Everyone-

To follow up from our discussion at the club meeting and my meeting recap post I wanted to post a reminder to everyone that we have an AWESOME opportunity ahead of us next month for the Bite At The Beach event in Manhattan Beach.

The organizers reached out to our club to see if we were interested in donating homebrew to this event and serving it alongside some of our favorite local breweries.  We have agreed to do this and we need you to brew/donate beer! The event is 26 days away which is still plenty of time to brew up a batch of beer for the event.

Here is a blurb about the event:

Stella Artois presents the first annual Bite at the Beach featuring food and craft beer pairings from all around the South Bay and Los Angeles.  This will be an extraordinary event filled with delicious bites, craft beer and wine with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Surfrider Foundation.

Brewery List:

• Alosta Brewing Company
• Firestone Walker Brewing Company
• Ohana Brewing Company
• Angel City Brewery
• Goose Island Beer Company
• Pacific Gravity Homebrew Club
• Angry Orchard Hard Cider
• King Harbor Brewing Co
• Samuel Adams
• Ballast Point Brewing
• Ladyface Ale Companie
• Shock Top
• Big Sky Brewing Co.
• Mission Brewery
• Sierra Nevada
• The Bruery
• Modern Times Beer
• Strand Brewing Co.
• Eagle Rock Brewery
• Monkish Brewing Co.
• The Dudes Brewing Company
• El Segundo Brewing Co.

The event is a fundraising event for the Surfrider Foundation:

The Surfrider Foundation is a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network. Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 250,000 supporters, activists and members worldwide.

The South Bay Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is very proud of the efforts we have made, and the successes we have achieved in making our community a better place to live and enjoy the ocean. At our core, we are an environmental organization that strives to protect and, where necessary, restore coastal and ocean ecosystems and ensure free and open access to the beach and waves. We are dedicated to making our work FUN AND REWARDING!!

This is a reminder to everyone in the club to let me know if you have a beer that you would like to donate to the event.  I would like to get an idea of how much beer is going to be donated from our club by Thursday of next week (May 1st).  So far we have 15 gallons that the club is bringing but we need more – please shoot me an email at president@pacificgravity.com to let me know if you are planning on donating beer, what style and how many gallons (or kegs) so we can work out the serving logistics as well.  There will be limited serving positions available – I am waiting to find out from the organizers how many people we can have to serve.

Cheers!

Brian

PG Members! IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!

Due to the recent changes in the ABC law, home brew is illegal to be served at any location with a license to manufacture and/or serve alcohol. Henceforth, we have to move the location of Pacific Gravity’s April Club meeting.

We are moving Thursday, April 17th’s meeting location from Smog City Brewing to Ian Fraser’s abode in Venice.

We apologize from the last minute notice, but it’s in compliance with the ever evolving ABC law associated with the art of home-brewed beer. We will explain these laws and how it affects Pacific Gravity and home brew in Thursday nights meeting.

Please pass the word along to any members you come in contact with.

[ MEETING TIME ]
Thursday, April 17th 2014  – 7pm to 10pm

[ NEW MEETING LOCATION ]
Ian “Club Chef God” Fraser’s Abode
3938 Glencoe Ave
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 435-1329

[ AGENDA ]
• Commercial tasting of IPAs!
• Voting on Club Bylaws! (Please review here before meeting: XXXX)
• Upcoming events
• RAFFLE!
• Distribution of 2014 Membership cards!
•SHARE YOUR HOMEBREW – BRING YOUR IPAs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey folks!

Just a quick reminder about this weeks FIRST FRIDAY @ GULP! Click the link below:

http://pacificgravity.org/2014/03/first-friday-april-4-2014-gulp-westwood/

See you tommorrow!

Cheers!

Kingsley

For those of you who were unable to attend this past week’s club meeting at Culver City Homebrew Supply, here are the recap notes from the meeting along with a few pictures I grabbed.  First though, a huge thank you to the guys at CCHBS for hosting the meeting in the shop – it was great to get everyone in there for the night and good to be back for the month.  Also another special thank you to Ian Fraser for doing an awesome job with the commercial style of the month with his epic Stout offerings.  I think the bar has just been set for how to gather up beer for the monthly beer style!  Here are the important notes from this weeks meeting:

• Next month’s First Friday will be held on Friday April 4th at Gulp! in West LA.  Details can be found here.  Kingsley and I went there for lunch a few weeks back to check it out and the beer selection is fantastic.  It should make for an awesome First Friday.
• Next month’s club meeting is going to be on April 17th @ Smog City in Torrance.  Details can be found here.  Porter has offered to host us for another club meeting and also host the style of the month – IPA’s.  There is still plenty of time to brew up a good IPA for this meeting – so get to work!
• Speaking of style of the month, May is still available, along with the rest of the month’s for the year (as far as I know at least).  The list of monthly beer styles can be found here.  If you are interested (and hey, why wouldn’t you be – you get to buy a bunch of beer and the club pays for it!) in hosting the monthly style please send an email to Dean Sussman @ styles@pacificgravity.com to volunteer.

 

• Membership dues are due now.  If you haven’t yet paid for this year’s membership you can do so by visiting CCHBS and paying there or you can send a check to our PO box which is:
  • P.O. Box 2451, Culver City, Ca 90231.  Checks can be made payable to Pacific Gravity.
  • This year the club has started to gather additional discounts for club membership.  In addition to the 5% off you receive as a club member at CCHBS you will now receive 10% off at City Tavern in Culver City if you show your 2014 ID Card (which will be issued at the next meeting).
• The annual Mayfaire competition hosted by the Maltose Falcons is coming up and entries are due at CCHBS by April 10th.
• Unfortunately the SCHF was officially canceled this past month.  All clubs were asked to cancel their reservations, which we have done.  Our replacement plan for that weekend is a possible bus trip with the Long Beach and Strand clubs – details to follow.  In addition, we are trying to get the three clubs together to do a collaborative bottle share on the 17th of May – details on both events will hopefully be posted by the end of this upcoming week.
• I also want to throw out a special thank you to the guys at Strand Brewers club for including us in their bus trip down to Stone, Lost Abbey and White Labs.  It was a great trip with a lot of great beer to taste on the bus and at the breweries.  I took pictures at the event and attached them to this post for those of you who want to browse through.
• And finally with the club hosting Pacific Brewers Cup this year we are finally going to file the appropriate paperwork in an effort to make the club a 501c3 Non Profit corporation.  Along with this filing we will be requesting Tax Exempt status from the IRS.  This will allow us greater opportunities for fundraising and sponsorship gathering for this year’s competition, among other advantages.  In the next few weeks we will be finalizing a draft of our club bylaws and issuing it to everyone via email.  At next month’s club meeting we will be voting as a club to enact/ratify (whatever the legal term is) the bylaws so that Dean can proceed with the rest of the filing paperwork.  This is an important first step and time is not on our side.  We need to get this initial paperwork filed as soon as possible so that we can begin to acquire more and more sponsors for the competition.

Thanks again to everyone who came out for the club meeting this week, and another special thank you to everyone who brought beer.  Bringing homebrew to club meetings is an essential component of who we are as a group.  If you have some great homebrew – bring it!  If you have some homebrew that just doesn’t taste right and you aren’t sure why – bring it!  We have plenty of experienced judges and brewers in our club who can offer their insight into your problematic brews to help you refine your process.

I am hoping to get to taste some awesome IPA’s at next month’s meeting at Smog City – and not just Smog’s beers – please bring out some of your brews!

See you all soon.

Brian