– Lervig Mini Tap Takeover – Monday 20th April / 7pm
We are none more excited to welcome Lervig and head brewer Mike Murphy over for a mini tap takeover. Globetrotting Mike Murphy, originally from Philadelphia, has brewed beer in Italy, Denmark and in 2010 hooked up with Lervig in Stavanger, Norway. Mike’s curriculum vitae is a glittering peach, one of the kickstarters of the Danish beer revolution – in 2008 Mike was simultaneously brewing the best porter in the world, according to ratebeer, at GourmetBryggeriet, and the best stout in the world – again, according to ratebeer – in the shape of Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Breakfast.
Lervig’s rich vein of form began with Lucky Jack, an American Pale Ale, in 2010 and has been rolling ever forward and ever deeper since, including a to die for Brewer’s Reserve series. We are greatly looking forward to Lervig’s spread which will include five keg beers and a selection of cans. Come down, meet the brewer and dine out on some rare taste opportunities.
“Boring beers are for boring people” Mike Murphy.
Featuring:
KEG :
Galaxy IPA : Single Hop IPA loaded up with Australia’s finest, Galaxy hops. Grassy and tropical. 6.5%
Rye IPA : Massively hopped with Simcoe, Chinook and Amarillo. Beautifully balanced with rye malt. 8.5%
Farmhouse IPA : Collaboration with Magic Rock. Hops and funky flavours combine with belgian yeasts and brettanomyces. Spicy! 6%
Hoppy Joe : Amber ale with Simcoe, Chinook and Nelson Sauvin hops. Caramel and chocolate malts. 4.7%
Konrad Stout 10.4% : Scandinavian inspired Imperial Stout. Chocolate, coffee, liquorice. 10.4%
CANS :
Lucky Jack : American Pale Ale brewed with Amarillo, Chinook and Citra hops. Hop heavy, grapefruit and citrus aromas. 4.7%
Jonny Low : Session IPA, hoppy light offering. 2.5%
Pilsner: 100% Pilsner malts, Perle and Saaz hops, fresh German lager yeast. Lervig’s take on the classic Pilsner. 4.7%
– Buxton Brewery Two Ton IPA Launch / Friday 10th April 2015
We love Buxton Brewery, there we said it. The Buxton tap takeover of 2014 was one of our most anticipated brewery hijacks yet and lo, did Buxton deliver! Consistently brilliant, and brilliantly fresh, across their ever-expanding range, we are delirious to announce that Port Street will be housing the eagerly awaited keg drop of Two Ton IPA.
Two Ton IPA (11% ABV) has been in the works for Buxton for months, a love letter from Buxton to the big IPA. Primarily brewed for the upcoming Copenhagen Beer Celebration, Two Ton is so named because of the amount of malt in the grist – two tons, which fills their mash tun to the max. Add a shedload of US and Australian hops to the mix and you can bet we’re in for a royal, imperial ride.
Join us Friday 10th April for the nationwide and international roll-out of Buxton’s latest knockout punch in keg and bottles!
– Oakham ‘Nekomata’ & ‘Kraken’s Ink’ UK keg launch / Monday 30th March – 6pm
The award winning brewery from Peterborough will be launching a new seasonal keg ‘Nekomata’ at Port Street Beer House next week, this will sit alongside ‘Green Devil’ and for the first time in keg ‘Kraken’s Ink’, all of which will be available exclusively on the bar from 4pm, so you can be the first in the UK to taste them! This will act as a great end to our festival, plus we are open on Monday’s now if you didn’t know!
Green Devil IPA – 6.0%
“An amazing hop harvest aroma with tropical fruit bursting through. Smooth & fruity starting with passion fruit, pineapple & mango developing into lemon, lime & a citrusy bitterness. Finishes with a crisp, refreshing, dry aftertaste.”
Kraken’s Ink – 6.8%
A complex mixture of roast coffee & chocolate malt flavours, infused with hoppy fruitiness fading to dried fruit before a lasting dry finish. With a rich heady aroma of American hops & dark malts.”
Nekomata – 5%
New seasonal keg – A light malty flavour overlaid with complex strong fruit and citrus aromas in this powerful American style pale ale.
– Festival Of Britain(s) Beers / Monday 16th March – Sunday 29th March 2015
If only there were a festival to celebrate the best of Britain’s most excellent beer makers. A festival where we could all gather under billowing marquee, mud underfoot, portakabins in the adjacent field, tripping over guy ropes on the way back to our tents…Or…
Imagine a prolonged celebration of innovative British brewers within the safe, yet forward thinking, confines of Port Street Beer House. Welly amnesty over hither! Throw those tent pegs into the night sky! Over the latter half of March we welcome to Port Street some of the freshest and most exciting brewing talent Britain has to offer. Heck, we’ll even be birthing a couple of bright young future stars! As well as the exciting events below, we’ll also be unveiling more exclusive beer launches so keep your eyes peeled and your appetites whetted. To Britain!
Monday 16th : Cloudwater ‘Spring Launch’ + Brewery tour / 6pm – SOLD OUT! more info HERE
Thursday 19th : Beavertown Tap Takeover / 7pm – FREE ENTRY
Tuesday 24th : Port Street Beer School presents ‘A guide to British beers’ / 7pm – £25 *
Thursday 26th : Left Handed Giant Launch / 7pm – FREE ENTRY
* limited places / bookable via eventbrite HERE :
Port Street Beer School ‘A Guide to British Beers’ – includes a selection of six beers, ‘beer bible’ booklet and a presentation from our staff of experts. Duration 90 minutes / £25 per person. The theme is British, the beers will be great!
TICKETS limited to 12 places purchase here :
Brewery info :
Cloudwater Brew Co. (Spring launch + brewery tour)
At Cloudwater Brew Co they’ve been working hard to set up an uncompromising modern brewery that will be the largest capacity brewery start up in the north of the UK in recent times. It is with great pleasure they invite you to a very special evening at their favourite beer bar in Manchester.
They’re launching with a selection of beers from their Spring range, and with an exclusive preview tour of their brewery. We’ll be laying on a minibus that takes you, the learned drinker, right to the gates of Wonka’s factory! Be amongst the first people in the country to taste their beer, step foot in their brewery, and hear more about what they’ve got in store for you this year. We’d love you to join us in celebrating their debut, and to mark the start of a journey that will make far more of Manchester’s future than its past.
Beavertown (Tap take over)
Ladies and gentlemen, Beavertown! You can’t have turned a craft corner over the past couple of years without locking eyes upon Beavertown’s vibrantly illustrated cans. Of course we wouldn’t judge a beer by its cover, the content behind the label has been consistently excellent since their inception.
Established in 2011 by Logan Plant in the kitchen of rib joint Duke’s Brew and Que, Hackney. Beavertown has recently picked up sticks and motored to bigger things in Tottenham Hale, via a stop in Fish Island, proving that the Beavertown express gathers no moss.
We’ve all swooned and gone ga-ga for their 8 Ball Rye IPA, Gamma Ray US pale, and Smog Rocket smoked porter. When not busy with their core range they like nothing more than collaborating with some of the world’s most innovative breweries. Recent brewery hook-ups have included dallies with Mikkeller, Arizona Wilderness, Lervig, Kona, Prairie, Naparbier, Dogfish Head, Bellwoods AND their UK brethren Camden Town, Siren and Magic Rock. Yielding Farmhouse ales, Berlinerweisses, Passion Fruit sours, Double IPAs, Coffee stouts and much more besides.
Basically, I don’t think they sleep. They certainly don’t rest on their laurels. We are greatly honoured to welcome Beavertown to Port Street Beer House where they will be taking over our taps for one night only! There’s going to be surprises, exclusives and all round excitement. Whisper it on the wind but there is also promise of Beavertown CASK, now WHERE have you ever seen that before? One way ticket to Beavertown, please!
Left Handed Giant (Launch)
Fresh out of the box we are delirious to welcome Bristol’s hot new tastemakers Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. What were you doing when you were a month old? Collaborating with some of the most esteemed British brewing talent? I think not! Left Handed Giant have crawled from 0-60 in next to no seconds locking horns with Bristol neighbours, Wiper and True, as well as with London powerhouses, Weird Beard and Beavertown.
Left Handed Giant Co join us at Port Street for their Northern launch and we couldn’t be more excited. Get ready for an exclusive introduction to a new British brewery with the bit between its teeth. Beer springs eternal.
Artwork by Steve Hockett – http://wonder-room.eu/
