Port Street Beer House | Northern Quarter beer house, pub, drinking hole

– Beer Review of the Year

To round off our first year we thought we’d do a little bit of a survey of staff, suppliers, friends and regulars to find out what floated their beer boats in 2011. We present the results. We asked for people’s top 10 or top 5 beers and their best beer based experience, please feel free to join the discussion with your favourites in the comments section. Many thanks to all of you who took the time to contribute, it’s much appreciated:

 

Jonny (Port Street Beer House)

 

Coalition – Darkstar/Thornbridge

Deconstruction – Odell

Vuur and Vlam – De Molen

Saison du Buff – Stone/Victory/Dogfish.

Imperial IPA Centennial – Flying Dog

London Fields – Brodies

Kernel – Export Stout

Illusion – Moor Beer

Summer wine – Diablo

High Wire – Magic Rock

 

Best Beer Experience

Checking out Dusseldorf’s Altbier and the Veltins brewery.

Visiting Lovibonds brewery and tasting all Jeff’s crazy sour beer experiments.

Various brewdays at Quantum, Magic Rock, Thornbridge and Summerwine.

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John Paul (Port Street Beer House)

 

Sorachi Ace – Brooklyn

Evenlode – Thornbridge

APA Harvest Hop – Darkstar

Raven – Thornbridge

Bracia – Thornbridge

Carafa Jade – Darkstar

Avec Les Bon Voeux – Dupont

Rodenbach Grand Cro

London Fields – Brodies

Monks Elixir – Mikkeller

 

Best Beer Experience

Going to Dusseldorf and Will nearly wetting himself

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Anna (Port Street Beer House)

 

Black Tie – Mikkeller

Export Stout – Kernel

APA Harvest Hop – Darkstar

Cuvee Elijah – Brooklyn Brewery

Yeti Oak Aged – Great Divide

Galaxy Pale Ale (cask) – Kernel

Raven – Thornbridge

Superior Porter – Brodies

Rapture – Magic Rock

Ola Dubh 16 Years – Harviestoun

 

Best Beer Experience

Tasting dark beers with Alex and JP after RedWillow MTB and discovering Brooklyn chocolate stout and Kernel Black IPA

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William (Port Street Beer House)

 

Evenlode – Thornbridge

Hennepin + BPA – Ommegang

APA Harvest Hop – Darkstar

90 minute – Dogfish Head

Black Tie – Mikkeller

Mt Hood Pale Ale – Kernel

Black Band Porter – Kirkstall

Bitter and Twisted – Harviestoun

Orkney IPA – Highland Brewing

Seaforth + Alchemy X- Thornbridge

 

Best Beer Experience

Opening Port Street Beer House, meeting Stephano Cossi (Thornbridge) and Mark Trainter (Darkstar), Drinking Altbier in Dusseldorf, Brewing Fathless with Toby (Redwillow)

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Ben Hodgkinson (James Clay)

 

Cuvee Noir/Crochet Rouge/Sorachi Ace/Black Ops – Brooklyn

Brown Ale/Saison – Nogne O

Imperial IPA Centennial – Flying Dog

Yeti Espresso Aged – Great Divide

Mycenary – Odell

Meine Hopfenweisse – Schneider Weiss

Hennepin – Ommegang

Amarillo – De Molen

NZPA – Hawkshead

Human Cannonball – Magic Rock

 

Best Beer Experience

Garret Oliver beer dinner at The Cross Keys, Leeds. A tremendous demonstration of how naturally and brilliantly brewed beer partners good food.

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DJ Adams

 

Tripel Karmeliet

90 Minute IPA – Dogfish

Torpedo – Sierra Nevada

Pint – Marble

Bracia – Thornbridge

Milk Stout – Left Hand

Vuur and Vlam – De Molen

Orval

Saison – Drakstar

IPA – Goose Island

 

Best Beer Experience

 

Tripel Karmeliet on draught at PSBH

Doing the Real Ale Trail

Introducing friends to beer culture and converting them.

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Richard (Magic Rock)

 

Sculpin IPA – Ballast Point

Two Hearted – Bells

Wipeout IPA – Port Brewing

Breakfast Stout – Founders

Parabola – Firestone Walker

Punk IPA – Brewdog

Black Rocks – Buxton

Windermere Pale – Hawkshead

Filthy Red – Camden Town

Surfing Hop – Toccalmatto

 

Best Beer Experience

Starting Magic Rock Brewing Co and the MTB at Port Street obviously.

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James Clay

 

World Wide Stout – Dogfish

Imperial Brown Stout – Nogne O

Aventinus Eisbock – Schneider Weisse

Pale Ale Citra – Kernel

Meine Nelson Sauvin – Schneider Weiss

Pliny The Elder – Russian River

Schlenkerla Eiche

Sorachi Ace – Brooklyn

Jandrain Jandrenouille IV Saison

Duchesse de Bourgogne(draft)

 

Best Beer Experience

Dogfish Head world wide stout back to back with goose island Bourbon Vanilla County Stout.

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Jay Krause (Quantum Brewing Company)

 

90 minute IPA – Dogfish

Bracia – Thornbridge

Diablo – Summerwine

Big Eye IPA – Ballast Point

Riwaka Pale Ale – Kernel

Brewwharf vs Danko Saison

Tripel 2011 – Marble

Kiwi – Brodies

Magic Rock Human Cannonball & Evil Twin Soft Dookie Black and Tan.

Poperings Hommelbier

 

Best Beer Experience

#IPAday celebration at the Grove, Huddersfield with Buxton Brewery.

MTB at Port Street on Halloween.

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John Clarke – CAMRA, Opening Times, all round good egg.

 

Espresso Stout – Emmelisse

Spontangrape – Mikkeller

Framboise – Our Beersel

Saison – De Schans

Diablo – Summerwine

Ageless – RedWillow

Black Beauty – Robinsons

Amarillo Tripel – Pelgrim

Soft Dookie – Evil Twin

Old Manchester – Marble

 

Best Beer Experience

Summerwine MTB at PSBH or Beer Tasting at Caprices in Brussels where the first beer up was a 20 year old bottle of De Neve Gueuze.

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Rosie (Port Street Beer House)

 

Evenlode – Thornbridge

Yeti Oak Aged – Great Divide

Raven(keg) – Thornbridge

Colorado Red – Thornbridge

Carafa Jade – Darkstar

Fade to Black – Left Hand

To Ol – Black Ball Porter

Black Tie – Mikkeller

Abbey Red – Kernel

Dark Arts – Magic Rock

 

Best Beer Experience

Playing Brewster at Red Willow.

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Jamie (Port Street Beer House)

 

Dark Star ‘Saison’

Thornbridge ‘Raven’ (keg)

RedWillow ‘Heartless’

Summerwine ‘Diablo’ (keg)

Brodies ‘Dalston Black IPA’

Mikkeller ‘Beer Geek Breakfast’

Duchesse de Bourgogne (keg)

Indigo Imp ‘Blonde Bombshell’

Brasserie Dupont ‘Avec les Bons Voeux’

Lovibonds ’69 IPA’

 

Best Beer Experience

Spending a day brewing with Toby at Redwillow and getting paid in bottled Ageless, and of course, PSBH opening, then getting a job there!

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Customers

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Rick Ogden

 

Hops Kill Nazis- Brewdog

Mirthless – Red Willow

SPA – Buxton

Infrared – Hardknott

5am Saint – Brewdog

 

Best Beer Experience

Beer and Food evening with Garret Oliver.

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Lasse Lukacs

 

Three Philosophers – Ommegang

Winter Solstice – Indigo Imp

Aether Black – Hardknot

Hardcore IPA – Brewdog

Rose de Gambrinus – Cantillon

Duchesse de Bourgogne

 

Best Beer Experience

Brewery Day at De Dolle, Essen, Belgium

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Gazza (Steel City)

 

Mental Hop Bastard – Brodies

Oxymoron – Otley

Highwire – Magic Rock

Kahuna – Summerwine

Stella – Brewwharf

 

Best Beer Experience 

Craft beer in Barcelona – it’s going mental in Catalunya now!

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Adam Taylor

 

Black Rocks – Buxton

Rouge Hop – Summer Wine

Wreckless – RedWillow

Lagonda IPA – Marble

Stateside – Saltaire

 

Best Beer Experience

The Gingerman in New York, 66 beers on draft, including a black IPA so good I can’t remember the name of it, from Bear Republic. Heaven.

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Christopher Jazwinski

 

Torpedo(cask) – Sierra Nevada

Cutthroat Porter – Odell

Faithless VII – RedWillow

Geminus – Thornbridge

Best Bitter – Brodies

 

Best Beer Experience

A pub crawl in Huddersfield.

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Steve

 

Bishops Farewell – Oakham Ales

American Amber Ale – Quantum

IPA – Odell

90 minute IPA – Dogfish Head

Dark Arts – Magic Rock

 

Best Beer Experience

First batch of home brew on the new kit.

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