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– 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?

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– 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

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– Christmas Hampers

Available now at the bar

You’re surrounded by loved ones & some other people you haven’t seen for a year. There’s a tree in the house. None of you have been sober for weeks. You’re all wearing torn paper hats & telling awful jokes. Later you’ll eat the worst cake you’ve ever eaten & you’ll have to wash it down with a beer that for some reason has loads of cloves in it. This doesn’t have to be the case. You could pick up a hamper from Port Street Beer House & actually enjoy something on the 25th of December.

 

THE PORT STREET CHRISTMAS SELECTION BOX £32.50

 

1. Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof – Gose

Because whoever cooks dinner is going to under season it!

2. Siren/Cigar City – Caribbean Chocolate Cake

Why would you want to eat a fruit cake in the first place? Let alone one with marzipan? Have a Caribbean Chocolate Cake as dessert instead.

3. Buxton – Red Raspberry Rye

You’ve never made jam before. That’s why you made a mess of it! Why do you think people want your awful home made jam anyway? Give them a Red Raspberry Rye instead. It’s far better than anything you’re going to make.

4. Evil Twin – Freudian Slip

You’ll probably be needing something a little more boozy later on to help you through that 4 hour game of Monopoly.

5. Northern Monk/Nomada – Frate Nero

I always find dark beer goes great with beef. You’re having turkey? Why would you have turkey? It’s just a bigger, uglier, horribly dry chicken!

6. Firestone Walker – Union Jack

Give the gift of hops this Christmas. To yourself. Go on. You earned it. You’re definitely more deserving than those ungrateful friends & family members who are all asking if you kept the receipts.

 

CANS £25.00

Cans are perfect stocking fillers. They’re also perfect for the long train journey back to the middle of nowhere that you grew up. You can even spread the Christmas cheer by sharing them with your fellow travellers. Or just keep the cans to yourself to make putting up with being crammed into a busy train, surrounded by people shouting at each other on phones, eating noisily & listening to music through headphones at a volume that must be causing them some serious ear trouble just that little bit more bearable.

No I don’t want a mince pie from you, thanks.

Oh, you’re just going to leave your bags on the seat while I stand for 2 hours?

It’s great that you find my shoulder so comfortable but could you please sleep somewhere else? Somewhere far, far away from here.

 

1. Vocation – Heart & Soul

2. Roosters – Yankee

3. Evil Twin – Molotov Lite

4. Firestone Walker – Easy Jack

5. Sierra Nevada – Nooner

6. Northern Monk – Northern Star

 

USA £35.20

Oh America, you gave us so many terrible things. You’re responsible for Black Friday, the Kardashians & Comic Sans. It’s a good job you produce some amazing beer, otherwise I could never forgive you. The one thing I will never forgive you for however, is saying “I could care less”. Why do you keep saying you could care less when you have no interest in something? What you’re actually saying when you say you could care less is that you do care. You have to care a little bit to be able to care less. I could care less about these beers.

 

1. Stillwater – As Follows

2. Two Roads – Workers Comp Saison

3. Against The Grain – MacFannybaw

4. Founders – Centennial IPA

5. North Coast – Old Rasputin

6. Sierra Nevada – Hop Hunter IPA

 

UK £31.80

& what were we doing in the UK while America was coming up with Comic Sans? Not a lot. We were all too busy playing cricket to notice one of us had come up with the pay toilet. Yes, we’re to blame for there being toilets in train stations that earn more money than most people. Bravo UK. Well done. We’re also responsible for you having to pretend you care about one another at Christmas by exchanging bits of card with people you’ve only spoken to in the last year to complain about their cat doing its business on your lawn.

 

1. Northern Monk – New World IPA

2. Siren – BA Forgotten Journey

3. Magic Rock – Salty Kiss

4. Partizan – Porter

5. Buxton – Ace Edge

6. Mad Hatter – Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte

 

GLUTEN FREE £28.00

There are some people who can’t drink beer. Seriously. I hope you folks find some comfort in the fact that there’s some people out there making some amazing beer that you can drink!

 

1. Mikkeller – Peter, Pale & Mary

2. Mikkeller – I Wish IPA

3. First Chop – DOC

4. First Chop – HOP

5. Green’s – Premium Pils

6. Green’s – Dark Ale

 

The only Christmas spirit you need is whisky.

Thank you.

Merry Tuesday 24th November!

PS. As a special gift to you all this Christmas we’ll be throwing in an extra bottle to every hamper. I suggest you drink these yourself rather than giving them to the people you bought the hamper for. You already bought them six beers. They should be grateful enough for that. I’d be pretty happy if someone bought me six beers. Well, maybe not happy, but you know, drunk?

Words by James Moffat

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– IMBC 15 Review by Cameron Steward

 

It’s safe to say that the Independent Manchester Beer Convention (now in its fourth year) has outgrown it’s humble, hush-hush beginnings, if it ever were that…The hallowed Saturday evening session sold out in something like 6 seconds, or hours, whatever. It’s now become the UK beer festival to go to for many reasons: the fantastic array of the best of the best British breweries (and a handful of European and US); stunning street food and snacks (good to see the cheese boards return); the gorgeous grade II listed Victoria Swimming Baths. Go on, pick one? Oh you need more…

Well, how about the one-off collaboration brews that the Indy Man team participated in with a handful of British beer barons, concocted especially for the event? I opt for IMBC’s pairing with Weird Beard and Norway’s Lervig which yielded The Frog is Fired (5%). It’s a delightfully sharp and florally refreshing start to the proceedings – though not as spectacular as last years Hacienda. I gallivant through the elegant rooms of the baths with childish glee, attempting to locate my favourites, finding Beavertown (St. Clement Sour – 4.5%), Cloudwater (BA Sour Cherries – 6.5%) and Brew By Numbers (16|04 Red Ale – 6.5%) along the way. BBNo. inch it with their Red Ale with Chocolate and Coffee tasting as velvety soft and delicious as I’d hoped.

The live online beer list doesn’t seem to be fully functioning, which is a shame. There was pleasure to be had in scouting the rooms for ones next tipple but I definitely would take the tried-and-tested paper list any day. The bright and airy Pineapple room is hosted by Manchester newbies Cloudwater and they’ve brewed up a storm for the weekend. Their Sour White and Yellow Peach (5.8%) aged in Sherry barrels shows a depth and experience which belies their youth, having only served their first beer in March of this very year. They also provided this years stunning glassware, so three cheers for those beauties!

Time for another collaboration but this time in snack form and Worksop-based Karkli have teamed with those Weird Beard dudes (get around a bit don’t they?) for a beer meets Lemon and Ginger twist on their traditional Indian snack. It’s milder than their usual produce and teams really well with Space Phantom (3.7%); Beavertown‘s Berliner Weisse, hopped to the end of the universe and back with Galaxy.

My following beers take me back to a more simple time with Burning Sky’s Flanders Red (6%) and Buxton’s Old World Saison (5.8%). Before I’m fully submerged in the past and donning robes, sandals and yielding a pitchfork (yes, a farming monk) I take a trip to the dark side with Left Handed Giant & Beavertown’s Sour Belgian Porter (6.8%), which tastes something along the lines of a boozy Black Forest Gateau stuffed with Haribo Tangfastics – damn, I love this festival!

It’s at this point where food is needed and to bring me back into a very British reality I select the Mince and Onion Pie by Great North Pie and a traditional Fish and Chips by Fish&. The pie is succulent and rich, the battered cod is light and crispy, and I am one satisfied gentleman.

My next wander takes me to Room 1 where I unearth Celt brewery’s Bleddyn AP Brett (5.9%), which tastes like Orval’s little brethren. It’s pretty decent even in Orval’s shadow but then Atom Brewing get all unstable and unleash bottles of their porter Dark Alchemy (4.9%), delivering free splashes to your nearest receptacle. I collide mine with a drop of Bleddyn Brett and fuse a superheavy, rich and funky delight. I’m like some sort-a genius…

I sampled plenty of other great beers including Beavertown’s BA Moosefang (9%), which was initially too cold and would have benefitted from being served on cask, as when it warmed up the magic truly began. But my favourite of the proceedings was recommended to me by a representative from the NZ Collective bar whose tantalising tip-off of Cromarty Brewing‘s Udder Madness (1.6%) was too intriguing to resist. A vanilla milk sour which tasted like a cream soda. Or more like a dream soda! I could have drunk it all night but instead I went home. Because I was drunk.

Of course the party didn’t end there, I took full advantage of the ingenious take away canning service provided by WeCan. This proved a great way to either take home your favourite find from the event or grab something that you didn’t get round to nursing. I boosted my beer count with Elgood‘s lip-smacking Lambic, Coolship Fruit (5%), Tuatara‘s juicy IPA, Hapi Nui (7%) and Magic Rock‘s succulent hop-bomb, High Wire Grapefruit (5.5%).

And just like that it’s all over and we have to wait another year for what feels like the most significant annual event in my calendar. We’re talking better than Easter and Christmas rolled into one. Yep. See you in 2016 then…

 



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Check out Cameron Steward’s excellent blog, All You Need Is Beer. Thanks for the write up, Cameron!

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