– Anniversary 2 / Thursday 24th January – 6pm
What kind of beer would people that are constantly surrounded by a massive variety of some of the best beers in the world want to make?
It’s a question that plagues us all. We thought it was time people had resolution from this constant wondering. This years anniversary beer was selected, designed and brewed by the staff of Port Street Beer House with the invaluable assistance of the lovely guys from the Outstanding Brewing Company. The Port Street Sour Cherry Peppercorn Porter takes elements that we’ve all enjoyed in a beverage and puts it together in what we hope will be the ultimate combo – I think anyone who’s ever chatted beer with any of us would agree it was always going to be quirky and a tad ambitious – we just like interesting beer!
As we have more beery ideas than we can gesticulate wildly at with any kind of stick this will be the first of many so keep an eye/ear out! Also, we’re frankly such an inquisitive and ingenious bunch it would also be wise to keep your eyeballs peeled for the very scientific and not at all whimsical testing of different stuffs and flavours with a variety of beers via the marvellous technology of the randal!
We look forward to seeing you enjoy our beer and birthday festivities on Thursday 24th January at 6pm – we will also be serving up Great North Pie and peas, tasty. Plus we may throw in a few surprises here and there. See you at the bar.
Artwork by Alex Humphreys / Design by Steve Hockett
– New Year’s Eve at Port Street Beer House / Monday 31st December 2012
The upstairs saloon of Port Street Beer House will be available for table reservations on NYE. Tables will be booked out for a minimum of 4 people and bookings will be reserved with a £10 deposit per person. This deposit will be returned to you on the night in the form of a bar tab. For example, if you book a table for 4 people, you’ll need to leave £40 deposit but on the night you’ll have a £40 bar tab set up waiting for you.
We have a limited number of tables so put in a booking request and providing we can accommodate your group we’ll be in touch to arrange the deposit. Please note tables need to be occupied by 8.30pm
In addition to the table booking you can also pre book a special bottle or two for your group or a lovely plate of pie, peas and gravy will be brought to you at your table.
The downstairs bar at Port Street will be open as usual from 4pm so you can choose whether to mingle around or hang out with your group upstairs. Service will be until 1am (ish).
Please email jamie@aplacecalledcommon.co.uk with your name, contact number and how many people you would like to book for.
We will get back to ASAP with a booking form.
Special NYE beers available to pre order :
Alesmith ‘X’ / 750ml – £9
Alesmith ‘Grand Cru’ / 750ml – £15
Alesmith ‘Wee Heavy’ / 750 ml – £15
Alesmith ‘Horny Devil’ / 750 ml – £15
Port Brew ‘Santa Helper’ / 750ml – £12
port brew ‘Santa Aged’ / 750ml – £18
Jester King ‘Noble King’ / 750ml – £12
Brewdog ‘ab:07’ / 375 ml – £9
Brooklyn ‘Sorachi Ace’ / 750ml – price TBC
Ps Unfortunately we won’t be having fireworks
– 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.”
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