– Birthday Brew with Mad Hatter – 4th Anniversary
As is tradition we have brewed a special birthday beer, this time with Mad Hatter ’cause they brew some great witbiers with interesting ingredients. Remember how good Raspberry & Basil Wit was?? Have you tried the Cranberry & Beetroot Wit? They’re right good!
Influenced by some of our favourite beers from last year we decided to brew a Wit using a load of red peppers and brettanomyces then throw in a few extra herbs & spices too. Come give it a try! We’ll let you know the name of it when we come up with something ‘witty’ (sorry). Help us choose from our current ideas by voting on our Facebook page… (UPDATE the beer is now called ‘Much Needed’ R&R)
We all piled down to Liverpool, hopping on the train with 2 x 25kg sacks of grain to carry over to Mad Hatter before getting lost with some taxi drivers and then finally making it to get brewing. Gaz & Sue were kind enough to let us have some delicious beers while we brewed, which obviously led to us buying some for Port Street so you too can try them!
This latest batch of Follow The White Rabbit is probably my favourite White IPA, so you should definitely try it. Here’s some photos from the day…
http://madhatterbrewing.co.uk/
Label design by Steve Hockett – http://wonder-room.eu/
– ‘Dutch tap takeover’ PLUS Rooie Dop + Oedipus bottle tasting / Thursday 22nd Jan 2015
To launch our fourth birthday celebrations we proudly present a mini Dutch tap takeover courtesy of Rooie Dop and Oedipus, who will be showcasing three exclusive keg lines each! These will be available on the bar from 6pm, then upstairs from 7pm Mark Strooker from Rooie Dop + Paul Brouwer (Oepidus) will be hosting a bottle tasting session in our saloon. This will be a ticketed event priced at £15 which will get you a selection of tasters, each introduced by the brewers themselves.
This will be our first event for 2015, plus it launches our fourth birthday week long celebrations, so come join us for lots of Dutch fun! Tickets are on sale now in person from the bar or online via Eventbrite
For more brewery information, please read on :
Oedipus Brewing, a micro-brewery established in 2011 by four friends in Amsterdam. For Oedipus there’s not just one delicious beer. Beer can taste endlessly diverse which they try to let people taste through their selection which continually expands.
Their Brewpub (opening early 2015) will brew a new beer every week, enabling them to experiment and broaden their selection. Oedipus brew for everybody who’s open for new flavours, it doesn’t matter whether you’re new to drinking beer or even a beer geek. Oedipus have it covered.
Rooie Dop is a craft brewery from Utrecht, The Netherlands, who makes awesome, flavourful beer, sometimes experimental. Rooie Dop doesn’t care about style guidelines, they care about flavour. Brewers and craft beer drinkers are passionate about beer and want to have a good time and good beer. Rooie Dop totally agrees on that.
– Buxton Brewery Tap TAKEOVER / Tuesday 9th December – 7pm
Buxton Brewery, which started up in 2009 in owner Geoff Quinn’s garage on a home-made 50 litre kit, has this year completed a move to new premises and an expansion up to a 32 hecto-litre custom brew house and a high speed in-house bottling line. 2014 however, will maybe most remembered for the large number of new beers brewed by the small, seven-strong team, along with a whole host of collaborations with brewers such as To Öl, Evil Twin, Arizona Wilderness, Rooie Dop, Oersoep and Omnipollo.
Geoff, Denis, Colin and the whole team are excited to be bringing many of these new beers and collaborations along to Port Street for the Tap Takeover on December 9th. “We are particularly excited to be launching a new beer at Port Street, who have supported us brilliantly over the years; Battle Horse, a Double Black IPA weighing in at 11%. The whole team were involved in making this beer, as a celebration of reaching the 100th brew on the new kit. It will be kegged on the day of the event, and brought up on the train – thus ensuring a super fresh brew for the event!
The tap takeover will feature SEVEN casks and SIX keg lines! FULL list is HERE
www.buxtonbrewery.co.uk
@BuxtonBrewery
Photo stolen from Buxton’s twitter.
– Old and Dark Week 2014 / Thursday 6th – Thursday 13th November
It’s getting colder. The days are getting shorter. The only time you see daylight during the week is when you’re staring out the window of your office thinking about how great summer was. But was summer really that great? What did you actually do this summer that was any different to what you’re doing now? Just occasionally got to wear shorts at the weekend? Well. Now winter’s with us. Can’t find last year’s gloves, hat or scarf? Don’t worry about it! Last years winter coat a little more worn than you remember? Don’t worry about it! Less pairs of long johns than you thought? STOP WORRYING! Just come warm yourself here with some delicious old & dark ales.
Starting with International Stout Day on 6th November we’ll be having a selection of tasty dark malted beverages from some of the world’s finest breweries to help ease you in to the winter. As always there’ll be some old favourites & some new & exciting ones* courtesy of Summer Wine, Magic Rock, Odell, Mad Hatter, Buxton, Rooie Dop, et al.
*Not that you shouldn’t be excited about the old favourites!