keg, and the ABV if you know it.
Thanks – let’s make 2011 our best fest ever!

A Garten of Beery Delights

PG is holding our April First Friday at Steingarten LA.

Countering the trend of new tavern openings in Hollywood, downtown L.A. and the Eastside, an excellent new beer bar/restaurant just opened on the Westside, in the previously craft brew-deprived Pico Boulevard corridor in Rancho Park, just west of the 20th Century Fox Studio lot and Century City. Steingarten LA, in the re-designed space formerly occupied by Kay ‘n Dave’s Cantina, had its soft opening in early March (and was packed on opening night, despite only word-of- mouth and foodie bloggery), and will have its official grand opening in early April.

Steingarten LA bartender Lucy Martire and beverage directors Dave Watrous, center, and Luke Wederbrook covet the beer fridge. Photo by Tomm Carroll

Despite its moniker, the gorgeous space is more European-looking than traditional German, although there are some long, communal tables of dark wood. The “steingarten” is the outside area behind the restaurant, nicely tiled and landscaped, with tables, booths and a fire pit. There’s also a retractable skylight/sunroof in the large main room. Many of the menu items are also German-inspired, including the sausages –– Steingarten LA’s specialty –– ranging from the traditional (Bratwurst, Polish) to the exotic (Wild Boar, Bison). Burgers, sandwiches, tapas and salads are also served.

Even though there are some German and German-style beers on the 18-tap draught list and the 40-plus-and-growing bottle list, Belgian and American craft beers dominate. One look at the selection (Ballast Point Victory at Sea, New Belgium’s La Terroir, De Ranke Saison, Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus…) and you can probably guess that the beer guy is the seemingly ubiquitous Dave Watrous –– the Zelig of L.A.’s craft beer scene –– who has worked at almost every great beer bar in this city, and is the co-organizer of the Woodshop series of rare beer events.

Hard liquor is given the same attention as beer at Steingarten LA, as spirits specialist Luke Wederbrook –– who shares the beverage director and bar manager titles with Watrous –– will be rotating seasonal distilled beverages. One interesting, and rare, clear whiskey sampled was Double & Twisted, a 99-proof distilled version of Anderson Valley Brewing’s Hop Ottin’ IPA that was hopped again after distilling (although no hop bitterness was detectable).

Watrous points out that the glass-walled beer and wine cooler (chilled to 55º) behind the dark wood bar will soon have small lockers that patrons can rent to age their beers and wines at cellar temperature. Also, brewery dinners, tastings and beer-education events in the private front room, with a window overlooking the street, will soon become a regular part of the Steingarten LA experience. Prost!

Steingarten LA
10543 Pico Blvd.
West L.A., CA 90064
310-441-0441
SteingartenLA.com

April Fools First Friday on April 1st

Don’t forget to come out and celebrate PG’s April Fools First Friday at newly opened Steingarten LA.  Their 20 taps provide a great selection of Craft beers with the West Coast heavily represented and over 30 bottled beers from Germany, Belgium, and the USA to further satisfy your palate on a Friday evening!

Steingarten has become known for its sausage and tapas selections that pair well with their beer offerings, but also has a great selection of burgers, sandwiches and salads for reasonable prices.  We have a private room reserved thanks to beverage manager Dave Watrous who has also arranged for complimentary appetizers to be served from 5:30-7pm.   He will also be tapping 2 specialty kegs he has been cellaring to share with us and celebrate Steingarten’s recent grand opening.

There is free street parking and meters available in the surrounding area.  Most meters end at 6pm and take credit cards either on Pico Blvd or on any of the surrounding side streets.  There is also a lot available on Prosser just north of Pico.

Steingarten LA is located at:

10543 W Pico Blvd

Los Angeles, CA  90064

 

You can check out more about Steingarten LA as well as their menu at:www.steingartenla.com

Looking forward to a wonderful and fun evening, bring your friends and join us all on April 1st!

 


 

Paypal option for Brewfest camping fees.

We now have a Paypal option (small fee applies) for payment of your Southern California Homebrew Festival camping fees:

Camping for 2 nights with 4 meals
OR
Camping for 2 nights only – you feed yourself

For more info, please read my January article or check out calhomebrewers.org
Thanks!