– 2017 End of Year Review
Finally! It’s the most wonderful time of the year – PSBH End of Year Review time! Take a moment, please oh please, to fill in the questions below. We’ll collate, as always, the responses into a bumper beer post in January. Who will be your fave brewery of 2017? What beers blew you away this term? What will be the big fuss in 2018? You tell me!
Eyes down, no cheating!
Port Street Beer House End Of Year Review 2017:::
– Northern Monk Tap Takeover 07/12/17
It’s our big fat Port Street tap takeover of the year…
NORTHERN MONK TAP TAKEOVER
Port Street Beer House
Thursday 7th December 2017
Midday-Midnight
Keg? In full effect. Cask? You betcha. Classics you can hang your hat on? Sure. Rarities? You better believe it.
Leeds heroes NORTHERN MONK come to Port Street for the first time in a few years to lay on a killer spread, colour us excited. Set list to come.
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– IMBC 17 Review by Cameron Steward
IMBC 17 Review
by Cameron Steward
It’s never fun queuing in the rain, but taking “pineapple selfies” whilst awaiting entrance into the North’s (perhaps even the UK’s) most revered beer festival certainly helped pass the time. To those who weren’t social media savvy our group must’ve looked like idiots, but when Beavertown take to the airwaves to plead for certain tropical plants you gotta step up, especially when there’s a mysterious prize involved… turns out that mysterious prize(s) were a can of Lupuloid IPA (6.7%), some Beavertown Extravaganza pins and a poncho. Now that’s a post-Brexit exchange rate I can get behind.
I realise the following sentence may get me blacklisted from all of Manchester’s finest bars and speakeasies, but I’ve definitely got hop haze fatigue. I’m all murked out, y’all! Thankfully, plenty of breweries have many other strings to their bows and served up slices of chop-smacking sours to satisfy my tarty tastes. Fierce Beer’s Very Berry (4.5%) and Brew By Numbers’ Cuvee 2017 (6.2%) were fantastic examples of wild ales at their biting best.
I usually keep my distance from Room 3 – it’s dark and the music is a bit rave-y. It reminds me of Laser Quest birthday parties; being gunned down by the local teenagers who would corner me until I was “back in play”, then shoot me down all over again – live, die, repeat. This year I decided to put my 90s-based traumas aside – plus my brother thought one of the DJs was very attractive… Turned out to be a great decision as Redchurch were delivering some of the best sours of the festival – Dry Hop Sour (5.4%) was ace but On Skins: Cherry (6.5%) was a face-contorting highlight. Suddenly I thought I heard a dance track I knew, and then remembered I’m old and boring so moved on to a different room.
Buxton brought along their soft serve machine, which although a bit gimmick-y, totally elevated their already great Original Blueberry Slab Cake (7%) to an astral plane. I even went a bit crazy and got soft serve Trolltunga (6.3%), their gooseberry sour IPA. Sacrilege, I hear you cry! Judge not, that ye be not judged… Or something to that affect, I would reply.
Making a lunch decision is always the hardest part of IMBC, and a last minute choice to get a Dirty Burger from Patty Smith’s turned out to be an excellent one, especially when paired with Wild Beer’s Wild Goose Chase (4.5%). Boom! Dessert was a Pecan Slab from the ever-amazing In Truffles We Trust, washed down with the frankly insane BA Imperial Chocolate Stout, Speyside Cacao (12.5%) by Dugges and Stillwater Artisanal.
Other beers were drank but haven’t been listed because they weren’t as good as the aforementioned (plus you’d get a bit bored reading about them) but the hit rate, as ever, was ridiculously high. And that also makes Indy Man a 6 for 6. Yep, 6 mother-flipping years and consistently the best thing that happens in my otherwise meaningless existence. Roll on 2018!!
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– Black Iris Tap Takeover + vegan street food
BLACK IRIS TAP TAKEOVER
Thursday 17th August 2017 / 5pm-late
Port Street Beer House
Nottingham’s BLACK IRIS make tracks to Port Street with a selection of cask and keg for your enjoyment. Every time we’ve had Black Iris on at Port Street recently its gone down a storm so we can’t wait to have a spread of the good stuff. Full line-up to be announced.
In exciting news, we will also be joined by vegan Mexican kitchen LOS ANTOJITOS ~ Manchester street food pop-up dealing in the sweet sweet business of tacos, chilli, nachos and more. Feast on their menu below.
