We Are Beer People

New episode out now - I had a chat with Becky Whinnerah, co-founder of Count Me In Collective (CMIC) Did you know that fewer than 1 in 20 adults with learning disabilities are in paid work in England? That's a stat that Becky and the collective sets out to address and Becky draws upon her experience as a brewer, landlord, lecturer and parent carer. CMIC are doing amazing work, establishing a training brewery for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism. They're collaborating with local breweries and hospitality businesses as well as building a brewery at the Castle Tap where we recorded this episode. All this to improve awareness and understanding and create new opportunities and career paths. Have a listen as we chat with one of the beer people and - if you can - please follow, support and find out more about CMIC at CMIC.UK Available wherever you get your podcasts and at wearebeerpeople.co.uk. #wearebeerpeople #countmeincollective

OUT NOW🎙️🎧 RADIM ZVÁNOVEC ON We Are Beer People What's your favourite Czech pour? Here, Radim's chatting about the moment when the brew masters Thornbridge Brewery and Budweiser Budvar tasted their partnership brew, Czech Mates - Czech Style Lager brewed by Thornbridge. I had a great chat with the one and only Radim Zvánovec to find out about his journey into the world of beer and being Global Brand Ambassador at Budweiser Budvar. We talked ALL things Czech lager, side-pull taps and the importance of being a sponge! 🧽 You can listen to this podcast, and the whole back catalogue of beer people, at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk and wherever you get your podcasts. 🍻

OUT NOW🎙️🎧 RADIM ZVÁNOVEC ON We Are Beer People What's your favourite Czech pour? Here, Radim's chatting about the moment when the brew masters Thornbridge Brewery and Budweiser Budvar tasted their partnership brew, Czech Mates - Czech Style Lager brewed by Thornbridge. I had a great chat with the one and only Radim Zvánovec to find out about his journey into the world of beer and being Global Brand Ambassador at Budweiser Budvar. We talked ALL things Czech lager, side-pull taps and the importance of being a sponge! 🧽 You can listen to this podcast, and the whole back catalogue of beer people, at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk and wherever you get your podcasts. 🍻

OUT NOW🎙️🎧 RADIM ZVÁNOVEC ON We Are Beer People What's your favourite Czech pour? Here, Radim's chatting about the moment when the brew masters Thornbridge Brewery and Budweiser Budvar tasted their partnership brew, Czech Mates - Czech Style Lager brewed by Thornbridge. I had a great chat with the one and only Radim Zvánovec to find out about his journey into the world of beer and being Global Brand Ambassador at Budweiser Budvar. We talked ALL things Czech lager, side-pull taps and the importance of being a sponge! 🧽 You can listen to this podcast, and the whole back catalogue of beer people, at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk and wherever you get your podcasts. 🍻

NEW EPISODE - Hayley Pearce, Shift Brewer Siren Craft Brew. I had a great chat with today's guest Hayley Pearce and this is a bumper two-part episode, with part one broadly looking at the first part of Hayley's career and work Fuller's Brewery and part two as Hayley moved to Siren Craft Brew Hayley's beer career started with homebrewing with her Dad, before joining Fuller's on their graduate scheme, going through a number of different rotations, training to run the big kit, helping commission and run the pilot kit before joining Siren Craft Brew We cover the differences of working at a family brewer where you're "standing on the shoulders of giants" where beer had been brewed here since 1845. It's a big difference to life at a craft brewery founded 11 years ago that has a range of beers covering everything from west coast, to lagers, barley wines, Belgian beers, braggots, bitters and everything in between. We talk about keeping fermenters warm with ski jackets, the ballet performance of getting large malt sacks into the mill with a wheelbarrow and the different language of brewing that are spoken at different breweries by different people at different times. The episode was recorded at one of Hayley's local pubs in Staines, the Swan. It is a beautifully refurbished pub that sits on the bank of the River Thames, much like Fuller's Brewery, that provides many of it's beers and where our guest of course started their #beercareer, before heading to Siren Craft Brew. So join us as we have a chat with one of the beer people. Available wherever you get your podcasts and at wearebeerpeople.co.uk. Link in bio. #wearebeerpeople #beerpodcast #fullers #fullersbrewery #craftbeerpodcast #craftbeeruk #ukcraftbeer #sirencraftbrew

🎧🍻 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW 👇 Brian Spencer | Marketing Manager | Tap Social Movement Did you know, around 42% of UK prison leavers are reconvicted within 12 months?* It's no wonder really that reconviction rates are high. With just £76 in the pockets of prison leavers to get them on their feet, in accommodation, in work and then a lack of work and personal support networks, they're often not set up to succeed. It can be a trap that's hard to escape. In this episode of We Are Beer People I speak with Brian Spencer, Marketing Manager at Tap Social Movement to discover how - as a social enterprise including a brewery, bakery and hospitality venues - they are working to improve the prospects of prisoners and prison leavers. I also speak with Rory, who works at Proof Social Bakehouse, the bakery part of Tap Social Movement, and talk about how it helped give him purpose, direction and support. TSM and the people in it have also helped give him the base to work on his sustainable sports, activewear and street brand, United We Are. It's a great example of how a business that's built to make a difference can positively impact the lives of prisoners, prison leavers and society more widely. Oh, and it can do all of that whilst brewing award-winning beers and brilliant cakes, bakes and coffee. Listen from tomorrow, available wherever you get your podcasts and at wearebeerpeople.co.uk. We recorded this in the amazing Market Tap in the beautiful The Covered Market Oxford. *Prison Reform Trust - Bromley Briefings Summer 2023 #oxford #tapsocial #tapsocialmovement #wearebeerpeople #prisonleavers

New podcast 🎧🍺: Beer writer and historian, Ron Pattinson. It was great to be joined by beer writer and historian, Ron Pattinson, who has a wealth of knowledge on beer's development in recent centuries. Ron's a beer writer and a beer historian, well known for travel writing, researching, uncovering, deciphering and documenting historical beer styles and brewing practices. That's no mean feat, when you might have to navigate a brewery's idiosyncratic archives, take thousands of notes and photos and make sense of a large amount of data recorded and stored with variable consistency. Thanks to Ron for his time and a thoroughly interesting chat, and you can find all his information, books and blogs at his website, barclayperkins.blogspot.com. Listen to the podcast wherever you get yours and at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk - link in the bio. Cheers, Rob #wearebeerpeople #beerpeople #oneofthebeerpeople #beerhistory #beerhistorian #beerwriter #historyofbeer #historicalbeer #beerarchives #barclayperkins #newpodcast #shutupaboutbarclayperkins #ronpattinson #podcast #beerpodcast

🎧 New episode with Alex Rowley @thehivecrowthorne. I speak with Alex, co-founder of Thehivecrowthorne about setting up and running the people and pet-friendly craft beer and coffee shop. A home for all things beer, coffee and cheese, Alex and his wife, Emma, created #TheHive to feature all the things they love. 🍺☕🧀 Popular with walkers, runners, cyclists, pets and people from the local area and beyond, Emma and Alex have truly created a hive for communities. 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️🚴‍♀️🐕 🎧 Podcast available today - listen wherever you get your podcasts and at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk (link in bio). So grab a beverage, a craft beer, a coffee; some cheese, a pastry, a charcuterie board (maybe not all at once) and join us as we have a chat with one of the beer people. #beerpodcast #wearebeerpeople #thehive #crowthorne #petfriendlyberkshire #dogfriendlyberkshire #dogfriendlypub #dogfriendlypubs #dogfriendlycoffeeshop #craftbeerpodcast #craftbeercoffeeshop #thehivecrowthorne

⏭️ Coming up in next week's episode, we'll be speaking with Alex Rowley, co-founder of Thehivecrowthorne about setting up and running the craft beer and coffee shop. A home for all things beer, coffee, cheese, cider, rum and gin, Alex and his wife, Emma, created The Hive to feature all the things they love. Popular with walkers, runners, cyclists, pets and people from the local area and beyond, Emma and Alex have truly created a hive of community. 🎧 Podcast available from Friday 19th January at www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk and wherever you listen to your podcasts. #podcast #beerpodcast #cafe #coffee #beer #cheese #petfriendly #dogfriendly #crowthorne #berkshire #dogfriendlyberkshire #dogfriendlycrowthorne #wearebeerpeople #thehive #thehivecrowthorne #community #newpodcast

👉⛵🎧🍻 New episode: I really enjoyed chatting with Sonja Mitchell Managing Director @jumpshipbeer about her journey of jumping ship from the day job to set up an alcohol-free brewery. Sonja, an avid sailor, set sail into uncharted waters in 2019 - jumping ship from her day job into the unknown on a journey to create alcohol free beers that matched up to the beers she enjoyed so much - launching Scotland's only woman-owned non-alcoholic brewing company Fast forward to today and the brewery now has a small crew of shipmates, an award-winning 0.5% lager, Yardarm, and is opening a brewery in Midlothian, Scotland. DISCOUNT CODE: Looking to try out the @jumpshipbeer range? The good folk at Jump Ship have kindly provided @wearebeerpeople podcast listeners with a discount code so you can get 10% off the webshop during January - simply visit jumpship.beer/pages/shop and use the code BEERPEOPLE10. Enjoy! So, pick up a beer (alcohol-free or otherwise) as we cast off and have a chat with one of the beer people. 🛟🌊 #newpodcast #beerpodcast #podcastepisode #enterprise #scotland @scottishedge #scottishenterprise #jumpship #jumpshipbeer #yardarm #shoreleave #jackstaff #chuckleberrysour #flyingcolours #sailing #sail #sailor #entrepreneur #newbusiness #noalcohol #lowalcohol #tryanuary #dryjanuary #shipfaced #alcoholfree #brewery #newbrewery #2024 #wearebeerpeople

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year! Thank you for listening and joining me as I chat with the beer people!

👉🎧🍻 New episode: We speak with Matt Curtis - beer journalist, author, writer, photographer, and Pellicle Mag editor. Available now wherever you listen to your podcasts, and at: www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk We chat about lots; including how Matt got into beer writing, the ups and downs of freelancing, beer sparkler tattoos, and his latest book with CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale, "Manchester's Best Beer Pubs and Bars." And we chat in The Prince, Wood Green; one of Matt's regular visits when he lived in London, enjoying a couple of cracking cask pints of Duration Brewing #AnotherDayDone and The Five Points Brewing Company #RailwayPorter. So, grab a seasonally-appropriate beverage and join me as I have a chat with one of the beer people. #newpodcast #beerpodcast #manchester #woodgreen #wearebeerpeople #pellicle #beerwriter #beerphotographer #camra

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👂🍻 Join me this Friday for an exciting conversation with Matt Curtis, an avid beer lover and the editor of pellicle magazine, book author, beer writer, journalist and photographer. We'll dive deep into his fascinating journey in the world of beer writing and we'll also discuss his latest @campaignforrealale book, "Manchester's Best Beer Pubs And Bars".

🎧👉 NEW PODCAST EPISODE: We speak with Jamie Duffield (JD). Visit www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk for all the details for listening wherever you find your podcasts and signing up for monthly updates. JD is a man of many interests and, luckily for us all, beer is one of them. He's the canning line lead Siren Craft Brew and partly responsible for their brilliant smoked porter #FireAndStars. His beer history includes being Head Brewer at Wild Weather, designing inspiring beer recipes and leading the charge for Spruce Beer; assistant brewer at Bingham's; managing the cellar @the_castle_tap and behind the bar at The Alehouse. Please note, this episode does include one of JD's interests - the accordion. (Which I may have asked him to bring along to the pub). 🪗 We recorded this podcast in Siren Craft Brew's beautiful countryside pub The George and Dragon - thank you to the team for hosting us and stocking up the woodfire. #newpodcast #podcastepisode #newpod #podcast #wearebeerpeople #brewer #brewing #canning #beerproduction #beerpackaging #packagingbeer

New podcast epsiode out on Friday with JD, Canning Line Lead at Siren Craft Brew

🎧👉 New pod on the way this Friday, we speak with Jamie Duffield (JD). Visit www.wearebeerpeople.co.uk for all the details for listening wherever you find your podcasts and to sign up for monthly updates. JD is a man of many interests and, luckily for us all, beer is one of them. He's the canning line lead @sirencraftbrew and partly responsible for their brilliant smoked porter #FireAndStars. His beer history includes being Head Brewer at Wild Weather, designing inspiring beer recipes and leading the charge for Spruce Beer; assistant brewer at Bingham's; managing the cellar Castle Tap and behind the bar at The Alehouse. Please note, this episode does include one of JD's interests - the accordion. 🪗 (Which I may have asked him to bring along to the pub). We recorded this podcast in Siren's beautiful countryside pub George And Dragon, Swallowfield - thank you to the team for hosting us and stocking up the woodfire. #newpodcastepisode #podcast #newpodcast #canning #wearebeerpeople #brewery #beerlovers #beers #beerproduction #beerpackaging #packagingbeer #accordion

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NEW EPISODE TODAY🎧: What do you think? Does the term, "sour," work as the first descriptor for what might otherwise be described as fruit beers? 👉 In today's podcast, I'm delighted to be chatting with Andy Barnes, who co-owns @dolphinbrewery with his wife Laura. And they’ve built up quite the reputation; crafting delicious sour/fruit beers, that blend seasonal fruits and combine yeasts and bacteria to create unique brews, in perfectly packaged bottles. Andy describes how his hobby of homebrewing got out of control - after winning a homebrew competition he went from brewing 25 litre batches to transforming his garage into a brewery. We recorded the conversation in the hidden gem that is the delightful cellar of the Three Guineas Pub by Reading Railway Station.

🎧 New episode: available where you get your podcasts and in the link in our bio. Dave Hayward | Bottleshop & Brewery Co-Founder | A Hoppy Place and Indie Rabble in Windsor and Maidenhead. I visited Indie Rabble in #Windsor, part of the burgeoning #WindsorBeerMile with Two Flints Brewery and @Windsor & Eton Brewery and had a great chat with Dave Hayward, who, together with his wife, Naomi, co-founded A Hoppy Place and Indie Rabble. Dave and Naomi have a great story of following their passion to bring a better balance to their lives. And over the past four years they've built a happy, hoppy rabble of community all around beer, pubs, bottleshops - and now a brewery and taproom. We recorded the conversation sat in their bright and colourful taproom in the railway arch underneath Windsor & Eton Central railway station on a Thursday night, with the burble of conversation behind us and the occasional contribution from Simcoe and Copper, as they played. 🐕 Definitely recommend a visit if you're in Windsor and great to hear how the two breweries, next door to each other collaborate to make a great experience and even have a glass amnesty between the two premises. https://buff.ly/4afaPXs #WeAreBeerPeople #NewPodcast #newpodcastepisode #windsor #windorcastle #visitwindsor

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👉 NEW EPISODE: In Episode 3, we have a great conversation with Ruth Mitchell, Managing Director at Elusive Brewing. Ruth has a huge amount of experience across a variety of roles, working at Adnam's, West Berkshire Brewery, Utopian Brewing, and of course Elusive to name a few. On top of that, Ruth’s a qualified beer sommelier, a certified cicerone and all-round great person. So who better to talk with about beer and what it’s like working in beer and brewing? We discuss how Ruth got into beer and her journey in the beer world; her role as MD at Elusive; some of the current headwinds facing breweries, bottleshops, pubs and workers in the industry; creating a welcoming and inclusive business; and exciting homebrew collaborations planned for International Women's Day 2024. We met at their taproom on the Hogwood Industrial Estate in Finchampstead, just outside Reading and a few moment's walk from Siren Craft Brew. Elusive have just acquired a Unit next to their current space meaning they can expand their brewery and taproom experience and we recorded the episode in their new office. A huge thank you to you for her time, a great conversation and hosting!

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Nobody leaves Prize Old Ale in the corner... I'm delighted to share our very first episode with a guest who tells the incredible story of how - with a passion for historic beers, the support of others and a good deal of chance - a batch of Gale's Prize Old Ale which had been last brewed in 2006 was safeguarded, blended, brewed and released in 2022. Today we sit down and chat with Henry Kirk, a much-celebrated brewer and a big proponent of well-brewed beers rooted in history. Henry's brewed at Fuller's Brewery and Dark Star amongst others and is now setting up his own brewery project, Sunken Knave, and brewing at Hand Brew CO So join us as we discuss Henry's journey into beer, the importance of time, drinking in dressing gowns, securing Gale’s Prize Old Ale and future plans with Sunken Knave. Bottles of this year's release of Prize Old Ale are available to buy currently on the Dark Star website. #WeAreBeerPeople #PrizeOldAle

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Today, I'm my own guest on the very first episode of #WeAreBeerPeople. That's right, it's me. In this shorter episode, I introduce the podcast and myself before the first episodes with actual guests land tomorrow. And I try to stand up why the world needs yet another podcast... Listen and follow here using the link in the bio🎧🍺(or this link: https://buff.ly/4afaPXs ❓What questions do you want answered and who are the beer people, or areas/roles in beer you'd like to hear more about?