VERY few know that B.Eat Street collaborators, Chris Legh, Lyndon Higginson and Bart Murphy, aside from instigating some of Manchester's most boozy and rambunctious affairs (Friday Food Fights, Liar's Club, Hula), are also budding amateur academics in the study of agriculture and civilization.
We also want to celebrate the very best in British beer talent accompanied by top-notch street tucker and ace DJs
"One night we were all in Crazy Pedro's knocking back Mezcal and taking it in turns on the AC/DC pinball machine..." explains Higginson, "when conversation turned to botanist Jonthan D. Sauer's 1952 theory that 'thirst rather than hunger may have been the stimulus behind the origin of small agriculture'.
"The implications of which suggest..." continued Higginson, swigging from a can of Founders All Day IPA, "that beer is the reason our ancestors adopted an agricultural society and that beer, ironically, is the root of civilization as we know it *burp*."
"And that's the impetus behind our new event Let's Get Beer'd," chips in Murphy, "we're celebrating man's transition from a nomadic existence to one based fundamentally on sewing seeds and getting spangled."
"We also want to celebrate the very best in British beer talent," says Legh, "accompanied by top-notch street tucker and ace DJs."
Seven Brothers Brewery will be there...Thus, on Friday 25 and September 26 September, BEAT Street are inviting a rabble of the nation's best brewers (Beavertown, Seven Bros., Alphabet, ShinDigger, Outstanding, Tiny Rebel, First Chop, Tweed, Black Jack, Cloudwater, Runaway, Camden and more...) to pitch up at Unit 5 in Great Northern - the former home of Friday Food Fights - and serve up civilization juice 'til it spurts from your ears.
The brewers will be joined by street food merchants: Yakumama (Latin American snackies), Dirty Food Revolution (burgers that can cause mandible dislocation) and Street Dawgs (sausages, presumably); as well as live music from The Underground Project.
Let's Get Beer'd involves three sessions, 6-11pm Friday (£10); 1-6pm (£8) and 6pm-11pm Saturday (£10). Tickets include entry and four half pints of beer selected from a lucky dip.
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Sessions are limited to 600 punters and we're told tickets are selling fast so get them sharpish.
In the months following Let's Get Beer'd, B.EAT Street will fire up their next big Manchester project, featuring a Caribbean jerk shack, a British craft beer bar and six 'micro-diners' in the Great Northern mews running parallel with Deansgate.
Legh, Higginson and Murphy then plan to publish a new paper in the European Journal of Theology entitled 'The Holy Grail... Was It A Beer Stein?'
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