Tag: Fyne Ales

Hopinions 166 “Small Changes”

Image courtesy of Mark Newton Photography

This week Martin & Steve are diving into a few of the beers from the Toast Companion series while we discuss our latest beery adventures and hopinions

Beers | Fyne Ales ‘New Skies’, Meantime ‘Tick Tock Bock’, Stroud Brewery ‘Buen Vivir’ and Utopian ‘Tmave on Toast’

Hopinions | When out with friends/family/colleagues is the beer choice still a priority?

Toast Companion Series | Available here

Steve on the radio | Listen here

Listener Survey | Please take a moment to give us your feedback here

 

Many thanks to Fyne Ales & Meantime for sending us beers to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts. 

 

Hopinions 165 “A Product Of Our Place”

Image courtesy of Fyne Ales

In this special release, Martin & Steve are joined by Jamie Delap, Managing Director/Owner of Fyne Ales who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year

We chat about farming, building a brewery and how stupid sheep are

Beers | ‘Highlander’, ‘Jarl’ & ‘Anniversary’

Fyne Ales | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

 

Many thanks to Iain & Jamie from Fyne Ales for gifting us these beers to feature on the show. This didn’t influence our thoughts on just how great Fyne Ales are.

Hopinions 156 “How You Feeling?”

This week Martin & Steve check in on the listeners and try some of the Origins range from Fyne Ales

Beers | Fyne Ales ‘Home 2019’, ‘Nàdar Celeia’, ‘Nàdar Jester’ & ‘Nàdar Rhubarb’

Hopinions | Pubs open, festivals back, how are you feeling about things?

Links | Code of ConductPoints of Brew

 

Many thanks to Iain from Fyne Ales for sending us the Origins beers to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts. 

Hopinions 154 “Modern British Beer”

This week Martin & Steve are joined by author, writer, photographer and co-founder of Pellicle, Matt Curtis to talk about his new book ‘Modern British Beer’ and what that statement actually means.

Beer | Fyne Ales ‘Jarl’, Braybrooke ‘Keller Lager’ & Deya ‘Steady Rolling Man’

Hopinions | Can cask beer be considered modern?

Matt’s work | Buy his book here | PellicleTwitter | Instagram

 

Many thanks to Iain from Fyne Ales for sending the Jarl and Mario from Braybrooke for sending the Keller Lager for us to enjoy on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.

Hopinions 123 “Forever Reminded”

This week Martin & Steve are exploring the things that will forever remind us of Lockdown 2020 and also discus the latest developments in the Small Brewers Duty Relief

Beers | Fyne Ales ‘Jarl’, Utopian ‘Vienna Keller Lager’ and Wiper and True Mixed Fermentations ‘Hinterland’ and ‘Narrow Sea’

Hopinions | When the dust settles on lockdown life, is there a beer or brewery that will forever remind you on this time?

Small Brewers Duty Relief | Finance Bill | SIBA Response | Beer Nouveau post | Roger Protz post | Shane Swindell’s post | Write to your MP

Social Distancing Sounds | Listen here

The Infamous Punk IPA Episode | Can be found here

 

Many thanks to Iain from Fyne Ales, Alice from Wiper and True and Ruth from Utopian for sending us some beers to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts. 

Hopinions 98 “Manchester Revisited”

In our post-Crimbo Crawl episode, we look back at our jaunt around Manchester.

Beers | Big Drop Brew Co collaboration world series ‘Going Swimmingly’ (with Harbour), ‘Jam Session’ (with Fyne), ‘Lil IPL’ (with Salt) and ‘Big River’ (with Fourpure)

 

Hopinions 54 “Fresh”

We’re back with another season and in this episode we cover off the major news stories of the last month and dig into a number of hopinions.

Beers | Fyne Ales Origins Brewing ‘Goodnight, Summer’, ‘Pandora’, ‘Amphora’ & ‘Kilkerran Wee Heavy’

Hopinions | How important is freshness to you? | What do you think will be the beer style of 2018? | In 2018, will you visit the pub…?

Link | CAMRA Revitalisation

 

Many thanks to the folks from Fyne Ales for sending us the Origins bottles for free, this didn’t influence our thoughts on the beer. Thanks also to Liquorice in Shenfield for letting us use their tasting room to record this week.

The Tasting Room

Welcome to The Tasting Room. For this Hopinions #Tryanuary special, we’re joined by Justin Mason as we work our way through a number of beers that are new to us all.

Beers | Boundary/Honest Brew ‘Of the Hills’, Downstream ‘Hybrid IPL’, Cheshire Brewhouse ‘Lupy as a Toucan’, ‘Govinda (Chevallier Edition)’, ‘Govinda (Organic Plumage Archer Edition)’, ‘Conger Tun Ale’ and Fyne Ales/De Molen ‘Cold Brew Mills & Hills’

Links | Irish Beer Report Episode 5 | Downstream Information | Govinda | Hopinions 27 (ft original Fyne Ales Mills & Hills)

 

Many thanks to the folks from Honest Brew, Ireland Craft Beers, Cheshire Brewhouse and Fyne Ales for sending us these beers to try 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.

Hopinions 27 “Keep It Clean”

We’re back from a few weeks off with a mammoth show  where we chat about what we got up to during our break and have a look at the latest news.

Beers | Fyne Ales ‘Nice’, ‘Naughty’, ‘Ragnarok’ and ‘Mills & Hills’

Hopinions | Following Sam Smiths ban this week, what do you think to swearing in pubs?

Prizeless Prize | Back with a first time winner with this picture from The Beer Beard Guy

Blogs | Read about Martin’s trip to Beerz in Cherbourg here

 

We were given these beers for free from the folks at Fyne Ales but this hasn’t impacted on our thoughts of them. Check out information and ticket details for Fyne Fest here.

Episode 98 – Jarl

 

This week we’re joined by one of the original British beer casters – Richard Taylor from the esteemed BeerCast. Together we review Jarl, a hoppy blond ale from Scottish brewer Fyne Ales.

We preview the next Wee Beastie tasting event from Harviestoun and look forward to the Sheffield Beer Week and our appearance at the Hop Hideout.

There’s a stunning #prizelessprize and we chat to Fergus Fitzgerald from Adnams about the booming Irish beer scene.

Plus, in case you didn’t notice, Steve got an upgrade and we’re sounding better than ever! Just one of a few changes we’ll be making to the show over the coming months.

It’s most definitely Beer O’Clock!