– Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake Launch 28/11
SIREN CARIBBEAN CHOCOLATE CAKE LAUNCH
Thursday 28th November 2019
5pm – late | Upstairs Bar
Port Street Beer House
Free entry
We are proudly holding the Manchester City Centre launch of Siren Craft Brew‘s Caribbean Chocolate Cake 2019 series. Find all FOUR CCC beers pouring on our UPSTAIRS BAR with Lucy from Siren. We will also have limited cans of each variant to drink in or take away.
Check it out…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Caribbean Chocolate Cake is back once more in four renditions that we’re very proud of. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with some of the best bars, pubs and bottle shops all over the country to bring it your way this November.
The CCC Range 2019
Caribbean Chocolate Cake
7.4% Tropical Stout
This collaboration with Cigar City Brewing is one of our all-time favourites. Caribbean Chocolate Cake is a dense, rich and luxurious stout brimming with hand-roasted cacao nibs selected by the esteemed Willie’s Cacao, and harmonised by Cypress wood spirals. Pure canned indulgence.
Caribbean White Chocolate Cake
7.4% Tropical White Stout
This is a brand new spin on Caribbean Chocolate Cake, one of our all-time favourite beers, brewed in collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. Our mind-bending tropical white stout features some of the key notes of the original in a guise you would not expect. Hand-roasted cacao nibs selected by the esteemed Willie’s Cacao are accentuated by vanilla and cranberries and harmonised by Cypress wood.
Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake
9.1% Imperial Tropical Stout
This is the doubled-down version of one of our all-time favourite beers, Caribbean Chocolate Cake, brewed in collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. Expect even more hand-roasted cacao nibs, even more Cypress and Amburana wood, and even more pure canned indulgence.
Barrel Aged Caribbean Chocolate Cake
9.4% Barrel Aged Tropical Stout
This is a special barrel aged version of Caribbean Chocolate Cake, one of our all-time favourite beers, created in collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. Our dense, rich and luxurious stout has been maturing in bourbon barrels, picking up delicious vanilla, whiskey and oak character.
– Almasty Tap Takeover and PSBH Collab Launch
ALMASTY TAP TAKEOVER and PSBH COLLAB LAUNCH
Thursday 23rd March 2017 / 5pm-late
We are delighted to welcome Almasty Brewing Co. (Newcastle Upon Tyne) to Manchester for a tap takeover AND the launch of the Almasty x Port Street Beer House collab, an as yet unnamed Snickers inspired stout.
Almasty is a search to create uncompromising big, bold flavours. A showcase for fresh, seasonally inspired ales from brewer Mark McGarry. The only constant is change.
Get excited.
Full line-up and details coming soon…
– Track x Odyssey Imperial Stout Launch / February 10th
What ho!
Our good friends Track are issuing a select number of pubs in Manchester with their new Odyssey Brew Co collab, Santa Muerte. We are one of the lucky few. Join us this Friday 10th February 2017 from 6pm for a first taste of this Chocolate and Vanilla Imperial Stout.
SANTA MUERTE LAUNCH / Friday 10th February 2017 / 6pm
– Siren Tap Takeover review by Cameron Steward
It’s nearing the end of the Siren Craft Brew Tap Takeover when I find myself shoulder to shoulder with head brewer Markus Wagner. I’ve made a modest impact on the extensive selection he’s brought along (7 cask and 7 keg) and at this moment I’m gently nursing a Caribbean Chocolate Cake (8.5%), which tonight has been exclusively ‘nitro-fied’, intensifying the lactose creaminess and ascending an already wonderful beer to some astral plane, upon which only the most heavenly items known to mankind can be found. In other words, I was bloody enjoying it!
My journey to this part of the night was littered with other glories; highlights including Vanilla Weisse (a 4% vanilla-infused Beliner Weisse), which was sharp and fully rounded, with the vanilla ironing out those acerbic edges. There was also the Caribbean Chocolate Orange Cake (8.5%), which took the original Triple C and made it taste like Liquid Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Needless to say it was decadent beyond belief!
It was equally excellent to revisit Undercurrent (4.5%) an Oatmeal Pale and finally try Liquid Mistress (5.5%), a zingy Red Ale, both on cask. However a couple of pales didn’t quite reach the heady heights of their more established brethren, with Proteus (4%) lacking the hoppy punch it promised and Vermont Tea Party (a 3.6% pale with Earl Grey and lemon zest), although kinda resembling the magnificence of their other Earl Grey-infused wonder Love of Work, just wasn’t as spectacular. New kid on the block Peligrosos (5.6%) on the other hand was a dangerously juicy IPA, bursting with peach and magic.
So we’ve come full circle and back to the exchange between myself and Mr. Wagner, where I manage to prod him about hops and the recent influx of Double and Triple IPAs. He confesses he’s no real interest in these, opting for weirder, darker delights and bizarre concoctions that hibernate in barrels before reaching the high standard he brings to the brewery – he cut his teeth as part of the barrel ageing and sour beer-ing programme at Firestone Walker don’t y’know?! And just as he reveals this information I receive a thimble of their collaboration with Mikkeller and Hill Farmstead, Whiskey Sour IPA (10.2%). A beer that effortlessly (although I’m sure loads of effort went into) showcases the best example of barrel ageing I’d ever laid my lips on. Offering a wealth of sharp citrus, delicately hushed by the sweet bourbon, both of which sing in perfect harmony. There’s also a deep, rich oakiness and soft vanilla sweetness that compliment every languorous sip.
I’ve been called to the deep. And I don’t wanna go back.
Words and photographs by Cameron Steward. Check out Cameron’s excellent All You Need Is Beer blog
