– American Beer Festival / Update
It’s our first proper beer festival here at Port Street and what better way to start than celebrating the most creative craft brewing scene in the world. We launched the American Beer Festival on Monday 27th June with an intimate ticketed event. Around 60 of you came to sample the beer and helped turn the night into a celebration of all things American. We put on a few snacks, the cornbread in particular had mixed reactions, but overall went down a treat. (more…)
– What Is A Craft Beer? / By Steve Dunkley
To be brutally honest, no-one really knows. There are all sorts of articles and postings on the internet where people claim to know the definition of what a craft brewer is. It’s easy enough to define what an American Craft Brewer is, because they have an association and a definition: Small, Independent and Traditional. But for them small is less than 6 million barrels of beer a year. That’s a whopping 1.7 billion pints. Not sound so whopping? Here’s a bit of maths; in the UK each day 28 million pints of beer are consumed, which equates to 1.02 billion pints a year. And by beer, that’s all beer including lager and even stuff like Tennents Super and Special Brew. (more…)
– Event / American Beer Festival
Starting on Monday 27th June PSBH will be having its first festival. We will be celebrating ‘Uncle Sam’s finest, the most creative craft brewing scene in the world’.
There will be an opening event with the ‘Port Street Beer School’ which includes talks, exclusive tastings and lots of fun. This will be a ticketed event for just 60 people, tickets will be on sale next week. On Sunday 3rd July we are also having an American BBQ, if you came to Common’s ‘American Afternoon’ last year you will know what to expect!
On offer throughout the festival there will be cask, draught and bottles from Anchor, Brooklyn, Caldera, Coronado, Dogfish, Flying Dog, Goose Island, Great Divide, Indigo Imp, Kona, Left Hand, Maui, Odell, Rouge, Saranac, Sierra Nevada, Sudwerk, Uinta & Victory. The festival runs until the selected beers have gone!
Opening event / Monday 27th June – 6pm : Port Street Beer School American Beer Tasting – ticketed event
Sunday 3rd July : An American BBQ, beers, burgers, mega sausages and possibly sunshine.
Tickets for the ‘Port Street Beer School ‘are on sale NOW from the venue at £9 each.
You can purchase over the bar or call us on 0161 237 9949
cheers!
– To Keg Or Not To Keg / By Jonathan Heyes
Of late I’ve had a jolly old time picking through the various blogs written on the contentious, if imaginary keg vs cask debate, I say imaginary because personally I don’t think the versus part is real I think they should really be partners in crime. For those of you who have missed it here’s a quick recap, forgive the gross generalisations here but hey I’m short on space, CAMRA believe essentially all good beer/real ale comes in cask/container in which it is subject to a secondary fermentation, ie ‘IT’s ALIVE!’ and is dispensed via a traditional handpump. Keg is seen to not achieve this as the liquid in side is almost in stasis and is dispensed via a pressurised system, which provides a generally colder more carbonated finish. There is a third way, keykeg, but that’s for another post. As the bloggers and CAMRA seem soon to be locked in a deadly embrace which i fear neither will emerge with more dignity than they started with I thought it might be time for me to throw my hat in the ring. (more…)