Saturday, 17 January 2015

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% -



Thursday, 15 January 2015

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

Monday, 19 May 2014

Wakefield Retail Awards 2014

Saturday saw the final of the Wakefield Retail Awards 2014. We were in the specialist group along side two other shops of which I had never heard of as until the awards. I thought we had a really good shout at it but it wasn't to be. I knew who was going to win it and sure enough they did.

The idea of the awards is great. There is a huge talent pool of well run shops and services in the Wakefield district although the awards are very city centre centric. More of a boost in the speeches could be given out to the very independent retailers of Horbury, Outwood and Ossett.

The Space home of the Wakefield Beer Festival( CAMRA)  and the Wakefield Festival of Beer (Roundtable) held the event. I've been to the venue many times as part of these festivals but never to a full off sit down event. Myself and the rest of team Bier Huis where looking forward to the night. Which then turned into one where we couldn't wait to leave.

We arrived just after 7 ready for the drinks reception which involved us going to the bar and paying for our own drinks. I would have expected a small glass of something as we arrived. Oh well maybe we get something with the dinner? Nope!

Despite being the home of two beer festivals the choice of beer at the venue is awful so it was a wine night. and yes before anyone asks I have tried to get them to use our cask ale pump hire and barrel package. it was a massive "No thanks!!!!"  That was the actual email reply.

We grabbed our table and made our introductions to the rest of the table. Bit of small talk before the dinner. We knew the menu, the standard venue menu used across the UK.

For starters it was Pate with salad. It had a nice fruity jelly top and the pate was nice if not a little foamy. This is when things started to fall apart on our table. One of the other members of table was Gluten and Dairy free meaning that the choice of starter was a no go. It had been made aware when booking and was known when serving that this fellow had different requirements to the rest of us. So what arrived was a mozzarella cheese salad. Of course this was sent back via the manager of the venue. Pointing out the error of the kitchen team and that a mistake like shouldn't happen. He ended up missing out on starters as there was nothing else.

After waiting ages for the main course to arrive it finally turned up this was Roast Chicken in wine wine and tarragon sauce, Roast Potatoes, Seasonal veg and Yorkshire pudding.

What arrived was Dry chicken breast with chicken OXO with a good chunk of tarragon, Frozen Aunt Bessie style roast potatoes, Carrots & green beans and a tough as cardboard aunt Bessie Yorkshire pudding.

We tucked in unimpressed while on the other side of the table all hell was about to kick off. The lad who is gluten and dairy free plate arrived complete with Yorkshire pudding they did mange not to put the gravy on. Once again the manager was grabbed and the plate sent back again with a word about how on earth a chef could mess this up. A brand new plate arrived and you could see the manager getting more and more wound up.

Then another lad simply got up plate in hand. I could see from across the table that it was undercooked and very pink. Everyone was wondering what was going on "his chicken is not cooked" I told everyone. He arrived back the manager of the venue followed soon after telling them that the chef says it's cooked. He asked for his plate to show everyone it was refused. the shambolic service and catering was discussed and the group were told to leave if they didn't like it. Amazing we are at the retail awards and yet the venue manager was the rudest and unhelpful catering/venue manager I had ever met. This is something that might come from an awful restaurant or some poor untrained staff not one of the major venues in the city. They had to go and see the organisers  to sort the mess out. Of which followed a heated debate with them and the management of the venue.

Most of the food was left it was awful.

Pudding followed Apple Pie and cream this was cold apple pie from costco. Nothing to write home about and again it was left by most of the table.

How much did we pay for this? Well this wasn't even pub grub style Sunday lunch from an awful pub. It was worse. £36 a head. The food must have been £5 worth if that.

Onto the awards at this point we are way behind schedule. Claire Frisby from Look North was the host and she did a great job. To the relief of no doubt all the award winners you didn't have to give a speech. Some very good and well deserved winners along with some fab runners up.

The awards were wound up and a disco followed sadly like a lot of people that's when we up sticks and left. To spend a couple of hours sat out the hop where I sampled some wonderful rat brewery white rat.

I hope it runs next year, I hope it becomes more a district night rather than city centre based and hopefully it will be held some where else.

Friday, 11 April 2014

Northern Monk - Saltaire Smoked Porter

So last night 10th April 14 I headed over to Bradford to the wonderful Sparrow beer cafe. I wish that this place was open when I was a student in Bradford however I would have been even more skint! However it was sad to see a few of my old haunts closed and some seem to have been for a while.

Northern monk who are teaming up and brewing with other breweries across North at the moment before their brewery and tap house in Leeds is open. Travelled over to Saltaire to create their next brew which was launched in cask and keg at the Sparrow.

This one is a 6% Smoked porter I opted for the cask version to try. It no where near tastes like a 6% beer it very drinkable and not too heavy. It is very full flavoured but without the massive hit of smokiness there is a touch in the nose. The taste starts off with heavy notes of liquorice followed by light vanilla flavouring.

I did try later the keg version i'm not sure if this was on key keg or standard keg. I found this too cold and stopped the flavour coming through there was a light gassiness to it as well but the head disappeared quite quickly.

This beer will be with us next Thursday in bottles and should be very popular.

Thursday, 3 January 2013

2012 A Bier Huis review

So here we are into 2013 and with even more fun and events but what happened in 2012 well lets look back!

Jan - Our first month of trading without the excitement of Christmas as with January it started off slow and there were a couple of times when I thought what on earth have I done but as the month trotted along it was all systems go the shop was looking fuller and with new customers arriving everyday. The end of the month saw our first meet the brewer night it was with Little Valley and we tucked into all their beers and heard how they set up and got going it was a great night and there was plenty of beer flowing and a good gathering of 17 meant that this was something that was wanted.

Feb - Saw a big pile of snow drop on Ossett just in time for the 2nd Beer festival I had a great time drinking and a lot of money was raised for the Lion's we were not involved in the festival but maybe next time in Feb 2014. The same weekend we also took part in the Riding's centre Yorkshire market its a friendly little set up but the snow put a lot of people off. It also saw the arrival of Buxton and Great Newsome beers to our shop and in late Feb we held our first ladies night with Body Shop there was a mass of stuff being applied and it made the shop smell nice for a couple of days :)

Mar - We had stout week to promote good stuff rather than the black stuff from Dublin and at the end of the month we had Cider and Cheese night which people are still taking about and fear not it will be back again sometime this year. Nicola our lovely host paired a load of different ciders with cheeses to match. That stinking bishop still gives my tongue nightmares.

Apr - James from Two roses in Barnsley came and did a meet the brewer session great story behind the set up and a huge range for everyone to sample. Really good evening was had by all

May - We held our first beer festival Mild Fest with Wakefield CAMRA the full house signs were up and we had 4 draught milds and 11 in bottles. It will take place again in 2013 17th May has been pencilled in. A couple of weeks after this we went from mild to full on craft as Brewdog came to do a tasting session. Some quality beers were served including AB:08

June - It was the Queens jubilee and as Ossett held a picnic in the square we joined other local businesses to do our first full outdoor bar. Ossett, Leeds and krombacher were all on draught and of course we sold out. The week after was the start of Euro 2012 we had a beer from each country playing apart from one but we kicked Croatia out and replaced them. It seems to go down well with people travelling from all over for a Euro box I can't see us doing one for the world cup but you never know. In between all of that we headed down the road to Horbury for their street festival on fathers day weekend. Which gave us our busiest day ever today. And then as June ended we flocked to Ossett with the help of hundreds of people the town was a wash with wool and sheep everything was covered and we were there with our mungo's mash which sold out by lunch time.

July - Inbeween the rain the sun did shine and it shined for Ossett Gala again we gave the people draught beer and plenty of it. The night before I was in deepest Holmfirth at a hen party I wasn't the stripper more pity them but was doing Champagne tasting see its not only just about beer.

August - It was all about London as I headed to the big smoke but not for the games but for the Great British Beer Festival in its old but new home. Plenty was drunk and I even picked up some Dogfish head beer.

September - Was massive we were invited to do the bar at the vicar's garden party and again it was one of those odd days where the sun was out. It was the same the week after as we did the scarecrow festival in Ossett everyone was loving the North Yorkshire Cereal Killer (get it) that we had on draught. One first trip to Barnsley followed the Sunday after as we were at Wentworth Castle lovely place with a cracking food and craft market and we will be there again next year. Then came holmfirth food and drink festival the people were loving the sun and were loving us so much we had to stay for an extra hour as people were lapping up the udder cider and draught beer. We should be their again in 2013.

Then it came as months of planning Oktoberfest Ossett. Beers were sourced from Germany for all of the beer tents and Clarks in Wakefield produced Hoppy Oktoberfest for us ready for our big night we were rammed for this as people from right across Yorkshire turned up to tuck into the beers and plate fulls of German sausage and mash from Crocodile sisters. The music was on and it went well into the night. More next year for sure!

And not forgetting the Revolutions meet the brewer night that certainly boost their sales

October - Well we managed to see off about 500 bottles of Oktoberfest beer just in time for the first batch of Christmas beer to arrive which only lasted a few days. That's the power of Five Towns beers when they arrive here. In the middle of it all we went to the Cricketers in Horbury to sample our beer Hoppy Oktoberfest I managed to have a pint before it had ran off. It was good! Then with cooker in tow and a boot full of beer we went to Ripley castle for two days where the mulled cider had the first outing of the year.

November - Christmas prep was now in full swing as we hit the Dewsbury homemade festival where we sold lots of Christmas gift packs and trialled mulled beer it went well but needs a lot of mulling! As the Christmas beers were arriving they were being stripped off the shelves but we kept up.
We were also back at Wentworth castle and at the Ossett Christmas light switch on where the rain tried but failed to put a damp squid of things as we were selling plenty of mulled cider and wine even the local MP loved our mulled cider compared to the out of towners who came to sell cider.
Which then lead us to our first bottle launch with Geeves coming to launch Smokey Joe and also do tasting of their other newly launched beers. The smokey Joe is dam fine and has lead to an increase in sales of all our smoked beers. From the really smoked one to the lighter one you should give them a go.

December - Blimey we knew we were going to be busy but not this busy! We smashed daily taking records all over the place and doubled our record taking day for it then to be beaten again. From gifts to cases to mini casks we were selling it. And Christmas eve saw the last couple of bottles of Christmas theme beer leave us not bad out of 600 bottles. But if that wasn't all we were doing events here, there and everywhere. The first Sunday saw us freeze in Holmfirth Sunday Christmas market at least we were busy to keep us that little bit warm. I did manage to nip to the Nook for ten Min's to have a quick pint and warm up by their open fire.

We then BOB alonged to Ossett the -5 temp kept a lot of people away but we were packed as people popped in for mulled cider, warm cherry beer and some sizzling chorizo and again we went well pass the 7pm end of events. The next night 26 of us headed down the hill to Ossett Brewery on our 1st brewery tour. A look around and then 2 hours of drinking fine beer was had. More tours next year.
The last weekend before Christmas saw two events take place first up was our Belgium beer night where we sampled 15 different beers in all different styles followed by our party on the Saturday where we fuddled and chatted.

So that was last year and 2013 has lots to offer so keep in touch to find out more. Remember we couldn't have done it with you. Enjoy your beers and ciders.

Tuesday, 4 September 2012


LOTS OF GREAT OKTOBERFEST BEERS IN STOCK FROM 12Th Sep

Events – Come and see us with our bar or bottle stall at the following

Sat 8th – Ossett Scarecrow festival – Bar Service

Sun 16th – Wentworth Castle nr Barnsley – Bottle stall

Sat/Sun 22nd/23rd Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival

 

Or come to the shop for the following

Thurs 27th 7:30pm Revolutions Tasting Event

Tickets £2 or free with Oktoberfest ticket

Meet the brewers and sample the beers

 

Friday 28th 7:30pm till Late Oktoberfest Ossett

German/Yorkshire beer & Sausage night

Tickets £15 include a drink, glass, bangers and mash plus more

Plus try our own beer “Hoppy Oktoberfest”

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Just thought I haven't updated this for ages. So much going on.

Some really great beers in stock at the moment in fact 300 of them!

If your local then get down to Ossett Albion or Town and buy a programme and see our advert and use it. They need your support and our support if the adverts work then they will be run again next season.

Our events page has been updated to include our out and about events and the oktoberfest night we are holding in the shop see the following pages.

http://www.bierhuis.co.uk/bier-huis-events

http://www.bierhuis.co.uk/bier-huis-events/oktoberfest