– PSBH 7th B’day Cloudwater Tap Takeover & Wizard King Stout Launch
PSBH 7th BDAY CLOUDWATER TAP TAKEOVER & COLLAB LAUNCH
Thursday 25th January 2018
7pm – late
Free entry
To celebrate our 7th year on Port Street as a Beer House, we have locked horns with our friends Cloudwater to bring you a very special Birthday beer collaboration AND a fully fledged Cloudwater tap takeover.
We hosted Cloudwater’s debut Spring range of beers way back in February 2015, and we’re very excited to welcome them back for a monster tap takeover. Expect the unexpected and the tastiest new Cloudwater yield. Did somebody say cask? Wait and see!
Cloudwater have kindly made a birthday beer with us, “Wizard King Stout”. Join us for the first taste of this 12% Belgian Imperial Stout. First pour on keg at 7pm. Tap list…
KEG
Black Forest Stout / Lervig collab / 11.5%
Bourbon BA Black Forest Stout / Lervig collab / 12%
IPA Simcoe Chinook / 6.5%
NE DIPA Citra Mosaic / 8.5%
Small Vic Secret Pale / 2.9%
Red Wine BA Kettle Sour w/ Raspberry & Blueberry 7%
Pompettes / Brasserie du Mont Salève collab / 8.3%
Small Nelson Sauvin Rye / 2.9%
Spirit Animal Elderflower Loquat / Jester King collab / 4%
Bourbon BA Christmas Cake / To Øl collab / 13.5%
Barrel & Ardi (BA Loral & Ardi) / Lost & Grounded x Verdant collab / 9%
Wheat Ekuanot / 6%
Session IPA Vic Secret Mosaic / 4.5%
DDH Pale NZ Chinook / 5.3%
Pilsner Motueka Mandarina / 5%
DIPA Ekuanot Mosaic / 8%
Helles Mandarina / 4.8%
WIZARD KING STOUT / Port Street Beer House collab / 12%
CASK
DDH Pale NZ Chinook 5.3%
WIZARD KING STOUT / Port Street Beer House collab 12%
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WIZARD KING (live) at 8pm / upstairs
The man, the myth. He likes imperial stout. Once an evil necromancer, Wizard King has Mellowed out since having the responsibilities of a kingdom on his shoulders.
Now he speads musical joy across all worlds. Not king of wizards, just a wizard who happens to be a king!
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PSBH 7th BIRTHDAY CAKE from BLAWD @ 7pm
Chocolatey goodness from our bezzies Blawd. Be quick if you want a slice!
Thanks for all your patronage over the years, much appreciated. Come party!
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FREE FAR FAR from BUNDOBUST @ 7pm
We’ve got 50 tubs of the beauteous rice puff spiced goodness from our lovely friends Bundobust. Wooop!
Facebook event page HERE.
– SIREN TAP TAKEOVER 19/12/17
Holy guacamole! December is shaping up to be quite the customer. Hot on the heels of our Northern Monk tap takeover (Thursday 7th December) we are proud to announce the return of one of our very favourites to Port Street…
Siren Craft Brew Tap Takeover
Tuesday 19th December 2017 / Midday – Midnight
The wonderful Siren join us at Port Street for a fully loaded cask and keg bonanza. Expect very special specials and classics you can hang your hat on. Full line-up and more information to follow. Save the date for now…
– 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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– Verdant Tap Takeover review by Cameron Steward
On Wednesday 17th May 2017 we held a Verdant tap takeover at Port Street. We asked Cameron Steward to come down and taste his way through the hits. Here are Cameron’s words and photographs…
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One of the most striking articles should you choose to visit the Verdant Brewing website is a blog post entitled ‘High Level Sink’. The declaration from January 2017 begins, “Today was a bad day” and outlines how Verdant had to dispose of a staggering 800 litres of their Pale Ale High Level Kink (4.8%), due to contamination issues.
You may think this an odd confession; why announce such a colossal failure? What good can come from planting that seed of doubt regarding the level of professionalism in such a highly competitive field? On the other hand, it’s refreshing to acknowledge such a calamity and certainly reassuring to see that Verdant demand only the highest quality, ensuring the product they put out is their best.
Sadly HLK isn’t present at the Port Street Beer House tap takeover, but their Pale army is solidly represented with Light Bulb (4.5%), Headband (5.5%) and the brilliantly titled Roy, I Want A Hilux (5.5%). They’re reassuringly hazy, bitter and very fruity – just what you’d expect from a brewery whose manifesto is a hop-forward reaction to a lack of juicy, bitter bombs from this side of the pond. It’s evident Verdant are heavily inspired by the New England IPAs and Pales, which have gained more mainstream recognition in the UK over the past couple of years. They cite Treehouse, Trillium, Monkish and Hill Farmstead as influences and this comes across with crystal clear clarity (although in reality, they’re pretty murk-tastic) in their IPAs, Putty (8%) and Even Sharks Need Water (6.5%).
Both these beers are showcased at the takeover and Sharks is a damn-near perfect example of a smash-able, juice-splosion IPA. It’s packed with tropical lushness and plenty of bitterness. That NE profile is equally palpable from the soft mouthfeel that head brewer James clarifies “comes from wanting to meld yeast, malt and water profiles to enhance the hop experience”. It’s also worth mentioning that these beers pair fantastically with the sticky and sweet Pork Bao buns provided by the master chefs at Common Bar.
It’s not hard to tell that these guys have worked hard, each of the offerings at the takeover represents the tastes and demands of Verdant’s tireless brewers – there are just the 3 of them. This didn’t happen overnight of course, they began piloting brews in 2013 before moving to a 1bbl kit in a shipping container in 2014. “Test, assess, change and test again” James tells me and by August 2015 the beers were ready for public consumption. A mere 10 months later they moved to their current premises in Falmouth, Cornwall, equipped with a 10bbl kit that went live in September 2016. From there on it’s all been a haze (pun intended), with popularity seeing Verdant become increasingly more visible in the north of England, having already infiltrated the South West, Northern Ireland and London. Their next target, Scotland, is so direct in their crosshairs that the day after their Port Street takeover, they’re invading one of Edinburgh’s finest, The Hanging Bat, to bring the hop pain.
Future aspirations include obtaining their own canning line and opening their tap house for summer sessions. They also hope to extend their Christmas card list with a range of forthcoming collaborations that may be classified “top secret” but definitely include Manchester’s own Cloudwater, which is definitely worth getting excited about.
It’s not hard to see why Verdant have grown so exponentially; they’re fun and personable gents who offer time to answer my questions and it’s clear they’re brewing beers they crave, which happens to coincide with a reinvigorated interest in the modern IPA – see Hop City for further evidence. Their pump clips and cans glow as vibrantly on bars and shelves as the contents do in the glass, and if they’re not happy with those beers being saturated with “lush, juicy and moist hop flavours”, then they’ll reassess and try again.