We are delighted to be hosting a tap takeover by Big Trip in Little Ancoats, Manchester on Thursday, 11 May. This will be all day from 3pm.
The line up will consist of five cask and four keg beers, including one cask beer specially brewed to launch at the event.
Cask:
THE BUMP 4.8% ESPRESSO PORTER (NEW LAUNCHING THIS COMING WEEK)
Velvety rich and creamy milk espresso porter, packed with luxurious flavours of Belgium chocolate, wild berries, and smokey roasted Columbian coffee.
JILTED GENERATION 4.1% NEW NELSON DDH SINGLE HOP
Ridiculous amounts of Nelson Sauvin hops at every stage. Hazy ultra pale with big flavours of juicy passionfruit & mango, zesty grapefruit, crushed white grapes and bitter pithy gooseberries.
NON STOP DISCO PANGOPACK 5.7% DDH IPA
Triple hopped combination Strata, Sabro & Idaho 7 have created this mighty juice bomb collab. Fresh peaches, zesty limes and berries to the nose while serving up juicy slices of peach, layers of strawberry sherbert spliced with coconut and mango flavours to the palate with a suitable dankness. A beautiful tropical mash up with a hint of dry bitterness to the finish.
FILTHY DISCO 4.3% DDH SESSION IPA
Amarillo and Jester super pale with a filthy haze, this session IPA is packed full of juicy flavours. Delivering clean satsuma, lime and pressed blackcurrants to the nose, with easy citrus flavours of squeezed lemons & limes, juicy lychee, plump satsumas and a distinct blackcurrant tang to the back-note.
SUGAR ON MY TONGUE 4.8% DDH JUICY SESSION NEIPA
Bailey Head special. Launching here and named after a classic track from Talking Heads 77. Big Trip have gone deep with the hops bill and created a very juicy (in the style of a soft NEIPA) NZ-IPA with Kohatu, Motueka & Nectaron hops.
Keg:
CHERRY PIE HIGH 5.8% PLUM & CHERRY PIE PORTER
Sumptuous plum & cherry pie porter created with 10 different malts, 120kg of plums & cherries plus lashings of black treacle for extra sweet stickiness. The results are a rich and creamy dark porter that pulls with a distinct toffee coloured head. Expect deep roasty chocolate espresso and sweet rich damsons on the nose plus creamy sweet sticky roasted Belgium chocolate and tart deep damson fruit flavours to the palate with a subtle tang of cooked cherries for the finish, giving you the perfect plum and cherry pie high!
WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS 4.6% DDH SESSION IPA
Big hazy juicy session IPA brewed with a large amount of Sabro & Citra hops. Clean lime zest, soft coconut & pineapple to the nose with zesty citrus blasts, ripe mango, creamy coconut and a drizzle of candied pineapple to the palate. Unfined and unfiltered and full of flavour.
BEAUTIFUL THINGS 4.2% SESSION NEIPA
Soft, juicy and creamy session NEIPA served with the expected haze. El Dorado & Mosaic hops deliver tangerine, zesty lemon, grapefruit & tropical hits on the nose and lashings of ripe mango, tropical mash up & juicy pink grapefruit to the palate. Perfectly soft mouthfeel with a slight resiny/pine backnote. Unfined and vegan.
BIG BEAUTIFUL THINGS 6.6% NEIPA
It had to happen.. we’ve taken our best selling NEIPA recipe and gone BIG! Bigger hop content, bigger ABV but all the same big soft juicy creamy New England IPA flavours. El Dorado & Mosaic hops deliver tangerine, zesty lemon, grapefruit & tropical hits on the nose and lashings of ripe mango, a full on tropical juice bomb & juicy pink grapefruit to the palate. Perfect soft creamy mouthfeel with slight bubblegum back-notes. Unfined and vegan.