– Cascade Sour Showcase – Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 May
Sour beers – if you know, you know. Cascade Brewing certainly know, and they’ve been slamming out some of the best sours anywhere in the world for the past 15 years. Based in Oregon (US), they’re not bound by stylistic guidelines – just their own imagination, and the ingredients that they’re able to access. Their sour beer blends feature fruit forward, barrel-aged ales that offer a complex array of flavour, derived from their North-West US grown ingredients. Each release captures the unique subtleties of that year’s growing season, and all their beers come from their original brewery in Southwest Portland, before being blended and aged at their nearby blending house.
We’ve been waiting for the perfect time to put on some of our favourite beers of Cascade’s from our cellar – and the return of indoor seating at Port Street couldn’t be any more ideal. We’ve got three beers available – served by the third, half, two thirds, or pint – that aim to give a decent scope of their ethos. We’re also serving by the flight. Available Thursday through to Sunday.
Prices are for 1/3.
CASCADE – KRIEK CHERRY SOUR 7.4%
Kriek is a blend of sour red ales aged in red wine barrels for up to 17 months with fresh Bing and Sour pie cherries.
£4
CASCADE – BOURBONIC PLAGUE IMPERIAL PORTER 12%
This blend of strong dark porters was aged in oak, wine and Bourbon barrels, then blended with a dark porter that had been brewed with vanilla beans and cinnamon.
£4
CASCADE – KENTUCKY PEACH 2017 BARREL AGED SOUR 9.7%
A blend of sour wheat and quad ales aged in bourbon and wine barrels for up to 16 months with more than 7,000 lbs of fresh Northwest-grown peaches. Offers flavours of ripe peaches and warm bourbon with hints of oak and a light malt sweetness.
£4
CASCADE FLIGHT
A third of each of the above beers.
£11.00
– Exhibition: David Bailey – Spivs & Spods
We’ve given over our space to David Bailey – a man whose work you’ll have certainly seen if you’ve been in any of our bars over the past few years, and whose content you’ll have enjoyed on our social media channels since forever – who has furnished both our downstairs bar area with some of his illustrations.
Entitled Spivs & Spods, it captures the spirit of being in a beer house – or, rather, of being in Port Street Beer House – as well as the emptiness that has been left without these spaces in our lives. Or, as the artist himself puts it:
Love (for pubs) in the time of various lockdowns. Rapid nostalgia for things we took for granted five minutes ago. Sitting in a pub, alone, or with friends. Drinking whatever you want. A celebration of still moments not sat in your house.
You can see David’s work at Port Street now, and the exhibition will be showing all summer long at the very least. Drink it in.
– Drinking at Port Street this April
We’re back open from April 12th, with our outside seating being the only place to sample Port Street Beer House for the time being. As regular will know, our outdoor section is super exclusive (i.e. fairly limited), so we’ve got 10 tables in action for the time being. A few out front, a couple more out back (including our much loved barrels), with table service throughout via the Common & Co app.
Due to the limited space, we’re operating a strict no bookings policy – meaning we’ll be dealing with walk-ups only. This means that anyone who wants to drink should be able to (though it may mean a short wait at peak times), and allows us to serve the maximum amount of people without having to turf drinkers out because their slot is over. Worse, you won’t have to stare at empty tables and not be allowed in because someone’s got that area booked in half an hour’s time.
