This week Martin & Steve are trying a brewery new to us but local to a listener and looking at where we are on our beer journeys
Beers | Bosun’s Brewery ‘Down The Hatch’, ‘King Neptune’, ‘Arctic Myst’ and ‘Tempest’
Hopinions | Seven Ages of Beer Geek – what stage are you at?
Boak & Bailey | The 7 Ages of Beer Geek
Summersesh | Details here
SDS Live | Book your place here
Bosun’s Brewery | Beers available here
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This week Martin & Steve recount their recent beery adventures while enjoying some beers from Utopian Brewing and pondering emerging beer trends in 2022
Beers | Utopian ‘British Pilsner’, ‘Dopplebock’ and ‘Olicana Altbier’ (collab with Orbit Beers)
Hopinions | Do you think there are beer trends starting to emerge for 2022?
Many thanks to Richard from Utopian for gifting us these beers. This didn’t influence our thoughts on just how great Utopian beers are.
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This week Martin & Steve are joined by Guest Drinker Stephen O’Kane to discuss endangered animals and outdated laws
Beers | Fauna Brewing ‘Pango Table Beer’, ‘Cheetah Lager’ & ‘Wild Dog IPA’
Hopinions | If you were interested in opening a pub, what would be the most likely thing to stop you from doing so?
Links | Follow Stephen here | Guide to Northern Ireland breweries | North Coast Bottle Share | Lacada Brewery
Many thanks to the folks at Fauna Brewery and to Alex at Right Hand PR for sending us these beers to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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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?
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 2021!
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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This week Martin & Steve are joined by Russ Clarke, co-founder of Amity Brew Co to discuss starting a brewery in a pandemic, cuckoo brewing and bre pubs
Beers | Amity Brew Co ‘Zest’, ‘Waterpistol’ and ‘Bessy’
Hopinions | Have you tried homebrewing? | If a beer is cuckoo or contract brewed are you…?
Links | Cuckoo, Gypsy and Contract Evils and Goods
Amity Brew Co | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website
Many thanks to Russ from Amity for sending us some beers to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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This week Martin and Steve are discussing what corkage means and the different ways in which we view it
Beers | Utopian Brewing ‘British Pilsner’, ‘Unfiltered British Lager’, ‘British Lager’ and ‘Dark Lager’
Hopinions | Are you happy to pay corkage on beers to drink in bars/bottle shops?
Fantasy Pub Crawl | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3
Many thanks to Utopian Brewing for sending us these beers to try on the show. Although they were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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This week Martin and Steve dicuss the current state of the world, outrageous Portman rulings and talk about which living people we’d like to buy a pint.
Beers | Adamns / Camden Town ‘Camden On Sea’, Beavertown ‘One Of Own Own’, Yeastie Boys ‘Cosmic Liquid Kiss’ and Camden Town ‘Beer 2019’
Hopinions | Which 5 living folk you’ve never met would you like to buy a beer for?
Links | Symmetry Brewing
Many thanks to Fergus at Adnams the couple of cans of Camden On Sea, Beavertown for the One of Our Own (and others) and Alastair from The Yeastie Boys Cosmic Liquid Kiss (and others). Although these beers were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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In a slightly different show to usual, Martin and Steve recreate the journey of Howling Hops Brewery from their humble beginnings in the Southampton Arms, to their first brews in The Cock Tavern to their Tank Bar in Hackney Wick. Guiding us on this journey is Chris Hall from Howling Hops.
Beers | Howling Hops ‘Pale XX’, ‘Tropical Deluxe’, ‘New Old London’, ‘Howling Pils’, ‘Winter Hefeweizen’ and ‘Well Shot’
Hopinions | Where do you feel the most comfortable having a beer on your own | Should brewery taprooms serve
Chris Hall’s | Writing can be found here
Many thanks to Chris and Howling Hops for the beers that we enjoyed on this journey, this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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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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This week we take a trip to the Essex coast and visit Leigh-on-Sea Brewery
Beers | Leigh-on-Sea Brewery ‘Legra’, ‘Brhubarb’, ‘Bohemian Pilsner’, ‘Crowstone’, ‘SS9’ & ‘Barrel Aged SS9’
Hopinions | Can cask beer be ‘premiumised’?
Links | Mark Johnson’s post | Leigh-on-Sea Brewery info
Many thanks to Ian for inviting us down to the brewery and for providing the beers for us all evening free, this didn’t influence our thoughts.
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