– Beers of the Year 2015
Does anybody remember 2015? The beer drinkers below do! Here’s some highlights from our End of the Year 2015 survey…
RICHARD BROWNHILL
Little Leeds Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Buxton/Omnipollo Ice Cream Pale
Tilquin/Rulles ‘Rullquin Stout’
Wild Beer Co Redwood 2015
Quantum Stock Ale
Moor So’Hop (cans
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Gueuzerie Tilquin
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Five amazing days in Copenhagen – nowhere near long enough. Also another amazing year of festivals – Leeds International and IMBC topping the bill as usual!
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JAMES MOFFAT
Port Street Beer House / IMBC
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N Brett
Boon / Mikkeller Oude Geuze
Buxton Red Raspberry Rye
Lervig / Way 3 Bean Stout
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
I can’t choose…Far too many to choose from this year.
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Working on IMBC was great. Brewing Dark Mass with Quantum.
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DAVE HARRISON-WARD
Macclesfield Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly Sundae – Buxton/Omnipollo
Flat White – Alphabet Brewing Company
Yeastus Christus – To Øl
Airforce Gator – Quantum
Ahtanum Sour – Chorlton Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Opening a brewery (Macclesfield Brewing Company)! After that IMBC 2015 of course!
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ARLO
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N’ Brett
Quantum Air Force Gator
Burning Sky Cuveé
Siren/Mikkeller BA Daydream
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Siren established / Track new
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
When the American Pallet came to Port Street with Westbrook and Jacks Abbey stuff!
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CARL MCBRIDE
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Other Half – All Green Everything
Deschutes – Freshly Squeezed IPA
Omnipollo – Noa Pecan Mud Cake
Toccalomato – Zona Cesarini
Epic – Hop Zombie
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Omnipollo
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LEONA NORBURY
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon ‘Pech ‘n’ Brett’
Alesmith ‘Vietnamese Speedway Stout’
Siren BA ‘Nacken’
8 Wired ‘Feijoa Sour 2013
Lervig & Way Beers ‘3 Bean Stout’
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Pohjala (Estonia)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Borefts Bier Festival 2015 – The Netherlands
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Mikkeller/BrewDog Pale Ale Swindle
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Cloudwater IPA
Okologisk Herslev Bryghus IPA
Jakehead IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Cloudwater
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
IMBC
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LIAM HOWARD
Port Street Beer House Abandonee
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
The Bruery – Tart of Darkness
Lervig & Way – 3 Bean Stout
Buxton & Arizona Wilderness – Deep Rainbow Valley
Brew By Numbers – 11/03 Session IPA Mosaic
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Track
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Brewing at Quantum
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MYSTERY GLUTEN INTOLERANT DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Green’s Gutsy Dark Ale
Green’s Discovery
Mikkeller American Dream Gluten Free
To Øl Reparationsbajer Gluten Free
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Green’s
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
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SCOTT KENNETH JACKSON
The Beagle
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Lervig / Way’s 3 Bean Stout (actual favourite)
Brouwerij Alvinne’s Cuvée de Mortagne Pedro Ximenez
Buxton’s Two Ton IPA
Burning Sky’s Cuvée 2015
Hawkshead / Crooked Stave’s Key Lime Tau (UK Version)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton (honourable mention: Track)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Discussing Game of Thrones and sharing that bottle of Pedro Ximenez barrel-aged Cuvée de Mortagne with the best people in the world following my last ever shift at Port Street.
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Omnipollo Bianca Mango Lassie Gose
Mikkeller / Lindemann Spontanbasil
The Kernel Table Beer
Pressure Drop Pale Fire
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Beavertown Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
What’s Brewing, Stavanger, Norway
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ANDREW BAUCKHAM
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Jack’s Abbey – Hoponious Union
Lervig/Way – Three Bean Stout
Wild Beer Co – The Blend 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
Marble – 125 Imperial Russian Stout, Burgundy
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
The Bruery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Supervising at IMBC
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts
Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker
Dieu Du Ciel Disco Soleil
Cloudwater IPA
Rule of Thirds IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
To Øl
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Weekend trip to Copenhagen
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly (Buxton / Omnipollo)
Nebuchadnezzar (Omnipollo)
Two Ton (Buxton)
Fuck Art Let’s Dance (To Øl)
Molotov Cocktail (Evil Twin)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Indy Man Beer Convention
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Black Jack Dragon’s Tears
Weird Beard – Double Pearl (MacCallan barrel)
Wild Beer – BrettBrett
Cloudwater – Autumn NZ Hopfenweiss
Wild Beer – Redwood
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Wild Beer
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Any trip to Cloudwater Tap
– 5th Birthday Celebrations
5 beers, 5 Years
January 25-31st
Collaboration Launch night: Thursday 28th January: 7pm-late
In January 2010 something exciting happened, Port Street Beer House opened its doors for the first time! Since then there have been hundreds of Meet the Brewer events, over 30+ Tap Takeovers, 20+ Collaboration brews and the birth of our sister Indy Man Brew House, 10+ Portable Street Beer House events and 4 Indy Man Beer Conventions.
In an ever-growing market of beer houses Port Street has been there. So to celebrate 5 years in the big game we are throwing a week-long party, highlighted by our 5 years, 5 beers launch party on Thursday 28th January.
Every year, to celebrate our birth we collaborate with someone special to make something special. Previous years have seen a Rosemary, Red Pepper and Fennel Wit with Mad Hatter, a Sour Cherry and Pink Peppercorn Porter with Outstanding, a Saison DuPont brewed with Summer Wine, Magic Rock, Redwillow, Dark Star & Quantum and a Satsuma IPA with Blackjack. This year we thought we would challenge ourselves even further and brew 5 beers for the one night. We are working hard to bring you the following very special brews:
1) Arbor – 4 Hop Bomb Pale
2) Vocation – Citra & Mosaic Pale
3) Cloudwater – Tea Sour
4) Northern Monk – Imperial Mild
5) Runaway, Squawk & Track – Grapefruit Pale
The rest of the week will hold special curated cask and keg lines featuring some of our favourite local, national and international breweries, as well as some specially matured bottles from our cellar that we have been hiding away for a special occasion.
– Hawkshead Tap Takeover
Wednesday 16th December 2015 // 7pm // free entry
This is going to be good. Hawkshead, one of our favourite breweries, join us at Port Street and they’re bringing out the big guns…
BEER LIST
CASK
WINDERMERE PALE
3.5% Pale Ale
DRY STONE STOUT
4.5% Stout
IPA
7.0% IPA
GREAT WHITE
4.8% Wheat Beer
CUMBRIAN 5 HOP
5.0% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
KEG
TONKA BEAN
8.5% Tonka bean stout
ITI
3.5% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
WILD SOLAR SOUR WHEAT
4.0% Blend of Wheat Beer & Berliner Weisse
BOURBON BA OAT WINE
9.0% Bourbon barrel aged oat wine. Collaboration with Wild Beer
WILD WHEAT
4.8% Wheat beer
BRODIE’S PRIME EXPORT
8.5% Stout
SUNDOWN
4.5% Amber ale
KEY LIME TAU
6.3% Key lime pie sour beer. Collaboration with Crooked Stave
CROOKED STAVE KEY LIME TAU
7.0% Crooked Stave’s version of Key Lime Tau
+ + +
3 varieties of Oat Wine in bottles. Standard Oat Wine, Bourbon BA, Cider Brandy BA.
Mission statement from Hawkshead…
At Hawkshead Brewery we make the sort of beer we like to drink. We brew distinctive, flavourful, modern beers. Hawkshead is one of the most successful of the new wave of independent breweries which have ignited public excitement about beer and furthered the renaissance of British brewing. Our beer is full of flavour, handmade, crafted, bold, personal and made by people who LOVE BEER for people who love beer.
– Port Street Beer School / Tasting Sessions
The Port Street Beer School is RETURNING!
In January when Christmas blues have struck and the cupboard is bare, cheer yourself up with a trip to Port Street for an introductory class into the world of craft beer. Expect to be talked through a variety of beers from around the globe, find out the processes behind them, the truth behind the complex taste, the history of the style and more as one of our beer experts explains all and answers any questions. Also expect to drink lots of beer!
Sessions are limited to 12 people.
As an extra gift to you we will then give you 10% off your beer for the rest of the evening at Port Street!
Makes a perfect gift for Christmas! BOOK NOW via Eventbrite
SUNDAY 10th JANUARY 1pm-3pm
TUESDAY 12th JANUARY 7.30pm-9.30pm
Tickets are priced at £19.40