– Big Bank Holiday Sour Showcase – 5 to 8 May
It is a situation that’s happened to each and every one of us before: you return to work the Tuesday after a Bank Holiday, and the first thing you get asked is: did you drink any massive sours over the big banky, pal? Too often, the response has to come in the negative: no, I did not indulge in any massive sours, or any variants thereof, over the big banky – in fact, it was a very small banky for me.
NOT THIS TIME THOUGH! From 5th May to Banky Holiday 8 May (as long as they last that long), we’ll be having a sour showcase, which means you’ll be able to return to your colleagues with a triumphant yell when they ask about your sour intake: YES I DID HAVE A BIG BANKY, THANK YOU CARL, I HAD THE FOUR BEST SOURS OF MY LIFE
We’ll be pouring –
Holy Goat – Guavanaut, 6.8%
Tropical Sour with Pink Guava and Passionfruit.
Primary fermented with a blend of Brettanomyces which throws out huge pineapple, tropical and stone fruit flavours, we refermented this base beer with over 220g/l of pink guava and passionfruit. The resulting beer is an astral voyage of tropical fruit and funk.
Queer Brewing – Mischief Run, 4%
Hedgerow Berliner Weisse
Based on a traditional Berliner Weisse recipe of pilsner and wheat malt, with just a few oats for extra body, Mischief Run is a fruit-forward but balanced sour, a light and cloudy pink with lots of blackberry, and a little floral gooseberriness. It’s a light, delicate, and balanced Berliner, with medium acidity and gooseberry tartness on the finish. There’ll be no hedging your bets with this one.
Pastore – Totalmente Tropicale, 3.8%
Fruited Berliner Weisse
A light spritzy berliner weisse style sour beer made with pineapples and grapefruits
Alvinne – Wild West Kriek Framboos, 6%
Flemish Sour Ale
Wild West is the barrel-aged version of Omega. Complex, refined flavours, originating from the tannins of the Bordeaux barrel and the wine that initially filled it create a light, refreshing sipping beer that blurs the differences between beer and wine.
– Proper Football Quiz returns, 25 May
We’ll quiz when we want /
We’ll quiz when we waaaaant /
Port Street Beer house /
We’ll quiz when we want*
* Please note: chanting in Port Street is not permitted – especially anything related to Sloop John B, which will be greeted with a lifetime ban. This is respectable bar, not a League One dead rubber.
£2 per person in on arrival (you can pay on card), max 5 a side, no bookings, walk-ups only.
– US Beer Showcase 14 – 16 April + La Collina Hot Dog Pop Up, 15 April
Heyyyyy I’m walking here! We’re celebrating… well, not all things American, but some of the better things that our cousins across the Atlantic have managed to do (namely: beer & hot dogs) this weekend with an AMERICAN SHOWCASE.
We’ll be pouring beers from the like of Other Half, Hudson Valley, and Magnify, plus we’ve invited our friends La Collina to come and serve up a selection of dogs on the 15th. See the full menus for each below –
BEER
Other Half
All Citra Everything – 8.5% Imperial IPA – £5.50 1/3
DDH Imperial IPA. A hazy Imperial IPA highlighting a single hop variety, Citra. Notes of lychee and sweet orange. A classic Other Half Citra bomb!
Green City – 6.8% Hazy IPA – £6.50 1/2
DDH hazy IPA. Our flagship IPA, Green City has juicy notes of peach rings, grapefruit, mango, and tropical candies. Loaded with oats for a creamy body that’s not too sweet.
Hudson Valley
Peach Silhouette – 5% Sour IPA – £6.00 1/2
Brunch-style Sour IPA w/ wheat and peach; hopped w/ Citra.
Diadem – 6% Pale Ale – £6.10 1/2
Pale Ale w/ wheat & oat, brewed & dry hopped exclusively with Nelson Sauvin.
Magnify
It’s all relative – 8% DDH Imperial IPA – £6.60 1/2
People often ask us about hopping rates and what exactly it means when a beer is double or triple dry hopped. The best answer is truly that It’s All Relative. This beer is hopped with Waimea and Citra in the whirlpool and double dry hopped with Waimea, Rakau, Galaxy and Simcoe Lupulin Powder.
Italian-American Style Hot Dogs
Served by our friends La Collina, from 3pm on April 15th –
Simple – £5
Italian Panini Sausage in a Bun with ketchup and American mustard
The Collina – £8
Italian Panini Sausage, Beer & Honey Braised Onions, 3 Cheese Sauce, Crispy Basil
Plant – £7
Plant Based ‘Sausage’, Beer & Honey Braised Onions, Sun Dried Tomato – Spinach & Cashew Nut
Pesto, Crispy Basil (Ve)
Messy Dog – £10
Italian Panini Sausage, Warm Bolognese, Gran Moravia, Crispy basil
– Easter Weekend at PSBH
Easter,[nb 1] also called Pascha[nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday,[nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead – and for this year’s celebration, we’ve got a similarly sensational return: WIZARD KING joins us for a live set from 8pm this Friday (8th). You may remember Wizard King from his memorable Mr. Blobby-themed sets at IMBC last year or, for those of you with memories a little longer, you could perhaps recall the first coming of our lord and saviour (and king of wizards) as he performed at our 7th birthday back in 2018. Absolutely hyped to welcome him back to the stage and, if you’ve not experienced the joy before… here’s a clip of his IMBC set.
Before that though, we welcome DJ Mitre & Papa Burgundy to the saloon for an Easter weekend Thursday (aka honorary Friday) night from 6pm, where they’ll be playing tunes suitable to sip a couple of pints of cask alongside, or to have a little dance (either in your chair or on the floor, your choice tbh). Legends of the scene, we’re happy to have them back too of course, but they were only here about two weeks ago – a resurrection of sorts, we suppose.
Free in, and all the usual. Plus, we’ve got our usual HAPPY HOUR until 4pm on Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Monday, with £4 pints of House Lager, House Pale, Schofferhofer, and Cider, as well as 20% off the entirety of our 7 Cask lines. Hallelujah.
