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Hey we had an amazing time this last Saturday at the PG Summer Party and we want to do an amazing recap post as well.
If you took any photo’s you can send me or if you have a special story’s you want shared or special people to Thank, please email me so I can put it all together and do a proper post!
Email: [email protected]
Thanks,
Lloyd
We will have a few boxes on site at the Summer Party to collect for our favorite charity OPCC.net!!
This is a great excuse to go through your closets and or go to you favorite low cost stores to purchase denotable supplies. Stores like: Ross and other discount clothing stores, 99 cent stores, Costco and other whole sale stores, or even CVS, Walgreens, and Target. Want to give Money? Mimi your Charity and Special Event coordinator can take cash or checks (made out to: OPCC) for the OPCC.net organization. She’ll take it along with the purchase items for drop off.
Here are the types of donations items they are looking for!
Charity Donation – IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS
Clothing (all donations should be clean and, if used, in good condition.)
Personal & Household items
Welcome Home Packages
Please email us if your planning on helping out in any way for the Summer Party this weekend. Your emails let us know what we can plan for to make sure we fulfill our party needs.
Please email us ASAP!!!
–Bringing Beer and or a Non-Alcoholic Fruit Drink? Let Carl know asap to make you a tag(s) and so we have enough taps to serve it with. email Competitions at Pacific Gravity dot com
-We need your Beer Gear to help serve all these drinks too. Please volunteer: Jockey Boxes, Co2 set ups, Party tubs, and ice. email Competitions at Pacific Gravity dot com
–We Need more food. Yeah Ian’s cooking, but we also run on your dishes too! Mediterranean Style or other Dishes and Deserts, Let us know. email summer party at pacific gravity dot com
(Mediterranean food ideas: Hummus, Tabouli, Falafel, Cucumber Salad, Baked Feta, and any style along the Mediterranean Sea really! all dishes, apps, and deserts welcome.)
-We need stuff too. Please Volunteer your: 6′ folding tables, Pop-Ups, Coolers, Party Lights, AC power extensions and power strips. email summer party at pacific gravity dot com
-No better way to get all your stuff to us then Volunteering for Set-up Friday night 6pm and Saturday morning 10am. As well as Brake-down Sunday morning 10am. We need your help and you need to drop off your gear and kegs. So email us and let us know you are coming by, what days, and what your bringing if any. Also Friday night set up is like a mini bottle share and Sunday Break down you can claim the left overs! email summer party at pacific gravity dot com
-Also if anyone has any raffle Donations let us know so we can plan to have them raffled off at the Summer Party! email summer party at pacific gravity dot com
Note: There will be limited power on site, so please bring your dishes pre cooked and ready to eat. There is no access to the house at all. There is no freezer space either. There might be some coolers with ice, but better plan ahead and bring your own.
Also Label everything you bring with your name if you want to get it back!!! and this is a “Bring Your Own Folding Chair” event.
-There will be a $10 charge for all guest at the door, current members are free and everyone will get a door prize ticket to win some great beers and stuff during the day. As well there will be Pacific Gravity merchandise and raffle tickets for sale at the front gate too, with some special discounts! The Raffle tickets will be $1 each and I can tell you now we are giving away some cools stuff!! Like a Burner and Mash Tun, 5 lb Co2 tank and regulator, a Big Mouth fermenter, a bottle capper/corker, gift certificates and more, just to name a few so far!
-Also remember to bring Charitable Donations too for OPCC.net! Just like the Winter Party and May club meeting. I will be posting another reminder with all the charity info later this week.
Thanks and can’t wait to Party with everyone this weekend!
http://pacificgravity.com/2016/07/last-days-email-us-let-us-know-helping-summer-party/
Pacific Gravity’s Summer Party Checklist
Saturday, July 23rd – 2pm to 10pm
Location: Dean Sussman’s – 1310 Amalfi Drive, Pacific Palisades, 90272
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Checklist for ALL party attendees: Please read through this carefully and respond to us at the designated emails as soon as possible!!
Remember to bring this and things to know for the Summer Party:
Charity Donation – IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS
Clothing (all donations should be clean and, if used, in good condition.)
Personal & Household items
Welcome Home Packages
http://pacificgravity.com/2016/07/the-pg-summer-pa…we-need-you-help/
Ok everybody, I hope you all had an amazing 4th of July, but now its time to recover and finish up your work weeks and on to the next PG event!! “Sunday Funday in the Arts District” This weekend Sunday the 10th.
Basically a beer crawl in downtown LA’s Art District area, where the highlight will be us visiting the Arts District Brewery with club freind Devon Randall and Head Brewer. Cant wait to see you all Downtown this Sunday!!
The Plan:
10-10:30am : Jump on the Expo line (or take an uber/lyft) and head to the Arts District area.
11-11:30am : Meet up at Wurstkuche for German and Belgian beers and sausages. 800 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
12:30-1pm : Walk across the street to the Arts District Brewery, for amazing Devon Randall crafted beers and more food! 828 Traction Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90013
3-4pm and on : is up to you and the group. Stay at Arts District Brewery, or head off to either EightyTwo arcade bar, Mumford Brewery, Angel City Brewery, Far Bar, or else where.
The Train/Get there:
The Expo Line is open all the way to Santa Monica now, so its a good excuse to jump on board. To get to the Arts District it does take a few trains, but its not to hard to figure out. Here is what you will need to do:
Buy an all day pass to make sure you are covered for all the trains: $7 for a full day pass. (Full Train map click here)
Expo Line : take it Eastbound toward DTLA to the last stop “7th and Metro” (train Map click here)
Red/Purple Line: at “7th and Metro” you connect with the Red or Purple Line’s, they both go Eastbound to “Union Station” three stops away. (train Map click here)
Gold Line: at “Union station” you connect with the Gold Line and take it one stop Southbound towards East LA to “Little Toyko/Arts District” (train Map click here)
Walk: From the Gold Line “Little Toyko/Arts District” stop, head south on Alameda St. for a block and a half, then turn left on Tractions Ave. near Angel City Brewing and head down another 2 block to Wurstkuche.
Don’t want to take an adventure on the Metro trains? Then please Uber or Lyft to Wurstkuche or the Arts District Brewery!
Here’s a google map from the Gold Line train to Wurskutche and to Arts District Brewing: click here
Here’s a map to other walkable locations in the Arts District to go to: click here
Here’s a map to farther locations to visit around the area: click here
Links to all locations websites below:
Wurstkuche DTLA : opens at 11am
Arts District Brewery : opens at 12pm
EightyTwo : classic arcade bar
Eat Drink Americano : Farm-to-Fork Gastropub, great food and drink!
Little Bear : Belgian beer cafe, great tap and bottle list!
Villains Tavern : opens at 5:30pm, live music, great drinks
Sorry for the late announcing of this months club meeting which will be held at the:
Culver City Homebrew Supply store this week June 16th at 7:30pm.
4234 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230. Style of the Month is All Lagers for homebrewers and International and Czech Lagers for the commercial tasting. There will be a raffle, food, and sign up sheets for next month’s Summer Party for volunteers, beer, and food.
Also if you still need to brew beer for the Summer Party, all club nights held at the Culver City Homebrew Supply shop is double discount nights, So bring you recipes and buy some homebrew supplies!!
We have some more events coming up in July, so set your calendars!
July 1st for First Friday will be south of us at King Harbor’s Waterfront Tasting Room, in the Redondo Pier area! really close to Naja’s Place. Go down via Uber or Lyft and check them out, have a few of their beers and if you need more then head next door. Waterfront Location: 132 International Boardwalk, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
(Note: Do not mistake the location with King Harbor’s actual brewery located at 2907 182nd street Redondo Beach, California 90278)
July 10th for Sunday Funday in the Arts Disttrict, Downtown LA!! This should be a real fun bar crawl in a cool part of downtown with a lot of great beer bars, food, and Breweries. Plus the highlight event where we get a personal tour from club friend Devon Randall, aka Head Brewer at the Arts District Brewery.
The Plan: So the Expo Line just opened up all the way the Santa Monica, so this is a great excuse to use it. The train’s will take you all the way to the Arts District area. Plan on getting on the trains about 10am-10:30am to meet at our first location: Wurstkuche at 11am, where you can get the best sausages in town and some awesome German and Belgian beers. Then about 12:30pm-1pm we head across the street to the Arts District Brewery, where we will meet Devon, drink her beer’s, eat more food, and set off on a personal tour of the brewing facilities. After a good while of hanging at the brewery, the next stop we leave it up to the group, or the individuals. I might head to 82 the Arcade Bar, or Mumford Brewing a few block away. There is also Angel City Brewing and Eat Drink Americano real close too. A bit farther you can cab it to Iron Triangle Brewing, Little Bear, or Villains Tavern. Check out all the links I added to each location, I will announce at the June club meeting and post more about the schedule closer to the date of the event.
July 23rd for Pacific Gravity’s Summer Party!! Definitely set your calendars for this, the biggest event of the year! We will have sign up sheet at this thursday’s club meeting for volunteers, beers, and pot luck food. We will also be looking for some special volunteers to help out Ian with the food duties as well, the week before, during set up, and during the summer party day since he is not as mobile as usual. We will make the official announcements at the meeting this Thursday at the Culver City Homebrew Supply shop.
Hello Pacific Gravity members,
We have been given the possible opportunity to have one of our members that have won a bjcp certified homebrew comp placing 1st-3rd since Jan. 1st of 2015 the chance to be hand picked for a Pro/Am from an LA brewery in town. This means they will pick a beer out of a list we give them and if picked you will be able to brew that beer with the brewery and they will possibly turn it in as their Pro/Am entry into GABF this year.
-To qualify for this Pro/Am you must be a current dues paying Pacific Gravity Member, if not you will not make the list turned into the brewery for the Pro/Am. So pay your dues!!!
-You mush have won 1st-3rd place in an AHA and BJCP sanctioned homebrew comp since Jan. 1st 2015.
-You must be a member of the AHA, by the time the brewery turns in the beer to the Great American Beer Festival Pro/Am Comp (June 2016) and a current member of the AHA by the time of the judging of that comp (Oct 2016).
I have emailed the current PG members from the list we have of winner of homebrew comps the club keeps track of. If you did not get an email please email me ASAP and let me know of your winning beers and provide me with this info:
(Date won/Comp/Placing/Style/ABV/Special ingredients and methods)
I will be turning a list into the brewery by the end of the week hopefully, so contact me now with your winning beer info if you want to make the Pro/Am list.
President at Pacific Gravity dot com
Also let me know if any of your beers have won a Pro/am in the past or you are currently already participating in a pro/am this year.
Hey PG!
I hope this reminder finds you all well, both in life and brew schedule. 🙂
Friday is our June First Friday at Louie’s of Mar Vista, which should be a very chill food and beers event. If you’re not familiar with Louie’s, it’s a well designed restaurant with a beautiful bar and dining room. They have an area out back that’s covered, but open to the outside air with a few tables. The food is excellent, ASAP style (As Southern As Possible), so I highly recommend you bring your appetite and a date. 😉 Here’s a link to the menu to get your appetite going: http://louiesofmarvista.com/?page_id=344
Beer and drink-wise they’re stocked pretty well, including a few locals like Monkish and Smog City the last time I was there and a whole bunch of specialty cocktails, enhanced by the fresh honey harvested from their bee boxes on the roof.
Tania and I will be there right around 7pm but you’re welcome to come by anytime. Looking forward to seeing you there!
_Michael
Strand Brewers Club has invited Pacific Gravity along on their Beach Bar Bike Ride pub crawl, June 4th, in the south bay area. With in their club they are calling it “AAAA” to differentiate between the usual bike ride bar crawl they will also have at the end of the summer “BBBB”. There will also be a cell phone designated person that day to call and catch up with the group or if you get left behind to find where they have gone.
So if you want to go on a super fun bar crawl with bikes and awesome people in the South Bay Area, email Jay to sign up, he is Strands Activities Director, JayAnkeney at mac dot com.
Here is the tentative schedule and the list of locations so far, things could change a bit so get Jay your email address asap!
10:00am- Meet at Sharkeez on Hermosa Pier for breakfast. We’ll have some tables reserved on the patio, but I need a head count to make this happen. Sharkeez weekend breakfasts are a great deal and include endless Mimosas. Have you ever tried their weekend breakfasst specials? They are really something. Cheap, delicious and include endless Mimosas for an hour.
11:00am- Hot’s Kitchen in Hermosa, Incredible selection of craft brews, and they promise something special for us.
12:30pm- Brew Co. on Manhattan Pier, An even more incredibler selection of craft brews
2:00pm- Silvio’s on Hermosa Pier, Great beer, great food.
3:30pm- Naja’s Place on Redondo Pier, or maybe Select Beer in the Riviera Village.
Strand is really looking forward to this event and they hope some PG members will make it with them!
Hello Club Members,
Just a reminder that the May club meeting will be this Thursday, May 19th at the Culver City Homebrew Supply Store! Located at:
4234 Sepulveda Blvd Culver City, CA 90230 with a start time of 7:30pm. Also bring your “Alternative Fermentable” homebrewed beers. AKA anything with added alternative grains like “rye, oats, buckwheat, spelt, millet, sorghum, rice, etc” and alternative sugars like “honey, brown sugar, invert sugar, molasses, treacle, maple syrup, sorghum, etc.” for your chance to win a $25 gift Certificate to the Culver City Homebrew Supply store. BJCP Style Guide Here, page 66. As well there will be the “Alternative Fermentable” commercial tasting and some off flavor and other educational tastings presented by Michael Patterson.
Also Do Not Forget, we are doing another smaller Charity Drive for our Friends at OPCC.net during the May Meeting this Thursday. In short this week PLEASE stop by your Ralph’s, CVS, Target, Costco, or any of your local stores to buy in bulk donations for the meeting. We are looking mainly for either “Mens Socks” regular or sweat socks and/or “Toiletries” to bring for donations. Also all other clothing donation are accepted as well, like we did for last December’s winter party (Also if you want to donate straight money, Mimi B. will go out and buy needed supplies with your contributions too for OPCC). Charity Donations are listed below and to entice you or bribe you to donate for this great cause we will be giving out EXTRA RAFFLE TICKETS TO THOSE THAT DONATE!!!! the more you donate the more tickets we’ll give you, but a pack of socks or 2-3 toiletries will be worth about 5 extra tickets in the raffle.
Items in this weeks Raffle: Beers, Glasses, Hops and Hop bag, Beer Boxes and Bottles, Fresh Cascade Hop Rhizomes, Wyeast Merchandise Pack, and Firestone Walker Merchandise Pack and glass wear just for some example!!! Regular for purchase Raffles tickets will be for sale too as normal.
PG MAY 2016 – Charity Drive
We are collecting items that will be donated to Ocean Park Community Center (OPCC).
OPCC is an independent, community-supported organization in which staff, volunteers and clients work with mutual respect to address the effects of poverty, abuse, neglect and discrimination. OPCC empowers people to rebuild their lives. (https://www.opcc.net)
In-kind or non-monetary contributions
These donations are valuable resources that we then distribute to our clients. In keeping with our mission of treating all clients with respect and dignity, we ask that all donations should be clean and, if used, in good condition.
Below is a list of items that we can always use..
Clothing
Tolietries / Hygiene Items
Travel or regular sizes of the following:
Next, on the Sour side of things, do not forget we are starting a “Pacific Gravity/Phantom Carriage Club Barrel Project” during this meeting as well. Here is the info below:
At this month’s meeting, Simon from Phantom Carriage will be bringing a few jars of sterile wort to inoculate with various wild yeast and bacteria from club members. These inoculated jars will be used to create a Pacific Gravity “club barrel” of blonde/lambic-style beer at the brewery, which will be packaged at a later date.
Homebrewed/house cultures are preferred, but all samples are welcome, so feel free to bring along commercial varieties of wild fermented beer to share and pitch bottle dregs. Also feel free to bring yeast/bacterial slurries for pitching in addition to bottle dregs (they don’t have to be carbonated in a bottle). We will vote on our favorite homebrewed contribution, which will win some Phantom Carriage swag!
So basically, bring your homebrewed bottles of sour beer, or collect in a bottle or jar some of your slurry and sour beer for tasting from a carboy, or bring your favorite live culture commercial sour beers to the meeting for sampling, judging, and sour dreg pitching. Then on a later date and time we will be throwing it into a barrel at the brewery!
See you all at this Thursday’s Meeting!!
