On March 5th, 2016 @ Smog City Brewing Company  and its  Brewmaster, PG’s
Jon Porter, will be hosting their third Pacific Gravity Monster Brew!

About the date, Yes I know its backed up to PG’s First Friday at Irish Times.
March 5th was really the best available date for PG and Smog City.
So Club Member Up and make it one amazing PG event filled weekend,
but make sure to plan ahead doing any Yeast starters.

Jon Porter and Dan White will be developing the base wort for
this event with the theme “English”. A marris otter base, with just a

small amount of carafoam and acidulated malt to keep ph in spec.  This will be a great starting
point for just about any lighter beer.
Keeping with past monster brews, the recipe can be the base for whatever creative
endeavor you might want to do.  For the hop heads, boost up the
bitterness with your favorite English or American hop tea to make an awesome IPA, or
darken it up with chocolate malt to make a porter or stout. Use your
imagination to make the most awesome beer ever.  Each person will need to
pitch a yeast of their choice, add adjuncts to the wort, dry hop in secondary,
or do nothing special to it at all.

You can always contact Carl at Competitions@pacificgravity.com for any suggestions
and once we have the actual recipe values Carl can work on a
“How to Modify my Monsterbrew” post.

COST

The cost will be $30 for each 5 gallons of wort.  Everybody will be
guaranteed 1 batch, and if mash volume permits, a second or third batch.  Please
sign up as soon as you can, by dropping an e-mail at President@PacificGravity.com
or singing up at the next club meeting on Feb. 18th.

Yeast and any additional ingredients you wish to add are not included.
You can bring your yeast to the brewery, or pitch it at home.
If possible, please pay in advance. You can Pay at our next Club Meeting Feb. 18th,
or you can drop off a check at Culver City Homebrew Supply.
Be sure to include title “Monsterbrew SmogCity” your name, telephone number,
and E-mail address. Lastly you must pay in full at the day of the monsterbew.
We take Cash, Check, and Credit Card payments.
If you paid in advance, but find you cannot attend, a 24 hour notice
must be given in order to obtain a refund. On event day, all monies collected
will be given to Smog City Brewing. Such notice may be sent to
Pacific Gravity Treasurer, Tim Bardet at treasurer@pacificgravity.com  or
to the current board members at board@pacificgravity.com.

Some of us may want to purchase more than 10 gallons. Initially, only 5 – 10
gallons may be purchased. However, if there is wort left over at the end we
will hold a lottery to determine who may get an additional 5 gallon allotment.
Bring an extra fermenter if you are interested.
Don’t forget to bring a sanitized fermenter for each 5 gallons you buy!

FERMENTERS

Fermenters MUST be either plastic or stainless steel. Absolutely NO Glass
fermenters will be allowed in the brewery due to the danger of breakage on the
tile floor. You may bring small glass vessels with yeast or other additions,
however. Please make sure you fermenter has a wide opening so we can use the
fire hose when it is time to pour in the wort.  Plastic buckets are ideal, but you can
use a Cornelius keg if you want.  Please do not bring any skinny-neck
containers.  Our aim isn’t that good!

TIME & LOCATION

The event will be starting EARLY, at 7:00AM. If that is too early, you may
show up by 12 noon and still get your pre-purchased wort. Of course, you’ll not
get to take part in the actual brewing. Projected ending time will be 1:00 PM.

Smog City Brewing Company is at 1901 Del Amo Blvd., Ste B, Torrance,
CA 90501

PARKING

Please park on the WEST side of the building to keep the tap room lot open.
The tap room will be opening to the public at noon.

FOOD

Smog City will have coffee and other breakfast items in the morning.
As well Porter will arrange for a food cart later that afternoon.
In addition Porter will be supplying tasting samples of some of his fine brews
during the mid morning. Cut off time for free pours will be determined by Porter.
Probably close to 11am, after that beer will be available for purchase.

AND REMEMBER TO TIP YOUR BEERTENDER!!! EVEN WITH FREE BEER.

Thank you and we will post more info about this event as is comes,
also at some point we will open it up to the other clubs around the area.

Contacts:

Lloyd Johnson    President@pacificgravity.com

Carl Townsend  Competitions@pacificgravity.com

Tim Bardet     Treasurer@pacificgravity.com

The Board       board@pacificgravity.com