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Hopinions 80 “Flavours”

February 21, 2019 / steve / 0 Comments

More experiments this week as Martin & Steve tuck into a load of adjunct-filled beers and try their food counterparts to see if they actually taste like the things they are supposed to taste like.

Beers | Vocation & Yeastie Boys ‘Breakfast Club’, Thornbridge & Fourpure ‘Fresa’, Wild Beer ‘Millionaire’, Tiny Rebel & Flavourly ‘Pango’ and Brewdog & Amundsen ‘Mallow Mafia’

Hopinions | Do the adjuncts added to some beers really make the beer taste like the thing that has been added?

Links | Art By Volume | Rhythm & Brews Podcrawl | Doing Science to Stuff |

Many thanks to Wild Beer Co and Brewdog for sending us beers to try for free on the show, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions on Films | The Spy Who Loved Me

November 22, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

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Bond. James Bond. We take on an absolute cult classic from the 70’s with Martin taking geekery to a new level and talking facts throughout the entire film. The beers that we enjoyed for this show were…

Thornbridge / Cigar City ‘Jai Jai’

Arundel ‘Clockwork NEIPA (Mosaic & Idaho7)’

Innis & Gunn ’15 Barrel Aged DIPA’*

Brasserie Dupont ‘Saison Dupont Cuvee Dry Hopping (2017)’

Weird Beard ‘Heavy Fuel’

Ampersand ‘Experiments in Evil (Whisky BA 2018)’

Northern Monk / Legitmate Industries ‘Raspberry & Pinot Noir Barrel Aged Quad’

*This was sent to us by Innis & Gunn but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on it or how much Bond’s cheesy one liners get much worse with age.

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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 69 “Live from Peakender”

August 23, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

In our first live outing for Hopinions, we’re live from Peakender and joined on stage by Thornbridge CEO Simon Webster, COO Simon Walkden & Head Brewer Rob Lovatt

Beer | Thornbridge ‘Jaipur’

Hopinions | Was the creation of Jaipur the defining moment in craft beer in the UK?

Listen | Check out the Sheffield Hopcast’s Peakender Special

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Hopinions 67 “Alcohol Free Revisited”

July 26, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we present a show that Martin threatened he would leave if we ever did again as we revisit alcohol free beers.

Beers | Pistonhead ‘Flat Tyre 0.5%’, Adnams ‘Ghost Ship 0.5%’ and Thornbridge ‘Big Easy’

Hopinions | Are alcohol free beers getting better? | Is it ok for pubs/bars restrict the measures that you can buy beer in?

Links | An Easy Gluten Free Life | Hopinions 02 “Alcohol Free”

Many thanks to Fergus from Adnams and Simon from Thornbridge for sending us their beers to try for free on the show, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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The #12BeersOfXmas 2017

January 1, 2018 / steve / 0 Comments

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the #12BeersOfXmas, Steve wanted to do something different…

So here’s a podcast featuring reviews of all 12 beers, and some familiar (and not so familiar) guests.

Beers | (1) Shepherd Neame ‘Christmas Ale’ (2) Elusive Brewing/Wild Weather ‘Herman Toothrot’ (3) Atom ‘Neutron Star’ (4) Cromarty ‘Anniversary Ale V’ (5) Weird Beard ‘Sadako (Red Wine BA)’ (6) Truman’s ‘London Keeper’ (7) Cloudwater/Tool ‘Christmas Cake Imperial Stout’ (8) Stewart Brewing ‘Elysium I’ (9) Brouwerij De Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren ‘Trappist Westvleteren 12′ (10) Adnams ‘Both Barrels’ (11) Thornbridge ‘Sour Brown’ (12) Five Points ‘Old Greg’s Barley Wine’

Guests | Thanks to Martin, Phil, Sparky, Keith, Brian, The Ale Lady, Joe & Myles for coming on and sharing their thoughts on certain beers

Blogs | Read Joe’s (The Fatal Glass of Beer) & Paul’s (Abbaye de Southwick) #12BeersOfXmas daily blogs

Podcast | Listen & subscribe to the NE Sippin Forecast

Twitter | 12 Beers of Xmas Twitter list is here – follow these folk, they’re great!

Hopinions | Will return at the end of January

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The Golden Pints 2017

December 23, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

Here we go then, my Golden Pints for 2017…

#12BeersofXmas 2017

December 5, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again folks. Time to dig into the back of the ~~cupboard~~ cellar to see what wonders you have to enjoy over the festive period.

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