November Meeting & Chili Cookoff

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Saturday November 16th we’ll be holding our November meeting at the home of Ian Fraser in Marina del Rey.
Please join us for a chili cook off and voting for member of the year as well as board positions.

Chili info:
-Please bring your entry in a vessel that will stay warm and has your name clearly marked on it.
-The club will provide the toppings (sour cream, green onions, cheese, chips etc..)
-We’ll be awarding prizes for Most Unique and Best Overall. So come hungry and ready to vote!

Board Member voting:
-We’re cutting off nominations this Friday, so if you would like to throw your hat in the ring, please email me at Vicepresident@pacificgravity.com .
-Brian Holter, Kingsley Toby, Tim Bardet and Ramesh Khalili are currently nominated for President, Vice President and Treasurer.

Growlers:
-Our PG Growlers have arrived! If you placed and order, please pick yours up at the meeting.
-If you have not paid, please bring $35 cash or check (made out to Pacific Gravity).
-After November 17th, any remaining growlers that have not been paid for will be released for sale.

Meeting:
-The monthly style is brown ales and porters. Please bring kegs, bottles and growlers to share.
-We’ll be holding the raffle per usual so bring cash for tickets.

See you there.

Saturday November 16th
11am
3938 Glencoe Ave
Venice, CA 90291

October meeting Thursday 10/17 at Richmond Bar & Grill

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Join us for another Thursday evening at Richmond Bar and Grill in El Segundo.
The monthly style is American Ales so bring growlers and bottles to share. A few pitchers will be available to pass around for tasting from the bar as well.
We’ll have growlers to pick up for those who ordered (please bring cash or check to pay), $5.00 PG T-shirts, as well as sign ups for The Congregation Ale House Monster Brew on Nov 2nd. This event features FREE 5 gal batches of wort for those who sign up. We only have 60 batches so come reserve yours at the meeting!
Elections for the positions of President and Vice President will also be discussed so don’t miss out.
As always, Richmond will be serving up burgers, sandwiches and their famous homemade chips so plan on eating in the front before meeting on the back patio at 7:30.

See you there,
Noelle

Thursday October 17th @ 7:30 pm
Richmond Bar & Grill
145 Richmond St
El Segundo 90245
Richmondbarandgrill.com

A note about parking for tomorrow’s meeting

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Parking is a flat fee of $10 for tomorrow’s meeting. Please plan accordingly.

September Meeting at Four Points LAX

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Greetings members, I’m happy to announce the the Four Points Sheraton at LAX will be hosting our September meeting. I’ve you have been a member for any amount of time you will be familiar with this hotel and their extensive support of craft beer culture through hosting our First Friday events as well as beer tastings and beer pairing dinners. 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 Four Points has on tap. Four Points will make available a meeting space exclusively for our meeting on Thursday, September 19th. Here are some important details:

– The style of the meeting is lagers. You may bring bottles, growlers, and kegs of home brewed beers. The club will purchase tastes of beer from the hotel, hopefully they will have some good examples of the style.

– The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM and end at 10 PM. Please encourage the hotel to host us again by planning on eating dinner at the hotel beforehand. Light snacks will be provided during the tasting, but it won’t be enough to replace a meal.

Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles Airport
9750 Airport Blvd · Los Angeles, CA 90045 · United States · Phone: 310-645-4600

September First Friday this Sunday the 8th

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Please join us this Sunday the 8th for our First Friday, (which is technically a second Sunday) at the new Yard House in Marina Del Rey.
We’ll be starting at 2 pm and will have tables set up inside next to the bar.
The Yard House boasts one of the largest tap selections around and they also offer a ‘Chalkboard Series’ of seasonal/rare beers on draft.

For those who haven’t been to this new location, there’s tons of free parking in the garage, which you can enter either on Maxella or Glencoe ave. There is also lots of bike parking in the garage if you’d rather arrive on two wheels.

See you there!

Sunday Sept 8th @ 2pm
The Yard House
13455 Maxella Ave., Suite 150
Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292
http://www.yardhouse.com

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

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

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.

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!

April Meeting – Tomorrow!

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Hi everyone, it’s already the third Thursday tomorrow which means out April meeting is upon us.  We are entering the sweet spot of our club calendar, and if you want to attend some of the best events of the year I encourage you to attend.  This is your last chance to signup and pay for our road trip to several San Diego breweries this Sunday.  You can roll the dice and show up and pay at the bus, but this is a pretty epic bus trip so I would suggest securing your spot.  This is also your last opportunity to signup for camping and/or food for the Southern California Homebrewing Festival at Lake Casitas.  This event was written about in Radical Brewing as one of the “can’t miss” home brewing events in the world, and with Chefs Ian and Travis running the kitchen I personally guarantee the best food in the entire fest.

Not enough to sway you away away from Glee?  Well this is one of my favorite meetings for beer tastings – extract beers.  Are you a new brewer who wants feedback on your early work?  Bring them to this meeting and enter them in our club only competition – all styles are eligible as long as the majority of the malt used is from liquid or dried malt extract.  Plus anyone who brings extract based beer will be eligible for our beer of the meeting award, which is a $25 gift certificate to Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  Personally I’ll be bringing a keg of English Best Bitter made from the malt extract I won at the raffle at the last meeting. And even if you are an all grain brewer, bring your recent work to the meeting.  Nothing improves your skills like comparing notes with and receiving feedback form our experienced membership.  Our commercial tasting will be English and Scottish ales, so expect more than a few old favorites to be pouring after our announcements.

Finally, we’ll have a selection of t-shirts and other club swag available for purchase at the meeting, so if you want to represent on the road trip, Ojai, or just on Fridays at the Daily Pint make sure you bring your checkbook.  See you tomorrow night!