– Cloudwater vs Fourpure: head to head
Tuesday 14th June 2016 / 6pm
North vs South. One of Manchester’s finest, Cloudwater take on one of London’s finest, Fourpure. For one night only, Cloudwater and Fourpure will take over the taps at Port Street Beer House for a fierce (but friendly) head-to-head. Happening as part of Manchester Beer Week.
Fourpure will be dishing up…
KEG
Hop Trick (Session India Pale Lager)
Burnt Ends (Smoked Porter
An as yet unnamed Barley Wine
Planet Simcoe (Single hop pale)
Shape Shifter (IPA)
Skyliner (Bavarian Wheat)
Cloudwater are holding…
KEG
DIPA v3
Pioneer Lager
Clausenii Stout Red Wine BA
Session IPA Simcoe Centennial
CASK
Pale
Session IPA Mosaic Centennial
Come and dip your beak!
– Brass Castle Lunatic Launch and Tap Takeover
Brass Castle Lunatic Black Lager launch and mini tap takeover / Wednesday 23rd March 2016 / 5pm onward
North Yorkshire brewery, Brass Castle, from York (Malton to be precise), make the trip to Port Street to launch their anticipated Lunatic Black Lager. The centrepiece of this event will be flanked by some cask and keg selections from Brass Castle.
Details on the line up soon! Meanwhile, here are some words direct from the horse’s mouth…
“Brass Castle has a 12 barrel brewhouse in the centre of Malton, pimped with a 15 barrel mash tun, a gas-fired kettle and the luxury of a cold liquor tank. The brewery’s house yeast does its work in three fermenters, whilst the staff clean up after it. For lagering and keg-filling there are also three conditioning tanks. The rest of the space is largely taken up with empty casks waiting either to be filled or cleaned!
All Brass Castle beers are vegan and vegetarian friendly, as we don’t let animal-derived products anywhere near the brewhouse. Spent grain from the brewing process goes to mulch a (large!) tree plantation and to be digested into wiggly amps. Spent hops find their way onto local allotments.
The brewery also houses our bottle shop, selling a range of beers that we like, and Yorkshire Homebrew’s equipment and ingredient shop. Every second Saturday of the month we open up the brewhouse Tap Room, serving at least eight beers and guaranteeing a grand day out.”
– PSBH is 5 (and a bit)
Words by James Moffat / PSBH Manager
Remember the days before Port Street? When you’d finish work on a Friday & head straight home & just sit there staring at the wall waiting for someone to invent Netflix? Before you were invited to 9 different events every Saturday by people you haven’t spoken to in person since high school? I still remember my first trip here, long before I ever stepped foot behind the bar, when I came in on my birthday to sample some new beers! Hard to believe that was five years ago.
Anyway.
PORT STREET IS FIVE YEARS OLD!
We got pretty busy in the run up to our birthday travelling around & brewing some beers for you to enjoy at our birthday celebration.
First up was Arbor where we collaborated with them to produce PSBH Bomb. Based on their brilliant Bomb series but this one’s hopped with Pacific gem, Summit, Bravo, mt Hood. We forgot to take any photos of this brew day or we all had broken phones & no one carries a camera these days!
Shortly after we popped down to see Cloudwater & try some of the stuff they had in tank & brain storm some ideas which became a Lapsang Lichtenhainer. Combining our love of smoked & sour beers.
Next up was a double brew day with some of us heading over to Leeds to see Northern Monk to brew an imperial mild, Life On Mild.
Meanwhile, Edward headed down to Squawk on his own to collaborate with Runaway, Squawk & Track on 5 Alive, a pale ale with a big citrus twist!
Lastly. After a long walk up what I’m told is the longest continuous gradient in Europe! We got to see Vocation & brew a massively hopped American pale ale, Lost & Found!
Hope you enjoy them all!
Birthday pump clips by David Bailey
– We now do Growlers!
Did you know that we now do fresh draft beer growler fills to take away? I know! 2016 just got verified!
We offer up two sizes of growler: 750ml (bottle of wine) and 64oz (3.3 pints).
It goes a lil something like this. You choose your growler size and buy it outright, it’s then yours forever! 750ml = £10. 64oz = £12.
The fun doesn’t stop there. Now you just need something to put in it. Choose any draft beer, keg or cask and receive a 20% takeout discount off the price of the beer fill.
Your beer will taste at it’s fresh optimum, if unopened, for up to five days. Once opened you are advised to consume within a day for the best taste.
Remember to bring your growler back next time, we will clean it and you can start all over again.
Here’s some handy illustrated instructions by Alan Dalby! Thanks Alan!