– Best of 2016
The results from our best beers of 2016 survey are IN! You guys filled in more forms than ever (well, than 2015 at least…I have a short memory) so below are your answers in full. 2016 was a great year for beer.
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JAMES MOFFAT
PSBH Manager
- Brewski – Passionfeber
- 6 Degrees North – Lindsaymans Framboise
- Omnipollo / Dugges – BA Anagram Blueberry Cheesecake
- Way – Red Wine Saison
- Firestone Walker – Rye Double DBA
- Cloudwater – DIPA v3
- Lervig/Way Beer – 3 Bean Stout
- Dugges – Tropic Sunrise
- Cloudwater – IPA Citra
- Buxton / Omnipollo – Yellow Belly
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- Pliny the Elder – Russian River
- Lords of Acid – Lindheim Ølkompani
- Booming Rollers – Modern Times
- Anagram – Dugges x Omnipollo
- Duet – The Alpine Beer Company
- Cloudwater – DIPA v10
- Beavertown – Lupuloid
- Beavertown – ‘Spresso
- Cloudwater / To Øl – Imperial Stout
- Magic Rock – Salty Kiss
- Alphabet – Nouvelle Saison Beetroot and Horseradish
- The Cloudwater DIPA series
- Galway Bay – Two Hundred Fathoms (2016)
- Thirst Class Ale – Kiss my Ace (Salford Beer Fest)
- Marble – Ibuki’s Beer
PAUL HALLOWS
- Cloudwater – DIPA v2
- Maui – Big Swell IPA
- Beavertown – Bloody ‘Ell (keg/can)
- Brewdog / North – Sour Bru
- Kernel – Pale Ale (can’t remember which one though)
- Omnipollo & Tupiniquim – Polimango
- Siren – Vanilla Weisse
- Northern Monk – Mango Lassi Heathen
- Brew by Numbers – 5503 DIPA
- Marble – Into The Void
- Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers – Cosmos
- Siren / Cigar City – Eisbock BA Caribbean Chocolate Cake
- Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett (again)
- Firestone Walker – Rye Double BDA Vintage 2016
- Cigar City – super fresh Jai Alai (air-freighted over for their TT at Magic Rock)
- Omnipollo – Noah
- Jester King – Le Petit Prince
- To Øl – Sur Simcoe
- Magic Rock – Human Cannonball (canned February version)
- Verhaeghe – Echte Kriek
- Buxton / Omnipollo – Vanilla Ice Cream Pale
- Vocation – Smash & Grab
- Hawkshead – Tiramisu Imperial Stout
- Magic Rock – Inhaler
- Track – Double Sonoma
- Cloudwater – Small Beer
- Marble – Portent of Usher
- Chorlton – Dark Matter
- Magic Rock – Bearded Lady Gran Marnier Choc Orange Stout
- Cloudwater – DIPA v6
- Cloudwater – IPA Citra (V1 with Vermont Yeast)
- Cloudwater – DIPA v3
- Cloudwater / Magic Rock / JW Lees – Three’s Company
- Hawkshead / Cigar City – Tiramisu Imperial Stout
- Magic Rock – Inhaler
- Northern Monk – Malt
- Burning Sky – Saison a la Provision
- Rodenbach – Alexander
- Cloudwater – Citra IPA
- Alvinne – Ich Bin Ein Berliner Framboos
- To Øl – Sur Citra
- Magic Rock / Beavertown / Siren – Rule of Thirds
- St-Feuillien – Belgian Coast IPA
- Sentinel – RRG
- Lost Industry – Pineapple Yogurt Sour
- Magic Rock – Bearded Lady Dessert edition
- Buxton / Omnipollo – Yellow Belly
- Cloudwater – DIPA v9
- Logsdon – Seizoen Bretta
- Magic Rock – Hypnotist
- Track – Sonoma
- Cloudwater – DIPA v8
- Oakham – Green Devil IPA
- 90/90 Black IPA
- Oakham – Citra
- White Rat
- Oakham Citra
- Bradfield Brewery Farmers Blonde
- Lowry
- Omnipollo – Noa Pecan Mud Cake
- Cloudwater – DIPA v7
- Brewdog – Elvis Juice
- Fourpure – Juicebox
- Magic Rock – Inhaler
- Beavertown – Bloody Notorious
- Cloudwater – DIPA
- Vocation – Life and Death
- Brewdog – Elvis Juice
- Beavertown – Lupuloid IPA
- Cloudwater / Magic Rock / JW Lees – Three’s Company
- Beavertown – Skull King
- Buxton/Omnipollo – Yellow Belly
- Siren – Proteus IPA Vol. 1
- Cloudwater – DIPA v8
- Northern Monk – Double Heathen
- Grapes BFM √225 Saison
- Firestone Walker – Parabajava
- Cloudwater – DIPA v8
- Dugges / Omnipollo – Barrel Aged Anagram
- Omnipollo – Noa Pecan Mudcake Stout
- Cloudwater / Magic Rock / JW Lees – Three’s Company
- Omnipollo / Buxton – Yelly Bellow
- Atom – Mars
- Siren / Cigar City – BA Caribbean Chocolate Cake
- Beavertown – Skull King
- Cloudwater – DIPA v3
- Track – Cotopaxi
- Cloudwater – DIPA v5
- Beavertown – Capt Hasta
- Cloudwater – Vermont ESB. I could drink this forever…
- Cloudwater – PX Imperial Stout
- Thornbridge – Love Among the Ruins
- Sarah Hughes – Dark Ruby Mild
- Buxton – Tripel. The beer I’ve drunk most this year.
- Omnipollo – Noa
- Omnipollo / Buxton – Ice Cream Pale
- Wild Beer Co – Modus Vivendi
- Magic Rock – The Upside Down
- Buxton – Trolltunga
- Lervig – 3 Bean Stout
- Wild Beer Co – Pogo
- Tring Brewery – Pale + Four
- Allgates Brewery – Blue Sky Tea
- Mikkeller – Sponton Lingonberry
- Omnipollo Noa
- Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout
- Buxton Guatemalan Coffee Extra Porter
- Track Pekoe Blue Lady IPA
- Orval
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2016
– Buxton takeover PSBH 6th-9th October 2016
BUXTON BREWERY TAKEOVER PORT STREET
6th-9th October 2016 / IMBC 16 Fringe
We never believed in the term/lifestyle “Birthday Week” until now…and it’s not even our birthday, though it feels like it is.
Buxton Brewery are coming to Port Street for FOUR DAYS. That’s almost a week. I’m sure they’ll be four of the best days of our year that’s for sure. Think a tap takeover and quadruple it. Buxton are promising to bring a very special haul – rumours of cask rarities and soft serve pours abound. Details coming soon.
The Buxton Port Street takeover is a fringe event for our beer festival, Indy Man Beer Con, occurring the exact same days as merriments in Victoria Baths (6th-9th October 2016). As if you didn’t have enough good beer on your plate, we thought we’d give you more. The Buxton takeover is open to all.
Our sister pubs are also holding IMBC fringe takeovers with Common housing a BEAVERTOWN spectacular and The Beagle in Chorlton fielding a HAWKSHEAD onslaught. Gotta drink ’em all!
– Manchester Beer Week Collab Fest
Manchester Beer Week Collab Fest
Thursday 16th June 2016
7pm – late
We are proudly the venue for the launch of the inaugural Manchester Beer Week‘s specially commissioned collaboration beers to celebrate the hip hip happening that is MBW. Here’s some words from Manchester Beer Week on the event…
“Your chance to get first dibs on four collaboration beers being brewed exclusively for Manchester Beer Week.
Four of the best breweries from Manchester are teaming up with four of the biggest names from outside the city to produce some mouthwatering one-offs. The magical pairings are:
Blackjack x Thornbridge
Cloudwater x Magic Rock
Quantum x Buxton
Runaway x Hawkshead
Your first chance to try them all – and ask the brewers about their creations – will be at one of the city’s best-known watering holes, the inimitable Port Street Beer House.
We’ve set these talented brewers loose with just one piece of guidance – brew something inspired by Manchester.”
Can’t wait. Do join, won’t you.
– Beers of the Year 2015
Does anybody remember 2015? The beer drinkers below do! Here’s some highlights from our End of the Year 2015 survey…
RICHARD BROWNHILL
Little Leeds Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Buxton/Omnipollo Ice Cream Pale
Tilquin/Rulles ‘Rullquin Stout’
Wild Beer Co Redwood 2015
Quantum Stock Ale
Moor So’Hop (cans
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Gueuzerie Tilquin
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Five amazing days in Copenhagen – nowhere near long enough. Also another amazing year of festivals – Leeds International and IMBC topping the bill as usual!
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JAMES MOFFAT
Port Street Beer House / IMBC
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N Brett
Boon / Mikkeller Oude Geuze
Buxton Red Raspberry Rye
Lervig / Way 3 Bean Stout
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
I can’t choose…Far too many to choose from this year.
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Working on IMBC was great. Brewing Dark Mass with Quantum.
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DAVE HARRISON-WARD
Macclesfield Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly Sundae – Buxton/Omnipollo
Flat White – Alphabet Brewing Company
Yeastus Christus – To Øl
Airforce Gator – Quantum
Ahtanum Sour – Chorlton Brewing Company
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Opening a brewery (Macclesfield Brewing Company)! After that IMBC 2015 of course!
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ARLO
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon Peche N’ Brett
Quantum Air Force Gator
Burning Sky Cuveé
Siren/Mikkeller BA Daydream
Track Sonoma
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Siren established / Track new
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
When the American Pallet came to Port Street with Westbrook and Jacks Abbey stuff!
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CARL MCBRIDE
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Other Half – All Green Everything
Deschutes – Freshly Squeezed IPA
Omnipollo – Noa Pecan Mud Cake
Toccalomato – Zona Cesarini
Epic – Hop Zombie
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Omnipollo
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LEONA NORBURY
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon ‘Pech ‘n’ Brett’
Alesmith ‘Vietnamese Speedway Stout’
Siren BA ‘Nacken’
8 Wired ‘Feijoa Sour 2013
Lervig & Way Beers ‘3 Bean Stout’
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Pohjala (Estonia)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Borefts Bier Festival 2015 – The Netherlands
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Mikkeller/BrewDog Pale Ale Swindle
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Cloudwater IPA
Okologisk Herslev Bryghus IPA
Jakehead IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Cloudwater
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
IMBC
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LIAM HOWARD
Port Street Beer House Abandonee
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
The Bruery – Tart of Darkness
Lervig & Way – 3 Bean Stout
Buxton & Arizona Wilderness – Deep Rainbow Valley
Brew By Numbers – 11/03 Session IPA Mosaic
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Track
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Brewing at Quantum
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MYSTERY GLUTEN INTOLERANT DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Green’s Gutsy Dark Ale
Green’s Discovery
Mikkeller American Dream Gluten Free
To Øl Reparationsbajer Gluten Free
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Green’s
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015?
Brunehaut Bio Ambrée
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SCOTT KENNETH JACKSON
The Beagle
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Lervig / Way’s 3 Bean Stout (actual favourite)
Brouwerij Alvinne’s Cuvée de Mortagne Pedro Ximenez
Buxton’s Two Ton IPA
Burning Sky’s Cuvée 2015
Hawkshead / Crooked Stave’s Key Lime Tau (UK Version)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton (honourable mention: Track)
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Discussing Game of Thrones and sharing that bottle of Pedro Ximenez barrel-aged Cuvée de Mortagne with the best people in the world following my last ever shift at Port Street.
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell
Omnipollo Bianca Mango Lassie Gose
Mikkeller / Lindemann Spontanbasil
The Kernel Table Beer
Pressure Drop Pale Fire
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Beavertown Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
What’s Brewing, Stavanger, Norway
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ANDREW BAUCKHAM
Port Street Beer House
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Jack’s Abbey – Hoponious Union
Lervig/Way – Three Bean Stout
Wild Beer Co – The Blend 2015
Logsdon – Peche ‘n Brett
Marble – 125 Imperial Russian Stout, Burgundy
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
The Bruery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Supervising at IMBC
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts
Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker
Dieu Du Ciel Disco Soleil
Cloudwater IPA
Rule of Thirds IPA
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
To Øl
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Weekend trip to Copenhagen
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Yellow Belly (Buxton / Omnipollo)
Nebuchadnezzar (Omnipollo)
Two Ton (Buxton)
Fuck Art Let’s Dance (To Øl)
Molotov Cocktail (Evil Twin)
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Buxton Brewery
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Indy Man Beer Convention
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MYSTERY DRINKER
FAVOURITE BEERS OF 2015
Black Jack Dragon’s Tears
Weird Beard – Double Pearl (MacCallan barrel)
Wild Beer – BrettBrett
Cloudwater – Autumn NZ Hopfenweiss
Wild Beer – Redwood
FAVOURITE BREWERY OF 2015
Wild Beer
BEST BEER EXPERIENCE OF 2015
Any trip to Cloudwater Tap