First Saturday October 3 at Rasselbock

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Guten Abend Pacific Gravity!

Our October “First Friday” event will be be held this Saturday 10/3 12-3pm at Rasselbock in Mar Vista.  It is Oktoberfest, so please join us for festivities and of course some most excellent German beer & food! Oktoberfest officially ends the next day (though Rasselbock and many others will keep it going a bit longer), so grab your lederhosen and join us for some fun!

We also have a bonus Friday event!  Porter just informed us that this Friday 10/2 they will be tapping their GABF pro am entry, and Joe St John, the winner of last year’s Pacific Brewer’s Cup should be there as well.  Joe will be arrive around 3pm.  Head on down to Smog City Brewing to hang with Porter and support the Pro Am!

Chili Cook-off Saturday 10/17
As is our tradition, our October club meeting will will take the form of our much-loved and feared Pacific Gravity Annual Chili Cook-Off which will be held at Casa Molloy on Saturday 10/17.  All attendees vote for the “Best” and “Most Unique” chili,  so amaze and baffle our palates as only PG can! Winners will receive the much-coveted “bragging rights and a beer”.  Our style of the month is “Meads and Sours” or any other alternative fermentable or alternative fermenting organism, so it should compliment the heat/and weird well.
Additionally, this will be your opportunity to nominate candidates for next year’s Board (President, Vice President and Treasurer) and for Member of the Year. The election will held at our November meeting, so this is the time to get the nominations in!

Holiday Party Saturday 12/5
We have a date for the holiday party! It will be on Saturday December 5 at Neil’s Swinging Party Pad™.  More details will come as we get closer, but we want to make sure everyone has the date in their calendar as soon as we can.

St Bernardus Day 12/12
This is a new event for us this year suggested by Scott Burnell- The Back Abby in Upland is hosting a St Bernardus day event – it should be a blast.  We are planning on taking the train there.  More details will come as we get closer.

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

October First Saturday  – Saturday 10/3/2026 at 12-3 PM
Rasselbock
3817 Grand View Blvd
Los Angeles,  CA  90066
(310) 439-2938

Competition Corner
It looks like judging has been completed for the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup, so results should be out shortly at  https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/.  In the meantime, the last remaining competition in the 2026 Brewer of the Year Award cycle, is the California State Competition.  Registration is now open at  https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ .  This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries.  Bottles need to be received between October 10th and October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA.

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events

  • Oct   2:  Smog City GABF Pro Am available
  • Oct   3:  First Saturday – Rasselbock 12-3pm
  • Oct 17:  Chili Cook-off – Casa Molloy
  • Oct 22:  Entry Deadline for Cal State Competition
  • Nov 19: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 pm
  • Nov 29:  Holiday Party Setup
  • Dec   5:  PG Holiday Party
  • Dec 12: St Bernardus Day event Back Abby, Upland

September Monthly Meeting – Thursday 9/17/2026 at 7:30 PM

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Guten Tag Pacific Gravity!

Our September monthly meeting is this Thursday at our home-base Tortugo Brewing.

Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke Hoi Hoi Hoi! – yes, this will be always epic Oktoberfest meeting (yes, SLIGHTLY early, but…Oktoberfest!), and appropriately, our styles of the month are Festbiers and Amber Lagers, so please bring your marvelous Märzens, Fabulous Fests or whatever excellent homebrew you have to share!

There will be some traditional Oktoberfest food (suggested donation $10). There will be ONE, if not TWO, members in Lederhosen!  Oans, zwoa, drei, Gsuffa!!!

I hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday!

Bis dahin!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

September Monthly Meeting – Thursday 9/17/2025 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood,  CA  90302
(424) 227-9963

Competition Corner:

Judging for 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup Competition is this Saturday  (9/19) at La Jara Brewing 13423 Excelsior Dr. Norwalk, Ca. 90650.  I’ll be driving down to judge, so if you can help out either with judging or stewarding,  we can carpool.  Either way, please sign up at https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/ so they will have an accurate headcount.

I am delighted to report we have over 20 entries in the competition.  With our boatload of entries, they will need help with judging.   Please keep in mind that we will be running PBC next September and will need help from other clubs, so please chip in this year to help out Long Beach homebrewers. Contact me if you are interested in car-pooling to Norwalk on judging day.

After PBC, we have just one remaining competition in the 2026 Brewer of the Year Award cycle, that being the California State Competition.  Registration is now open at  https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ .  This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries.  Bottles need to be received between October 10th and October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA.

At the moment, we have a multi-way tie for the 2026 point count, so your opportunity for taking the Pacific Gravity Brewer of the Year Award is wide open.

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator

 

Upcoming Events

  • Sept 17: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company – Festbier and Amber Lagers
  • Sept 19: Judging for PBC 8am (La Jara Brewing, Norwalk)
  • Oct 2 or 3: First Friday or Saturday (haven’t finalized a Friday or Saturday as yet) – Rasselbock Los Angeles
  • Oct 22Entry Deadline for California State Homebrew Competition

First Saturday Sept 5 at Absolution Brewing Company

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Aloha Pacific Gravity!

The summer party was its usual level of awesome – quite worthy for our last hurrah at Palazzo Sussman.  Chefs Ian & Rob provided some excellent BBQ, and the many sides brought by everyone else were quite tasty.  The beer of course was legendary as always!  For logistics reasons I will not mention the winners of “best of the party” here, but we will definitely bring it up in a future email and at the next meeting on 9/17.

For our first Fri/Sat event for September, this Saturday we will be visiting Absolution Brewing Company, the brewery where our newest member Andrew helps make the magic happen. This will coincide with their “End of Summer Party” which runs all day and includes a stein holding contest for anyone up to the challenge.

It should be a fun one – hope to see you all there!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

September First Saturday – Saturday 9/5/2026 at 12-2 PM
Absolution Brewing Company
2878 Columbia St
Torrance, CA 90503
(310) 490-4860

Competition Corner

We have 17 entries delivered to Long Beach for the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup Competition.  If you have an last-second entries, you will need to take them to Stein Fillers no later than Saturday, Sept 5th.  With a boatload of entries, they will need help with judging and stewarding on September 19th at  La Jara Brewing 13423 Excelsior Dr. Norwalk, CA 90650.  If you can help out, please sign up at https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/. Please keep in mind that we will be running PBC next September and will need help from other clubs, so please chip in this year to help out Long Beach homebrewers. Contact me if you are interested in car-pooling to Norwalk on judging day.

After PBC, we have just one remaining competition in the 2026 Brewer of the Year Award cycle, that being the California State Competition.  Registration opens September 12th at  https://brewingcompetitions.com/chc/ .  This is a bay-area competition, so you will need to ship your entries.  Bottles need to be received between October 10th and October 22nd at Morebeer in Concord CA.

At the moment, we have a multi-way tie for the 2026 point count, so your opportunity for taking the Pacific Gravity Brewer of the Year Award is wide open.

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events

Summer Party August 8th!!

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It is time – the summer party is upon us!  Come one, come all and join in what is always an epic celebration of all things beer, food and comradery with your friends at Pacific Gravity.

Dean kindly returned to the US to host us! Many thanks to Dean for making the commute. The party will be happening on Saturday August 8, 2026 at Dean Sussman’s USA palazzo in the Pacific Palisades,  1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades CA.

The party will start around 2 PM and continue on until late evening.  The party is free for all Pacific Gravity members and their first guest; additional guests may attend for a small fee of $10.  Kids are still free.  Dean’s house has a large yard and a pool so all attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and swim trunks (and towel) if they plan on going for a swim.

In honor of the 250th b-day of the country, the theme will be “All American BBQ” – Chef Ian and Sous-Chef Rob will of course be creating their legendary culinary masterworks, and the theme opens the door for many classic picnic/bbq sides for those participating in the pot-luck portion of the event.  Note for food contributions, we will NOT have use of a kitchen for heating or cooling so please plan accordingly. Please label your food containers so that we can get them back to you.

We will of course have our traditional “best of party” homebrew beer and soda competitions, so be sure and bring your spectacular specimens (or at least “interesting entries”) for everyone to enjoy.  If you plan to bring a keg, please email Carl at competitions@pacificgravity.com with the name of your beer/soda to help him keep the things flowing.

As always this event is run by the volunteers, your help is needed!  Set up will be on Friday 8/7 at 6:30 pm and clean up on Sunday morning are especially necessary.  The volunteer crew has always had a lot of fun while working and it is a great time.

If you have any questions about food, feel free to contact Chef Ian at MasterChef@pacificgravity.com or if you have question on volunteering you may contact Parker at President@pacificgravity.com
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I hope to see you all Saturday!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

Pacific Brewers Cup

Registration for the 2026 Pacific Brewers Cup is up and running at https://www.longbeachhomebrewers.com/comp/pbc/bcoem/  

Long Beach Homebrewers are running the competition this year.  Entries can be dropped off at Steinfillers in Long Beach any time between August 26th and September 5th.  I’ll be making a run the first week of September, probably on September 3rd.

Judging will be Saturday, September 19, 2026 at La Jara Brewing, starting at 8:00 AM.  We need to get a large contingent to volunteer for judging and stewarding, so they can return the favor next year when we run the competition once again.

Carl Townsend – Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events

  • Aug     7 : Summer Party Setup 6:30pm (First Friday)
  • Aug     8 : Summer Party 2pm !!
  • Sep  4/5:  September First Friday/Saturday TBD
  • Sept    5:  Entry deadline for Pacific Brewers Cup
  • Sept  17:  Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 pm
  • Sept  19:  Pacific Brewers Cup Judging

March 2026 Club Meeting Thurs March 19 7:30 at Tortugo Brewery

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What’s the craic PG!

Happy March!  It is leprechaun season with a lot of fun to be had!

This Thursday 3/19 will be our monthly club meeting at the usual time and place. Being it is only a 2 days after St Pat’s, there will also be some St Patrick’s Day type goodies provided by Club Chef Ian and Club Monkey Parker.

March Monthly Meeting; Thursday 3/19/2025 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood,  CA  90302
(424) 227-9963

Two weeks ago, our first Saturday was a lot of fun – thanks to all who made it down to enjoy the Smog and Cellador anniversary collaboration beers.  Porter and Alex were great hosts as always!

We have spoken to Porter and have now scheduled Monster Brew 2026 for Saturday May 23 – details will be filled in shortly, but save the date and start making plans for your epic modifications!

And don’t forget 5/1-5/2 is the Southern California Homebrewers Festival at Vail Lake near Temecula. I believe there may still be some slots available for tent campers – If you would  like to attend, please let Terry know ASAP to reserve your spot.  I have attended the last 3 years and I gotta say, it really lives up to the hype – a huge amount of fun camping with the club (and meeting other clubs) and attending the massive festival with more home-brew taps than I have ever conceived of!  If you have beers you want to have served at the fest let Carl know.

It is also time for annual club dues which can be paid at the meeting or via the webiverse – details below.

I hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday!
Slainte’!
Parker Waechter
President – Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

It’s Time to Do the Dues!

It’s March and that means its time for our annual Pacific Gravity membership dues collection.  All club members need to pay their dues to keep their membership active until March 2027.  Annual dues are $48 for individuals or $72 for couples and are prorated at $4 per month for members who joined the club within the last year.

Keep in mind that your dues are the primary way we fund such club activities as club parties, monthly meetings, club brews and much more.  Your paid membership also ensures that you’ll continue to receive the many club benefits available, access to various brewing activities, discounts and information.

There are several ways you can renew your annual dues.  Club Treasurer, Craig Corley will be collecting dues at the upcoming March club meeting and other upcoming club events.  You can go old school and send Pacific Gravity a check to PO Box 2451, Culver City CA 90231. And for the ultimate in convenience, you can renew your dues online via the PayPal links below:

Individual Membership – Full 1-year Renewal: https://py.pl/121AAr
Couples Membership – Full 1-year Renewal: https://py.pl/5LD8s

Along with your dues renewal, we need all members to complete a Membership Application/Liability Waiver. And in the case of couples memberships, we need this for both members.  You can fill out and submit your Membership Application/Liability Waiver at the following link: https://forms.gle/f2xCjNBAp5qoJjFK8

All current club members should have gotten a renewal notice via email detailing their dues renewal amount and member information on file. This is a good opportunity to update our membership records, so please let Craig know of any changes to your member information (address, email, phone, etc) or include changes with your check/renewal form.

For any individual members who might be interested, the couples membership provides full membership status/benefits to both partners of a couple including membership cards, emails, etc. Note that the couples membership is optional, couples can continue with one partner being an individual member and the other being their guest.  It’s an additional $24 to upgrade your individual membership to a couples membership and you’ll need to include your partner’s name and email along with your payment.

Have questions about your dues or how much you owe? Check with Craig at the March club meeting or by email at Treasurer@PacificGravity.com.

Competition Corner

We have three different competitions with early April deadlines, so get those entries ready to go:

Carl Townsend
Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events

  • Mar 19 :  Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 (Irish beers)
  • Apr    3 :  First Friday TBD
  • Apr 6-13  Drop-off deadlines for three competitions
  • May  1-2 : Southern California Homebrewers Festival – Veil Lake Temecula
  • May  21 : Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30
  • May  23 : Monster Brew at Smog City

First Friday February 6 at El Segundo Brewing Company

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Our February “First Friday” event will be be held this Friday 2/6 at El Segundo Brewing Company.   Tomm Carroll has spoken to Owner/Brewmaster Rob and they will have a couple of tables reserved for us.  They should probably also have their TIPA and QIPA that were released last weekend, so there should be no shortage of hoppy libations!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

February First Friday – Friday 2/6/2026 at 7-10 PM
El Segundo Brewing Company
140 Main St
El Segundo,  CA  90245
(310) 529-3882

Competition Corner

2026 starts out with four competitions that all have entry deadlines in the March-April timeframe.  You still have a bit of time to brew, but you’ll need to start soon.

The entry window for the National Homebrewers Competition is now open through February 25th . You will need to select which judging location you wish to use. San Diego is the closest. Entries will be due in March. The final round will be judged at the National Homebrewers Conference in Asheville NC in June.  Details can be found at https://homebrewersassociation.org/news/get-ready-for-the-2026-national-homebrew-competition-nhc .

Registration for America’s Finest City is now open through March 31st. Details can be found at https://www.quaff.org/AFC-2026/ .  The entry drop-off window will be April 6 – 17th.  There may be a local drop-off point for this San Diego based competition.

The entry window for the California State fair should open any day now.  Register at https://castatefair.com/california-homebrew/ Entries will be due in early April.  Most likely Angel City brewery will accept entries.

And finally, the Maltose Falcon’s Mayfaire competition will begin registration soon.  Judging will be in April.  Detail can be found at https://competitions.maltosefalcons.com/ .

Carl Townsend – Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events

  • February   6: First Friday – El Segundo Brewing Co
  • February 19: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 (style British Beers)

January 2026 Club Meeting Tonight 7:30 at Tortugo Brewery

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Hey There Pacific Gravity!

I just wanted to send a quick reminder that we have our meeting tonight at Tortugo at 7:30.

Our style of the month is “winter beers”.

Terry will be discussing the California Home Brewers festival which is in May, but we need to reserve our campsites next week.  For those who have never been, your should really consider it – a weekend of great beer and a camping hang-out with your pacific gravity partners in crime!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

February Monthly Meeting Thursday 1/15/2026 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood,  CA  90302
(424) 227-9963

Competition Corner
2026 starts out with four competitions that all have entry deadlines in the March-April timeframe.  You still have a bit of time to brew, but you’ll need to start soon.

The entry window for the California State fair should open any day now.  Register at https://castatefair.com/california-homebrew/ Entries will be due in early April.  Most likely Angel City brewery will accept entries.

The entry window for the National Homebrewers Competition will open soon.  You will need to select which judging location you wish to use.  San Diego is the closest.  Entries will be due in March.  The final round will be judged at the National Homebrewers Conference in Asheville NC in June.  Details can be found at https://homebrewersassociation.org/news/get-ready-for-the-2026-national-homebrew-competition-nhc .

Registration for America’s Finest City will begin February 1st.  Details can be found at https://www.quaff.org/AFC-2026/ .  The entry drop-off window will be April 7 – 15th.  There may be a local drop-off point for this San Diego based competition.

And finally, the Maltose Falcon’s Mayfaire competition will begin registration soon.  Judging will be in April.  Detail can be found at https://competitions.maltosefalcons.com/ .

Carl Townsend – Competition Coordinator

Upcoming Events
Jan 15 :  Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7:30 (style winter beers)
Feb 1st:  Entry registration starts for multiple competitions

First Saturday October 4 at Rasselbock

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Our October “First Friday” event will be be held this Saturday October 4th from noon to 3pm at Rasselbock in Mar Vista. It is Oktoberfest, so please join us for festivities and of course some most excellent German beer!

Our October club meeting will be the traditional Chili cook-off, but this year it will be held at Tortugo on Saturday October 11th at noon.  So start planning your best/most unique entries now!  Also, this will be your opportunity to nominate members for the Member of the year and the 2026 Board!

Our brew day at Project Barley, Lomita was a lot of fun.  Rives and Stephen were great hosts and let us play brewer fantasy camp for a day.  When it comes time to bottle, we will likely need some help – I will let you know more when the time comes.

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

October First Saturday  – Saturday October 4, 2025 Noon – 3 PM
Rasselbock
3817 Grand View Blvd
Los Angeles,  CA  90066
(310) 439-2938

Competition Corner 
Results of Pacific Brewers Cup have been released.  Congrats go to Craig for two ribbons: First Place for 293 – SA #9 – Weise Färse, a  German Wheat beer, and a 3rd place for 294  – Blonde #21, a Belgian Blond ale. Craig’s Blond was edged out by Carl’s Blond, which picked up a 2nd place ribbon.  Full results can be found at   https://strandbrewersclub.org/pbc/bcoem/ .  Thanks to Jeff Hoy and the entire Strand Brewers crew for running the competition this year.

The entry registration cap has already been reached for the California State Competition, which is the last competition of the year.  But the physical bottle entry deadline is rapidly approaching.  Entries are due October 16th.   Shipping details to Morebeer in Concord, CA. can be found at https://chc.brewingcompetitions.com/    There are no local drop-off opportunities.

Upcoming Events

  • October 4: First Saturday – Rasselbock
  • October 11 : Saturday  Chili Cook-off and Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company!

Pacific Gravity Club Meeting This Thursday, September 18, 7:30 at Tortugo Brewery

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Guten Tag Pacific Gravity!

Our September monthly meeting is this Thursday at our home-base Tortugo Brewing.

Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke Hoi Hoi Hoi! – yes, this will be always epic Oktoberfest meeting (yes, SLIGHTLY early, but…Oktoberfest!), and appropriately, our styles of the month are Festbiers and Amber Lagers, so please bring your marvelous Märzens, Fabulous Fests or whatever excellent homebrew you have to share!

Craig will be bringing some of our anniversary shirts and glasses which will be for sale.  Buy early, buy often.

There will be some traditional Oktoberfest food! There will be ONE, if not TWO, members in Lederhosen!  Oans, zwoa, drei, Gsuffa!!!

Also, don’t forget that this Friday is the brewday/monsterbrew for our Anniversary Collaboration Beer with Project Barley in Lomita at 6am (more details below), and Saturday morning is the judging for Pacific Brewers cup at Project Barley Squared in Torrance (note the venue change), so it will be an action packed few days of beer events to kick off Oktoberfest (which actually begins Saturday 9/20)!!!I hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday!

Bis dahin!

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

September Monthly Meeting – Thursday 9/18/2025 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood,  CA  90302
(424) 227-9963
Project Barley Anniversary Collaboration Brew – Friday 9/19/2025 at 06:00 AM
Bright and early this Friday, we will be brewing our collaboration English Barleywine with Rives and Stephen at Project Barley’s Lomita location.  They are also allowing us to take home 5G of wort for $35 monster brew style – that is a heck of a bargain for an OG 1.095 Barleywine!  We will be brewing about 50 Gallons more than fits in the fermenter, so we need to sell some batches ;)!  If you have grown lackadaisical about your homebrewing, now is an easy time to breeze in an grab a really nice beer, where all you need to add is yeast and love.  It might be possible to have them store the wort for you to pick up later in the day or next day if you can’t make the morning brew – contact Rives or Parker to discuss if that is of interest.  Hope to see you there!
Project Barley
2308 Pacific Coast Hwy
Lomita, CA, 90717
(424) 263-5349

Competition Corner
The venue for PBC Judging on Saturday, Sept. 20th has been moved to Project Barley Square in Torrance at 1109 Van Ness Avenue, Torrance, CA., 90501 – note venue change – no longer Lomita)

Entries are due October 16th for the California State Competition.  Register at https://chc.brewingcompetitions.com/
Entries must be shipped to Morebeer in Concord, CA.  There is no local drop-off opportunities.  This is the final competition for the 2025 Brewer of the Year Award cycle.

Upcoming Events

  • Sept 18: Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company – Festbier and Amber Lagers
  • Sept 19: Project Barley Anniversary Brew 6am – Lomita
  • Sept 20: Judging for PBC (Project Barley Squared – Torrance – note venue change – no longer Lomita)
  • Oct 3 or 4: First Friday or Saturday (haven’t finalized a Fri or Sat as yet) – Rasselbock Los Angeles

SUMMER PARTY THIS SATURDAY August 16

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It is time – the summer party is upon us!  Come one, come all and join in what is always an epic celebration of all things beer, food and comradery with your friends at Pacific Gravity.

The party will be happening on August 16, 2025 at Dean Sussman’s palazzo in the Pacific Palisades.  The address is 1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades CA.

The party will start around 2 PM and continue on until late evening.  The party is free for all Pacific Gravity members and their first guest; additional guests may attend for a small fee of $10.  Kids are still free.

Dean’s house has a large yard and a pool so all attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and swim trunks (and towel) if they plan on going for a swim.

This year our theme is a Mediterranean.  Chef Ian and Sous-Chef Rob will of course be creating their legendary culinary masterworks, and this category opens the door pretty wide for everyone to participate in the pot-luck portion to provide sides!  Think Italian, Greek, North African, Spanish, French … some suggestions: tzatziki sauce, hummus, tabbouleh salad, riffs on Caprese salad, dolmas…
Note for food contributions, we will NOT have use of a kitchen for heating or cooling so please plan accordingly. Please label your food containers so that we can get them back to you.

We will of course have our traditional “best of party” homebrew beer and soda competitions, so be sure and bring your spectacular specimens (or at least “interesting entries”) for everyone to enjoy.  If you plan to bring a keg, please email Carl at competitions@pacificgravity.com with the name of your beer/soda to help him keep the things flowing.

As always this event is run by the volunteers, your help is needed!  Set up will be on Friday at 6:30 pm and clean up on Sunday morning are especially necessary.  The volunteer crew has always had a lot of fun while working and it is a great time.

If you have any questions about food, feel free to contact Chef Ian at MasterChef@pacificgravity.com or if you have question on volunteering you may contact Parker at President@pacificgravity.com

Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers

Competition Corner

We have two more competitions in the 2025 Brewer of the Year cycle. First up is Pacific Brewers Cup. The entry window is now open at https://strandbrewersclub.org/pbc/bcoem/. They are well over the half-way point on total entries, so don’t delay registering. The entry drop-off window is already open at the local homebrew shops or at Project Barley Lomita. Personally, I’d recommend waiting closer to the end of the entry window on August 29th. While you are at it, sign up as a volunteer. They need judges and stewards. Judging day is September 20th at Project Barley Lomita.

The last competition of the year is the California Homebrew Competition.  Registration will open September 6th at https://chc.brewingcompetitions.com/. Entries can be shipped to Morebeer in Concord, CA between October 1 and October 16th.

Upcoming Events

  • Aug  16: Summer Party!! 
  • Aug  29:  Entry deadline for Pacific Brewers Cup
  • Sep 5/6: September First Friday/Saturday TBD
  • Sep 6:     Registration opens for Cal State Competition
  • Sept 18: September Club meeting
  • Sept 20: Judging for PBC
  • Oct 6:     Entry Deadline for Cal State Competition