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Hopinions 169 “Review of 2021”

December 23, 2021 / steve / 0 Comments

This week Martin & Steve are enjoying the annual extravaganza that is the end of year review show. We’re looking back at the beers, breweries and events that have rocked our beery worlds this year

Beers | Sierra Nevada ‘Celebration’ (2021), Simple Things Fermentations ‘Big Ideas 20 Wheat Wine’, Fuller’s ‘Vintage Ale’ (2020) and Thornbridge ‘Pardus Chocolate Orange Stout’

Hopinions | What rocked your beery worlds?

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our listeners for still getting involved with what we do and for your ongoing support. Without you we are nothing. Stay safe folks and here’s to 2022!

Many thanks Phil at Simple Things Fermentations for sending us beer to try on the show. Although this was gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 136 “Review of 2020”

December 22, 2020 / steve / 0 Comments

This week Martin & Steve are enjoying the annual extravaganza that is the end of year review show. We’re looking back at the beers, breweries and events that have rocked our beery worlds this year

Beers | Elusive Brewing ‘Oregon Trail’, Camden Town Brewery ‘Beer 2020’, Fuller’s ‘Vintage Ale 2019’ and Signature Brew ‘Anthology 2020’

Hopinions | What rocked your beery worlds?

Many thanks to Signature Brew for sending us beer to try on the show. Although this was gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 100 “Vintage”

January 23, 2020 / steve / 0 Comments

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In this landmark episode, Martin & Steve are recording at our spiritual home, The Victoria Inn in Colchester where we’re joined by guest host Richard Taylor, Bar Manager at the Vic to look back over the last 100 episodes of Hopinions.

Beers | Fuller’s Vintage Ales 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 & 2012

Hopinions | Top 10 Hopinions Polls

Links | Fantasy Pub Crawl

We’d just like to take this opportunity to thank all of our listeners for your continued support and interaction with the podcast – with you, we are nothing.

Many thanks to Fuller’s for gifting us the 2013 and to David Dellar for gifting us the 2012 variations that we on this show, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 99 “Review of 2019”

December 26, 2019 / steve / 0 Comments

It’s the end of the ~~year~~ decade and we’re taking a look back at our beery highlights from 2019

Beers | Uncruliar Brews ‘Rhubarbley Wine’, Mad Hatter ‘Salted Caramel Quadrupel’, Camden ‘Beer 2019’, Thornbridge ‘Saint Petersburg’, Porterhouse ‘Devil’s Half Acre’ & ‘Celebration Stout’ and Fuller’s ‘Imperial IPA’

Hopinions | 2019 Beery Highlights

Links | Beers Without Frontiers podcast | Pub Chef Passion

Many thanks to Sean, Rob and the folks at Thornbridge & Porterhhouse for the beers, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 79 “Balance”

February 7, 2019 / steve / 0 Comments

We’re back for 2019 with a jam packed show full of news, views and beer!

Beers | Hawkshead ‘Windermere Pale’, ‘Iti’ & ‘Tonka Shake’, Fuller’s ‘1981 ESB’ and Mashionistas ‘Slurple Haze’ & ‘Darc Almond’

Hopinions | Do you think you have a healthy balance when it comes to your drinking?

Links | What’s Your Favourite podcast | Beers Without Frontiers Episode 11 ‘Mashioniastas’

Many thanks to Hawkshead and Mashionistas for sending us beers to try for free on the show, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 76 “Review of 2018”

December 20, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

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In our final show on 2018 we look back over the big beery highlights of the year and award our (very condensed) Golden Pints. We give gongs to the podcast of the year, beery adventure of the year, brewery and beer of the year.

Beers | Fuller’s Vintage Ale 2017, Marble/Fuller’s Gale’s Prize Old Ale (Barbera, Bourbon, Maderia & Pinot Noir Barrel-Aged versions)

Hopinions | Beery highlights of 2018

Link | Gale’s Prize Old Ales

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Hopinions 73 “Temperature”

October 25, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

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This week we’re focusing on a question from one of our listeners about whether revered and rare beers live up to their hype. Thanks to Roland Glew for suggesting this topic.

Beers | Jester King ‘Enigmatic Taxa’, JW Lees ‘Harvest Ale (2015)’, Thornbridge ‘Days of Creation’, Brewdog ‘Hinterland (EFP BA version)’, Fuller’s ‘Brewers Reserve No 5’ and Old Chimneys ‘Good King Henry Special Reserve (2013)’

Hopinions | Do you care about the temperature of your beer?

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Hopinions 50 “Friends”

November 23, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we dive into the Fullers & Friends box of beers, get stuck into loads of news and take a look back at our first 50 shows.

Beers | Fullers & Hardknott ‘Peat Souper’, Fullers & Fourpure ‘Galleon’, Fullers & Marble ‘Matariki’, Fullers & Cloudwater ‘NE IPA’, Fullers & Thornbridge ‘Flora & The Griffin’, Fullers & Moor ‘Rebirth’ and Fullers ‘Vintage Ale 2016’

Hopinions | As it’s that time of year where we find ourselves in venues not serving drinks of our choosing, what do you drink when there’s no decent beer on?

Links | NE Sippin Forecast fundraising page | Irish Beer Snobs fundraising page

Crimbo Crawl 17 | Details are here

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Fuller’s

August 31, 2017 / steve / 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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Hopinions 14 “Trilogies”

December 16, 2016 / steve / 0 Comments

file_000099 It’s the final part of our Golden Pints 2016 Trilogy and in this mammoth episode we look at Best UK Brewery, Best Overseas Brewery, Best New Brewery of 2016, Best Pub/Bar/Taproom, Independent Retailer of the Year, Online Retailer of the Year and Beer Festival of the Year.