– Up and Coming / Pressure Drop Brewery
Pressure Drop Brewing started in a garden shed in Stoke Newington London in the summer of 2012. Inspired by the variety and full flavours of beers being produced by The Kernel, Darkstar, Redemption and more widely the US beer scene, Pressure Drop began developing their own beers on a 50 litre braumeister brew kit in July. The first few brews didn’t make the cut, but after a few month tinkering the beers began to improve. Armed with some encouraging feedback from the London beer geek population, they moved to a small unit down the road registering as a commercial brewery in November 2012.
Since then the beers have been sold in a variety of craft beer pubs, esteemed off-licences and at farmers markets. The majority of the beers are bottled, but special requests for cask events have also been successful. As the demand for their beers have grown, the little 50 litre brewery has been unable to keep up with demand and they decided to take the plunge and invest in a five brewers barrel brew system which is currently being installed in a railway arch in Hackney.
Pressure Drop are excited to be part of the London craft beer revolution and the lovely sense of community, comeraderie and mutual respect between the progressive London brewers. These guys love drinking Kernel, Beavertown, Partizan, Howling Hops and Five Points.
We are hugely honoured to have Pressure Drop beers at the Port Street Beer house and we hope they go down well with our customers! Exciting times ahead!
pressuredropbrewing.co.uk
@PressureDropBrw
– American Beer Festival 2013 / Selected highlights
As anyone who’s anyone knows our American Beer Festival is fast approaching, we thought it might be nice to give a wee smidge of information about some of the scrumptious beers we’ll be having on. The following is exciting stuff so please read while seated, further updates will be appearing as we get closer to the festival itself so keep your eyeballs on the alert…
Cigar City – Papsøs Passion Fruit Porter – 6% / Tampa, Florida
A sweet and fruity porter with a hint of brett on the end, a tasty if unorthodox beer but there still remains nothing that Cigar City don’t do well!
Against the Grain – Citra Ass Back Down – 6.7% / Louisville, Kentucky
A hoppy beast of a beer, classic American vibes with arguably the quintessential American hop citra making a big appearance.
Local Option – Schmetterling Gose – 4.5% / Chicago, Illinois
This is a new take on a very old style. Salty sour beer sounds a bit weird-and it is-but it’s also darn tasty.
– Copenhagen – A Family Outing by Rosie Setterfield Price
Once upon a time Port Street, Common and the Beagle sent their champions forth to make a foray into the far away land of the Danes for the Copenhagen Beer Festival. They were intent on the researching of excellent beers and breweries, selflessly putting themselves in the way of danger (largely in the form of flight related traumas and hangovers) to better enhance their beery knowledge and thereby (if possible) improve upon the repertoire available to their valued customers.
Despite many woes and much hardship (some of us really don’t like flying, cyclists in Copenhagen are somewhat vicious and the ginger contingent may have gotten sunburnt to some extent) they were victorious! Hereafter follows the tale (in beers) of one adventurer’s journey…
– Begyle / Jonny Quest (Black IPA) ***
– Den Gale Brygger / IDUN Spontangaeret (Paradise Apple Sour) ****
– Amager / Gluttony (DIPA) ***
– Cantillon / Fou Foune (Apricot Lambic) *****(*******)
– Revelation Cat / Boon Dry Hopped Warrior (Lambic) **
– Boon / Boon to be Wild (Lambic) ****
– Mikkeller / Beer Geek Breakfast (Coffee Stout) ****
– Jolly Pumpkin / Madrugada Obscura (Hoppy Stout) *****
– Mikkeller / Invasion (Farmhouse IPA) ***
– Jester King / El Cedro (Belgian Hoppy Sour) ****
– Port Brewing / Wipeout (IPA) ***
– Lagonitas / New Dog (Pale Ale) ***
– Xbeeriment / #44 (Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout) **
– Mikkeller / Spontandoublueberry (Blueberry Lambic) *****
– Kernel / London Sour Raspberry (Sour) *****
– Three Floyds / Dark Lord (Imperial Stout) **
– Amager / Lambicus Raspberry **
– Boxing Cat / TKO (IPA) ****
– Boxing Cat / Sucker Punch (Pale Ale) ***
– Anchorage / Andromadous (Belgian Black Sour) ***
– Against the Grain / Golden Sower (IPA w. Brett) ***
– Kernel / IPA Columbus ****
– Firestone Walker / Union Jack (IPA) ****
– Mountain Goat / IPA ***
– Westbrook / Grumpy Old Time (Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Sour Ale) *****
– Not De Molen/Merciless / Untamed Forces (Sour Ale) ***
– Stillwater/ Existent (Black Saison) **
– Surly / Pentagram (Sour Ale) ***
– Jester King / Das Uberkind (Sour Ale) *****
– 8 Wired / Hop Wired IPA **
– Brodies / Romanov (Imperial Stout) ****
– Mikkeller / 1000 IBU (DIPA) ****
– Spiteful / GFY (Imperial Stout) ****
– 3 Fonteinen / Oude Geuze ****
– Amager / Envy (IPA) *****
KEY – Brewery / Beer (style) * Rating
Words by Rosie Setterfield Price
Pictures by Duncan James Sime
– Toccalmatto – Year of Madness
We continue the ‘year of madness’ with two new offerings from Toccalmatto, they will both be on our taps very soon indeed.
Stray Dog
An English style bitter with a twist, it pours a translucent mahogany colour. On the nose there are hints of grassy/herbal hops. On the palate you have a slight fruitiness, grassy hop presence and a finish of breadiness.
Bruno is utilising Challenger, Styrian Goldings and Citra hops to create a very drinkable premium bitter with notes of citrus and peaches. Stray Dog is dry and light but with a lingering bitterness in the mouth. At an ABV of 4.2% it makes for a great session beer!
One Shot Alice
A Collaborative 5.5 % ABV “Red Rye Hoppy Saison” brewed with Bruno’s friends Gazza Prescott and the Spanish guys of Marina Cervesa Artesana Blanes.
Alice is inspired by a song of Sisters of Mercy so they decided to name the group of this collaboration, The Brothers of Myrcene.
Alice is made with a small percentage of Rye Crystal malt using the Belgian saison yeast. It is very hoppy and they have used Sorachi, Stella, Simcoe, Galaxy and Marynka hops in late and dry hopping. It is a fairly dry beer; it is balanced yet quite complex and has a very good bitterness with fruits and resinous tastes by the hops.