– Your 2019 Beers of the Year
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Name
Aaron
Rubber duck
- 1) Spirit Ritual – Trve brewing
- 2) L’amour en cage – New Belgium
- 3) Mexican cake stout – Westbrook brewing co.
- 4) Clamp – SMOD
- 5) Faithless 111 Simcoe IPA (cask) – Redwillow
St Mars of the Desert
Helping/watching the brewing of ‘Crumbling Splendour’ with Dan and Martha from St Mars for Indyman
Living juicy in a pair of velvet tracksuit pants that say juicy on the rump
Savoury flavoury!
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Paddy Peel-Barnard
- 1) Salted Caramel Stay Puft – Tiny Rebel
- 2) Niki – Omnipollo
- 3) Jantelagen – Howling Hops
- 4) Pump Up The Jam – Tiny Rebel
- 5) Blackcurrant Trifle – Mad Scientist
Tiny Rebel
Visiting Omnipollos Hatt in Stockholm.
The porter style to make a spectacular return to form in winter, and IPAs to get more brash, come spring/summer
Eco friendly, zero plastic manufacture.
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Name
Maria
- 1) Black currant Trifle – Mad Scientist and Brewdog Budapest for CollabFest 2019
- 2) Sang Royal – Cascade Brewing
- 3) Pump Up The Jam – Tiny Rebel
- 4) Dubbel Beta Coumarin – Solvay Society and Two Tribes
- 5) Mr Brown 2019 – To Øl
Touring around craft beer bars in Warsaw, ticking off the 2019 Mr Brown series. Favourite that we returned to several times was Kufle i Kapsle
More sours with different flavours!
More eco-friendly and less waste
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Three Hills, Trium Faba (Ed: That’s not your name, that’s a beer!)
Big, viscous, delicious chocolate and tonka bomb. Big enough to share and enjoy, memorable enough to nominate this is a greeeeeat beer and should be celebrated. (Ed: This bio is about the above beer!)
- 1) Verdant Keep Left
- 2) Mikkeller Beer Geek Maple Shake
- 3) Carnival Brewing Macau Oat Cream Pistachio Pale
- 4) Neptune Medusa’s Gaze BA Imperial Stout
- 5) Omnipollo Gimbagagompa
Verdant
Indyman Friday am session.
Reduction in beer duty to make great craft more accessible, and for our great independent breweries and bars to thrive. I also want the large brewcos and congloms to stop pretending they can do craft just by buying some of our great brands.
Candy sours by the looks of it. Pretzel stouts. The big finale of the 750ml sharers before Portman Group gets them banned.
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Daisy
Aggressive Enthusiast
- 1) Other Half Deep Orbit Vega Special Edition
- 2) Track Sonoma (always)
- 3) Brew York Cherry Tonkoko
- 4) Verdant Don’t Tell Gus
- 5) Trillium Peanut Butter Cup
Omnipollo x Buxton
Friends, Family and Beer or Omnipolloscope
More of the same
Back to basics
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Stefan Melbourne
Operations Manager at Track Brewing Co
- 1) Green Cheek – TIPA
- 2) Grimm – Psychokinesis
- 3) Timothy Taylor’s – Landlord
- 4) Finback – BFP1
- 5) Cerebral – Foudre Aged Helles
Finback
Our first trip to NYC!
Find ourselves a new space and keep on trying to get better at everything we do
IPA
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Name
Adam Keyworth
@adamkeyworth
- 1) American Solera – VCPC Dilemma
- 2) Fonta Flora – Carolina Custard
- 3) Modern Times – Modem Tones
- 4) Hudson Valley – Fallow
- 5) Lervig – Times 8
Polly’s
Cloudwater F&F&B – best beer festival on English soil, made even better by Green Cheek All Batter Everything getting free-poured and Jang the App Man falling asleep stood up, again.
Hudson Valley on cask.
Hard Seltzer shite, unfortunately. But hopefully the trend will be people stop calling 8% stouts ‘imperial’, soft arses.
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Andy
31. Disney and DIPAs
- 1) Cloudwater x The Veil: Chubbles
- 2) Verdant x Equilibrium: Keep Left
- 3) Track x Zagavor: Uzon
- 4) Deya x Other Half: My Life In The Sunshine
- 5) Cloudwater: Good Things For Everyone
Cloudwater
Friends, Family and Beer fest
More accessible hype beers
Fruited goses
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Mr Beerington
PErson of BEer
- 1) Pomona Island / Vocation Ibuki IV 7
- 2) Five Points beST (Fuggles) 4.1
- 3) Redwillow Heritage Special Bitter 5.3
- 4) SMOTD XXX Mild 9ISH
- 5) Squawk Corvus 7.4
Squawk was good but not for 2020 sadly (expansion=bad)
Drinking the last few unadulterated pints before it all goes down the proverbial pan
Hops and dreams
Making your friends who can’t drink beer drink crap wine at soaring prices and gin seemingly because of stupid laws/capitalism making drinks quality plummet around us
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Craft Ale Manc
Homebrewer, drinker & appreciator of fine beers in all forms & styles!
- 1) Wylam – Jakehead
- 2) Marble – Cubbio Damage
- 3) Thirst Class – Path Of Most Resistance
- 4) To The Moon – Apollo V2
- 5) Verdant – Allen
Marble (tough – loads right up there)
Indy Salford Beer Festival (#ISBF6)
Improvements to homebrew quality, #ISBF7, a hot summer of sours, Saisons & Gose!
Lager Radlers or Heritage beers.
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Daniel Woods
Untapped Beginner @danielwoodspro 210+
- 1) People do odd things – Verdant
- 2) Imperial Stay Puft Irish Cream – Tiny Rebel
- 3) Coconuts – Lervig
- 4) Hot Fuzz – Wilde Child
- 5) Granny’s Mix – Northern Monk
Wilde Child
Leeds International Beer Festival
To visit the Tiny Rebel brewery and Tap
Pilsner 2.0
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Rod ‘The Mod’ Stewart
King of the Model Railway. Green Brigade UTLR since 2006. Pub singer
- 1) Four Friends by Burning Sky
- 2) AOC by Finback
- 3) VCPC Dilemma by American Solera
- 4) Fallow by Hudson Valley
- 5) Bière de Mars by Hill Farmstead
Half Acre Beer Company
Clapping eyes on Paul Jones’ bespoke Cloudwater/Half Acre Adidas jacket at Friends and Family and Beer…superior threads
To lead the green-and-white faithful in song across the beautiful city of Gdansk ahead of our first appearance in the UEFA Cup Final since May of 2003, when one of the great injustices in modern history unfolded in Seville (more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMFF4967XbM)
What will be 2020’s beer trend?
GASP as Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor takes on an ambassadorial role at Cloudwater. SHRIEK when Hillary Clinton reveals all about the time she drained an entire keg of Five Points Pale whilst standing on her head. And COLLAPSE IN ASTONISHMENT when Northern Monk cement their Mancunian credentials by inking a product placement deal with Coronation Street, that will spiral quickly from Kev and Tyrone enjoying a civilised tasting of the latest Patrons offering to Chesney sucking nine pints of Heathen off the tap and reducing the Rovers to rubble. Remember: just like Wu-Tang Clan, craft is for the children.
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Joe Hill
Dork
- 1) Deya: Swedish Octopus
- 2) Cloudwater: West Coast IPA
- 3) Fantôme: Sorachi Saison
- 4) Wylam: There’s Nothing Wrong With Dreaming
- 5) Torrside: King Bugbear
Deya
Indy Man!
The continued resurgence of west coast IPAs
More acquisitions and fake craft.
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Patrick Cavanagh
Indy Man app developer. Proud member of the Conservative Party. Absolutely massive mosher. Juggalo for life
- 1) Brewdog – Punk IPA
- 2) Oranjeboom 16
- 3) Robinsons – Build a Rocket Boys!
- 4) Budweiser Black Crown
- 5) Tetley’s – Smooth
AB/InBev
Breaking the bank for Hudson Valley cans at Hop City, and then deliberately rendering myself unconscious in time for the train journey home so that my friends could enjoy them in peace, absolutely free of charge. What can I say – that’s just the kind of guy I am!
The immediate reinstatement of His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, to public life, along with an eight-figure lump sum to be paid to him from the public purse as compensation for acute emotional distress. (Ed: Oh, Patrick…)
The return of the noble Flensburger Tower to COMMON in time for the opening game of Scotland’s Euro 2020 campaign on June. Looking forward to repeating last year’s party trick of sinking a full one in one go, and then noisily defecating into the empty vessel. YES this is a confession – it was I!
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Joe Avis
33, Old Trafford, Chap
- 1) Assemblage #1 – Burning Sky
- 2) Meemaw – Fonta Flora
- 3) House Couture – American Solera
- 4) Muscat Première – De Garde
- 5) Swim Test – Green Cheek
Track
Holding onto the floor after F,F&B
No hangovers
Anything but lactose
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Name
Roger Barnes
- 1) Track – Sonoma
- 2) Anarchy Brewery – Imenso
- 3) Donzoko – Northern Helles
- 4) Cloudwater – Birthday beer
- 5) Fierce / North – collab beer
Anarchy Brewery
Indy Man
Cloudwater Friends and Family tix
Hybrid beers
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Becky Flockhart
Port Street General Manager
- 1) Donzoko – Helles (4 lyf)
- 2) Dugges – Banana Toffee Chocolate
- 3) Mikkeller Spontan Quadrupel Raspberry
- 4) Schofferhofer Grapefruit (My Son)
- 5) Strongbow – Dark Fruits
Donzoko
Summer Beer Thing. I buy the beer for it so yeah…
To get over my hate of pink gin
Pink gin
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Denny Rogers
- 1) Donzoko – Northern Helles
- 2) Abbeydale – Ryes From The Grave
- 3) Black Iris x Beatnikz Republic – Today’s Empires Tomorrow’s Glasses
- 4) St Mars Of The Desert – Triple
- 5) Beatnikz Republic – Bête Noir
Abbeydale
Black Iris x Beatnikz Republic beer launch for Manchester Punk Festival
To not die
Probably NEIPAs and pastry stouts because people are idiots. It should be Lagers and Mild though, that’s the dream
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Morten
Beersomm and bartender at Piccadilly pub in Bodø, Norway.
- 1) Verdant – Putty
- 2) The Veil/Omnipollo – Tefnut Raspberry
- 3) Tree House – Julius
- 4) Northern Monk – Striding Edge
- 5) Cromarty – Lager
Northern Monk
Friends, Family and Beer or LIBF
Big beers in smaller cans.
Low ABV beers.
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Dave Taylor
32, Male, Woking
- 1) Deya – Invoice me for the microphone
- 2) Double Barrelled – Birthday TIPA
- 3) Siren – Caribbean White Chocolate Cake
- 4) Verdant – Fruit, Car, Sight
- 5) Wylam – Greenbutt skunt
Wylam
Friends & Family
More beeeeeers
Mixed ferm fuss over DIPAS
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Iwan
Indomie Connoisseur
- 1) Samuel Smith – Old Brewery Bitter Oak Cask
- 2) North Brewing Co. – Touch Sensitive DIPA
- 3) North Brewing Co. x Little Bao Boy – Peach & Lychee Session IPA
- 4) Pomona Island Brew Co.- If Only I had The Guts
- 5) Other Half Brewing Co. – We’ve Been Out There In Orbit W/ Bananas, Walnuts, and Caramel
North Brewing Co.
North Brewing Co.’s fruited gose adventure. – Track Brewing Co.’s 5th birthday five time, five time, five time, five time, five time can release.
Tetsuya Naito to finally win it all and become the double New Japan Pro Wrestling Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champion at Wrestle Kingdom 14. Whilst Shingo Takagi goes on to win the NJPW G1 Climax. Now gimme a 2 sweet ~
Esports beer teams.
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Daniel Read
AM/Beer Guy at Bundobust
- 1) Squawk – Roller
- 2) Suarez Family – Rauchbier
- 3) Yonder – Raspberry Gose
- 4) Hill Farmstead – Double Citra
- 5) Põhjala – Vahtra
Ooosh Yonder or Squawk
UK’s ever wonderful Burning Sky pouring MAGNUMS of Assemblage at IMBC. Very fun – more magnums in beer please!
More beer taking up wine’s space in restaurants. Hopefully work with more of the best/nicest breweries we’ve met at Bundo!
Trappist delights
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Alex Dixon
Love beer
- 1) Verdant – Don’t tell Gus
- 2) Track – Sonoma
- 3) Fantome – Magic Ghost
- 4) Cascade – Pistil Whipped
- 5) Cloudwater – Chubbles
Track
Indy man 2019 – Thursday session
Verdant opening a tap room in Manchester/Heaton park!
Low strength juice bombs
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Hedley C
Med comms professional
- 1) Wild beer co – B.A.B.S. The original batch, not #2. Gorgeous multi layered imperial stout
- 2) Cloudwater and a US brewery I can’t remember – Indulgently Crisp Experience. Nelson say in in IPL form, yes please
- 3) Abbeydale Funk Dungeon – Ryes from your grave. Tart and fruity Flanders red style thingy
- 4) Torrside – Battalion Bull Terrier. Sauterne barrel- aged smoked imperial blend sounds like it would be a right mess, but it was a perfectly balanced and subtle masterpiece
- 5) Torrside – Swiss-guard sighthound. Moscatel barrel-aged wheat wine that outdoes the mighty Bull Terrier
Torrside
Manchester beer festival, just for the “beers from the wood” bar
Continued creative brews from Torrside that shouldn’t work, but do.
250ml cans for strong beers
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Jason Boardman
Ticketing and DJ bloke
- 1) The Other Half + Hudson Valley – High Brightness
- 2) Cloudwater – Chubbles
- 3) Verdant x Other Half – Now We Are Here
- 4) Track – Birthday Series – No 3
- 5) Brew York x Vocation – Medjuica
Track
Other Half x Hudson Valley – High Brightness at Indy Man was an off the hook token magnet!
Hopes and dreams for 2020?
We don’t #gedditdun
Not for me personally but Alcohol Free Craft will be everywhere in 2020.
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Name
Princess Fenton
Motor Mouth
- 1) Neon Raptor – Leaping Llamas
- 2) Amunsden – Glazed and Confused
- 3) Grimm – Tesseract
- 4) Wizard – Time Flies
- 5) Omnipollo – Bianca
Pomona Island
Friends & Family
More beer
Mild
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Jonathan Heyes
- 1) Burning Sky – Petite Saison
- 2) Other Half + Cellarmaker – Cadillac Tuxedo
- 3) Evil Twin NYC – I ONLY LOOK UP AT TALL BUILDINGS IF IT’S THE LATEST STARCHITECT-DESIGNED TOWER
- 4) Siren – Maiden 2017 Cask
- 5) Number of the Yeast – Cloudwater
Pomona Island
IMBC 2019 as always!
Drinkable drinks.
Harry Summers
Music-man, Beer-man and Barman of PSBH
- 1) The Silent World – Creature Comforts
- 2) Robust Porter – Burning Sky
- 3) Brown Ale – Blackjack Brewery
- 4) Corvus – Squawk
- 5) Guileless – Redwillow
Squawk (specifically that good cask stuff)
Arlo-Attenborough Greenway’s and Carl McBride’s leaving do. A proper send-off to two great dudes, food prepared by my talented older brother (Euan), and Kernel Foederbeer on keg for a ludicrously low price. Good friends, good beer, great experience.
That people continue to be nice to each other. Those that aren’t? Cut that nonsense out! Grab a beer, make a friend, respect your environment. Don’t be a silly.
IPA’s so hazy, it make you go crazy. Not a fan of this personally, I just want some decent malty boys on the regular.
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Leopold Green
likes beer, dislikes Tories.
- 1) Twice Baked Potato – Other Half
- 2) Modem Tones Aged in Bourbon Barrels with Vanilla – Modern Times
- 3) Incredibly Profound Alignment – Cloudwater
- 4) Corvus Whisky BA – Squawk
- 5) Existential Thanks – Cloudwater
Cloudwater
Cloudwater Friends and Family
Trump loses in November and the tories all resign
old style english bitters
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Matt Gorecki
Head of Beer – IMBC
- 1) Kernel – Raspberry Stout
- 2) Deya – Just a Glimmer
- 3) Bass – Gravity poured at the Dolphin in Plymouth
- 4) Orval/Landlord
- 5) Mahrs Brau Pilsner in Bamberg
Deya
Somewhere in between visiting Bamberg, drinking my own beer in my own taproom, drinking Drive Fonteinen in their own taproom, drinking Landlord anywhere it’s kept well once Autumn is underway and drinking draught Bass in fantastic condition in the VER wavy Dolphin pub in Plymouth. A selection of very authentic experiences in the sea of fuckery that was 2019 – can’t pick one, not gonna
No More Joke Beer
NO MORE JOKE BEER
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Scott Kenneth Jackson
Indy Man Beer Guy
- 1) Arclight Soursmith Red Raspberry – tasted exactly like raspberry jam
- 2) Ayinger Lager Hell – better than Teg and Augustiner (don’t @ me)
- 3) Cascade 2012 Kriek – TBH, this whole list could easily be made up of the vintages that these guys brought to Indy Man
- 4) Donzoko Genever BA Flanders Red – yet another great modern interpretation of a trad beer style from this former Thirsty Games contestant and [spoiler] my own personal brewer of the year
- 5) Pomona Island Killian is Lying to You – a 3.3% DDH Table Beer absolutely jam-packed with flavour
Donzoko Brewing Company (honourable mention: Pomona Island Brew Co.)
cArlo-geddon: Carl and Arlo’s joint Port Street leaving do at Blackjack, attended by generations of former PSBH legends, MVPs and regulars.
For a certain brewery (who I can’t name here) to finally agree to pour at Indy Man.
Hard kombucha
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Name
David Markham
Beer drinker, food lover and cyclist from Sheffield
- 1) To Øl – Jule Maelk Islay Edition
- 2) Jaipur
- 3) Kernel Biere de Saison – Nelson Sauvin
- 4) Lervig 3 Bean Stout Rum Barrel
- 5) Siren – Maiden 18
Abbeydale
Sitting with my partner and pals in an Abbeydale picture-house drinking delicious beers from some of the UK (and beyond)’s best breweries at the fantastic Indie Beer Feast
Less pointless arguments
Looooooooow ABV
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Chris Turner
A keen runner from Stockport fuelled by peanut butter and imperial stout
- 1) Nebuchadnezzar by Omnipollo
- 2) Heaven & Hell by Brouwerij De Molen
- 3) Radio The Mothership by Collective Arts
- 4) Xocoveza by Stone
- 5) Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake by Siren
Mobberley Brewhouse
I attended the Sheffield Beer Festival at Kelham Island. It had a huge selection of beers. Most of the beer was pretty average but there was an opportunity to watch a heritage steam engine being operated. A group of Spanish students couldn’t finish their beef jerky because it was too spicy and they were kind enough to give the rest to me and my friends. It was that spicy it was like an outer body experience. Tremendous fun.
Got a Brewery tour booked at Cloudwater. Very excited.
Beer made from repurposed food waste.
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Sneaky
39, bloke, likes stout
- 1) Lervig – Times 8
- 2) Dancing Knome – Black Clouds Double Vanilla
- 3) Transient Artisan Ales – Kentuckley
- 4) Siren Craft Brew – Death by Caribbean Chocolate Cake (2019)
- 5) Amundsen – Cookie Monster Bourbon
Siren Craft Brew
Dark and Wild City in Leeds, epic weekend of Stouts
Visit more beer festivals, try and discover more amazing stouts
No idea, bigger & bolder flavour (if it could even be done after 2019!)
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David Bailey
Content Provider. Illustrator.
- 1) Saint Mars of the Desert x IMBC x Zapato Crumbling Splendour
- 2) Donzoko Northern Helles
- 3) The Kernel Centennial & Hallertau Tradition Foeder Beer
- 4) Hawkshead Windermere Pale @ Petersgate Tap
- 5) Veltins @ Port Street
Saint Mars of the Desert
Going to Saint Mars of the Desert to help aid with the IMBC 19 collaboration, Crumbling Splendour
More West Coast. More 3% pales on cask.
Spicy beers
– Beers of the Year 2019
2019. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Typical year stuff, really. The world is burning but the beers have been great. It’s the Port Street end of year survey!!! The greatest time of the year!! We want to hear about which beers shook your world this year and just what was good, in general. As per usual, we will do a big ol’ summary post about everybody’s responses early in the new year. Keep calm and drink beer 🤣🤣🤣
Create your own user feedback survey
– Saint Mars of the Desert Showcase | 29th August 2019
SAINT MARS OF THE DESERT SHOWCASE
Thursday 29th August 2019
Midday – Midnight
Port Street Beer House
Free entry
We are delighted to welcome Saint Mars of the Desert (SMOD) to Port Street, a small new brewery making big waves in Sheffield.
SMOD is husband and wife team, Dann and Martha Paquette, operating out of a small facility and taproom in Attercliffe, Sheffield. Dann and Martha have over 25 years of brewing experience across continents, most recently creating the world renowned Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project in Boston which ran strong for 7 years.
Pretty Things was something of a trailblazer in the craft beer world, being one of the first breweries to operate in a so-called “gypsy” brewing style, sans brewery.
The Paquettes explore the dusty corners of traditional recipes and have prior form in resurrecting and reinterpreting long forgotten styles. This spirit is taken forward with their new project, SMOD. Always forward, never back.
We hope you’ll join us to try some exciting new beers from South Yorkshire via the USofA.
Tap list coming soon…
– Best Beer Selection // Manchester Beer Week Awards 2018
BEST BEER SELECTION WINNERS
Port Street Beer House
Manchester Beer Week Awards 2018
We were pleased as punch to take home the award for Best Beer Selection at this year’s Manchester Beer Week Awards held at the Marble Arch. Shout out to Connor and the MCR Beer Week team for doing great things in the city – and shout out to Marble Arch for laying on the best buffet spread in recent years (cheesy chips and mushy pea fritters featured). Here’s PSBH manager Carl lifting the award…
