– Meet The Brewer with Kirkstall – Monday 29th October 2012
5.30pm – 8pm (event starts at 6.15pm)
£8 advance from the bar or 0161 237 9949
Kirkstall has a brewing heritage stretching back to the 12th century when Cistercian monks founded an abbey on the banks of the River Aire at Kirkstall. The Abbey complex included a brewhouse and a forge. Kirkstall Abbey is regarded as the best preserved Cistercian monastery in the country and the picturesque ruins have been drawn and painted by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman.
On the opposite side of the river and overshadowing the Leeds Liverpool canal is the magnificent stone built and original Kirkstall Brewery. It operated as a brewery between 1833 and 1983 before being closed by Whitbread, its last owners. However the brewery buildings have been well preserved and the brewery and site are now home to students of Leeds Metropolitan University. For more detail see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkstall_Brewery
The Kirkstall Brewery beers were highly regarded throughout Yorkshire and the North East of England and acquired a chain of tied pubs and built an impressive free trade business. The Brewery also had offices in London and exported beer to Australia and New Zealand making use of the canal system to transport their beer to the coast for loading on to ships for export.
Kirkstall purchased two Leeds breweries in the late twenties and early thirties before being a taken over themselves by Dutton’s of Blackburn in 1936. However the brewery remained in production to produce beers for their Yorkshire trade. Dutton’s became part of the Whitbread empire and continued to brew until 1983.
The new Kirkstall Brewery situated on the side of the Leeds Liverpool canal and in the shadow of the original brewery revives the long tradition of brewing in Kirkstall and provides the inspiration to once again make the name famous for great beer.
– Photos / An Evening with Schlenkerla – Monday 24th September 2012
Matthias from Schlenkerla (6th generation owner) hosted a wonderful evening, captivating everyone with his Germanic humour and wonderful beers!
Schlenkerla served up three of their beers during the evening, including Marzen, fresh from the oak barrel, tapped straight in front of our eyes. You can watch a video below, kindly filmed by Ste P.
We hope you enjoyed our ‘pop up’ German style kitchen in the beer garden? Tasty sausages indeed!
– Eurotoberfest – Monday 24th September – Sunday 14th October 2012
Hello & welcome to our European festival.
During the course of the three weeks we will have a few events and some pretty special beers. It all kicks off on the 24th September with ‘An evening with Schlenkerla’. This sees us pour their world famous Rauchbier straight from the oak barrel for the first time in Manchester.
We will also have some new special beers coming through in bottle and in keg from some of Europe’s finest breweries as well as a few german Oktoberfest gems.
Look out for the extra events to be announced throughout the three weeks, we will keep you posted on updates!
Breweries featured will be:
To Øl
Mikkeller
Naparbier
Schneider
Erdinger
Hacker-Pschorr
Lowenbrau
Schlenkerla
Nogne Ø
3 Fonteinen
Dupont
Brouwerij Boon
De Molen
Augustiner
– Port Street Pop Ups with Great North Pie Co. and Dirty Dogs
To celebrate the launch of our amazing beer festival Indy Man Beer Con, we are giving you a sneak preview of the mouth-watering delights that will be available at Victoria Baths. Setting up in our lovely beer garden, it’s limited supplies of the finest pies and dirty hot dogs around, matched up with some fantastic beers.
Great North Pie Company – Thursday 20th September / 6pm
For the first time in Manchester as a ‘pop up food stall’ we welcome Great North Pie Company. Serving up their new autumn menu, all the pies will be served HOT with the finest peas and gravy.
Their new menu will include Goosnargh chicken, roast yorkshire pudding and bacon cream pie, scotch style steak and Red Willow ale pie with pearl barley and root vegetables PLUS the classic Lancashire cheese and onion. All their pies are hand crafted using all butter pastry.
We had the opportunity of tasting some of their pies for the forthcoming IMBC event, the quality and standard is very high indeed! We cannot wait to get them set up in our beer garden and serving you their latest creations, all the pies are limited and are served from 6pm onwards.
Here are some lovely quotes about their pies:
“There’s no plans for world domination, just a pure focus on quality and taste” – Neil Broomfield
“Just unbelievable, I was blown away by the quality of the pies” – Simon Rimmer, TV Chef and owner of ‘Greens’ and ‘Earle’ Restaurants
Best Vegetarian Pie in Britain – The British Pie Awards 2011
“The best cheese and onion pie I have ever tasted!” – Robert Owen Brown
Dirty Dogs – Saturday 22nd September / 1.30pm
Dirty Dogs are hot, that’s the tagline, but they definitely are in more ways than one. Having appeared at Port Street IPA day (and selling out in under two hours) this fledgling pop-up are back again on Saturday 22nd to serve up more of the best dogs in town.
The dog list is ever evolving, previous toppings included Pulled Pork, Mexican style Salsa and Beer steeped Sauerkraut, all on the finest franks of beef and pork (there was also a massive smoked pork polish style option) to find out where, when and what they’ll be cooking up on the grill, you’d better follow them on twitter @dirtydogsarehot
Excitement mounts as to what dogs they will be cooking up, check them out exclusively at Port Beer House!
Dirty quotes :
“Catch them if you can!” – Northern Quarter Manchester.COM
“Doesn’t matter if it’s on trend at the moment; Dirty Dogs’ hotdogs taste good and I don’t care if it’s so now, so last week, or if it was never in anyway – the food tasted good and that’s all I care about.” – North West Nosh
