– 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
– Port Street Membership
Great news! The Port Street Beer Hero membership cards have finally landed. Sign up for free HERE and receive your membership card from the bar – it camouflages nicely into your wallet and enables YOU, the beerholder, to 10% off beer and 20% off takeouts. What’s not to love?
– Old And Dark Week
23rd November – 30th November 2015
These days it’s dark outside when you get out of bed. You potter about your flat wondering if it’s too late to have your first cup of coffee. Unsure of the time because your phone’s out of battery & the clock fell off the wall & has been stopped at 8.32 ever since. You haven’t bothered to get a new one yet but you like that clock in that space on the kitchen wall so you’ve just put it back up & now it hangs there useless & lifeless & silent. Much like you now staring at the stove still wondering if you should make a coffee. It could be the middle of the night. It could be 5pm. It could be 5am. It’s dark outside. That’s all you know. You charge your phone just enough to find out the time. It’s the evening. Maybe a bit late for a coffee. Maybe time for a beer. It’s getting colder. Maybe it’s time to dust off one of those imperial stouts you’ve been ageing. You’ve been looking forward to trying that one you brought back with you from a trip to America last year. You wanted to keep it a bit longer. Share it with some friends on a special occasion. It’d be a shame to open it now. You reconsider. If only there was somewhere you could go to get a decent stout & then you could save this bottle. You stop just before you open it. You remember a night in Port Street Beer House. You’re sure you were there around this time last year drinking some imperial stout with bacon in it or something. You remember really enjoying it. You remember there was a whole week dedicated to your favourite style of beer. Your phone now has enough battery. You start browsing the internet trying to find out if it’s happening again this year. You’re in luck. It is.
OLD AND DARK WEEK
A week long celebration of old and dark beers featuring highlights in the shape of…
Against The Grain 70K
Lervig Barley Wine
Moor Fusion
Siren Chocolate Caribbean Cake
Westbrook Mexican Cake
and many many more
P.S. There will also be young and light beers available.
– Cloudwater Double IPA Day
CLOUDWATER DOUBLE IPA DAY // Saturday 7th November // Port Street Beer House // 7pm // free entry
What’s twice as good as an IPA? A double IPA! That’s how it works, right? Not sure but I can tell you this for certain: we are emphatically looking forward to tasting Cloudwater‘s new special edition, super fresh 9% DIPA. As well as pouring their eagerly anticipated double IPA on keg, we will also be pouring their similarly anticipated new IPA on cask. Now that’s what I call a double IPA day!
Join us Saturday 7th November from 7pm to taste both of these new Cloudwater offerings. Here’s some words direct from the brewery to get you juiced,
“The 7th of November marks the first year anniversary of residency in our warehouse in Manchester, and what an eventful year it’s been since we got the keys. Still three months from our first birthday, we’re up to gyle 101, and have made our way through nearly three seasonal ranges.
Back in early September, following a tasting of some excellent, fresher than ever before IPAs and DIPAs brought back from the States, we plotted to brew two hoppy beers that were more balanced, more flavourful, more hoppy, and that would hit our targets more squarely than anything we’ve brewed so far.
DIPA 9%
1500kg of malt, 70kg of the biggest, juiciest aroma hops.
Even a 2oC, with less than 1/3 of the carbonation we’ll package it with, this beer smells and tastes fantastic.
IPA 7.2%
1500kg of malt, 70kg of the biggest, juiciest aroma hops.
This beer is destined to be a very hoppy cask beer that will have cask aficionados and craft beer geeks alike quaffing half after half of what we’re sure will be one of the most impressive cask releases from us yet.
Originally destined for release as part of our Winter range in early December, we’ve decided to release both beers a month early, to celebrate beer at its freshest on our anniversary with the hoppiest beer we’ve made to date, brought to you as early as we possibly can. Both beers are being packaged this week (Wednesday and Thursday respectively), will be cold stored over weekend, before being dispatched early next week to arrive with you as fresh as they can be.
We’re incredibly proud of these beers, but they’re just the start of our next phase, an effort to make some of the best hoppy beer in the UK, and the beginning of a series of one off Drink Fresh, Hibernate, and Small Batch beers you’ll see from us in the coming years.”
Colour us excited.
