Episodes
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omething new from the podcast this week, a news round up. We are joined by Paul Spraget, Head Brewer at London's Orbit Brewery to discuss this weeks bigs news headlines. We cover:
Fullers acquisition of Dark Star
http://www.originalgravitymag.com/dark-star-brewing-bought-by-fullers/
Northern Monks Crowdfunding plans,
http://goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2018/2/21/northern-monk-crowdfunding
SIBAs new marketing Code of Practice
http://www.siba.co.uk/2018/02/27/siba-moves-forward-code-practice-offensive-beer-marketing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SocietyOfIndependentBrewers+%28Society+of+Independent+Brewers%29
BrewDogs DogHouse announcement
https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/press-hub/doghouse-ellon
A review of the trends from this years Craft Beer Rising
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2018/02/26/The-biggest-trends-from-this-year-s-Craft-Beer-Rising-Festival -
Chris Martin is the Co-Founder of Seven Sisters Brewery and the Founder of
Stokey Beer Festival. He is also a full time maths teacher! We spoke to
Chris about the origins of Seven Sisters and what its like to set up a
micro micro brewery and craft beer festival. In the London market,
dominated by buy-outs and high growth craft breweries, there is still room
for a micro, independent brewery and craft beer festival to thrive. Driven
by passion and a love for the independent beer community Chris explains
what it take to juggle a lot of balls and pull off something special. -
Episodes manquant?
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We review the year in beer but putting our own spin on the Golden Pints. We
were joined by Beer Sommelier Lotte Peplow and Writer and Photographer Matt
The List to discuss 10 categories we selected to summarise the year in
beer. We covered Pub / Bar / Taproom of the Year, Best Beer Event, Beer
Retailer, Collaboration Beer, Best Marketing, Beer Writer, Beer
Braodcaster, Beer of the Year, Brewery of the Year and Person of the Year.
Our own reflections, views and opinions highlighted the diversity of taste
and experience and highlighted all the great people doing great work in the
craft beer scene. Hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we
enjoyed making it. We'd love to hear your views too so have a listen and
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Tiffany Cromwell is an Australian professional cyclist for the Canyon SRAM
team. She is also a Brand Ambassador for Blue Coast Brewing, a new craft
beer project based in Nice and backed by some of the biggest names in
cycling and motorsport. The South of France is known for its outdoor
lifestyle and attracts sportspeople from all over the world. A number of
them have joined forces to bring craft beer to the local community.
Tiffany tells us about herself, how she got involved with Blue Coast
Brewing, the people behind it and where their ambitions lie. This project,
with its location and people involved feels like a different project to any
we've seen in the UK. -
After the success of Beavertown's #BEAVEREX17 we decided to investigate a
European craft beer festival to see how it compared. We wanted to
investigate what makes a good festival, why UK brewers decided to
participate in festivals abroad, even if they weren't distributed there,
what European brewers thought of the UK craft beer scene and how they
decided on exact what to bring along.
Billies Craft Beer Festival in Antwerp had 50 of the very best craft
breweries from all over the world and utilised with an all-in formula like
Beavertown, which is unseen in Belgium and the Netherlands until now. We
were able to enjoy about 200 different beers each day, and the beers on
Saturday werr completely different from the ones on Sunday. We chatted to
some of the best brewers in the world along side some breweries not heard
of outside of their cities and towns. We hope you enjoy the listen. -
The multi-award winning Hop Burns & Black is one of London's pre-eminent
independent bottle shop. Jen Ferguson and Glenn Williams founded Hop Burns
and Black to turn their passion for beer into how they make a living. They
have created something special that many others have tried to replicate. We
sat down with them and over a few beers to hear the story of Hop Burns and
Black including what insights running a beer shop gives them about the
modern beer industry. They gave us an hour of their time to share their
story and their insights. -
The Great British Beer Festival celebrated its 40th year in 2017. It comes
at an interesting time both for CAMRA and the industry. CAMRA's
Revitalisation project continues while their membership continues to grow.
The number of breweries continues to rise, albeit beer sales are flat.
Supermarket sales are on the rise and US brewers are important more than
ever before. We hear from Tim Page, CAMRA's Chief Executive, Colin
Valentine, CAMRA's Chairman, Neil Walker from SIBA, Lotte Peplow from the
Brewers Association, beer writers Ray Bailey and Jessica Boak, plus we
tracked down John Waters, the only person who has volunteered at every
single GBBF. We explore the history of GBBF, where it currently stands and
where it may go in the future. -
Camden Town Brewery were a leading light in the London craft beer scene
known for their vibrate brand, lager-focused beers, fun events and great
people. After a hugely successfully crowd funding campaign things looked
up. Then they were acquired, by none other than the worlds biggest brewer
in AB InBev. That caused consternation amongst the industry where 'selling
out' is considered a fate worse than death. After the acquisition they
closed the taproom and it felt like they closed ranks. Until July 2017.
With the taproom re-opened they followed that up with a Open Day at their
shiny new brewery in Enfield. We went to the new brewery to check it out
and talk to people about their Camden Town Experience. -
Greg Wells Co-Founded the event with this partner Daniel Sylvester to try
create a great party with modern beer at its heart. We spoke with Greg to
hear about the history of London Craft Beer Festival, their expansion to
Bristol and Edinburgh and what it takes to organise an event of this type. -
The 39 Project is a brewing collaboration project hosted by Harbour Brewing
Company. They invited 9 immense breweries from across the world to Cornwall
over a weekend in June, put them into teams of three and made three
completely different beers. -
We sat down with Matt and Gordon in sunny Cornwall to hear the story behind
the founding of BeerBods, their growth journey, insight into the beer scene
and future plans including a new crowdfunding campaign (www.crowdcube.com)
to help take BeerBods to the next level
