Category: Episodes (Page 22 of 42)

Flavour of the Month 11 – High Planes Drifter

For March’s Flavour of the Month with Little Leeds Beer House, our listeners chose the Deya Brewing Company & Verdant Brewing Co ‘High Planes Drifter’ DIPA.

We’re joined by our first ever guest on Flavour of the Month as beer sommelier Ruth Mitchell joins us to chat about the beer and to give a run down of the other beers that you may have come across this month.

We also look forward to Hop City at Easter where you’ll be able to get your hands on some of the hoppiest beers ever assembled in one place in the UK.

If you’ve had any of the beers we mention, let us know your thoughts on Twitter.

 

This show is supported by Richard & Bryony from the Little Leeds Beer House. They’re great folk and they give us this beer for free, but that doesn’t affect our opinions the shop or the beer. If you’re ever in Leeds make sure to pop in, say hi and enjoy a beer in the wonderful surroundings of the Corn Exchange.

Hopinions 22 “10 Things You Never Knew You Wanted To Know About Beer Festivals (Part I)”

In our final crossover podcast of the series, we sit down with Wayne & Janice Dunne (AKA The Irish Beer Snobs) to talk about 10 things you never knew you wanted to know about beer festivals.

Beer | Station Works ‘The Foxes Rock IPA’

Hopinions | The best thing about beer festivals / The worst thing about beer festivals

Interview | We chat to Dr. Gearóid Cahill, head judge of The Dublin Craft Beer Cup and director of brewing science at Alltech about beer judging

Part II | Make sure to check out part 2 on the Irish Beer Snob feed, available from Sunday 5 March 2017

 

We attended the Alltech Craft Beer & Food Fair on media passes that gave us free access to the event and some beer tokens. We were looked after incredibly well and provided access to the media lounge and rooms for recording. None of this has influenced our views on the event or beers we try and we are exceptionally grateful to Tracey & Aoife for looking after us.

Irish Beer Report 03 – Coming Soon

In the latest Irish Beer Report we chat to Liam & Colin from Ireland Craft Beers about the growing Irish beer scene and Cormack from Honest Brew about bringing Irish beer into the UK.

The folks from Honest Brew have also given our listeners a discount code so that they can get 10% off any Irish beer order – just use ‘save10irish’ at checkout.

The Irish Beer Report will return soon with more great beer.

 

Hopinions 21 “On Trend”

This week we’re looking back at some great beers we’ve had recently and chatting about what it means for a beer to be “on trend”.

Beer | Six Degrees North/Magic Rock ‘Magic Six’, Chorlton/Vocation ‘Sour & Death’ & Lervig/Hoppin Frog ‘Sippin Into Darkness’

Hopinions | Should beers in a brewery’s core range change to stay on trend?

Blogs | Pub Curmudgeon’s ‘Love of a lifetime‘ & Matt Chinnery’s review of Stokey Beer Fest

Prizeless Prize | The big box of nothing returns to the North this week as Cowboy Drinks Craft takes the honours

 

We’re grateful to Matt at Six Degrees North for sending us ‘Magic Six’ . The fact that we were given this beer for free did not influence our thoughts on it.

Hopinions 20 “Wake Up & Smell The Coffee”

In our third crossover podcast, we’re with Roland from Steve & Roland’s Beer Podcast talking about coffee, beer, coffee and beer and coffee in beer.

Beer | Elusive Brewing/Affinity Brew Co ‘Brimful of Masha’, Põhjala Brewery ‘Must Kuld Colombia’ & Weird Beard ‘Double Pearle (Jim Beam Barrel  Aged)’

Hopinions | Coffee beers… Are they any good and what’s the best you’ve had?

Cheers | To Phil Hardy from Otter’s Tears Beer Co for providing a venue for recording this podcast

 

We are grateful to Roland and Has Bean Coffee for providing the coffees and beers for this podcast for free. This hasn’t influenced our thoughts on the coffees and beers that we featured.

 

 

Hopinions 19 “Decisions, decisions”

This week we return to our ‘second studio’ Brewdog Shoreditch to record a collab within a crossover with a guest! We’re joined by Michael Lalley of Bushcraft Beer and Stu McKinley from Yeastie Boys to discuss the things that influence our buying decisions.

Blog | Michael’s ‘Three Bullet Tuesday’ that was the catalyst for this week’s show

Beer | Brewdog ‘Small Batch 90 Shilling’

Hopinions | What most influences your beer buying decisions?

 

We’re really grateful to Brewdog Shoreditch for hosting us again and to Stu & Todd for plying us with beer all night. This may or may nor have affect our views on a number of subjects…

Hopinions 18 “Revitalisation”

This week we’re straight from a British Guild of Beer Writers event with the CAMRA Revitalisation Committee to talk about what’s next for CAMRA.

Beers | Bude Brewery ‘Haven’ amber ale, ‘Porthbud’ pale ale & ‘Black Rock’ porter

Hopinions | In today’s beer world, is CAMRA still needed?

Blogs | Myles talks FOMO, Beer Manchester considers his ‘local’ and Martin reviews ‘Around The Tube in 80 Pubs’

Prizeless Prize | The best picture ever from Steve, who finally wins his first big box of nothing

 

We’ve been sent these beers for free by the folk at Bude Brewery but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on them.

Flavour of the Month 10 – Roy, I Want A Hilux

Our latest Flavour of the Month with Little Leeds Beer house introduces a slightly revised format.

Now, you get to choose the beer we drink each month, and this month you chose Verdant Brewing Co’s ‘Roy, I Want A Hilux’ pale ale.

If you’ve had this beer, let us know your comments below or on Twitter.

 

This show is supported by Richard & Bryony from the Little Leeds Beer House. They’re great folk and they give us this beer for free, but that doesn’t affect our opinions the shop or the beer. If you’re ever in Leeds make sure to pop in, say hi and enjoy a beer in the wonderful surroundings of the Corn Exchange.

 

Hopinions 17 “The Ten Untappd Commandments (Part I)”

This week is the first part of the beer podcast crossover event of 2017 as we sit down with Ross & Tom from Beernomicon to talk through the first five Untappd Commandments.

Beer | Throughout the recording we enjoyed ‘1048’, ‘1060’, ‘1064’ & ‘1070’ from the wood courtesy of Beer Nouveau

Hopinions | This week’s question was courtesy of Mark (@millionbevs)Does social media (inc Untappd) encourage unhealthy drinking to maintain social interaction?

Interview | We chat to Steve from Beer Nouveau about recreating old recipes and putting them in wood

Part II | Make sure to tune into Beernomicon to listen to the remaining Untappd Commandments

 

We are grateful to Steve for providing us his brewery tap room and the beers for this recording for free. This hasn’t influenced our thoughts on the beers that we featured.

Hopinions 16 “Festival Overload?”

As the aftershocks of #CaskGate continue to rumble on, this week we turn our attentions to the growing number of craft beer festivals in the UK.

Beer | Hawkshead/Cigar City ‘Tiramisu Imperial Stout’ & Siren/Cigar City ‘Barrel Aged Caribbean Chocolate Cake’

Hopinions | Is the UK reaching craft beer festival saturation point?

Blogs | Pete Brown, KM Flett, Connor Murphy & The Malting Floor

Prizeless Prize | Cask ale features heavily in this big box of nothing winning effort from Million Bevs

Letters | Our new listener-only letters (by which we mean tweets) section features contributions from @CraftBeerGeekUK, @SilanderGraham & @Katrinnas

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