June Club Meeting this Thursday 6/21

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Come celebrate the Summer Solstice at our June Club Meeting this Thursday, June 21st, at Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  We get things started at 7:30pm out back of the store, so bring your best homebrew or even a commercial beer and get to know some of your fellow club members!

Commercial Styles of the Month: Brown Ales, of which we’ll have a selection of great commercial beers to wet your palate on a warm summer evening.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: Brown Ales.  Favorite keg each month wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

COC: No Club-Only Competition this month, but on the horizon are Porters this summer, due in mid-July just before the Summer Party.  You can always talk to Carl, our Competitions Coordinator, for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com

Summer Party: Our annual Summer Party is coming up next month on July 21st!  We’ll be going over some of the details at the club meeting this week; look for more information to start rolling out on the website over the next few weeks.  Sign-up sheets for volunteers and kegs for the party will be out at the meeting, so please consider what types of volunteer jobs you would be interested in taking on and what beers, meads, ciders, or non-alchoholic beverages you plan to bring to the party.  As always, PG members in good standing (dues paid and current) get free admission, but if you’re not current with your dues, admission is $35 at the door (there’s your dues!).  In addition, this year, all members’ guests (including spouses) will pay $10 for admission. Read more →

Brown Ales at the June Meeting – call for kegs and style tasting volunteer.

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Hi everyone, are you excited about the club meeting next week on June 21st?  You should be because the style of the month is Brown Ales!  What’s a brown ale, you ask?  My friend, what ISN’T a brown ale?  Sure, BJCP category 11 (English Mild, English Brown Ale) is a good place to start.  But there is also 10C American Brown Ales, malty and bitter and freshly hopped.  So if you made a black IPA recently, why not call it an American Brown Ale and bring it to the meeting?  Then there is 17C Flanders Brown Ale.  That’s a Brown Ale, isn’t it?  Do you have an Irish or American Red ale that didn’t quite turn out red?  Did you use too much dark malt in your Amber Ale?  Got a bock that you are dying for feedback on?  You may not be eligible for the beer of the meeting competition, but everyone will appreciate you bringing your beer.  If you let me know what you are bringing at the address below, I’d sure appreciate it!

Are you interested in running the commercial tasting this month?  While it might be difficult to find commercial examples of English Mild in bottles, American breweries are turning out some pretty good brown ales these days.  Send me an email at vicepresident@pacificgravity.com and you can go shopping for beer on the club’s dime.

May Club Meeting Tomorrow, 5/17

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It’s IPA night at our monthly club meeting tomorrow –  Thursday, May 17th, at Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  We get things started at 7:30pm out back of the store, so bring your best homebrew or even a commercial beer and get to know some of your fellow club members!

Commercial Styles of the Month:  India Pale Ales (IPAs), of which we’ll have a selection of great commercial beers to wet your palate on a warm spring evening.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: India Pale Ales.  Favorite keg each month wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

COC: No Club-Only Competition this month, but on the horizon are Porters this summer.  You can always contact Carl, our Competitions Coordinator, for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com

OC Road Trip:  Our trip to Orange County is coming up in less than a month, so if you’d like to hop on the bus and take a ride down to check out the Bootleggers and Old Orange breweries with fellow PG members and enjoy some great beers and laughter on Saturday, June 9th, please sign up at the meeting and reserve your seat with the low fee of only $20.  We need to know if there are enough interested parties to make this trip happen, so if you are interested, make sure to let Kurt know at the meeting, or you can shoot him an email at: RoadTrips@pacificgravity.com

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Do you like India Pale Ale?

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Well if you do, you should be excited about the May club meeting this Thursday!  This year May is for IPA, and I know of at least 4 people bringing kegs of IPA to the meeting.  Do you have a keg or bottle of IPA that you would like to share with club members?  Bring it along, and you will be elligible for the Beer of the Meeting award, which gets you a $25 gift certificate to Culver City Home Brewing Supply.

Do you really love IPA?  How would you like to host the commercial tasting this meeting?  It’s pretty easy, you buy up to $150 of delicious IPA (Beverage Warehouse is our preferred supplier) that you love or have always wanted to try.  Chill it, bring it to the meeting, open bottles after announcements, and make about 100 new friends.  Sound great?  Email me at vicepresident@pacificgravity.com and I will give you the lowdown.

April Club Meeting This Thursday the 19th

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Join us for our monthly club meeting this Thursday, April 19th, at Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  We get things started at 7:30pm out back of the store, so bring your best homebrew or even a commercial beer and get to know some of your fellow club members!

Commercial Styles of the Month:  Scottish & Irish Ales, selected and poured by our Communications Director & valiant SCHBF Coordinator, Victor Macias.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: Scottish, Irish, & English Ales.  Best keg of the bunch wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, which happens at each meeting, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave Mauceli, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

COC- Scottish & Irish Ales (BJCP Category #9): If you are bringing entries for the COC, you’ll need 3 bottles of your beer.  Please see Carl’s Competition Coordinator post for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com

SCHBF: For those of you planning to spend the weekend of May 4-6th camping with the club and enjoying what your fellow homebrewers have to offer by lovely Lake Casitas in Ojai, please make sure you have signed up and paid for the event.  We’ll also have a Keg signup sheet for all of your Fest Beer contributions.  This is 2 nights of camping with the Southern California Hombrew Festival all day Saturday and cost is only $40 (food included) or $20 (camping only).  You also need to join the California Homebrewers Association as this is your ticket to the fest.  Victor will have a short meeting after the announcements this week for those of you planning to attend; you can also shoot him an email directly with any questions at: SCHBF@pacificgravity.com

OC Road Trip:  We’re heading to Orange County with our own bus stocked full of PG members, great beer, and laughter on Saturday, June 9th.  For those of you interested, you can sign up and reserve your seat on the bus for the very low fee of only $20.  See Kurt at the meeting, or you can shoot him an email at: RoadTrips@pacificgravity.com

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March Club Meeting Thursday 3/15/12 – Happy St. Pat’s!

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Our monthly club meeting and annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration is next Thursday!

Commercial Styles of the Month:  Stouts and Sour Ales in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: Stouts and Sour Ales.  Favorite keg of the meeting each month wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS.  Check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If you’re interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave Mauceli, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

Annual Dues: If you have received a dues reminder from our Treasurer Craig, please remember to pay your dues and help keep our club running.  Dues are $30, cash or checks made out to “Pacific Gravity.”

SCHBF: Sign-ups for our upcoming camping trip in Ojai for the Southern California Homebrewers Festival May 4-6th will begin at the March club meeting.  For those of you who have never been, ask your fellow members about it and please consider joining us for an amazing weekend filled with great people and beer!  $40/person with food or $20/person if you’d rather be responsible for your own food preparation, cash or checks made out to “Pacific Gravity”.  Sign-up sheets for festival kegs and the Friday night potluck will be available at the meeting.  Please email Victor with any questions at: SCHBF@pacificgravity.com

Club Merchandise: We have more Anchor Club of The Year long-sleeve shirts ($30) available for purchase at the meeting, as well as both long & short sleeve PG shirts ($15) and some Pacific Brewers Cup shirts ($20) for those of you who are interested.

Raffle: Our ever-enthusiastic Fundraiser, Terry Molloy, will be selling raffle tickets for $1 each.

For those of you who have never been to a meeting, this is a great way to meet current members, share and sample other homebrew or commercial beers & meads, and have some fun at the end of a long week!

Hope to see you all there.

-Audrey

 

Abbot’s Pizza is our February Fare!

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I just got off the phone with the kind folks at Abbot’s Pizza, which is located a very short walk away from the shop, and they’ve generously offered us a 20% discount on slices and pies this Thursday for our Belgian & French Ales meeting.  Abbot’s will be open until 11pm on Thursday night.

As many of you know, this meeting in particular requires a “solid foundation” for best results, and I think Abbot’s fits the bill perfectly.

To receive the discount, show your PG membership card, or if you don’t have it with you, simply mention that you’re a member of the Pacific Gravity Homebrewers Club.

Let’s make a great showing with our support for neighboring businesses – come hungry and ready to eat some fine gourmet pizza!  See you all Thursday.

February Club Meeting Thursday Feb 16th, 2012

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Don’t forget to join us for our monthly club meeting next Thursday!

Commercial Styles of the Month:  Belgian & French Ales, carefully selected by our resident Belgian expert, Craig Corley.  He has an amazing selection for us each year.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: Belgian & French Ales.  Best keg of the bunch wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, which happens at each meeting, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave Mauceli, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

COC- Stouts (BJCP Category #13): If you are bringing entries for the COC, you’ll need 3 bottles of your beer.  Please see Carl’s Competition Coordinator post for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com

COY Anchor Road Trip: If you are planning to hop on the bus to SF the next morning and have not paid for your seat yet, remember to bring $85 (checks payable to Pacific Gravity).  We’ll also have our Club of the Year long-sleeve shirts for sale ($30), in limited quantity, and for those of you who pre-ordered, you can pick up your shirt that night just in time for the Anchor trip!  See the website post for more information about the trip or email Kurt at: RoadTrips@pacificgravity.com if you have any questions and enjoy the party!

COY Party at Anchor Brewing: The Party at Anchor begins at 1pm on Saturday, February 18th and will wrap up about 5pm.  If you are planning on attending and not riding the bus, please send Audrey an email (president@pacificgravity.com) by Monday the 13th so we can give Anchor a head count for the party.

Club Merchandise: We have a few beer leashes ($5) and glasses ($6) left, as well as both long & short sleeve PG shirts ($15) and some Pacific Brewers Cup shirts ($20) for those of you who are interested.

Raffle: Our ever-enthusiastic Fundraiser, Terry Molloy, will be selling raffle tickets for $1 each.

For those of you who have never been to a meeting, this is a great way to meet current members, share and sample other homebrew or commercial beers & meads, and have some fun at the end of a long week!

Hope to see you all there

-Audrey

January 2012 Club Meeting Thursday the 19th

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It’s our first club meeting of the year so please come out and kick off the New Year with some great beers!

Commercial Styles of the Month:  Pilsners & Dark Lagers, which are being carefully selected by our resident Lager enthusiast Neil Saund.

Homebrew Kegs of the Month: All types of Lager beers are encouraged.  Best keg of the bunch wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, which happens at each meeting, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing!  If you would like to bring a keg to upcoming meetings, our VP, Dave Mauceli, will have a sign-up sheet and you can always shoot him an email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com

COC- Dark Lagers: If you are bringing entries for the COC, you’ll need 3 bottles of your best Dark Lager.  Please see Carl’s Competition Coordinator post on the website for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com

COY Anchor Road Trip: If you plan to take the bus to SF, remember to bring $85 to reserve your seat (checks payable to Pacific Gravity).  We’ll also have pre-orders for our Club of the Year long-sleeve shirts for $25, so please bring your payment and decide what size you’d prefer!  See the website post for more information about the trip or email Kurt at: RoadTrips@pacificgravity.com

Club Merchandise: We have a few beer leashes ($5) and glasses ($6) left, as well as both long & short sleeve PG shirts ($15) and some Pacific Brewers Cup shirts ($20) for those of you who are interested.

Raffle: Our ever-enthusiastic Fundraiser, Terry Molloy, will be selling raffle tickets for $1 each.

For those of you who have never been to a meeting, this is a great way to meet current members, share and sample other homebrew or commercial beers & meads, and have some fun at the end of a long week!

Hope to see you all there

-Audrey

PG Meeting November 17

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Don’t forget this most important meeting of the year, this Thursday at 7:30pm behind Culver City Home Brew Supply. We will be conducting our annual elections for President, Vice President, and Treasurer, as well as PG Club Member of the Year.

Ballots will be made available for the Member of the Year-Vote for TWO.

The monthly beer styles are German Wheat and Rye  Beers(BJCP Cat #15).

There will be a judging of the Club Only Competition entries,  also German Wheat and Rye Beers (BJCP Cat. #15).

If you cannot be present to vote, you may e-mail your selections to Elections@PacificGravity.com

For more detailed election information please see the previous postings on the PG website.

If you have beer, whether in style, or not bring some to share. Remember, all in-style beers are eligible to win a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS if yours is chosen as the evening’s favorite.

We will be holding the monthly raffle, so if you have any equipment you wish to donate, please bring it. The reward for donating raffle prizes is free beer at all  meetings and parties.

There will be sign up sheets available for the following:

Holiday Party Beer and  Food, Volunteer opportunities for the Holiday Party-you really don’t want to pass up an opportunity to help out at this once a year event! Unlike the Summer party, this one is much more of a pot luck.

Volunteers will be making the main courses, including prime Rib, Hams, Deep Fried Turkeys, and Carbonnades a la Flamande. We need you members and guests to bring  appetizers,  sides,  salads, and  desserts. More details will be given at the meeting by our Activities Directors, Mimi and Audrey.

Be sure to check out the next edition of the Pacific Gravity Gazette which will be published at the end of November. I am sure that all your questions regarding the PG Holiday party will be answered.

Michael Steinberg,

President of Pacific Gravity, the 2011 California Homebrew Club of the Year!