– Manchester Beer Week Collab Fest
Manchester Beer Week Collab Fest
Thursday 16th June 2016
7pm – late
We are proudly the venue for the launch of the inaugural Manchester Beer Week‘s specially commissioned collaboration beers to celebrate the hip hip happening that is MBW. Here’s some words from Manchester Beer Week on the event…
“Your chance to get first dibs on four collaboration beers being brewed exclusively for Manchester Beer Week.
Four of the best breweries from Manchester are teaming up with four of the biggest names from outside the city to produce some mouthwatering one-offs. The magical pairings are:
Blackjack x Thornbridge
Cloudwater x Magic Rock
Quantum x Buxton
Runaway x Hawkshead
Your first chance to try them all – and ask the brewers about their creations – will be at one of the city’s best-known watering holes, the inimitable Port Street Beer House.
We’ve set these talented brewers loose with just one piece of guidance – brew something inspired by Manchester.”
Can’t wait. Do join, won’t you.
– IMBC 16 Ticket Launch
IMBC 2016 TICKET LAUNCH
Wednesday 15th June 2016 / 6pm – late / free entry
at Port Street Beer House
Manchester Beer Week
Join us for an Indy Man Beer Con 2016 ticket launch party at Port Street as part of Manchester Beer Week. This will be your first chance to buy tickets for this year’s IMBC (Victoria Baths, 6th-9th October) and will be available on the night in advance of general release. General release tickets will happen at 9pm so get in a whole three hours early – a great chance to secure your place at the winner’s table for those savoured IMBC sessions.
We’re exciting to be hosting the ticket launch (alongside sister pub, The Beagle) for our very own beer festival, Indy Man Beer Con.
To celebrate we are offering up free beer from Against The Grain (Kentucky, USA) and complimentary snacks from everyone’s favourite Indian street food supremos, Bundobust. Keep an eye and ear out for pop-up bottle tastings throughout the evening from Siren Craft Brew, Northern Monk, and Runaway. Manchester Beer Week favourites will also be in full effect across the bar, naturally.
Come along and raise a glass to #IMBC16
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Indy Man Beer Con / Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th October 2016 / Victoria Baths, Manchester M13 0FE
www.indymanbeercon.co.uk
Independent Manchester Beer Convention (Indy Man Beer Con/IMBC) is a world class showcase for the best breweries from the UK and beyond. Taking over the stunning surrounds of the Grade II listed, architectural gem Victoria Baths for its 5th year from Thursday 6th October to Sunday 9th October, IMBC brings together the most progressive, forward thinking breweries from across the UK, Europe and USA for a multisensory, headlong, hop- forward beer extravaganza. And then some!
– PSBH x Cloudwater x SFTOC
We’re dragging our bones to sunny (hopefully) Salford this May bank holiday Sunday for the latest instalment of long-running festival, Sounds from the Other City. Catch Portable Street Beer House in full effect with our good friends Cloudwater as we run a bar that’ll be situated just behind Islington Mill in the Regent Trading Estate, Unit 5 to be precise. The beers we’ll be bringing will pair well with new music and art.
Not got your ticket for Sounds from the Other City yet? Act fast because they’ve almost sold out. Secure your place HERE. Hope to see you there.
– Siren Tap Takeover review by Cameron Steward
It’s nearing the end of the Siren Craft Brew Tap Takeover when I find myself shoulder to shoulder with head brewer Markus Wagner. I’ve made a modest impact on the extensive selection he’s brought along (7 cask and 7 keg) and at this moment I’m gently nursing a Caribbean Chocolate Cake (8.5%), which tonight has been exclusively ‘nitro-fied’, intensifying the lactose creaminess and ascending an already wonderful beer to some astral plane, upon which only the most heavenly items known to mankind can be found. In other words, I was bloody enjoying it!
My journey to this part of the night was littered with other glories; highlights including Vanilla Weisse (a 4% vanilla-infused Beliner Weisse), which was sharp and fully rounded, with the vanilla ironing out those acerbic edges. There was also the Caribbean Chocolate Orange Cake (8.5%), which took the original Triple C and made it taste like Liquid Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Needless to say it was decadent beyond belief!
It was equally excellent to revisit Undercurrent (4.5%) an Oatmeal Pale and finally try Liquid Mistress (5.5%), a zingy Red Ale, both on cask. However a couple of pales didn’t quite reach the heady heights of their more established brethren, with Proteus (4%) lacking the hoppy punch it promised and Vermont Tea Party (a 3.6% pale with Earl Grey and lemon zest), although kinda resembling the magnificence of their other Earl Grey-infused wonder Love of Work, just wasn’t as spectacular. New kid on the block Peligrosos (5.6%) on the other hand was a dangerously juicy IPA, bursting with peach and magic.
So we’ve come full circle and back to the exchange between myself and Mr. Wagner, where I manage to prod him about hops and the recent influx of Double and Triple IPAs. He confesses he’s no real interest in these, opting for weirder, darker delights and bizarre concoctions that hibernate in barrels before reaching the high standard he brings to the brewery – he cut his teeth as part of the barrel ageing and sour beer-ing programme at Firestone Walker don’t y’know?! And just as he reveals this information I receive a thimble of their collaboration with Mikkeller and Hill Farmstead, Whiskey Sour IPA (10.2%). A beer that effortlessly (although I’m sure loads of effort went into) showcases the best example of barrel ageing I’d ever laid my lips on. Offering a wealth of sharp citrus, delicately hushed by the sweet bourbon, both of which sing in perfect harmony. There’s also a deep, rich oakiness and soft vanilla sweetness that compliment every languorous sip.
I’ve been called to the deep. And I don’t wanna go back.
Words and photographs by Cameron Steward. Check out Cameron’s excellent All You Need Is Beer blog
