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

 

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

Beerlonging 14 | A State of Pre-Craft

 

This is Beerlonging

Hosted by Mark, Rob and Steve featuring beer chat, beery adventures, and reverbeerations. This month we’re talking about what we’ve been up to and looking at how beer is reverting to a state of ‘pre-craft’ status

Our guest this month is Katie Mather

Beers

Mark |  S43 ‘DCLXVI’ /  Siren ‘Fire & Stars’ / Wasted Degrees ‘Porter’

Rob | Siren/Five Points ‘Decades’ / Allagash ‘White’ / Indie Rabble/Yonder ‘ Passion Fruit Margarita’

Steve | Cairngorm ‘Gold’ / Williams Bros ‘Nollaig’ / Fuller’s ‘Vinatge Ale 2022’

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

Hopinions 131 “Beer Points”

This week Martin & Steve are discussing the value of #beerpoints and calories in beer. The news is full of new releases and we might have discovered a beer featuring sabro that we actually enjoyed!

Beers | Siren Craft Brew ‘Twin Flames (Classic)’, ‘Twin Flames (Nitro)’, ‘One Through Three’ and ‘Cacao & Cherry Broken Dream’

Hopinions | Do you earn #BeerPoints for exercise? | If breweries were forced to display the number of calories in their beer, would it affect your choices?

Hopinions 55 “Changes”

In this week’s epic show, we chat about great beers we’ve had recently, put things on lists, revisit the Ten Untappd Commandments and go back to some breweries and beers that we’ve featured before.

Beers | Renegade Brewery ‘Snake Oil’, Elusive Brewing ‘Invisible Wall’, Siren ‘Acid Jam’ & White Hag ‘Black Boar’

Hopinions | Has your use of Untappd changed since you first started using it?

Other polls | Pete McKerry | Greg Avola (Untappd) | Beernomicon

Links | Shortlist article | Bradley Cummings Manifesto | Cheshire Brewhouse crowdfunder

 

Many thanks to Matt from Renegade Brewery, Andy from Elusive Brew and the folks at White Hag for sending us these beers for free, this didn’t influence our thoughts. Thanks also to Liquorice in Shenfield for letting us use their tasting room to record this week.

Hopinions on Films | Die Hard

Buckle up, don’t forget your shoes and join us for another classic film. This time we get stuck into the ultimate Christmas movie, Die Hard, with this box of specially selected beer from Beer Merchants which you can order to drink along with us.

We chose what we thought was the best order for the beers, but as always, feel free to enjoy them in whatever way you want as we join John McClane in defeating Hans & his gang.

Here’s what Beer Merchants said about why they chose these beers…

Lost & Grounded ‘Hop-hand Fallacy’ |  Hans Gruber innit

Augustiner ‘Helles’ | Why are the baddies always German?

Tiny Rebel ‘Fubar’ | Has a grenade on it

Northern Monk  ‘Eternal Darkness’ | (spoiler alert) What Hans falls into

Gipsy Hill ‘Superfan’ | The lager that McClane (and anyone that actually listens to this) deserves

Siren ‘Kentucky Tickler’ | Yippee KIPA mother fucker

 

We were sent this box for free by Beer Merchants but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on any of the beers or on just how great Die Hard is.

Hopinions on Films | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Grab your hat and whip, get your adventuring shoes on a join us for another classic film. Beer Merchants have put together this Raiders of the Lost Ark themed box for you to drink along with us.

This time we join Indiana Jones on his first adventure as he travels around the world fighting Nazis and saving the world (and the girl). This time we chose a lottery system for the beers, but once again, feel free to enjoy them in whatever way you want as you cheer Indy on to victory.

Here’s what Beer Merchants said about why they chose these beers…

Hacker-Pschorr ‘Munchner Kellerbier’ | very German

Red Hook ‘IPA’ | Old school American

Flying Dog ‘Snake Dog IPA’ | SNAKES

Kona ‘Fire Rock’ | coz the Staff of Ra was hot

Kees ‘Barrel Project #9’ | Archived away like the ark at the end of the film

Siren ‘Liquid Mistress’ | Because Marion is epic at drinking. And kinda hot.

Lervig ‘Hazy Days’ | Just an amazing film beer

Vibrant Forest ‘Kaleidoscope’ | Amazing new British beer

 

We were sent this box for free by Beer Merchants but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on any of the beers or on just how great Raiders of the Lost Ark is.

Outro from The Human Tim, check out the full version and more on You Tube here.

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

Flavour of the Month 03 – Even More Jesus VIII

imageMarch’s ‘Flavour of the Month’ supported by Little Leeds Beer House is a collaboration between Siren Craft Brew and Evil Twin Brewing.

Even More Jesus VIII is an imperial stout that has been barrel aged in hazelnut liqueur barrels.

It’s flavour of the month!

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Episode 100 – Beer Geek Daydream

 

It’s episode 100! No, we can’t believe it either. And we celebrate by reviewing the rare Mikkeller/Siren Beer Geek Daydream white stout.

There’s some news, some messages from our listeners and a new contributor takes the coveted show 100 #prizelessprize

A huge thanks to everyone who has been a part of the show over the last 100 episodes, and has supported us – old friends and new. We wouldn’t be doing this without you!

It’s Beer O’Clock!

The UK Top 10 Ales

 

We have our first brewery to win 2 polls, running away with the votes on this one…

1. Marble Pint 3.9% ABV (bitter)
Former guest on the show and Manchester-based blogger Rowan Molyneux has this to say about the winning beer… Marble has been one of my favourite breweries since I started drinking beer, and when I moved to Manchester I was delighted to be able to drink in Marble’s own pubs. Zingy, pale and fresh, Pint is a stalwart of the Marble range. Full-bodied despite its low ABV, the grapefruit and lemon flavours sing from the glass and its clean, refreshing nature leads you towards ordering another, and another…. To drink this by anything less than, well, the pint, would be an injustice! For me, Pint is the perfect session beer.

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