– Meet The Brewer with Weird Beard / Monday 24th February 2014
doors 5.30pm (events starts at 6.15pm)
SOLD OUT
Weird Beard Brew Co is another very welcome relatively recent addition to the brewing scene. Gregg and Bryan, the brewers behind the beard are award winning home brewers who after some trials and tribulation started brewing commercially about a year ago. We at PSBH have been keen on them from the start and they’ve only got better!
Their interesting and flavoursome takes on traditional styles are a delightful sup regardless, but as anyone who attended IMBC and had a chance to chat with them will attest to they’re also rather pleasant folk. Ideal Meet the Brewer candidates you say? We concur! Please join us on February 24th to see what these eccentric, hirsute chaps have to say for themselves and more importantly what fabulous beers they’ve chosen to talk for them.
– Port Street Beer House ‘Anniversary 3’ – Thursday 23rd until 30th January 2014
It’s our happy birthday again and now we’re three! As we like to celebrate with a degree of awesomeness that corresponds with our increasing age we’ve got three lovely events to enjoy.
Once again we have planned and executed a delicious beer with the aid of one of our friends. This year Rob a la Black Jack has colluded with us in the creation of our birthday beverage ‘Anniversary 3: Sup A ‘SIPA’ Summat Special’ a liberally hopped Satsuma IPA, which we confidently belief will be the cat’s pyjamas. We will be launching this and generally having some birthday fun on Thursday 23rd January.
Our second event I’ll only mention briefly as it’s already sold out so it is a little bit like rubbing non ticket holders faces in it… Burning Sky Meet the Brewer, Monday 27th January. Hells yeah.
Finally we’ll be rounding off the celebrations with another bit of a launch. The lovely peeps from Celt Experience are going to be getting their beers across to Manchester in 2014 so they’ll be launching two of their beers on draught with a bit of a talk at 7.00pm on Thursday 30th January. They will then be available for a chat and giving out tasters upstairs after.
Basically it shall be a delightful week that we invite all and sundry to join us in…apart from the MTB, sorry guys you need to be quicker off the mark!
Come and join us for our 3rd Birthday Celebration – A week long officiation of launches, merriment and beer.
Thursday 23rd – Anniversary 3 launch / 7pm
Monday 27th – Meet The Brewer with Burning Sky – SOLD OUT
Thursday 30th – Celt Experience launch / 7pm – more info HERE
Great North Pies available on the Anniversary 3 launch night.
Artwork by Steve Hockett
– Celt Experience Launch / Thursday 30th 2014 – 7pm
Head brewer and beer sommelier Tom Newmanto introduce a beer from The Celt Imperial Ogham range and a brand new Celt core beer. A range of other Celt products will be available for sampling during the evening plus chatter about beer science, extreme recipes and food ties.
/ Info about The Celt Experience
Tom came from a home-brewing background from an age that was a bit naughty and gave up his day job 10 years ago to take brewing seriously… well, as serious as Tom gets anyway. Starting with the Newman’s brand from his dad’s garage, Tom learnt quickly by trial and error and had some good fortune along the way, like buying up the majority of the sadly defunct Smile’s kit in Bristol and soon after returned to his roots by registering the Celt Experience name and opening the existing brewery in Caerphilly.
Deciding to focus on the Celt brand, and letting Newman’s go quietly into the night, he launch Celt Golden Age, Bronze and Bleddyn – originally all organic. But, in the ever expanding craft beer landscape, Newman found himself hampered by this stricture and decided to start experimenting with all kinds of malts and hops in 2011, dropping the organic mantra, and the brewery has gone from strength-to-strength ever since, leading to to their incredible achievement at this years SIBA Wales & West event!
In 2012 Tom developed the on-going Shapeshifter series of collaboration brews, with such names as Boxing Cat Brewery from Shanghai, Brasserie St Germain from France Tap East from London and beer writer & sommALEier Melissa Cole to create exciting and innovative American, Belgian and German beers with a twist. Not content with that area of innovation, in 2013, it was time for the Celt Ogham series to be added to the successful core range; the high ABV beers, varying between 8.5% and 10.5% were an instant success.
For 2014, Celt are in the process of building a ‘surreal’ bowling centre called ‘Craft Bowl’ in the middle of their brewery and a Sour brewery called ‘CellRebirth’ next door! CellRebirth is a leftfield project developed between tom, Melissa Cole and Chris Giles. It basically is an outdoor Welsh lab for developing different indigenous Welsh microorganisms to create exciting flavours and styles. The brewers and guests use age-old international beer styles with a new twist.
Put simply, The Celt Experience is an open adventure into the world of beer drinking and pagan free living… Join us why don’t you? It’ll be a tasty ride.
“For me breweries like The Celt Experience sum up the way the craft brewing movement is, and should be, heading. Innovation through dedication to quality and growing attention for what it brews, not what it shouts” – Melissa Cole
Follow them on twitter @celtbeers
http://celtexperience.com/
– Meet The Brewer with Burning Sky / Monday 27th January 2014
5.30pm doors – event starts at 6.15pm
SOLD OUT
Our first Meet the Brewer of 2014 is a pretty good way to start the year. Burning Sky was formed in the autumn of 2013 by a well-known face on the UK brewing scene, Mark Tranter, who earlier in the year left the mighty Dark Star brewery that he co-founded, under the Evening Star pub in Brighton, in 1996.
His reason for leaving? He essentially wanted to ‘do something smaller’. From this humble thought, an old stable on the country estate of Firle upon which Mark also lives were secured and in late September, the first brews were being produced.
And what brews they are. We’re all aware that Mark knows a thing or two when it comes to brewing, but even the seasoned pros here at Port Street were blown away by the quality of beers that Mark and Tom (Dobson, home brewer extraordinaire) are already putting out. The Saison à la Provision, as I’ve told anyone who’ll listen, is simply one of the best saisons I’ve ever drank. They brew two pale ales, the 3.5% Plateau, whose huge hop flavour belies its low strength and Aurora, a stronger brew at 5.6% which is stunningly bitter and absolutely delicious. The ‘biggest’ beer is Devils Rest, a beautifully balanced full strength IPA at 7%. Seasonal 4.5% saisons will also be released. We’ve already had the Automne, with rosehips, and hope to get the L’Hiver, infused with Hawthorn leaves and berries. Add to all of these some cunning use of barrel aging, and you have one of the most exciting breweries in the country.
It’s going to be ace. We can’t wait.
www.burningskybeer.com
@burningskybeer
Words by Jamie Hancock (@Not_that_Jamie)