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Beerlonging 05 | It Smells Bitter

 

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

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 96 “Getting Better”

This week we’re joined by guest host Jaega Wise, Head Brewer from Wild Card Brewery (among a raft of other things) to chat inclusivity, supermarkets, the availability of beer and Untappd scandals.

Beers | Wild Card Brewery ‘Apricot & Blackcurrant Smoothie Pale’, ‘Cahsmere IPA’ & ‘Passion Fruit Gose’ and Abbeydale ‘Slam Dunk Da Funk’

Hopinions | Is it about time that clubs, restaurants, concert venues, sports grounds etc upped their beer game?

Links | Statictics! (from James Calder) | International Aliance for Responsible Drinking Report

 

Many thanks to Jaega for her time and for bringing along a couple of Wild Card beers for us to try and to James Calder for the passion fruit gose as a gift, this didn’t influence our thoughts.

Hopinions 71 “Sour Face”

This week, Martin makes Steve confront his nemesis as he takes him on a journey through sour beers.

Beers | Garden Brewery ‘Sour’, One Mile End ‘Morello Cherry Gose’, Mort Subite ‘Gueuze Lambic’ & ‘Oude Gueuze Lambic’, The Kernel ‘London Sour Damson’, Fierce Beer ‘Tangerine Tart’ and Elgood’s ‘Coolship’

Hopinions | Which term do you think is more alienating to the casual drinker?

Crimbo Crawl 18 | All the details can be found here

Links | Sheff Hopcast Half Pint Ep 3 | Don’t Call It A Shortcut

 

Hopinions 42 “Social Media”

This week we’re joined by Johnny from Beer Frontiers to talk social media and beer while drinking beers that have recently created a buzz on social media for one reason or another.

Beers | Lost & Grounded ‘Running with Sceptres’, Magic Rock ‘Salty Kiss’ & Brew By Numbers 10|10

Hopinions | Does social media…?

Links | Check our Beer Frontiers | Crimbo Crawl details | Magic Rock beers in M&S

 

Many thanks to Liquorice in Shenfield for letting us use their tasting room to record this week

Beer Nation 2015

Beer NationBeer Nation brings together the UK beer podcasting community for a collaboration broadcast and takes a look at the state of the beer nation in 2015.

Hosted by our very own Mark and Sophie from The Beertalkers, we also welcome to the table Roland from Steve & Roland’s Beer Podcast, Daniel from the Original Gravity podcast, Sam from The Beertalkers and Steve from the Beer O’clock Show.

In this special show we look back at the highs and lows of the beer nation over the past 12 months and discuss our favourite beers, breweries and events.

For good measure, we also manage to squeeze in a cheeky little review of Magic Rock’s ‘Salty Kiss’.

It’s Beer (Nation) O’clock!

Golden Pints 2013

Golden Pints LogoThis is my first time with the Golden Pints – I thought it would be quite easy but when you start thinking, and I mean REALLY thinking about each of the categories, it becomes quite tough and a real challenge. So after much thought and deliberation  and more than one or two checks of Untappd, here are my entries for the Golden Pints 2013…

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