– PSBH Scottish Beer Festival 2011
“O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and Ah’ll tak’ the low (road) And Ah’ll be in Scotlan’ afore ye”… Hang on a minute there’s absolutely no need for that, because starting this week Port Street Beer House will be saturated with beers made by our friends north of the border. Beginning 6th September and possibly the following week as well (yes that’s right we do get a little carried away picking beer for you guys when its this good!) we intend to showcase a selection of the finest beers from the best craft brewers in Scotland. There will be a range of cask, draft and bottled beers of various different styles to choose from, so no matter what your preference this should be a week to suit everyone’s taste. The breweries that will be involved are Black Isle, Brew Dog, Fyne, Harviestoun and Highland and just to give you an idea of why their beers are so good here is a bit of background information on each brewery. (more…)
– Event / Meet The Brewer with Red Willow
Meet The Brewer with Toby Mckenzie from Red Willow
Monday 26th September at Port Street Beer House, Port Street, Manchester
Our third instalment of Meet The Brewer comes from the ever excellent Red Willow. They have quickly become a very popular tipple in our establishment, regularly showing up on Common’s guest pumps as well. We are excited to welcome Toby Mckenzie to our bar to chat and drink about his distinctive beers, if he ever needed the excuse!
Here is a little piece about Red Willow straight from the horses* mouth:
“The intersection of a premature mid life crisis and a passion for brewing beer led Toby to the insane idea quitting his job as an IT Director and starting a brewery, luckily for him Caroline said yes.
Based in Macclesfield, brewing started in the last week of November 2010 with a core range of 6 beers; which where later joined by the experimental Faithless series. We recently won a bronze in New Brewery Class for Smokeless (our 5.7% smoked porter) at the Peterborough beer festival, so maybe it was not a completely insane idea.
We make the kinds of beers we want to drink and generally have fun doing it”
* We’re not calling Toby a horse.
Throughout the evening we will be sampling four halves of Red Willow beers and selected snacks will be be provided.
Monday 26th September 2011 – tickets are £8 advance – available from behind the bar. Doors open at 6pm (talks starts around 6.15pm) finishes at 8pm / bar open until 10pm.
– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Thornbridge 22.08.11
A lovely evening tasting Thornbridge’s finest and eating plenty of bakewell tarts….. a typical ‘Meet The Brewer’ at Port Street Beer House. Thanks to all who came and made it another sell out event.
Next Meet The Brewer event is with Red Willow on Momday 26th September – more details soon.
– Manchester Week / Tuesday 16th – Sunday 21st August 2011
It’s quite fitting after events of the past week we are celebrating Manchester, when the worst is brought out in some, the best is brought out in others. It’s a similar thing in the Manchester beer world, mass brewing lethiathans swamp many pubs in the North West with tasteless cask beer when some are the saviours of flavour.
One of these is The Marble Brewery, this place makes some of the best beers in the UK, and as a tip of the hat to one of it’s great leaders we are going to feature them heavily throughout the week before Colin Stronge sets his sights on the thistles & cows of the highlands.
Join us in celebration and expression of good taste.
Other great Manchester breweries will also feature throughout the week, as well as the regular cask beers from Darkstar, Thornbridge and Prospect.