The Hop Addition Podcast

02/11/2024

The Hop Addition Podcast is now live!
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9YKap_Cs4o

02/11/2024

Going live in 4 and a half hours! We’re joined tonight by Phil Nutt and Paul Malcolm from WHC Lab to discuss Pineapple Passion and their other fantastic yeasts, drink some beers the four of us have made and chat about many other things!

Join us live at 8pm on the Tube or right here on Facebook. Audio version to follow!

Oh, here’s a picture of the first beer I’m going to be drinking, sent to me by Rob Neale, that absolutely legend at our amazing sponsors, The Malt Miller.

30/10/2024

Just like Fred Durst sang, its been a while, but we've been working tirelessly to bring you guys this episode, live on Saturday with the wonderful Phil and Paul from WHC Lab as we discuss their new yeast Pineapple Passion (available from those wonderful humans at The Malt Miller

We'll be discussing a lot of other topics and also having a chat about their journey and their product portfolio at the same time.

8pm, live on YouTube, here and audio version to follow shortly now Tricky has almost cleared the editing backlog...

Be there, or be square you wonderful humans!

28/10/2024

That’s the audio version of the 100th episode of the podcast up on your favourite platforms including our website https://www.thehopaddition.uk/archives/podcast/episode-100-oktoberfest-and-special-guests

Celebrating our 100th episode with Oktoberfest beers and 2 very special guests from our awesome sponsors The Malt Miller. Join us as we reflect on the journey so far and our favourite moments on The Hop Addition.

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12/10/2024

The Hop Addition Podcast is now live!
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTCZe4N0x0

10/10/2024

For those of you buying beers as it’s coming up to Payday for some of us, those amazing humans over at www.beermerchants.com still have the discount code working on all full price beers, and some amazing savings on bundles too!

Use code TheHopAddition for 15% off full price beers!

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

09/10/2024

So, it’s taken far too long for this to happen, but Chris has finally got his arse in gear and put Persistently Bitter as a recipe kit on The Malt Miller. This is a banging autumn brew, and benefits from patience and some conditioning. Still time to smash this out before Christmas…

A drinkable and complex Bitter for you to home brew, which benefits from some patience and a little conditioning. Expect notes of Caramel & Cinder Toffee.

08/10/2024

Saturday sees us having on a brewery which impressed a few of us at LCBF with their beer Kapa! I know Luke Stevens is a huge fan, they are his local brewery in Kent.

Join us at 8pm while we discuss mixing traditional and new world hops, brewing in Kent and the origins and the story of Moot Brew Co among other things.

Get yourself over to www.mootbrew.co.uk to grab some of the beers we’ll be drinking on the podcast. Kapa, Puku, Underhill, Symphony, Sometimes and Gunslinger are winging their way to us, so grab a beer and join us for a chat with this awesome gem of a brewery!

Moot Brew co is a fresh independent micro brewery in the heart of Kent. We brew small batch, hop forward beer. Heritage styles to modern hazy pales. We've got you covered.

03/10/2024

So you’ve found a recipe and want it to arrive all ready to rock and roll? Hit up the custom recipe generator at TMM… They do everything and you just tip it into the mash tun with the water and make beer. Simples.

If you look hard enough on their site, you’ll find a few of our recipes including the oft lauded and utterly smashable Persistantly Bitter. Well, once Stiffo ticks the box… lol

Head over to The Malt Miller and grab some custom built recipes or make your own and have it delivered ready to brew style…

30/09/2024

With Dudes Brews – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

Properly surprised by that tbh, I was under the impression he thought I was a bit of a muppet… 🤪🤪

29/09/2024

What an emotional night! Wanna say a huge thanks to everyone who came to support us doing the 100th episode of our little podcast. The support we’ve had from everyone during our time doing it as always been top drawer, and you all should know that we appreciate it greatly.

Massive thanks to our guests last night from The Malt Miller, absolute legends, hearing about hop selection in Yakima sounds both amazing and daunting as hell!

Stick around cos we’re not done yet people, see you in a few weeks!

28/09/2024

The Hop Addition Podcast is now live!
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtlBRfU7NrQ

27/09/2024

So, tomorrow evening we’re hitting episode 💯, and if you follow our socials you’ll know what we’re gonna be talking about but what we haven’t discussed properly is the order of the beers.

If you’ve bought the Oktoberfest Mixed case from www.beermerchants.com we’ll be hitting the beers in the following order

Beer order:
Ayinger Festmarzen
Geisinger Festbier
Flotzinger Weiss Marzen
Spaten or Sneider Weiss

So get em cold and hold off on smashing them until tomorrow!

See y’all at 8!

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

26/09/2024

We need your input people!!!

We’ve been trying to put together some info for the podcast and while it’s easy when there are 4 of you chatting and reminiscing, but what we want is to know what you guys think!

Post below and let us know…

1. What you think has been the best episode we’ve done?

2. What has been your favourite episode as we realise the 2 may be different.

3. Who has been your favourite guest or guests we’ve had on?

Let us know below, you’ll get a shout out on the podcast and one lucky person may a little something in the post…

Help us celebrate 💯 as you will find out on the podcast exactly how big a milestone that is for us all!

26/09/2024

So as we approach the Centenary Episode on Saturday at 8pm, we can now confirm that we’ll be joined by the wonderful, epic, nay, Legendary Jo and Rob from The Malt Miller to delve into the past and look to the future of our little podcast.

Www.beermerchants.com still have Oktoberfest packs and if you use the code TheHopAddition you can get 15% of anything which isn’t already discounted so grab the Oktoberfest Mixed pack and drink along with us!!

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

24/09/2024

Beermas is almost here! Oktoberfest is upon us and Episode 100 is almost here! Join us Saturday at 8pm for a trip down memory lane and a huge after party where many beers will be drunk, songs will be sung, and the banter will be fierce!

If you haven’t already, hit up www.beermerchants.com for your Oktoberfest essentials and for everything which isn’t already discounted like the amazing 20% off mixed cases you can use the code TheHopAddition and get 15% off any full priced items.

Honestly we’ve failed if we don’t get them to sell out of Andechs again…

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

20/09/2024

Episode 99 audio podcast is now live where we discuss various improvements and changes we’ve been making to our brewing over the past 6-12 months sharing the perceived results. On top of that we chat through things we’re thinking about changing in the near future.

Don’t forget Saturday 28th is our 100th episode where we will be having a drink along with the mixed octoberfest beer pack at beer merchants. The Andechs Weiss is also now back in stock which you can get 15% off with code TheHopAddition make sure to get ordering before they run out AGAIN 🤦🏻‍♂️

https://www.thehopaddition.uk/archives/podcast/episode-99-problems-but-my-beer-aint-one

18/09/2024

Those epic humans from The Malt Miller are at it again. I’ve asked them to slow down, honestly I’m scared James Stiff and Martin Rake are gonna end up with even less hair, but they’ve only gone and sorted out 3 banging beer kits from the stuff they did at Love and Beer last weekend.

I have it on good authority that all 3 are bangers, but a friend who shares my taste in beers said the Track Brewing Co. Collab and the Helles were particularly good… I’m gonna brew the Westie in a month or so, so if you’ve tried that one at L&B, drop a comment and let me know some feedback on that one too!

17/09/2024

For those of you who have missed our last few posts on the socials, episode 100 is coming in hot! 28th September slap bang in Oktoberfest, so we’ve hit up our friends at www.beermerchants.com and they have been awesome enough to send us another discount code to save you some money on beers that are full price!

Use the code TheHopAddition for 15% off full price beers!

We will be drinking beers from this pack which is already discounted by 20%

https://www.beermerchants.com/oktoberfest-mixed-case

Come join us and hopefully some special guests as we talk about the episodes we’ve done, where we’re going and many other things!

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

15/09/2024

Episode 98 Audio podcast is now up where we discover why you should switch to glass for your Homebrew packaging and an in depth look at the impacts of bottling with PET. This is a super interesting podcast and one not to miss out on!

https://www.thehopaddition.uk/archives/podcast/episode-98-pet-vs-glass-bottles

09/09/2024

This is worth watching. The legends at The Malt Miller did some beers for Oktoberfest and this is the tasting and explanations. Absolutely worth a watch.

6 MONTHS IN THE MAKING 🍺

Our Oktoberfest beers which we're brewed in March are in the keg and ready to try - and we cant wait!

Over on our YouTube Channel today we're checking out how they came out and the results are both surprising and educational. This is the longest we're held a beer maturing ever and it took all our restraint and patience to not dive into these spellbinding lagers earlier than planned.

If you want to see how they 3 beers came and then head on over to our channel this evening and grab a beer! - https://youtu.be/tuVXgOpha6A

09/09/2024

So, we’ve done what Chris said we would and Beer Merchants have sold out of Andechs Hefe Hell. I’ve just spoken to someone from the company and there should be a refill of that particular beer within the next 10 days…

07/09/2024

Well, it’s that time of the year when we get ready for Oktoberfest, a time when we all crave those malty beers, Owen develops a strange fascination with leather shorts and Tricky mumbles about things not being a lager while smashing down Festbiers…

It’s also coming up on our 100th episode, it just happens to fall slapping in the Oktoberfest season and if you want to drink some German Oktoberfest beers with us, it’s time to hit up our friends at Beer Merchants who have been awesome enough to slip us a discount code for a whopping 15% off their none discounted range of beers. All of them. Honestly there is already 20% off their Oktoberfest Mixed Case. My order is already in.

www.beermerchants.com

The discount code is TheHopAddition.

Oh, totally forgot to mention, they sell Kloster Andechs…

Say thanks to them for being awesome and grab some beers to drink with us on our 💯 th episode!

Welcome to Beer Merchants, the perfect place to browse and buy amazing beers from our huge collection of craft beer, world beer and real ales.

07/09/2024

The Hop Addition Podcast is now live!
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5qa7xO7qvw

07/09/2024

Just a quick reminder that we go live tonight at 8pm for a journey through our recent process improvements and the next things on the list to try…

Join us for Episode 99 problems but my beer ain’t one…

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Brought to you as always by the absolute legends at The Malt Miller

Welcome to The Hop Addition Podcast. What started as 2 blokes in sheds talking about homebrew, while drinking homebrew has blossomed into something we're very proud of. We've gained 2 more guys, and we're digging into the things homebrewers are making and trying to pass on some useful information to...