– Port Street’s new website is live!
Welcome one and all to our brand spanking new website, we hope you like it. We’ll still be running the blog as previously but we’ve just tarted it up a bit, we now have a separate section for events and we have undertaken the mammoth task of trying to get our bottle list online. Latest cask and draft will still be via twitter but it will also be brought straight through on to the website, I’m sure you can appreciate this changes so fast it’s impossible to keep them up date even with this posh new site. As for the beer list feel free to browse our bottles at your leisure and comment and share the beers you’ve enjoyed or even plan your next visit. If you have any comments on the site, good or bad, then don’t hesitate to let us know, we know you’re a very discerning bunch!
Ps. Keep your eye’s peeled as in the next couple of weeks we’ll be launching a mobile version.
– A Shot In The Dark / by Jay Krause
Autumn is in the air. The cool mornings of summer are giving way to the crisp early hours of my favourite season. The evenings are getting shorter and the cars are switching on their headlights sooner. The midday sun is present but weaker, getting further away in accordance to our orbit. In the early evening, bars in pubs are becoming places of sanctuary and the pumps are seeing the introduction of more and more seasonal dark beers.
This is all very welcome to me, and one of the reasons autumn is my favourite season. I absolutely love dark beer, in all its forms. Stouts, Porters, Dark Milds, Schwartzbiers, Dunkels, Black IPAs, and every other type of beer which absorbs light – I love them. (more…)
– Hop-topia Palate Cleansing tips.
Hey guys. Not long now until our Hop-topia tasting event here at Port Street Beer House.
Trying 19 single hop IPA’s in one intense session.
For the people lucky enough to get a ticket we have a few ground rules that are recommended before taking part in such an onslaught on the Palate.
On the day strong flavours need to be avoided to keep your tongue up to scratch, you will need to avoid tea, coffee and smoking (within reason). Preferably no spicy food would have been eaten for 48 hours prior and definitely not garlic for 24 hours.
We will be offering water and palate cleansing items to rid your kisser of the pungent hop.
We will need everyone here 6pm prompt as we have a strict schedule that needs to be adhered to, if not Will will have a barney.
Roll out experimenters.
PSBH
– Brewery Visit at Red Willow / By William France
Monday morning and it’s time for our first collaboration. Myself and two budding brewsters are off to Macclesfield to brew a beer for the ‘Meet The Brewer’ event with Toby Mckenzie and Red Willow on the 26th September. We had bounced around a few ideas prior to the visit and settled on a 8% wheat beer for Oktoberfest with a twist. After coffee we jumped on the train to meet Toby, we arrived at the haunt of the small brewer, an industrial unit. Labour intensive work has been exchanged for alchemy in many of the North West’s units, but brewing is probably a lot harder work then servicing peoples car repair needs, as we were going to find out. (more…)