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Fear Not! If you – or someone you know – thought that you missed out on this awesome event, you still have time. The festival organizers extended the deadline to see if they could sell the remaining 100 entry slots available.
Go to calhomebrewers.org to sign up now!
Don’t forget to reserve your camping slot at the Pacific Gravity Festival Complex at Vail Lake. The cost for 2 nights of camping is $25 per person. Food arrangements are not included.
You can sign up at tonight’s meeting, or send an email to SCHBF (at) pacific gravity (dot) com.
More information to come …
Registration closes tomorrow, Friday, April 17. Go to www.calhomebrewers.org to sign up.
Remember, it is a 2-step process:
(1) Purchase an annual membership in the California Homebrewers Association for $10. This is necessary so the festival meets California ABC regulations.
(2) Register for the festival ($35).
Don’t delay. Sign up now.
If you are planning to attend this year’s festival, get your self over to www.calhomebrewers.org and sign up. Registration ends on April 17.
As a reminder, you must be a member of the California Homebrewers Association ($10 fee) in order to register for, and attend, the festival. Festival registration is $35.
PG has reseved a group of campsites less than 1/2 mile from the festival site. 2 nights of camping is $25, payable to the club; pay at next weeks meeting, or drop off a payment at Culver City Homebrew Supply and send an email to {treasurer at pacific gravity dot com} and we will reserve your slot. We are not coordinating club meals this year, but I am sure a meal group or two will be forming.
More info to follow at next week’s club meeting.
Pacific Gravity is thrilled to be just 1 day out from our inaugural Los Angeles Belgian Beer Challenge, that means in just 1 week, winners will be announced! This is super exciting because, as a ProAm competition, the Best of Show winner will have their beer brewed by our friends over at Monkish Brewing Company. 
Monkish happens to be the best Los Angeles Belgian brewery around and if you haven’t visited the taproom, you need to make a trip!
Located at 20311 S. Western Ave., Torrance, CA 90501, the tasting room offers a wide variety of their Belgian brews on tap, as well as growlers and bottles to take home. As you sit in the brewery on bags of malt – sipping on delicious beers, nibbling on peanuts and pretzels, dreaming of what they have aging in the stacks of barrels, mingling with fellow beer lovers – you feel like you could stay for hours! And you should, because you need to try a little bit of everything – from spiced tripels to brett saisons, Belgian dubbels to hoppy 
Belgian pales, brown farmhouse to strong dark ale, the list goes on!
The newest venture for the Monkish team was put in motion last summer with the arrival of their 5 foudres, which they will use on their journey into wild and sour beers. In addition to creating much anticipation for the results of these 1400 gallon experiments, the foudres have an aesthetic quality that stands out beautifully amongst the typical stainless steel fermenters.
Not only is the beer incredible and the environment inviting, the people are warm and welcoming. So get in there, say hi to brewmaster and owner, Henry and his team who are always more than happy to share their beers and show you around!
I hope this post’s title grabbed your attention. There are a LOT of events coming up over the next 2-3 months that will be made even cooler if everyone gets after it and starts brewing up some beer.
SoCal Homebrewers Fest
The SCHF is right around the corner at the beginning of May. This is a great opportunity to show the homebrewing community how amazing our club’s brewers really are. The club will have our draft system setup but we need you to bring beer to the festival.
Bite at the Beach
Two weeks after SCHF is Bite At the Beach where we have been invited along with Strand Brewers to donate our homebrew and serve it at a beer festival. Last year we showed up with 10 kegs of beer and our setup with the CDS was the toast of the event (in my opinion). Terry and Rives were up on stage talking about the great homebrewing hobby and community while the rest of us were sharing our meads, beers and ciders with the masses. So the way I see it, if you are brewing for SCHF why not make it a 10 gallon batch and allocate one keg to SCHF and one to Bite at the Beach. I just posted about this tonight – sign ups are open for one of 21 slots available on the draft system – but we can bring jockey boxes if we end up getting more than 21 participants.
National Homebrew Conference
Right around the corner from Bite at the Beach is the National Homebrewers Conference which is taking place in San Diego. We have placed the club’s name down on a list to have space to pour beer. Let’s show off what we can do for the homebrewers around the country who are making the trek out to the west coast. If we do not get enough participation for this event we will probably let this space go. Carl will have sign up sheets for next week’s Club Meeting at CCHBS for beers @ SCHF and the AHA conference.
I hope to see some of you at our first annual Los Angeles Belgian Brew Challenge this weekend. We are going to announce the winners @ next week’s club meeting so make sure you show up and cheer for your fellow PG member’s who take home ribbons.
Cheers everyone.
Everyone-
Its time for Bite at the Beach 2015! Last year we had the opportunity to take advantage of a shift in alcohol law that allowed homebrewers to donate their beer to non-profit events/orgs and have our beer on tap at a small craft beer festival. You can read all about last year’s event HERE.We have been asked to do this again by the MBCC. Just like last year, donating a keg (5 gallons) of homebrewed beer/cider or 2.5 gallons of mead or cider to the festival grants you access to attend as well (1 person per). Last year was a lot of fun – a very unique opportunity to share our beers with the public. Lets do it again!
Here is the flyer for this year’s event:
We’re happy to announce that this year we will be partnering, once again, with Strand Brewing Club to brew beer for a good cause! We’ll be pouring with Strand at Bite at the Beach on May 16th and we need your homebrews!
| Tap # | Brewer | Beer |
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| 01 | Rives Borland | IPA Challenge – Nelson Sauvin |
| 02 | Adam Ward | IPA Challenge – Amarillo |
| 03 | Brian Holter | IPA Challenge – Pacifica |
| 04 | Ryan Penrod | IPA Challenge – Citra |
| 05 | Lloyd Johnson | IPA Challenge – Simcoe |
| 06 | Anthony Brownstone | IPA Challenge – Centennial |
| 07 | Kingsley Toby | IPA Challenge – Sorachi Ace |
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| 12 | Katie Collier | Keg – German Hef |
| 13 | Tania Gamez | Keg – Hard Apple Cider |
| 14 | Kevin Collier | IPA Challenge – Cascade |
| 15 | Chris Remensperger | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 16 | Chris Remensperger | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 17 | Ryan Penrod | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 18 | Terry Malloy | Lil’ Bo Steam |
| 19 | Michael Musgrave | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 20 | Rives Borland | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| 21 | Jesse Tice | Keg (Beer TBD) |
| Non-Tap | Jesse Tice | Meads (Bottles) |
| Non-Tap | Jay Ankeney | Mead/Melomel (Bottles) |
Everyone-
Here is a message from the Strand Brewers regarding their Bus Trip to Stone later this month. If you are interested RSVO to the rally at the link below and email roadtrips@pacificgravity.com:
Hi folks!
It’s that time of year again! Every year around March, Stone hosts a rally with the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), and the Strand Brewers organize a bus trip to join in the festivities!
The rally is Saturday, March 28, 11am to 2pm, at Stone Liberty Station (NOT the main Stone Brewery). Note this is earlier than last year! That means our bus will need to leave Los Angeles around 8am to make sure we get there on time! (Departure time has not yet been finalized).
We typically invite all the Los Angeles Homebrew Clubs to join us, but Strand members get first dibs. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in attending.
Participants must be members of the AHA, but you can join (or renew) for a discounted price at the door! If you go this route, we’ve been asked to fill out the forms in advance to make the process speedier. The link to the form was broken, but the FAQ page below has some more details.
Attendees are asked to RSVP. This is just to give Stone a rough head count. We found out last year that an RSVP is not a guarantee of entry! The link to RSVP is below. Please do this!
The rally includes an informal homebrew competition, and we are the judges! Vote for your favorite beer, and the winner gets to brew with Mitch Steele, head brewer for Stone! (psst…I’m one of the contestants!)
Afterwards we will stop by a few San Diego breweries. By popular demand, we will stop for dinner somewhere before heading back! I am open to suggestions for places to visit, both breweries and restaurants, so let me know!
Cost: The bus itself will be something like $40 per person. That includes snacks and water. And yes, homebrew will most likely be allowed on the bus (still have to confirm this). Price has not yet been finalized. The rally is free, but again AHA members only! Regular membership is $43, but I don’t know what the discounted price is (the link on the FAQ page is broken).
SUMMARY:
– Let me know if you want to come ASAP (I need a headcount to reserve a bus)
– RSVP to the rally
– Send me suggestions on breweries or restaurants.
FAQ page:
This page links to the new member form, but the link seems to be broken.
http://strandbrewersclub.us5.
Link for RSVP:
http://strandbrewersclub.us5.
see below for information to register to attend the national homebrewers conference!
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Everyone-
Tomorrow is the big day! Many of us will be at Tomm & Danise’s place tonight to setup – if you can make it we would love to see you. The more people we get to help us setup and cleanup the day after the better.
I just want to remind everyone that just like our other meetings we should all be extremely appreciative that Tomm and Danise have opened up their home for us to celebrate 20 years of an awesome homebrew club. With that, I want to remind you all to be respectful of their house while you are there. We have rented a porta potty outside which is reserved for men/boys. Women/Girls may use the indoor restroom. Other than that we ask that you please keep the party outside where there will be plenty of beer and food!
I strongly suggest you secure some type of ride to and from the event so that you do not get behind the wheel after you have had too many beers. A taxi far, uber fare or favor is far less costly than what can happen if you drive when you shouldnt.
That said – I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow and hope you all have a blast (and bring your beer!!)
Brian
