– New Years Eve 2013 at Port Street Beer House
Sick of fighting to get a table on New Years Eve? Always stuck for an idea how to spend ‘the most anticipated night of the year’? We may have the answer!
The upstairs saloon of Port Street Beer House will be available for table reservations on NYE. Tables will be booked out for a minimum of 4 people and bookings will be reserved with a £10 deposit per person. This deposit will be returned to you on the night in the form of a bar tab. For example, if you book a table for 4 people, you’ll need to leave £40 deposit but on the night you’ll have a £40 bar tab set up waiting for you.
We have a limited number of tables so put in a booking request and providing we can accommodate your group we’ll be in touch to arrange the deposit.
In addition to the table booking you can also pre book a special bottle or two for your group or a delicious Great North Pie, peas and gravy which will be brought to you at your table.
The downstairs bar at Port Street will be open as usual all night so you can choose whether to mingle around or hang out with your group upstairs. Service will be until 1am (ish).
NYE at PSBH / 4pm until 1am (ish)
– Table reservation / £10 per person (redeemable bar tab)
– Great North Pie, peas and gravy available to pre order alongside special NYE beers
Please email jamie@aplacecalledcommon.co.uk with your name, contact number and how many people you would like to book for.
We will get back to ASAP with a booking form.
– Old and Dark Festival 2013 / Tuesday 3rd December – Sunday 22nd December
It’s that wonderful time of year once again! Yes it is cold…and arguably miserable. True it is getting dark so early that it feels like there’s barely any point getting out of bed. Indeed it could be said a commercial Christmas is being stuffed into our brains at every opportunity…
However! This means it is the perfect time to comfort ourselves with some Old, Dark and generally delicious beers! As ever we have tried our hardest and harassed multiple excellent brewers into providing us with an array of their darkest and most delightful beers. These brewers include Moor, Brewfist, Kernel, Magic Rock, Fyne, Thornbridge, Summer Wine, Fyne, Ashover, Quantum, Black Jack, Brewdog, Hopcraft, Kirkstall, Black Edge and others.
Some are old favourites, whilst others are new and exciting ones to try for the first time. You’ll have to come in to find out which though and yes those who’re not dark beer appreciators we’ll keep a token offering to placate you.
We hope this will offset the trauma of this challenging month…and are pretty confident it will-it worked last year anyway!
– Photos / Meet The Brewer with The Kernel – Monday 26th November
Our final Meet The Brewer of 2013 was host by Evin O’Riordain The Kernel, more of an education in ‘beer philosophy’, this was a great end to our event schedule.
We had the pleasure of sampling Citra IPA, Barrel Aged Biere De Table, Raspberry Sour, Double 4 C and London Export Stout 1890.
Thanks to all who made it down to fastest selling Meet the Brewer event of this year! Here’s to 2014, see you at our next event on Monday 27th January. More information will be revealed on Thursday 2nd January 2014, tickets will also be available from this date.
– Up and Coming / Hopcraft
Every once in a while, pretty much just by chance, you taste a beer that you have never heard of before, have no idea who brewed it and your jaw drops. Recently I was lucky enough to have one of those experiences here at Port Street with a beer from a fairly new brewery named Hopcraft.
Hopcraft Brewery in Pontyclun, South Wales, has been in full production for almost half a year now and has been in the public eye since mid 2012. It is a partnership of Tom Barlow and Steve Lewis from Pixie Springs and Gazza Prescott from Steel City in Sheffield. Together they have opened up a new 10 barrel brewery to fulfil their needs, a place to make Pixie Springs beverages on a bigger scale, and also for Gaz to have a place to make crazy hoppy liquids.
Considering they’re relatively new, Hopcraft have made quite a number of beers. As their name suggests they’re not afraid of using hops liberally and have a tendency to use them well, a good example of this is their highly drinkable Mosaic Plus, this is a common theme throughout their beers. The guys have also made some pretty exciting, quite different beers such as Graveyard Eyes a Sorachi Aci porter that has wowed staff and customers alike. As they are already demonstrating a high proficiency in their hop use and a pioneering attitude towards making new and interesting beers it seems highly likely we can expect more good things from this brewery.