– Review : Sierra Nevada Torpedo / By DJ Adams
The start of Port Street Beer House’s American Beer Festival starting Mon 27th June, until the beer runs out, is clearly an ideal time to review Torpedo, an IPA from one of America’s most respected craft beer pioneers Sierra Nevada. On the second day of this wonderful festival, our favourite craft beer venue is buzzing with talk, tastings and trialling of an array of beers that would put any respectable beer sampling adventure at DEFCON 1. (more…)
– American Beer Festival / Update
It’s our first proper beer festival here at Port Street and what better way to start than celebrating the most creative craft brewing scene in the world. We launched the American Beer Festival on Monday 27th June with an intimate ticketed event. Around 60 of you came to sample the beer and helped turn the night into a celebration of all things American. We put on a few snacks, the cornbread in particular had mixed reactions, but overall went down a treat. (more…)
– What Is A Craft Beer? / By Steve Dunkley
To be brutally honest, no-one really knows. There are all sorts of articles and postings on the internet where people claim to know the definition of what a craft brewer is. It’s easy enough to define what an American Craft Brewer is, because they have an association and a definition: Small, Independent and Traditional. But for them small is less than 6 million barrels of beer a year. That’s a whopping 1.7 billion pints. Not sound so whopping? Here’s a bit of maths; in the UK each day 28 million pints of beer are consumed, which equates to 1.02 billion pints a year. And by beer, that’s all beer including lager and even stuff like Tennents Super and Special Brew. (more…)
– Event / American Beer Festival
Starting on Monday 27th June PSBH will be having its first festival. We will be celebrating ‘Uncle Sam’s finest, the most creative craft brewing scene in the world’.
There will be an opening event with the ‘Port Street Beer School’ which includes talks, exclusive tastings and lots of fun. This will be a ticketed event for just 60 people, tickets will be on sale next week. On Sunday 3rd July we are also having an American BBQ, if you came to Common’s ‘American Afternoon’ last year you will know what to expect!
On offer throughout the festival there will be cask, draught and bottles from Anchor, Brooklyn, Caldera, Coronado, Dogfish, Flying Dog, Goose Island, Great Divide, Indigo Imp, Kona, Left Hand, Maui, Odell, Rouge, Saranac, Sierra Nevada, Sudwerk, Uinta & Victory. The festival runs until the selected beers have gone!
Opening event / Monday 27th June – 6pm : Port Street Beer School American Beer Tasting – ticketed event
Sunday 3rd July : An American BBQ, beers, burgers, mega sausages and possibly sunshine.
Tickets for the ‘Port Street Beer School ‘are on sale NOW from the venue at £9 each.
You can purchase over the bar or call us on 0161 237 9949
cheers!