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Beerlonging 05 | It Smells Bitter

February 7, 2023 / / 0 Comments

 

Sheep in a snowy field with dark grey skies in the distance

Photo: Mark Johnson

This is Beerlonging

Hosted by Mark, Rob and Steve featuring beer chat, beery adventures, and reverbeerations. This month we’re talking about annual release beers and the hype / FOMO that surrounds them

Our guest this month is Meg Houghton-Gilmour from Bristol 24/7

Beers

Mark | Backyard Brewhouse ‘Three States’ / Holy Goat ‘Goatsmoker’ / Wild Beer ‘Smoke and Barrels’

Rob | Kernel ‘Bitter Simonds 1880’ / Backyard Brewhouse ‘Embankment’ /  Mikkeller ‘Ich Bin Raspberry’

Steve | Vault City/Tartarus/Deadend Brew ‘Barrel Aged Barley Wine’ / Sierra Nevada ‘Torpedo’ / Thirst Class ‘Barley Wine MMXX’

Meg Houghton-Gilmpour

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Credits

Original music by Rob Edwards

Intro by Dani Carberry

Artwork by Clayton Chisholm

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Hopinions 180 “Homebrew Special #9”

May 19, 2022 / / 3 Comments

This week Martin & Steve ramp up the nostalgia by bringing back the Homebrew Special from the ‘Beer O’clock Show’ days, and we’re joined by Sean O’Reilly who talks us through his brewing process and plans for the future

Beers | Brid’s Cross Brewing ‘BC-0101 American Pale Ale’, ‘BC-0201 Best Bitter’ & ‘BC-0301 American Stout’

Hopinions | Should businesses be promoting on all social media channels or just focusing on the ones that work for them?

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Many thanks to Sean for sharing these beers with us. This didn’t influence our thoughts on just how great the beers are.

 

 

 

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Hopinions 162 “Cask Is Queen”

October 14, 2021 / / 0 Comments

This week Martin & Steve are joined by Katie, owner and head brewer at Nomadic Beers in Leeds to talk about surviving a pandemic, serving the local communtiy and using freshly picked hops in beers

Beers | Nomadic Beers ‘GeeGee’ & ‘Dukka’

Hopinions | Should the U.K. celebrate it’s fresh hop harvest beer heritage more than it does?

Nomadic Beers | Use the code ‘BeerOClock’ for 15% off your order from Nomadic Beers

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Links | Matt Curtis tweet

 

Many thanks to Katie for giving us a discount on the ‘tap room in a box’ for the show. This didn’t influence our thoughts on the beers we tried.

 

 

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Hopinions 126 “Human Nature”

August 20, 2020 / / 1 Comment

This week Martin & Steve are joined by long time friends Janice & Wayne Dunne, aka The Irish Beer Snobs, to chat lockdown in Ireland, human nature and festival-going

Beers | Oakham ‘JHB’, Hobsons ‘Postman’s Knock’, Sambrook’s ‘Battersea Rye’, Tyne Bank ‘Silver Dollar’, Titanic ‘Stout’ & Bedlam ‘Phoenix’

Hopinions | Would you go to a beer festival yet?

Links | Dublin Bar scenes | Research methodology |

Irish Beer Snobs | Twitter | Website | Podcast 

 

Many thanks to the folks at Best of British Beer for sending us both a Virtual British Beer Festival box to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts. 

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Hopinions 107 “Virtuality”

April 9, 2020 / / 0 Comments

We’re back and prodcuing our first Hopinions episode via Skype!

Beers | Abbeydale ‘Heavy Nettle’ & ‘Deliverance’ and Anspach & Hobday ‘The Ordinary Bitter’ & ‘The Sour Dry Hop’

Hopinions | If you could only spend your day in one, which would it be?

 

Many thanks to Abbeydale and Anspach & Hobday for sending us these beers to try on the show. Although they were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts. 

 

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Hopinions 101 “Plan B”

February 6, 2020 / / 0 Comments

This wasn’t the show we planned to release this week, but it’s always good to have a back up plan. We take a look back at what’s been happening since our 100th show and look forward to what we’ve got coming up in 2020.

Beers | Five Points ‘Best’, Chelmsford Brewing Company ‘Poco Loco’ and Harvey’s ‘Old Ale’

Links | The changing names of hops

 

Many thanks to The Alehouse in Chelmsford for hosting us at such short notice.

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Hopinions 57 “Ones To Watch”

March 8, 2018 / / 0 Comments

This week we’ve teamed up with Beerbods to bring you the ‘Ones to Watch 2018’ box. However, 12 beers in one night is too much for even us to get through so we drafted in some help from Justin Mason & Matt Chinnery to help us get through the box.

Beers | Velvet Owl Brewing Co ‘Old Sport’, 71 Brewing ‘Rhuby Weiss’, Burnt Mill ‘Pintle Pale Ale’, Good Things Brewing Co ‘Hazy Pale’, Tap Social Movement ‘Grebe’s Procession’, Northern Whisper ‘Yammerhouse’, Boat Lane Brewery ‘Phantom Falls’, The Kiln Brewery ‘Breakout’, Lithic Brewery ‘Pilsner’, Unbarred ‘IPA’, West By Three ‘Grisette’ & Ampersand ‘Middle Road’

Hopinions | Do you have a beer subscription?

 

Many thanks to the folks at Beerbods for sending us this box for free, this didn’t influence our thoughts on the beers. Thanks also to Liquorice in Shenfield for letting us use their tasting room to record this week.

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Hopinions 44 “Sparklers”

October 12, 2017 / / 1 Comment

This week we’re at the Victoria Inn in Colchester and we’re joined by Andy & Richard from the pub to talk about the divisive device, the sparkler.

Beer | Great Heck ‘Trafalgar’ & Colchester Brewery ‘Ambassador’

Hopinions | Sparklers

Links | The Cask Report

 

Many thanks to Andy, Sheena & Richard from the Victoria Inn for hosting the podcast and providing the beers that we enjoyed while recording for free. This didn’t impact on our thoughts on the friendly atmosphere and great beers on offer at the pub. If you’ve any questions for Andy, take up his offer in the show and email him at victoria.inn10@gmail.com 

(L-R) Creamer / Sparkler / None

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Fuller’s

August 31, 2017 / / 0 Comments

For our 2017 Summer Special, Steve visited Fuller’s Brewery and spent the morning with Head Brewer, Georgina Young.

In this special episode, George shares here brewing journey with us, some background to Fullers and we get to sample ‘Oliver’s Island’, ‘Seafarers’, ‘London Pride’, ‘London Pride Unfiltered’ and ‘India Pale Ale’.

Information on the Fuller’s public tours is available here.

 

This visit was arranged through the Fuller’s PR team and neither the tour or the beers cost us anything. This didn’t change our views on anything and we are grateful for the hospitality shown to us by both the PR team and George.

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