– American Beer Festival 2013 / Even more highlights
Less than a week until the launch of our fabulous American beer festival and it seems about time to give a bit more of a tantalising peek at some of our selection, watch out for further up dates…
Southern Tier – 2x Stout – 7.5% / Lakewood, New York
A double milk stout, which as everyone knows is twice as good as your standard-roasty, chocolatey and pretty darn smooth.
Maui – Lahaina Town Brown – 5.3% / Maui, Hawaii
A light, crisp and very drinkable brown ale with the malt balanced nicely by some scrummy cascade.
Flying Dog – Imperial IPA – Citra Single Hop – 10% / Frederick, Maryland
A classic American style IPA with a healthy dose of bitterness from a sizeable chunk of citra, be warned it is slightly deceptive!
Sierra Nevada – Torpedo Extra IPA – 7.2% / Chico, California
One of Sierra Nevada’s best and brightest has made an outing over here in cask. Yum.
Against the Grain – 70K – 13.1% / Louisville, Kentucky
Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout-extremely roasty, chocolatey, creamy, so basically another fabulous treat from the ATG guys.
SKA – Special ESB Ale – 5.7% / Durango, Colorado
An excellent combination of tasty and quaffable for those who want to get into the beery zone at a sedate pace.
– Kent and Beyond – Caveman, By The Horns and Foundry / by Euan Summers
Kent? What do you think of when you think of Kent? Clark Kent? That’s what I think of, only because I have no frame of reference for anything in the real world. But if you love beer you might think of the WORLD FAMOUS hop variety East Kent Golding.
This week you might also think of something else. Over the course of the next week or so we are going to be having a large amount of beers that are all from the Kent region! The good folks over at Caveman Brewery have organised a mixed bag of local beverages that, on paper sound good and in a glass taste fantastic (Don’t try to drink out of paper, it’s difficult to not make a mess and the beer loses a lot of aroma).
Beers from Caveman themselves including Palaeolithic and their Prehistoric Amber. Based out of the George and Dragon in Swanscombe, Caveman Brewery is brand new on the scene, starting earlier this year with a few cavemen employed for heavy lifting and regular men for handling hops and sterilizing where the cavemen leave their musty trace, we hope and expect big things for these guys!
Foundry, or Canterbury Brewers, have sent along some interesting stuff including a Belgian IPA in cask called Galactic. Based out of a Pub in Canterbury, Foundry are fantastic at simple stuff made well and complex stuff made amazing.
Kent Brewery, whom you might have seen around the north before have sent a few treats including a cask black IPA named Enigma and Beyond the Pale, an EXTREME PALE ALE!
And lastly, By The Horns Brewery. Not quite from Kent, but down south is all the same in my brain (my sweet ignorant brain) By the Horns are from London and proud of it. Beers such as Diamond Geezer, a double red ale, and Lambeth Walk, A Dark Porter.
So much good stuff, are you excited? I’m pretty excited. Although I’ve known about this for a while, I guess that’s why I’m not all like “Oh my god! You just blew the sweet ignorant brains right outta my head! Woaaaaah” but you are right? Right?!
Words by Euan Summers
– Up and Coming / Pressure Drop Brewery
Pressure Drop Brewing started in a garden shed in Stoke Newington London in the summer of 2012. Inspired by the variety and full flavours of beers being produced by The Kernel, Darkstar, Redemption and more widely the US beer scene, Pressure Drop began developing their own beers on a 50 litre braumeister brew kit in July. The first few brews didn’t make the cut, but after a few month tinkering the beers began to improve. Armed with some encouraging feedback from the London beer geek population, they moved to a small unit down the road registering as a commercial brewery in November 2012.
Since then the beers have been sold in a variety of craft beer pubs, esteemed off-licences and at farmers markets. The majority of the beers are bottled, but special requests for cask events have also been successful. As the demand for their beers have grown, the little 50 litre brewery has been unable to keep up with demand and they decided to take the plunge and invest in a five brewers barrel brew system which is currently being installed in a railway arch in Hackney.
Pressure Drop are excited to be part of the London craft beer revolution and the lovely sense of community, comeraderie and mutual respect between the progressive London brewers. These guys love drinking Kernel, Beavertown, Partizan, Howling Hops and Five Points.
We are hugely honoured to have Pressure Drop beers at the Port Street Beer house and we hope they go down well with our customers! Exciting times ahead!
pressuredropbrewing.co.uk
@PressureDropBrw
– American Beer Festival 2013 / Selected highlights
As anyone who’s anyone knows our American Beer Festival is fast approaching, we thought it might be nice to give a wee smidge of information about some of the scrumptious beers we’ll be having on. The following is exciting stuff so please read while seated, further updates will be appearing as we get closer to the festival itself so keep your eyeballs on the alert…
Cigar City – Papsøs Passion Fruit Porter – 6% / Tampa, Florida
A sweet and fruity porter with a hint of brett on the end, a tasty if unorthodox beer but there still remains nothing that Cigar City don’t do well!
Against the Grain – Citra Ass Back Down – 6.7% / Louisville, Kentucky
A hoppy beast of a beer, classic American vibes with arguably the quintessential American hop citra making a big appearance.
Local Option – Schmetterling Gose – 4.5% / Chicago, Illinois
This is a new take on a very old style. Salty sour beer sounds a bit weird-and it is-but it’s also darn tasty.