Port Street Beer House | Northern Quarter beer house, pub, drinking hole

– Almasty Tap Takeover and PSBH Collab Launch

ALMASTY TAP TAKEOVER and PSBH COLLAB LAUNCH 
Thursday 23rd March 2017 / 5pm-late

We are delighted to welcome Almasty Brewing Co. (Newcastle Upon Tyne) to Manchester for a tap takeover AND the launch of the Almasty x Port Street Beer House collab, an as yet unnamed Snickers inspired stout.

Almasty is a search to create uncompromising big, bold flavours. A showcase for fresh, seasonally inspired ales from brewer Mark McGarry. The only constant is change.

Get excited.

Full line-up and details coming soon…

– Leveller // an exhibition by Robert Parkinson

LEVELLER
An exhibition by Robert Parkinson
Port Street Beer House
Opening Thursday 22nd September 2016 / 6pm

+ Jennifer Reid (live)
+ Squawk Leveller Black IPA launch

Pubs have been a crucial foundation of social space within Britain for hundreds of years. The function of a ‘public house’ has evolved over time and has nurtured many social and political movements throughout our cultural history. From working class people using the space as escapism of the sometimes gruelling manual labour, to feminists and CND movements hosting meetings and events in the then declining pub spaces of the 1980s. It also sparked the musical genre – Pub Rock (pre-cursor to Punk); bands playing stripped back rock and roll music as a reaction to the progressive/hippy scene as actively ‘anti-stadium’ performers.

Mass Observation saw how crucial pub spaces were for a social study and produced ‘The Pub and the People: A Worktown Observation’ in 1947. For every 1000 people in Greater Manchester there is a pub.

The foundation of most pub conversation is light hearted and humorous. Pub games lend themselves well to these playful surroundings and not many have been more popular than darts. Robert aims to explore the level to which darts has come, from the local leagues to filling 10,000 seats at the world championships today.

Art and political movements have often hosted events and meetings within pubs as the environment is perfect to spark discussion and gather collaborative ideas. Leveller will show examples of these within Manchester past and present intending to spark conversations a similar vein.

If you’ve been in a pub, chances are you’ve been in a chip shop. Is that a leap? Chip shops, like pubs, are considered very British and are often referenced in Mass Observations studies. For Leveller Robert has produced a screen-printed poster inspired by a chip shop printed onto chip shop paper. Art you could eat your dinner (chips) off.

Folk singer Jennifer Reid will be performing local traditional pub songs in local dialect at the opening of Leveller. Many of which are featured and have inspired the framed works that will be displayed within Port Street. The opening night will see the launch of a new dark IPA titled Leveller, brewed especially for this exhibition by Squawk Brewery with Robert Parkinson.

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Leveller is an exhibition of all new work by Robert Parkinson, Manchester-based artist and photographer. Robert has previously shown work in London, New York, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Berlin, and Paris. Robert is also one-half of self-publishing/exhibiting/educating ensemble, Preston is my Paris. We are excited to welcome Robert Parkinson to Port Street to grace our walls.

www.robertparkinson.co.uk

Facebook event page HERE.

– Brouwerij de Molen Tap Takeover

Thursday 1st September 2016 / 5pm-late / free entry
BROUWERIJ DE MOLEN TAP TAKEOVER

None more excited for a visit from the Dutch masters for this eagerly anticipated tap takeover. De Molen have been churning out the hits from their windmill base since 2004, world-famous for their large variety of (imperial) stouts, ales and smoked ales. De Molen are one of the most highly respected breweries operating in the craft world today.

Here’s the beer list. All pouring on keg…

– North Brewing Co Tap Takeover

Thursday 28th July 2016 / 5pm – late

We are honoured to welcome Leeds’ North Brewing Co across the pennines for a special tap takeover at Port Street.

Set up by the pioneering Leeds-based bar group North Bar Ltd and the successful team behind Belgrave Music Hall and Headrow House, North Brewing Co (and taproom) opened in November 2015 at Taverner’s Walk Industrial Estate on the fringe of Leeds City Centre and initially serviced the eight bars currently operated by the two bar groups. Brewers Seb Brink (formerly of Golden Owl) and Darius Darwell (of Bristol Beer Factory) are behind the recipes of the beers, which vary from classic British styles to exciting and interesting flavour combinations.

The team have collaborated with a number of breweries in recent months, including Drygate Brewery in Glasgow and most recently brewing a Yorkshire rhubarb sour beer with Lervig Brewery from Norway. North have got a collaboration lined up with BrewDog and the Port Street team recently took a trip to Leeds to make a beer with North that you’ll be able to taste for the first time at this tap takeover.

Here’s the beer list…

KEG

Sputnik – 5% pale ale
Transmission – 6.9% west coast IPA
Full Fathom 5 – 6.5% coffee porter
Herzog – 5% kolsch style
Kettle Sour – Lervig collaboration 3.2% sour
Red IPA – Port Street Beer House collaboration (!) 6.2%