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The Beerlonging Christmas Special 2023 | Beige Buffets and Steamed Up Windows

December 21, 2023 / steve / 0 Comments

This is the Beerlonging Christmas Special 2023

Mark, Rob and Steve enjoy some Christmas beers and discuss if there really are any good Christmas songs anymore, drinking on Christmas Day and we get tangled up in wrapped

We also chat about some of favourite beery things from 2023… Happy Christmas!

Beers

Simple Things Fermentations ‘Belgain Christmas 2023’ / Attic ‘Merry & Bright’ / Siren ‘Coldblooded Christmas’

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Credits // Original music by Rob Edwards // Intro by Dani Carberry // Artwork by Clayton Chisholm

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Beerlonging 08 | Social Moments

May 2, 2023 / steve / 0 Comments

This is Beerlonging

Hosted by Mark, Rob and Steve featuring beer chat, beery adventures, and reverbeerations. This month we’re talking about mental health and why it’s important to reach our and talk to people

Our guest this month is Greg Bateman

Beers

Mark | Brewshed ‘Kaiju’ / Kees ‘Smoked Chili Stout’ / Williams Brothers ‘Fraoch’

Rob | Whitby Brewery ‘Black Death’ / Burning Sky ‘Industry Standard’ / De RAnke ‘XX Bitter’

Steve | Pressure Drop ‘Fashion’ / Track/Burnt Mill ‘Sacred Vision’ / Burning Sky ‘Barley Wine’

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People’s Captain // Samaritans // Young Minds // Loose Headz // Get help here

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Credits // Original music by Rob Edwards // Intro by Dani Carberry // Artwork by Clayton Chisholm

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Beerlonging 02 | I Just Like Pubs

November 1, 2022 / steve / 0 Comments

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Hosted by Mark, Rob and Steve featuring beer chat, beery adventures, and reverbeerations. This month we’re talking about the growing number of breweries and pubs that are closing

Our industry guest this month is award winning writer David Jesudason

Beers

Mark | Brouwerij Van Viven ‘Smoked Porter’ / Torrside ‘Persist and Resist’ / Cheshire Brewhouse ‘Gibraltar Porter’

Rob | Play Brew Co ‘Dog Bite’ / Burnt Mill ‘Green Path’ / Brasserie d’Orval ‘Orval’

Steve | Two By Two ‘Whipper Snapper’ / Duration ‘Seeds Sleep In The Darkness’ / Greene King ‘Suffolk Springer’

David Jesudason

David’s work can be found here, and you can find him on Twitter and Instagram

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Intro by Dani Carberry

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Hopinions 145 “We Are All Beer Heretics”

April 8, 2021 / steve / 1 Comment

In this special release, Martin & Steve are chatting with Jamil Zainasheff, world renowned homebrewer, author, broadcaster and owner of Heretic Brewing Company

We talk to Jamil about brewing every beer style in the BJCP, starting a brewery and bringing fresh beer to the UK

Beers | Heretic Brewing Company ‘Shallow Grave’, ‘Worry’ and ‘Evil 3’

Find out more about Heretic Brewing Company here and try the beers for yourself from The Malt Miller here

Many thanks to Rob form the Malt Miller for gifting us these beers to feature on the show. This didn’t influence our thoughts on just how great Heretic beers are.

Outro track ‘Hey Soul Sister’ produced by George Bentall & Annalesse Giles

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Hopinions 128 “Four Candles”

September 3, 2020 / steve / 1 Comment

This week Martin & Steve are celebrating four years of the Hopinions podcast and are joined by Guest Drinker Stephen Carter from the Points of Brew podcast

Beers | Yeastie Boys ‘The Reflex’, Neptune ‘Charybdis’ and Goose Island/Wimbledon Brewery ‘Obadiah Poundage’

Hopinions | Are breweries missing out on potential custom by only focusing on one format of social media? | Do you think supermarkets selling craft beer is good for the industry?

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Many thanks to Stu & Kamilla from Yeastie Boys and Julie & Les from Neptune 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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Hopinions 126 “Human Nature”

August 20, 2020 / steve / 1 Comment

This week Martin & Steve are joined by long time friends Janice & Wayne Dunne, aka The Irish Beer Snobs, to chat lockdown in Ireland, human nature and festival-going

Beers | Oakham ‘JHB’, Hobsons ‘Postman’s Knock’, Sambrook’s ‘Battersea Rye’, Tyne Bank ‘Silver Dollar’, Titanic ‘Stout’ & Bedlam ‘Phoenix’

Hopinions | Would you go to a beer festival yet?

Links | Dublin Bar scenes | Research methodology |

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Many thanks to the folks at Best of British Beer for sending us both a Virtual British Beer Festival box to try on the show. Although these were gifted to us this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions 110 “Blending”

April 30, 2020 / steve / 1 Comment

This week we’re joined by our first ‘guest drinker’ Richard Taylor as we talk about pubs being closed and blending beers. We also chat about our ‘Mount Rushmore’ of beers.

Beers | Anspach & Hobday ‘The IPA’ & ‘The Porter’ and Broughton Ales ‘Wee Jock’ & ‘Old Jock’

Hopinions | Which 2 beers would you choose to blend and why?

Fantasy Pub Crawl | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3

Links | Boak & Bailey Proporval

Many thanks to Anspach & Hobday and Broughton Ales 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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Hopinions 103 “The Chase”

March 5, 2020 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we’re joined by fellow podcaster and all-round beery font of knowledge, Natalya Watson from Beer With Nat.

Beers | Broaden & Build ‘Jaunty’, Beavertown ‘Lupuloid’ and The Cheshire Brewhouse ‘Gibraltar Porter’

Hopinions | Is the constant pursuit of the ‘new’ killing the ‘old’ in the U.K. beer scene?

Links | Brewdog new branding in football kits |

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Many thanks to Terry for the Broaden & Build beer, Beavertown for gifting us the Lupuloid (and others) and Shane from The Cheshire Brewhouse for the Gibraltar Porter. Although these beer were free this didn’t influence our thoughts.

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Hopinions Tryanuary Special | The Howling Hops Journey

January 9, 2020 / steve / 1 Comment

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.