Nightporter (45SPEC002)

We took two casks of The Original 45 and dry-hopped them as an experiment.  We've released the two casks under the name Nightporter and given it a beer catalogue number of one of our 45 specials.

The name Nightporter is a track by 80s band Japan from their 1980 album Gentlemen Take Polaroids.  It was also released as a single following the break up of the band.  In January we were saddened to hear of the passing of Japan's bassist Mick Karn (on the same day as Gerry Rafferty as it happens).  Mick Karn's fretless bass playing was revered by many bass players back in Japan's heyday and he was considered at one time as 'the bass player's bass player'.  So it was in honour of Mick that we chose to name the dry-hopped porter Nightporter.

One of the casks has just been delivered to Mr Foley's Cask Ale House in Leeds.  Will let you know where the other ends up.

Andrew: I was a huge fan of Japan back in the 80s and they were the first band I saw live.  I remember from row P seeing Mick Karn seemingly gliding back and forth across the stage.  I've chosen the track Alien as my track with which to honour Mick.  Being into synthpop I didn't have guitar heroes but Mick was as close as I came to having a guitar hero.