– Old And Dark Festival / Saturday 1st December until late December 2012
It has reached that time of year when it’s necessary to comfort one’s self with dark, flavoursome, delicious beer.
Throughout December we will be aiding and abetting individuals in their pursuit of the perfect porter and the selection of a superb stout. Alongside firm favourites like Summerwine’s Teleporter, Magic Rock’s Dark Arts and Red Willow’s Smokeless we’ll be throwing in a few bits of special stuff such as, Thornbridge’s Heather Honey Imperial Stout-one of only six kegs in existence!
Unfortunately we can’t do a full dark take over as there’s always someone who fears anything outside the realms of a 4% pale, ready to have a whinge! (Guaranteed a goodly portion of people who just read that sentence only got half way through it before whipping their social life out of their pocket to get a tweet on, but I digress) We will do our best to ensure an interesting and eclectic range available throughout the month for people who truly understand what exactly tis the season for. Keep your eyeballs peeled for bottle offers too.
Picture ‘borrowed’ from Get Beer. Drink Beer.
– ‘Festive Pop Ups’ with Fire and Salt and Dirty Dogs plus ‘Guerrilla Eats Weekend’ – Thursday 6th until Thursday 13th December
It is the season to be jolly, drink nice beer and eat plenty of great food! We aim to please at Port Street so we are starting you off early by hosting a couple of ‘pop up’ events with our friends Fire and Salt and Dirty Dogs. There is also a great event happening this weekend just up the road, at Port Street Car Park entitled Guerrilla Eats. Ready for food? Read on…
Fire and Salt – Thursday 6th December / 6pm at Port Street Beer House (beer garden)
Fire and Salt BBQ are back for the winter. Expect Christmas BBQ specials and traditional southern BBQ when they set up shop at Port Street Beer House on 6th December. With a mix of Christmas Brisket rolls and some extras on the side, they’ll be smoking meats in the BBQ pit come rain or snow – take that weather!
Here is the menu (my mouth is dripping writing this?!?!) :
Slow smoked brisket on Texas toast with slaw and our home made BBQ Sauce
BBQ beans
Brisket Box with BBQ beans, slaw and pickles
Mince Pie BBQ Sauce
Tennessee Red Sauce
South Carolina Gold Sauce
If that is not enough for you?!?! Our good friends ‘Guerrilla Eats’ will be setting up at Port Street CAR PARK this weekend, it promises seven stalls from the finest foodies around!
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Guerrilla Eats – Saturday 8th December / 4pm until 10pm & Sunday 9th December / 11am until 4pm – Port Street Car Park
A collective of street food traders running markets in Manchester. Anytime and anywhere they please. Dropping down on you like a 300LB gorilla. Watch out! Featuring entertainment, special events and of course some of the best street food around. This weekend sees a two day festive celebration of food, entertainment, prizes and food, LOTS of food! Including stalls from :
Fire and Salt BBQ Co.
Dirty Dogs
Ginger’s Comfort Emporium
The BarnHouse Bistro
Chaat Cart
Sugar Bun Sisters
Las Paelleras
In regards to Port Street Beer House, we aren’t directly involved with this event, but we are encouraging you to come across to our establishment WITH YOUR FOOD and drink some lovely beer with your tasty slab of street food! We welcome Guerrilla Eats with open arms, hopefully we will be hooking up with them in the future to do our own Port Street stall! Watch this space!
For more information log on to http://www.guerrillaeats.co.uk/
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Dirty Dogs – Thursday 13th December / 6pm at Port Street Beer House (beer garden)
Our bestests buds are back for their final Port Street outing of 2012, it’s been great teaming up with Dirty Dogs, if you don’t know much about their huge sausages then read on!
“Here at Dirty Dogs we’re bringing the best quality dogs around and teaming them up with some cracking toppings. The dog list is always changing but has included our special recipe Chilli Dog, Dirty South (slaw, pork frank, pulled pork, bbq sauce) and our Hot Chihuahua (guac, beef frank, pico de gallo, sour cream). Remember these dirty dogs are hot so grab em while we’ve still got em.”
https://twitter.com/dirtydogsarehot
– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Hawskhead – Monday 26th November
Slightly blurry photos from our last Meet The Brewer of 2012, many thanks to Hawskhead for making it down from the Lakes.
Here’s to 2013.
– Brewers’ Group / Tuesday 20th November 7pm
“Brewers’ Group is an informal, monthly gathering for anyone who’d like to learn a little more about beer and how it’s made. The group aims to connect people with an interest in brewing, professional or amateur, so that we can all share knowledge and experiences and learn from each other in an informal setting.
We meet once a month upstairs at Port Street for chat, beer tasting, brewer’s mastarclasses, brewery visits and, of-course, a pint or two. It’s free and everyone’s welcome. If you’re a homebrewer, please bring along some of your homebrew to taste: letting other people taste your beer can be a little daunting at first (especially when there’re professional brewers in the house) but it’s a great opportunity to get valuable feedback, improve your brewing skills and learn something new; and that’s what we’re all about.
This month James Campbell, head brewer at Marble brewery, has kindly agreed to come and share his knowledge about high gravity brewing. James has made some excellent high alcohol beers during his time at Marble (and I’d highly recommend trying the Decadence if you get the chance) so we should be in for a treat.”
Where: Port Street Beer House, 39-41 Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ
When: Tuesday 20th November / 7pm
Free entry – for more info please email : brewersgroup@freshjava.co.uk