– Teacake presents : A Pint Of Mixed / Eggs No Soldiers & Other Unseen Moments
From March 1st 2012 Teacake will be exhibiting a special collection of photographs taken by the late Tom Culley. Split over two venues, this installation of large-scale images offers a glimpse into the varied past times of one man and his closest companions.
Discovered inadvertently, these images taken from a collection of over 5000 meticulously cherished slides portray life through the eyes of an accomplished amateur photographer. Always fascinated by the colourful antics of ordinary people enjoying extraordinary activities this perspective is both personal and insightful.
Only ever before seen as part of a good old-fashioned slide show theseare nostalgic, heart-warming and often-humorous portraits of life as it happened.
Tom’s passion for photography was simple; his aim was to preserve the funniest, most charming, most special and most poignant moments in order to share them with his loved ones.
Now we are lucky enough to be able to share them with you in the form of ‘Eggs no Soldiers’‚ at Common and ‚’A Pint of Mixed’ at Port Street Beer House.
/ BIOGRAPHY
Born on the 17th August 1925, Thomas Culley attended St Peters School, Accrington. In 1939 he was apprenticed as a painter and decorator at Milton Fodens. Before joining the Royal Navy as an Able Seamen in the Gunnery Branch Battleship King George V in 1943. As part of the Pacific fleet he was present at the formal surrender of the Japanese in Tokyo Bay 1945.
Returning home, Tom joined the Lancashire County Fire Brigade and served as a Sub Officer for 30 years at Accrington Fire Station. He received the long service medal and good conduct medal in 1971 before retiring in 1980. As a keen fisherman and model boat enthusiast Tom enjoyed a full itinerary of hobbies including painting, drawing and shooting cine films. An avid reader, he also had an extensive knowledge of local history. Tom died at the age of 84 in Lancashire on the 8th April 2010.
Teacake presents
EGGS NO SOLDIERS & other unseen moments captured by the late Tom Culley
Opening night – Thursday 1st March 2012 – 6.00pm onwards
@ Common, Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HW
Exhibition continues – 2nd March 2012 – Late July 2012
followed by :
A PINT OF MIXED & other unseen moments captured by the late Tom Culley
Opening night – Thursday 1st March 2012 – 7.30pm onwards
@ Port Street Beer House, Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ
Exhibition continues – 2nd March 2012 – 2013
All prints are for sale – please enquire behind the bar or drop us an email – cheers!
– Perfect winter warmers
We have couple of special super-limited beers on the bar today.
Firstly, available for a very limited period is Thornbridge Bracia aged for 3 years in Pedro Ximinez casks. Thornbridge’s multi award winning, much lauded beer, the brainchild of their recently departed head brewer Steffano Cossi. The strong, dark, old ale/stout is a triumph in it’s bottle conditioned form, but we have one of a few casks of a barrel aged version, the choice of barrel was the famous Pedro Ximinez sherry casks. The PX sherry is famed for it’s deep almost treacle sweetness, with lots of dark and stewed fruit flavours along with deep oak flavours from the wood combine with the ale to give a complex and very refined finish to the beer. Definitely one to try while it’s here, just sip at a third and enjoy.
Also while we’re on the subject of big beers, we have one firkin of Moor Beer‘s ‘Sloe Walker’, another prize winning beer given a twist, a seasonal version of Old Freddy Walker, with sloes surprisingly enough. After a days foraging, a whole bunch of sloes are cleaned, frozen and pricked then weighed out and distributed among 10 casks, the beer is then racked over the top and left to mature for several months. The result gives a subtle acidity counterbalancing the bold flavours of the beer, it’s recommended you leave it to warm up a little to allow the flavours to really come out.
Words by Jonathan Heyes
– Saison Liaison – Part 2 / By William France
Last Thursday we had the pleasure of launching our collaborative birthday beer, “Anniversary: Saison DuPort”, a traditional farmhouse ale, dangerously drinkable at 6%. Collaborating with some of the countries most progressive brewers the temptation is to go for hops, hops and more hops, we decided to go for traditional and subtle instead, staying pretty true to style and letting the yeast do the talking.
So what’s in store for the Saison now? …..It will surface at Port Street a few times before the year is out, on keg & cask, please keep an eye out for it.
Also, the word on the street is that it’s going to be in some of the UK’s finest purveyors of the malt based beverage that is beer.The Sparrow in Bradford, Cask Pub & Kitchen in London, Mr Foley’s in Leeds, The Evening Star in Brighton and the Free Trade Inn in Newcastle have all said they would take our creation. These amazing places share our love of beer and we are so proud to have it winging it’s way to them.
The beer is also being bottled and aged, allowing the yeast to carry on doing it’s thing, we’ll maybe crack some of these on our next anniversary.
Big thanks go first of all to the brewers Summer Wine Brewery, Red Willow, Quantum, Magic Rock and Darkstar.
Not only but also, our pumpclip design and production by Alex Humphreys (Illustration), Kunstkammer (Graphic Design), Savwo (Print and ink dribbling).
Word by William France
– Meet The Brewer with Brodie’s Brewery / Monday 27th February
Our second Meet The Brewer of 2012 welcomes our first London guests, Brodies. This will coincide with the launch of our small festival ‘London Week’ running from Tuesday 28th February until Sunday 4th March
// Brewery info
In June 2008 Jamie and Lizzie Brodie took over an abandoned brewery in East London. After six weeks hard work cleaning, replacing missing equipment and fixing up what was left, Brodie’s beers was born.
Brodies IPA was first brewed on the 8th August. Based on a recipe that Jamie used to brew in his bath at home it proved to be a hit with punters. Two years and thirty nine different beers later Brodie’s is still going strong. We even have our own small (very small) bottling machine incase you want to take some of our beer home with you!
Port Street Beer School presents …. Meet The Brewer with Brodies
SOLD OUT
Monday 27th February 2012 / 5.30pm – 8pm (event starts at 6.15pm prompt)
Port Street Beer House, Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ