– 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!
– Beers of the Year 2015
Does anybody remember 2015? The beer drinkers below do! Here’s some highlights from our End of the Year 2015 survey…
RICHARD BROWNHILL
Little Leeds Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Buxton/Omnipollo Ice Cream Pale
Tilquin/Rulles ‘Rullquin Stout’
Wild Beer Co Redwood 2015
Quantum Stock Ale
Moor So’Hop (cans
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Gueuzerie Tilquin
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Five amazing days in Copenhagen – nowhere near long enough. Also another amazing year of festivals – Leeds International and IMBC topping the bill as usual!
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JAMES MOFFAT
Port Street Beer House / IMBC
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N Brett
Boon / Mikkeller Oude Geuze
Buxton Red Raspberry Rye
Lervig / Way 3 Bean Stout
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
I can’t choose…Far too many to choose from this year.
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Working on IMBC was great. Brewing Dark Mass with Quantum.
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DAVE HARRISON-WARD
Macclesfield Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly Sundae – Buxton/Omnipollo
Flat White – Alphabet Brewing Company
Yeastus Christus – To Øl
Airforce Gator – Quantum
Ahtanum Sour – Chorlton Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Opening a brewery (Macclesfield Brewing Company)! After that IMBC 2015 of course!
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ARLO
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N’ Brett
Quantum Air Force Gator
Burning Sky Cuveé
Siren/Mikkeller BA Daydream
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Siren established / Track new
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
When the American Pallet came to Port Street with Westbrook and Jacks Abbey stuff!
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CARL MCBRIDE
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Other Half – All Green Everything
Deschutes – Freshly Squeezed IPA
Omnipollo – Noa Pecan Mud Cake
Toccalomato – Zona Cesarini
Epic – Hop Zombie
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Omnipollo
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LEONA NORBURY
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon ‘Pech ‘n’ Brett’
Alesmith ‘Vietnamese Speedway Stout’
Siren BA ‘Nacken’
8 Wired ‘Feijoa Sour 2013
Lervig & Way Beers ‘3 Bean Stout’
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Pohjala (Estonia)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Borefts Bier Festival 2015 – The Netherlands
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Mikkeller/BrewDog Pale Ale Swindle
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Cloudwater IPA
Okologisk Herslev Bryghus IPA
Jakehead IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Cloudwater
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
IMBC
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LIAM HOWARD
Port Street Beer House Abandonee
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
The Bruery – Tart of Darkness
Lervig & Way – 3 Bean Stout
Buxton & Arizona Wilderness – Deep Rainbow Valley
Brew By Numbers – 11/03 Session IPA Mosaic
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Track
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Brewing at Quantum
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MYSTERY GLUTEN INTOLERANT DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Green’s Gutsy Dark Ale
Green’s Discovery
Mikkeller American Dream Gluten Free
To Øl Reparationsbajer Gluten Free
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Green’s
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
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SCOTT KENNETH JACKSON
The Beagle
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Lervig / Way’s 3 Bean Stout (actual favourite)
Brouwerij Alvinne’s Cuvée de Mortagne Pedro Ximenez
Buxton’s Two Ton IPA
Burning Sky’s Cuvée 2015
Hawkshead / Crooked Stave’s Key Lime Tau (UK Version)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton (honourable mention: Track)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Discussing Game of Thrones and sharing that bottle of Pedro Ximenez barrel-aged Cuvée de Mortagne with the best people in the world following my last ever shift at Port Street.
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Omnipollo Bianca Mango Lassie Gose
Mikkeller / Lindemann Spontanbasil
The Kernel Table Beer
Pressure Drop Pale Fire
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Beavertown Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
What’s Brewing, Stavanger, Norway
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ANDREW BAUCKHAM
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Jack’s Abbey – Hoponious Union
Lervig/Way – Three Bean Stout
Wild Beer Co – The Blend 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
Marble – 125 Imperial Russian Stout, Burgundy
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
The Bruery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Supervising at IMBC
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts
Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker
Dieu Du Ciel Disco Soleil
Cloudwater IPA
Rule of Thirds IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
To Øl
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Weekend trip to Copenhagen
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly (Buxton / Omnipollo)
Nebuchadnezzar (Omnipollo)
Two Ton (Buxton)
Fuck Art Let’s Dance (To Øl)
Molotov Cocktail (Evil Twin)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Indy Man Beer Convention
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Black Jack Dragon’s Tears
Weird Beard – Double Pearl (MacCallan barrel)
Wild Beer – BrettBrett
Cloudwater – Autumn NZ Hopfenweiss
Wild Beer – Redwood
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Wild Beer
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Any trip to Cloudwater Tap
– Hawkshead Tap Takeover
Wednesday 16th December 2015 // 7pm // free entry
This is going to be good. Hawkshead, one of our favourite breweries, join us at Port Street and they’re bringing out the big guns…
BEER LIST
CASK
WINDERMERE PALE
3.5% Pale Ale
DRY STONE STOUT
4.5% Stout
IPA
7.0% IPA
GREAT WHITE
4.8% Wheat Beer
CUMBRIAN 5 HOP
5.0% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
KEG
TONKA BEAN
8.5% Tonka bean stout
ITI
3.5% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
WILD SOLAR SOUR WHEAT
4.0% Blend of Wheat Beer & Berliner Weisse
BOURBON BA OAT WINE
9.0% Bourbon barrel aged oat wine. Collaboration with Wild Beer
WILD WHEAT
4.8% Wheat beer
BRODIE’S PRIME EXPORT
8.5% Stout
SUNDOWN
4.5% Amber ale
KEY LIME TAU
6.3% Key lime pie sour beer. Collaboration with Crooked Stave
CROOKED STAVE KEY LIME TAU
7.0% Crooked Stave’s version of Key Lime Tau
+ + +
3 varieties of Oat Wine in bottles. Standard Oat Wine, Bourbon BA, Cider Brandy BA.
Mission statement from Hawkshead…
At Hawkshead Brewery we make the sort of beer we like to drink. We brew distinctive, flavourful, modern beers. Hawkshead is one of the most successful of the new wave of independent breweries which have ignited public excitement about beer and furthered the renaissance of British brewing. Our beer is full of flavour, handmade, crafted, bold, personal and made by people who LOVE BEER for people who love beer.
