Christmas Opening Times 2015

Wednesday 16th Dec - 9:30 - 8

Thursday 17th Dec 9:30 - 8

Friday 18th Dec 9:30 - 8

Saturday 19th Dec  9:00 - 8 

Sunday 20th Dec 11 - 3 

Monday 21st Dec 9:30 - 8

Tuesday 22nd Dec 9:30 - 8 

Wednesday 23rd Dec 9:30 - 8 

Thursday 24th Dec 9:30 - 2

Christmas Day - Closed

Boxing Day - Closed

Sunday 27th Dec 11 - 3

Monday 28th Dec 10:30 - 3

Tuesday 29th Dec 10:30 - 3

Wednesday 30th Dec 10:30 - 3

Thursday 31st Dec 9:30 - 4 

Friday 1st Jan - Closed

Saturday 2nd 9:30 - 8 

Casual Team Member

As the busy event season gets under way we are looking for a casual staff member to join us for some shop work and to work at some of our events. 
No experience needed but if you have shop or bar experience than that would be a advantage and you must be reliable, a team player and committed to delivering great customer service. please send your CV to bierhuis@live.co.uk or hand in your CV personally.

This is an as and when required position and suits someone who is flexible.

The Role
Serving customers
Restocking
Cleaning
Handling money


Events
Serving beers
Fast service
Setting up & down

The person
Over 18 years old

Confidence

Reliable

Product knowledge

Hard working

Flexible

Eurovision 2015

It's that time of year again and as normal we will be doing our Eurovision boxes.

BOX 1 £28
12 Beers 12 Countries

Belgium - Seef Blonde
Denmark - Mikkeller MAD
France - Pelforth Brune
Netherlands - La Trappe Wit
Germany - Sion Kolsch
Italy - Peroni Red
Greece - Mythos
Iceland - Einstock
Ireland - McGargles
Spain - Alhambra 1925
UK - Hamelsworde Dame Ruby
and our special guests this year

Australia with Little Creatures

BOX 2 £33.50
As above plus

Crackers & Salsa
Tub of Yorkshire Crisps/Popcorn

Important Customer Information Weekend 16/17 May

Hi All,

Couple of changes this weekend to our normal service.

Saturday 16th May

Due to our attendance at the Wakefield Retail awards we will be closing earlier than normal on Saturday. For that Saturday we will be closing at 6:30pm rather than 8PM

Sunday 17th May

We have just been informed by our landlord that our private free car park will be closed on Sunday for works.

You will be able to use the parking area in front of the our car park by the maypole pub but this will be short on spaces. We recommend that you use the council car park at the rear of the building next to Ossett bus station. Being a Sunday this car park is free to use.

We apologise for the inconvenience this will cause.

Sunday Vacancy

With the introduction of our Sunday opening we are now looking for a new member of staff to join our team. This is a 4 hour shift from 11 - 3 and also extra hours where available for our many events, many of which are on Saturdays. No experience needed but if you have shop or bar experience than that would be a advantage and you must be reliable, a team player and committed to delivering great customer service. please send your CV to bierhuis@live.co.uk or hand in your CV personally.

The Role

Serving customers
Restocking
Cleaning
Handling money
Events
Serving beers
Fast service
Setting up & down


The person

Confidence

Reliable

Product knowledge

Hard working

Flexible

Wakefield Rhubarb Festival 2015

Despite the lower foot fall than normal on Friday and the dreadful weather on Sunday. We had a great time at the rhubarb festival. We sold 14 gallons more draught beer than 2014 luckily we were able to bring more in for the Sunday after running out at Saturday lunchtime. With our huge selection of rhubarb beers we were able to smash last years bottle sales for rhubarb beer. Which despite competition from another beer shop from out of the area is something we were really please about. None rhubarb bottle sales were on a par with last year.

We thank you for you support.

I'd also like to thank Charlie at the Wakefield express for his support towards local beer and local business, Our wonderful staff who manned the stall and shop over the 3 days. Dame Ruby for keeping us laughing. The chef's for using beer supplied from us for the demos.

Beer Festivals

I love a beer festival all those lovely beers to choose from however with the raise of non CAMRA beer festival it is becoming that CAMRA are letting themselves down. Yes I know it's all volunteer work but at the last two major beer festivals. It has become nothing more than a shambles.

Over at Manchester a couple of weeks ago we arrive at opening time to find almost no beer on sale as none has been poured through and checked. It actually took half and hour to find a beer on sale.

Over to Derby for the winter ales festival the creme de la creme of winter beer. We get off to a good start we arrive early and are allowed in early although we couldn't touch the beer till 1pm. Now this is a trade session for brewers, writers, pubs and bottle shops. To sample a few beers and to network and find out who has won champion winter beer of Britain. However it's more like a German invasion at the holiday swimming pool. The place is packed with those rushing to tables complete with a full blown picnic to get comfy for the day. Who what and how do these people come under trade I have no idea  it appears to be a beer ticker session and it's something that should be looked into maybe due to the fact that no ones tickets were checked as we entered.

The next shambles of the day is the announcement of the winners of the day now sat a mere 10 m away from this we heard nothing but a sound system of mumbles. We have the chairman of CAMRA stood next to us. Two points why is he not on stage and why is he doing nothing about the sound system. We found out who won by a press release that was emailed out moments later.

My other bug bare of the day was locating some of the beers one was Yorkshire brewery of Hull they should have been next to Yorkshire Heart. No sign of them so decided they hadn't made the trip. I found them 4 hours later tucked away at the end of the winners bar. What they were doing there I have no idea. The other thing was not knowing was had made the winners bar so trotting up to the main bar to find beers not on only to find out later they are on the winners bar.

Now the main issue of the day is what the hell are people doing messing about with the beers a number of beers had a sign on to say they were waiting to be checked. We saw this in action now I was with a beer writer & two brewers who were shocked to see what took place next. Beer gets poured into a jug, torch comes out and is then checked to see if the beer is cloudy. Two other jugs appear both filled with who knows i'm told it's two types of finings. Beer is then mixed with mystery liquid and then poured back into the barrel. What gives CAMRA the right to mess about and do this with the cask beer. Has the brewer been asked, was the beer unfined to start with. Is the beer a vegan beer?

All this is taking place in view of the public and a number of these people will be new real ale and beer festivals what kind of image is this giving potential new members. Sometimes it does seem to be one step forward and two back with CAMRA and this is coming from an active member.

On the plus side we had some cracking beers of all different styles. I also picked up a couple of bottles before heading to the other side of Derby station to the Brunswick and the find of the http://www.alexandrahotelderby.co.uk/ well worth a visit.

German beer cases to order in

We have a great German beer range. It was even better we have a great supplier of beer who then disapeared and popped up again every now and then. I have now sourced a new supplier at last who can give back the selection we had before plus others.

I've set a price list out so you can see what can be ordered in as cases. We will have quite a few of these on the shelf but not all of them. This list allows you to see the range on offer.

Prices include case discount although there may be additional charge for bottle & crate deposits.

Looking at a once a month delivery maybe less.

all 20 x500ml
Irlbacher Beers
Vollbier Helles 4.8% –
Exzellent 5.6% –
Spezial Dunkel 5.8% -
Hefe Weisse 5.4% –
 Festbier ( Summer Seasonal) 5.6% –
Goaskopfe Marzen 5.6% –
Bibamus 6.6% –

Pils
Bitburger pils 4.8% -
Brinkhoffs No1 pils 5.0% -
Jever pils 4.8% -
Konig pils 4.9% -
Siegel pils 4.8% -
Warsteiner pils 4.8% -


Kolsch
Dom kolsch 4.8% -
Gaffel kolsch 4.8% -
Fruh kolsch 4.8% -
Kuppers kolsch 4.8% -
Reisdorf kolsch 4.8% -
Sion kolsch 4.8% -

Hell
Augustiner Edelstoff 5.6% -
Augustiner Helles 5.2% -
Dortmunder Union Export 5.3% -
Hansa Export 5.0% -
Paulaner Original Hell 4.8% -
Tegernsee Helles 4.8% -
Tegernsee Spezial 5.6% -
Hacker Pschorr Gold 5.5% -
Hacker Munchner Hell 5.0% -

Wheat Beers
Erdinger dunkel 5.3% -
Erdinger hefe weisse 5.3% -
Erdinger Kristal 5.3% -
Erdinger urweisse 4.9% -
Franziskaner dunkel 5.0% -
Franziskaner hefe weisse 5.0% -
Franziskaner Kristal 5.0% -
Maisels Original 5.2% -
Paulaner dunkel 5.3% -
Paulaner hefe weisse 5.5% -
Konig Ludwig hefe weisse 5.5%
Schneider weisse 5.4% -
Hacker Pschorr hefe weisse 5.5% -

Specials
Paulaner Salvator 7.9% - /
Schneider Aventinus 8.2% -
Jever Fun 0% -
Paulaner H/W alc frei 0% -

Frankenheim Alt 4.8% -
Kostritzer 4.8% -
Hacker Kellerbier 5.5% -

Bottle Share

Friday 30th Jan from 8pm

The 1st Bier Huis Bottle Share

Open to anyone free entry.

Brewers - Feel free to come chat about what brews you have planned for 2015 and bring along some sample bottles.

Home Brewers - Bring your bottles and share what you have created.

Beer fans - Feel free to bring and share bottles you might have picked up from far and wide who knows we might all like it and stock it.

Bier Huis fans - Buy you bottles share out and say why you love it or hate it.

Light easy going evening and a great way to see out #tryanuary