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– Mikkeller Hop-topia Tasting
We just wanted to have a bit of a follow up to our fantastic Mikkeller Hop-topia tasting on Monday, hopefully you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Alas as the night went on our ability to make meaningful tasting notes diminished, so I thought this might be an opportunity for you to submit yours, let us know what your favourites were and why.
Also here’s some photos of the evening:
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– A Shot In The Dark / by Jay Krause
Autumn is in the air. The cool mornings of summer are giving way to the crisp early hours of my favourite season. The evenings are getting shorter and the cars are switching on their headlights sooner. The midday sun is present but weaker, getting further away in accordance to our orbit. In the early evening, bars in pubs are becoming places of sanctuary and the pumps are seeing the introduction of more and more seasonal dark beers.
This is all very welcome to me, and one of the reasons autumn is my favourite season. I absolutely love dark beer, in all its forms. Stouts, Porters, Dark Milds, Schwartzbiers, Dunkels, Black IPAs, and every other type of beer which absorbs light – I love them. (more…)
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– Hop-topia Palate Cleansing tips.
Hey guys. Not long now until our Hop-topia tasting event here at Port Street Beer House.
Trying 19 single hop IPA’s in one intense session.
For the people lucky enough to get a ticket we have a few ground rules that are recommended before taking part in such an onslaught on the Palate.
On the day strong flavours need to be avoided to keep your tongue up to scratch, you will need to avoid tea, coffee and smoking (within reason). Preferably no spicy food would have been eaten for 48 hours prior and definitely not garlic for 24 hours.
We will be offering water and palate cleansing items to rid your kisser of the pungent hop.
We will need everyone here 6pm prompt as we have a strict schedule that needs to be adhered to, if not Will will have a barney.
Roll out experimenters.
PSBH
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– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Red Willow
Here are some lovely pictures from our evening with Toby Mckenzie from Red Willow. Yet another successful ‘Meet The Brewer’ .
The next event will be on Monday 31st October with Quantum – more details next week.