– Port Street Membership
Great news! The Port Street Beer Hero membership cards have finally landed. Sign up for free HERE and receive your membership card from the bar – it camouflages nicely into your wallet and enables YOU, the beerholder, to 10% off beer and 20% off takeouts. What’s not to love?
– Hawkshead Tap Takeover
Wednesday 16th December 2015 // 7pm // free entry
This is going to be good. Hawkshead, one of our favourite breweries, join us at Port Street and they’re bringing out the big guns…
BEER LIST
CASK
WINDERMERE PALE
3.5% Pale Ale
DRY STONE STOUT
4.5% Stout
IPA
7.0% IPA
GREAT WHITE
4.8% Wheat Beer
CUMBRIAN 5 HOP
5.0% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
KEG
TONKA BEAN
8.5% Tonka bean stout
ITI
3.5% Pale Ale
NZPA
6.0% Pale Ale
WILD SOLAR SOUR WHEAT
4.0% Blend of Wheat Beer & Berliner Weisse
BOURBON BA OAT WINE
9.0% Bourbon barrel aged oat wine. Collaboration with Wild Beer
WILD WHEAT
4.8% Wheat beer
BRODIE’S PRIME EXPORT
8.5% Stout
SUNDOWN
4.5% Amber ale
KEY LIME TAU
6.3% Key lime pie sour beer. Collaboration with Crooked Stave
CROOKED STAVE KEY LIME TAU
7.0% Crooked Stave’s version of Key Lime Tau
+ + +
3 varieties of Oat Wine in bottles. Standard Oat Wine, Bourbon BA, Cider Brandy BA.
Mission statement from Hawkshead…
At Hawkshead Brewery we make the sort of beer we like to drink. We brew distinctive, flavourful, modern beers. Hawkshead is one of the most successful of the new wave of independent breweries which have ignited public excitement about beer and furthered the renaissance of British brewing. Our beer is full of flavour, handmade, crafted, bold, personal and made by people who LOVE BEER for people who love beer.
– Christmas Hampers
Available now at the bar
You’re surrounded by loved ones & some other people you haven’t seen for a year. There’s a tree in the house. None of you have been sober for weeks. You’re all wearing torn paper hats & telling awful jokes. Later you’ll eat the worst cake you’ve ever eaten & you’ll have to wash it down with a beer that for some reason has loads of cloves in it. This doesn’t have to be the case. You could pick up a hamper from Port Street Beer House & actually enjoy something on the 25th of December.
THE PORT STREET CHRISTMAS SELECTION BOX £32.50
1. Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof – Gose
Because whoever cooks dinner is going to under season it!
2. Siren/Cigar City – Caribbean Chocolate Cake
Why would you want to eat a fruit cake in the first place? Let alone one with marzipan? Have a Caribbean Chocolate Cake as dessert instead.
3. Buxton – Red Raspberry Rye
You’ve never made jam before. That’s why you made a mess of it! Why do you think people want your awful home made jam anyway? Give them a Red Raspberry Rye instead. It’s far better than anything you’re going to make.
4. Evil Twin – Freudian Slip
You’ll probably be needing something a little more boozy later on to help you through that 4 hour game of Monopoly.
5. Northern Monk/Nomada – Frate Nero
I always find dark beer goes great with beef. You’re having turkey? Why would you have turkey? It’s just a bigger, uglier, horribly dry chicken!
6. Firestone Walker – Union Jack
Give the gift of hops this Christmas. To yourself. Go on. You earned it. You’re definitely more deserving than those ungrateful friends & family members who are all asking if you kept the receipts.
CANS £25.00
Cans are perfect stocking fillers. They’re also perfect for the long train journey back to the middle of nowhere that you grew up. You can even spread the Christmas cheer by sharing them with your fellow travellers. Or just keep the cans to yourself to make putting up with being crammed into a busy train, surrounded by people shouting at each other on phones, eating noisily & listening to music through headphones at a volume that must be causing them some serious ear trouble just that little bit more bearable.
No I don’t want a mince pie from you, thanks.
Oh, you’re just going to leave your bags on the seat while I stand for 2 hours?
It’s great that you find my shoulder so comfortable but could you please sleep somewhere else? Somewhere far, far away from here.
1. Vocation – Heart & Soul
2. Roosters – Yankee
3. Evil Twin – Molotov Lite
4. Firestone Walker – Easy Jack
5. Sierra Nevada – Nooner
6. Northern Monk – Northern Star
USA £35.20
Oh America, you gave us so many terrible things. You’re responsible for Black Friday, the Kardashians & Comic Sans. It’s a good job you produce some amazing beer, otherwise I could never forgive you. The one thing I will never forgive you for however, is saying “I could care less”. Why do you keep saying you could care less when you have no interest in something? What you’re actually saying when you say you could care less is that you do care. You have to care a little bit to be able to care less. I could care less about these beers.
1. Stillwater – As Follows
2. Two Roads – Workers Comp Saison
3. Against The Grain – MacFannybaw
4. Founders – Centennial IPA
5. North Coast – Old Rasputin
6. Sierra Nevada – Hop Hunter IPA
UK £31.80
& what were we doing in the UK while America was coming up with Comic Sans? Not a lot. We were all too busy playing cricket to notice one of us had come up with the pay toilet. Yes, we’re to blame for there being toilets in train stations that earn more money than most people. Bravo UK. Well done. We’re also responsible for you having to pretend you care about one another at Christmas by exchanging bits of card with people you’ve only spoken to in the last year to complain about their cat doing its business on your lawn.
1. Northern Monk – New World IPA
2. Siren – BA Forgotten Journey
3. Magic Rock – Salty Kiss
4. Partizan – Porter
5. Buxton – Ace Edge
6. Mad Hatter – Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte
GLUTEN FREE £28.00
There are some people who can’t drink beer. Seriously. I hope you folks find some comfort in the fact that there’s some people out there making some amazing beer that you can drink!
1. Mikkeller – Peter, Pale & Mary
2. Mikkeller – I Wish IPA
3. First Chop – DOC
4. First Chop – HOP
5. Green’s – Premium Pils
6. Green’s – Dark Ale
The only Christmas spirit you need is whisky.
Thank you.
Merry Tuesday 24th November!
PS. As a special gift to you all this Christmas we’ll be throwing in an extra bottle to every hamper. I suggest you drink these yourself rather than giving them to the people you bought the hamper for. You already bought them six beers. They should be grateful enough for that. I’d be pretty happy if someone bought me six beers. Well, maybe not happy, but you know, drunk?
Words by James Moffat
– Track & Squawk Tap Takeover
Join us Thursday 16th July for the double delight tap takeover from two of Manchester’s most treasured new breweries, Track Brewing Co. & Squawk Brewing Co.
There’s going to be casks aplenty from both breweries, a couple of kegs each and an all-new collaborative beer. Here’s what is confirmed so far…
TRACK on cask:
Mazama – 5.5%
Sonoma – 3.8%
Zaka – 4.8%
SQUAWK on cask:
Porter – 4.5%
Rhubarb Pale – 5.5%
Pale – 4.1%
Come down and wade in it, meet the brewers and sample a rich vein of local craft output.
Squawk
“A new-kid-on-the-block, experimental craft brewery based in Manchester. Using techniques old and new to create complex tastes and powerful sensations. Committed to craft beer. Not afraid to mix it up and experiment with far out flavours. Selective about rules, because great beer can come from strange beginnings. For intrepid beer hunters on the lookout for bold flavours and brave brews.”
Track
“The brewery is born from a taste for adventure and experimentation – something we want to impart to the beers. Born on a solo, round the world cycle ride, Track Brewing Co sees beer as a landscape as diverse as the route. From hop driven pales and IPAs, oatmeal and imperial stouts to red ryes and saisons, the beer range aims to take drinkers on a journey. The end point being a balanced and refreshingly drinkable experience.”
TRACK & SQUAWK TAP TAKEOVER // THURSDAY 16th JULY 2015 7pm // PORT STREET BEER HOUSE // free entry