– Balance Brewing & Blending Saloon Takeovers

We enjoyed having them in the Saloon the other week so much, we’ve invited Balance Brewing & Blending back for two December dates – 2nd & 16th – to pour from our upstairs bar.

As this is their event, we’ll let them tell you all about it –

December dates for your diaries!🍻🎄🎅🎉

We’ll be popping up again @portstreetbeer on two dates in December to bring you some funky, festive merriment!

On Friday the 2nd of December we’ll have the very first pours of our next two releases! 🎉 We’ll keep you posted on the details of those beers in the next couple of weeks but rest assured they are tasting great and we’ll have these for sale in bottle and on draft too.🍻

Friday the 16th of December will be our last event of the year and we’ll have all manner of treats on draft and in bottle for your delectation. Come on down and celebrate with us and we might even tell you about our plans for next year…👀

Follow Balance on Instagram here, or visit their website https://balancebrewing.co/

- FILED UNDER  

Events

No Comments on Balance Brewing & Blending Saloon Takeovers

– 11 Nov: Balance x Polyspore – Wild Ale w/ Mushrooms launch

Via Balance Brewing & Blending –
After a long time in the planning, testing and tasting we’re finally ready to announce the launch of our collaboration. We’ve created two beers – Freckled Chestnut and Lion’s Mane, both of which are diverse in flavour and a real showcase of all the work that has gone into them. We selected a single barrel for it’s funky, tart yet restrained character and used this as our base.
Next Friday we’ll be taking over upstairs at Port Street to provide beer and tunes till late! Polyspore Soundsystem makes its debut appearance, a HiFi rig and carefully selected records. There’ll be plenty of Balance beer on tap and in bottle so come on down and join us for a knees up

- FILED UNDER  

Events

No Comments on 11 Nov: Balance x Polyspore – Wild Ale w/ Mushrooms launch

– Sierra Nevada Tap Takeover

Iconic California brewery Sierra Nevada shook things up in the beer world in the 80’s and paved the way for the beer industry as we now know it. These days, they’re continuing to create great beer and pushing boundaries as they explore sustainability in their business. It’s for this reason we’ve chosen them as one of the few international brewers we’re invited to IMBC and we’re overjoyed to invite them to take over our taps as part of IMBC Fringe. Including three vintaged of their fantastic Bigfoot barley wine, and (maybe more impressively) three incredibly rare in the UK beers, all versions of Sierra Nevadas iconic ‘Pale Ale’, and get this, they’re on bloody cask.

 

Check out this line up….

 

On keg

 
Hazy Little Thing IPA (6.7%) Juicy hops and silky malt meet in a Hazy Little Thing with fruit-forward flavor, modest bitterness, and a smooth finish. Aggressively dry-hopped and less filtered because the haze is where the flavor is.

Bigfoot barleywine (9.6%) is a beast of a beer, packed with bittersweet malt and heaps of aggressive whole-cone Pacific Northwest hops. First introduced in the winter of 1983, Bigfoot is a cult-classic brewed in the barleywine style—strong and robust with the refined intensity of a wine. Bigfoot is prized by beer collectors for aging in cellars. Under the proper conditions, it can develop enticing new flavors and character as it matures in the bottle. Each new release or “expedition” is vintage dated. Collect your own and savor the evolving flavors.

 
On Cask (all super rare in the uk)
 
Pale Ale CASCADE (5.6%) It’s Sierra Nevadas iconic Pale Ale, made with it’s original hop, cascade. But On cask! Super rare in the UK, don’t miss the opportunity to taste this absolute legend of a beer with none of the carbonation.
 
Pale Ale CASCADE (5.6%) Imagine a world, where instead of making their pale ale with Cascade, they made it with Chinook. I know, I know, It’s some parallel universe shit. Cascade is bursting with zesty grapefruit flavor and aroma from the high levels of myrcene oil. It lends a pleasant and balanced bitter. The bright citrus is backed by some soft floral and spice.
 
Pale Ale CRYSTAL (5.6%) Woodsy, green, floral and fruity with herb and spice notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and black pepper. Yes! Yes! God Yes!

- FILED UNDER  

Events

No Comments on Sierra Nevada Tap Takeover

– Unity Brewing Tap Takeover

On Friday 30th September, Unity brewing are taking over our taps as part of IMBC Fringe, with Unity Brewing: May Provisions.
Showcasing the following…
May Provisions Best Bitter – 4.2% (CASK)
Inspired by some of our favourite cask beer in the UK, this is a real showcase of East Anglian Malt and Hereford hops, combined to create balance and drinkability.
May Provisions x Charlie Herring – Skin Contact Wild Ale ’21 6.8% (30L Petainer)
The latest vintage of our ongoing project with Charlie Herring wines. The ’21 is a simple pale ale base aged on the UK’s only Riesling skins for 5 months before further conditioning in tank and package.
May Provisions x Charlie Herring – Graff ’21 7% (30L Kegstar)
The second beer in our ongoing project with Charlie Herring wines. The ’21 vintage of Graff is a blend of a simple pale ale co-fermented with cider from Charlie Herring wines.
May Provisions – Wild Saison 7% (30L Kegstar)
A rye saison secondary fermented with wild yeast and bacteria from grape skins.
May Provisions x Zapato – Brett IPA 8.2% (30L Kegstar)
A West Coast IPA secondary fermented with wild yeast and bacteria from grape skins

- FILED UNDER  

Events

No Comments on Unity Brewing Tap Takeover