Holiday Party 2025 Saturday Dec 6th
Ho Ho Ho Pacific Gravity!
The time is here! Our 2025 Holiday Party is this Saturday 12/6 at 5pm at Neil’s Duplex. We will also announce announce the Member of the Year and the Brewer of the Year awards.
The menu will likely be similar to past holiday parties featuring meat on the BBQ, deep fried turkeys, spiced ham and much more!
You can help! Although the club will be providing many of the main dishes, this is still a pot luck party – so bringing your favorite party dish will surely be appreciated!
If you have a favorite family holiday recipe and want to share it with the rest of us, this is your chance! If you have any questions about what to bring you can ask Chef Ian (masterchef@pacificgravity.com). Some general suggestions would include any kind of main dish but especially all side dishes, veggie dishes, salads, desserts and appetizers! People have traditionally brought Carbonnades ala Flamande – if anyone wants to go for it and has fear, there is a simple instant pot recipe that can give you a starting point.
This is an outdoor event… it will be cold! Please plan accordingly!
Bring a chair if you can!
Holiday Party Clean up will be Sunday, December 7th at 10am – Please help out if you can.
Holiday Party: Saturday December 6, at 5:00 PM.
12966 Rubens Ave
Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
Beer
Got beer? We need all types of beer, meads, cider and sodas for this event. Pull out your favorite holiday beverage, dust off the bottle or keg and bring it down! We’ll have front bar portion of our serving system set up to help dispense your holiday homebrews. If you plan to bring beer, soda or other seasonally festive beverage, please contact Carl at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com & let him know what you will bring. Everyone who signs up in advance will have a festive tap tag.
Anniversary Beer News
I believe we will have kegs of both the Project Barley English Barleywine (donated by Rives – THANK YOU!) and the Firestone Belgian Dark Strong on Amburana. We should also have some pre-release bottles of the Smog City belgian single and the Cellador sour on cherries and black currents for sampling.
Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers
Upcoming Events
- Dec 6 : Holiday Party at 5:00!
- Dec 7 : Holiday Party cleanup at 10 am
- Jan 4 : First Friday (Sunday) at Firestone Propagator 12 pm
Holiday Party Setup Sunday, 11/30
Ho Ho Ho Pacific Gravity!
Our 2025 Holiday Party is rapidly approaching, but first we need your help!
This Sunday 11/30/25 at noon we will be doing the setup (and drinking beer!) over at Neil’s, so come on down and lend a hand! Not only do we need help with setup we will also need supplies and equipment from those who can provide it. This is our First Friday Event for the month of December.
In addition to setup help, things we likely need are:
Beer – Details/Sign up Info below
Firewood
Outdoor fire pit
Propane heater\outdoor heater
Chairs
Tables,
E-Z ups (canopies)
Power strips
CO2 Tanks
Holiday Party Setup Sunday, 11/30 at 12:00pm.
12966 Rubens Ave, Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
Holiday Party 2025 will be Saturday, December 6th at 5pm
12966 Rubens Ave, Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
Holiday Party Clean up will be Sunday, December 7th at 10am – Please help out if you can.
12966 Rubens Ave, Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
Holiday Party Details
The Holiday party will be a Neil’s Duplex on December 6th at 5:00PM. Also, we will announce the Member of the Year Award and the Brewer of the year award.
The menu will likely be similar to past holiday parties featuring meat on the BBQ, deep fried turkeys, spiced ham and much more!
You can help! Although the club will be providing many of the main dishes, this is still a pot luck party – so bringing your favorite party dish will surely be appreciated!
If you have a favorite family holiday recipe and want to share it with the rest of us, this is your chance! If you have any questions about what to bring you can ask Chef Ian (masterchef@pacificgravity.com). Some general suggestions would include any kind of main dish but especially all side dishes, veggie dishes, salads, desserts and appetizers! People have traditionally brought Carbonnades ala Flamande – if anyone wants to go for it and has fear, there is a simple instant pot recipe that can give you a starting point.
Beer
Got beer? We need all types of beer, meads, cider and sodas for this event. Pull out your favorite holiday beverage, dust off the bottle or keg and bring it down! We’ll have front bar portion of our serving system set up to help dispense your holiday homebrews. If you plan to bring beer, soda or other seasonally festive beverage, please contact Carl at: Competitions@pacificgravity.com & let him know what you will bring. Everyone who signs up in advance will have a festive tap tag.
This is an outdoor event… it will be cold! Please plan accordingly!
Bring a chair if you can!
Holiday Party: Saturday 12/6, at 5:00 PM.
12966 Rubens Ave
Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)
Anniversary Beer News
Last weekend we had a blast bottling our collaboration beers with both Smog City (Belgian Single) and Cellador (most excellent sour on cherries and black currents) – thanks to everyone who came to help out! Both Porter and Alex were great hosts as always and shepherded us through the process. Both beers will be better with a bit more age on them, so not SURE they will be available at the holiday party or not, but we shall see – hopefully we will have a keg of the Smog. The Firestone beer is doing well, and hopefully we can get a keg for the holiday party. The Project Barley beer (English Barleywine) is tasting pretty great and Rives plans on bringing some to the the party!
Upcoming Events
- Nov 30 : Holiday Party Setup at noon
- Dec 6 : Holiday Party at 5:00!
- Dec 7 : Holiday Party Cleanup at 10:00am
Club Meeting This Thurs Nov 20 at Tortugo Brewery
Please come join us for our last meeting of the year at our home base at Tortugo this Thursday 11/20 at 7:30. Our styles of the month are ambers and browns.
Craig will be bringing some of our 30th Anniversary Tee Shirts ($20) and glasses ($5) – this will be the last opportunity for purchase in 2025!
Voting – Member of the Year and 2026 Board
We will also be voting for member of the year and the board for 2026. If you have additional nominations, you may email elections@pacificgravity.com by midnight Wed 11/19 and they will be added to the ballot (or people can also write in if need be). If you will be unable to attend, members may vote by email by sending to that same address on Thurs 11/20 until 9pm.
Current Nominations:
Member of the year: Joe Kovatch, Dean Sussman, Carl Townsend, Parker Waechter
Board Nominees:
President – Parker Waechter
Vice President – Terry Molloy
Treasurer – Craig Corley
Holiday Party
The annual PG holiday party is rapidly approaching and will be held on Saturday 12/6 at Neil’s Duplex (12966 Rubens Ave, Los Angeles, CA. (at Alla Road)).
Carl will have a signup sheet at the meeting for kegs you will be bringing so he can make his traditional festive tap tags(tm). Chef Ian will be doing his culinary magic as always, but we always need some more salads, sides, deserts etc, so please start thinking about how you can dazzle with kitchen skills to match your brewing skills!
The weekend before the party (Nov 29/30) we will be doing setup for the party. I know it is Thanksgiving weekend, so at the meeting we will vote on Saturday vs Sunday to get the most people to help out.Many hands makes for light work…yada yada.
Anniversary Beer News
We have completed the final 2 brews (Smog City and Firestone Walker)! This Sunday we could use help bottling the Smog City Batch, and likely also the Cellador batch (both at Cellador across the parking lot from Smog). More details will be provided as soon as they are available. We successfully had club anniversary collaboration brews at 5 breweries (Tortugo, Cellador, Project Barley, Smog City and Firestone). The Tortugo beers have been sold out for months and mostly happily consumed – thanks Joe! I believe all the others will be available for tasting at the Holiday Party. We should be very proud that we have this much support from the professional brewing community!
Hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday!
Parker Waechter – President, Pacific Gravity Homebrewers
November Monthly Meeting Thurs 11/20/2025 at 7:30 PM
Tortugo Brewing Co.
916 W. Hyde Park Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90302
(424) 227-9963
Upcoming Events
- Nov 20 : Club Meeting at Tortugo Brewing Company 7pm (Styles: brown and amber beer)
- Nov 29 or 30 – Holiday Party Setup
- Dec 6 : Holiday Party!
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