BIG news craft beer fans! Those craft beer scamps, Brew Dog, who landed in Manchester earlier this summer, are teaming up with Trof – Manchester’s dons of good times and good nights, to bring you a night so good you couldn’t dream that it would exist; until now.
Thursday 23 Aug marks the day these two super brands will come together at Trof’s Deaf Institute for the ultimate night of food and beer matching. Together they will turn the upstairs music space into a Victorian beer hall for one night of booze, food and old fashioned fun.
So what will the night feature? Well there’s going to be half pints of Brew Dog’s award-winning draft beers for you to drink, samples of some of their shorter run, stronger stuff and possibly a few rarities thrown in for good measure. PLUS each beer will be matched with a food AND cooked with; opening you up to a whole host of flavour combinations to excite you more than naked beer wrestling.
So what can you expect?
- Mini Yorkshire puddings with pork and sage chipolatas, tomato, apple and 5 A.M chutney; matched with 5 A.M hoppy amber ale.
- Punk IPA battered haddock goujons with homemade tartare sauce. Matched with Punk IPA; a contradictory, contemporary take on classic India Pale Ale.
- Mature cheddar cheese rarebit. Matched with Hardcore, another, even more radical IPA crafted on a rich, toffee canvas.
- Individual Lancashire cheese hot pots with homemade pickled Dogma cabbage. Matched with Dogma, a heather infused Scotch ale, at a heart stopping 7.4 per cent.
- Cheeses from near and far with assorted Alice Porter chutneys; matched with Alice Porter, a unique take on the traditional drink from the British Isles.
- Frosted chocolate brownie. Matched with Lost Dog, an imperial porter with notes of red berries that has been created in collaboration with the award-winning Lost Abbey brewery.
How do you get an invite? Buy your tickets HERE for £20 a pop (pretty cheap considering how much you get for that) but they are STRICTLY LIMITED, so get yours now.
But wait – we got a pair of tickets to give away! That’s right; you could be going for FREE with a friend of your choosing (maybe someone who’s teetotal so you can, ahem, ‘help’ them with their drinks). All you need to do is comment on this post or tweet us on @McrFinest






I’d love to win the tickets!!
Please can I win?!
this sounds tasting! I hope I get the free tix!
Sitting in the office across the road from BrewDog MCR. Count me in!
Would love to go to this!
will there be wheelbarrows available to facilitate easy returns into the city?
rarebit with Hardcore… oh my!
It’s always a blimmin’ delight to see those with beery bravado challenge the frankly stale ale industry.
Brew Dog seems to be doing a brill job persuading those less likely to drink beer to give it a sup and it’s fantastic to see them hit Manchester. Really excited to see what the future holds as the company inevitably expands further and hoping for many more events like this Deaf Institute shebang.
Oh very nice
Love Brewdog
Looks tasty! Would love to go.
Would be really dancing if I won the tickets this weekend.
I could take the wife who is nearly 8 months pregnant. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind me ‘helping’ her finish her beers.
Much love to Brewdog! Would love to win this!
Certainly worth the £20.00 but it would be AWESOME to win some tickets!
Ooh! Yes please! A win for me would be most excellent.
Would love to win this and take my husband, we love brewdog!
Sounds great, I love to win. I got a friend who is not too in to beer who would love to come! Aham!
Mmmm. Sounds tasty – would love to win these tickets!
Congrats Katy you are the Winner! We shall email you the details.
Yes please
Looks fantastic, I’d love to go!