– Overtone Tap Takeover – Thursday 16th to Wednesday 22nd September
We’ve invited one of Glasgow’s finest, Overtone, to takeover our guest taps for the weekend. Started only back in 2018, they’ve fast made waves in the craft beer scene with some of the best recent examples of British takes on American classics. Creating fresh new classics every month in their brewery on the banks of the river Clyde, we’ve asked them to send over 4 of their latest and finest for the discerning drinkers of Port Street Beer House to sup on all week long, from Thursday 16th to Wednesday 22nd September.
About Overtone:
THE BREWERS
The head brewer Dan Miller, all the way from New Hampshire – brings with him a knowledge of American style beers. This has allowed us to consistently produce aware winning New England IPAs that loved by craft beer fans nationwide. Charlie, the assistant brewer, also comes with an array of talents, previously brewing for a local Scottish brewery and being an avid home brewer
THE BEERS
With the aim of ensuring customers enjoy our beer as fresh as possible, Overtone are a fully fluid brewery meaning we keep brewing new beers every month. Using nothing more than high quality hops, yeast, and malt, they still manage to create all-natural, unfiltered, and unfined beers bursting with flavour.
We’ll be serving up…
Third Session IPA 4.7%
An easy drinking session IPA with a smooth, malty backbone. Fresh, tropical aromas with some undertones of resin and citrus fruits on the tongue, enjoyed by a slight spice at the end
Citra Mo Galaxy IPA 6%
We go back to experimenting with the classic hop combo series, this time bringing one of our favourite hops to the party, Galaxy! Soft and juicy mouthfeel with bright passion fruit and citrus flavours and some mellow grassy notes.
A Real Peach Peach, Mango & Redcurrant Smoothie Sour 7%
If it’s not already obvious, this heavily fruited smoothie style sour is brewed with a serious amount of juicy peaches for those delicate sweet flavours. We’ve also added some ripe mango and redcurrants to add an extra balance of tropical and tartness.
Captain I Am Fading DDH DIPA 8%
A smooth DDH DIPA balanced with Cashmere, Citra and El Dorado hops. Enjoy flavours of honeydew melon, pineapple, juicy peach and hints of apple.
Flights will be available – free in, and all the rest.
– Review – Kuhnhenn Brewing Company / Fourth Dementia Old Ale – By DJ Adams
Just over one week to go before Christmas, and the shoppers in Manchester are in full swing, dashing round town, bags in hands, pensive thoughts on faces. A few spouses are holed up here at Port Street Beer House enjoying some peace and quiet, and some great beers. A lot of darkness in glasses, the cold weather is properly upon us. Dark nights, dark ales. Heavy beers to warm us slowly from our core outwards. And with that context in mind, I’m about to have my personal and loose definition of ‘beer’ stretched a little bit.
Nestling at the bottom of one of the fridges behind the bar is a brown bottle with a black label and, with that label announcing “Kuhnhenn Brewing Company, 4th D Olde Ale, 13.5% ABV, aged for 9 months”, quite possibly dark secrets. Sitting down at the table, I’m taken completely off track, although not unexpectedly. This old ale sits in the glass like liquid mahogany, barely a trace of head, and what head there was after pouring has quickly dissipated and become a tan ring round the glass. Before I even get the brew to my lips, my nose is hit by the heady raisin, rum and bourbon tones which are as sweet as they are boozy. This is very clearly a sipping beer – hardly any carbonation, and very heavy. So I ready myself for the first sip … and it’s like a Cadbury’s Caramel heavily diluted with bourbon and black cherry liqueur. Gosh. The mouthfeel is just the same, a syrupy malt lacing that fades delightfully turning from obvious sweet to muscovado.
This Old Ale, properly called “Fourth Dementia Olde Ale”, is from the Kuhnhenn microbrewery, in Warren, Michigan, a town due north of Detroit. Looking at the beers on offer, this dark, strong malty and caramel ale fits right in, with Imperial Creme Brulee Java Stout, Bourbon Barrel Barley Wine, Sticke Alt and Hairy Cherry coming from the same stable. That stable was originally a family run hardware store, and when faced with the prospect of losing out to a larger hardware chain that had moved into the area, the Kuhnhenn family, specifically two brothers Bret and Eric, decided to turn their home brewing know-how into a brewery business and reinvent themselves. It wasn’t as unusual a transition as you might expect: Eric had been bitten by the home brewing bug at college, and selling home brewing supplies had eventually become a significant part of their hardware business. Having made the transition to a full brewing business, Kuhnhenn’s is now a highly industrious eight barrel microbrewery.
The folks at Port Street Beer House have a knack for sourcing beer from passionate brewers, and this is no exception. If you’re passing by, or wanting an escape from the cold outside (or the heat and chaos inside the myriad shopping areas) come in and spend a half hour getting to know this old and dark ale. You won’t regret it. And you’ll leave with a warm glow from within, like so many Ready-Brek kids of yore, but with a smile on your face.
Brewer: Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Brew: Fourth Dementia Ole Ale
Style: Old Ale
ABV: 13.5%
Words by DJ Adams www.pipetree.com/qmacro/
– #IPA Day 2012
Next Thursday 2nd August we will be hosting an event for this years #IPAday, celebrating the second year of this worldwide love-in of the world’s best and most experimental beer style. Joining us will be Summerwine Brewery launching their new Black IPA ‘Gorilla’ exclusively in cask.
Just as an extra treat too we will have the guys from @dirtydogsarehot in our beer yard serving up #properdogs in limited numbers from 6pm. Once these delicious dogs are gone they’re gone.
Make sure to join us for this hoppy,beery,foody, extravaganza!!
– Oh say can you see, an American Beer Festival update.
Well, the beer just gets better with even more breweries being added to our festival line up along with details on some more events.
The Camden MTB has sold out, but don’t fret as we are launching an American Rarities tasting with snacks. This will be a strictly limited capacity event and is hosted by the Brewers Association American Craft Beer Ambassador, Andreas Fält. This will be a great opportunity to sample some very fine exclusive beers.
Monday 2nd July – American Rarities Tasting Session with Andreas Fält
5.30pm doors / event starts at 6.30pm
SOLD OUT
The breweries are as follows;
Southern Tier
Uncommon Brewers
Hoppin Frog
Green Flash
Jester King
Alesmith
(includes snacks)
Limited to 30 places.
Wednesday 4th July – Kopikat Keg Launch
We’ll be celebrating Independence Day early and open at 2pm. We have also confirmed that Summerwine brewery will be in attendance to launch their Barrel aged Kopikat on keg, Kopikat is an imperial stout with Madgascan Vanilla and Civet cat coffee, it has been ageing in 2 separate single malt whiskey casks, one Caol Ila and the other Clynelish. This is the first and only time these versions will be available in Manchester so come on down.
More events for the 4th July will be added in the lead up to the festival.
Breweries added to the festival line up are:
Keg
Rogue Ales
Stone Brewing Co.
Maui Brewing Co.
Uncommon Brewers
Bottles
Jester King
Cigar City
Dogfish head
Anchorage
Sly Fox
Weyerbacher