It’s IPA night at our monthly club meeting tomorrow - Thursday, May 17th, at Culver City Home Brewing Supply. We get things started at 7:30pm out back of the store, so bring your best homebrew or even a commercial beer and get to know some of your fellow club members!
Commercial Styles of the Month: India Pale Ales (IPAs), of which we’ll have a selection of great commercial beers to wet your palate on a warm spring evening.
Homebrew Kegs of the Month: India Pale Ales. Favorite keg each month wins a $25 gift certificate to CCHBS, so check out the upcoming style of the month on the website and start brewing! If interested in bringing a keg of your own to an upcoming meeting, sign up with our VP Dave, either at the club meetings or via email at: VicePresident@pacificgravity.com
COC: No Club-Only Competition this month, but on the horizon are Porters this summer. You can always contact Carl, our Competitions Coordinator, for more info or email him at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com
OC Road Trip: Our trip to Orange County is coming up in less than a month, so if you’d like to hop on the bus and take a ride down to check out the Bootleggers and Old Orange breweries with fellow PG members and enjoy some great beers and laughter on Saturday, June 9th, please sign up at the meeting and reserve your seat with the low fee of only $20. We need to know if there are enough interested parties to make this trip happen, so if you are interested, make sure to let Kurt know at the meeting, or you can shoot him an email at: RoadTrips@pacificgravity.com
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MAY TWENTY-TWELVE
UPCOMING EVENTS:
CLUB MEETING @ CCHBS: MAY 17TH, 7PM – INDIA PALE ALES
Hop withdrawal? This meeting is sure to cure what ales you. Bitterness never tasted so…bitter.
BIG BREW @ CARL’S HOUSE: 3621 REDWOOD AVE, LA – MAY 26TH, 10 AM TO 6PM
Join us for another multiple-brewer event at Brewmaster Carl’s house. Focus should be on brewing lots of beers for the Summer Party. Carl will be bolting the Thermosiphon Reboiler onto his new brewstand! Is that even legal?
FIRST FRIDAY @ THE CARRIAGE HOUSE TAP ROOM: 2379 21ST STREET, LA – JUNE 1ST, 7PM TO 11PM
Dan & Anne Hakes are hosting us at their lovely home for another fun First Friday. The beers will be flowing from the Carriage House’s taps – bring some to share, too! Potluck welcomed and encouraged.
ORANGE COUNTY BREWERY ROAD TRIP: SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH – 11AM TO 5PM
We had a great time last year down this way, so let’s do it again! We’ll be visiting Bootleggers Brewery and Old Orange Brewing. Cost to ride the bus is $20. See Kurt for more info or email him at roadtrips@pacificgravitycom
CLUB MEETING @ CCHBS: JUNE 21ST, 7PM – BROWN ALES
Are you down with the Brown? If you like your beers mild, malty, and easy-drinkin’, be sure to attend the June club meeting – it’s gonna be one big smoooothfest.
ON THE HORIZON:
FIRST SATURDAY @ CITY TAVERN: 9739 CULVER BLVD, CULVER CITY – JULY 7TH, 3:30PM TO 6:30PM
With over 20 beers on tap, even more in bottles, and delicious comfort food on the menu, this will be a great place to hang out on a mellow Saturday afternoon. Happy hour til 6, then the dinner crowd rolls in…
SUMMER PARTY @ NEIL’S: 12966 RUBENS AVE, MARINA DEL REY – SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM TO 9PM
Oktoberfest in July? You betcha! Join us for the first of our big parties of the year and bring your best German Potato Salad – we’ll have an informal competition and crown a winner…anybody have a crown we can borrow? Don‘t forget to brew a keg for it, too!
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Just a quick reminder that I will be collecting payments for the OC Road Trip this Thursday at the PG meeting. Response thus far has been light and unless we get a solid showing at the meeting, I’ll have to cancel the trip. Please don’t let this happen! Bootleggers and Old Orange are great breweries that are really looking forward to hosting us and it’s sure to be a great time.
- When? Saturday, June 9th, from 11am-5pm.
- How Much? $20 to ride the bus.
As always, please contact me if you have any questions.
