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Podcast about Craft Beer. I talk to guests from around the craft beer community - not just breweries. There will also be chances to WIN beer from some of the guests, so subscribe to be kept up-to-date!
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EPISODE 142: SIERRA NEVADA, with DESCHUTES BREWERY // I went down to Southwark Park in July for the London Craft Beer Festival, and sat down with the legendary Steve Grossman from Sierra Nevada - one of the most, if not THE most, influential breweries in the Independent beer world! I also grabbed a quick chat with Ashley Pond of Deschutes Brewery, an Oregon brewery with some great beers - one of which you can currently find in Waitrose stores. LINKS Sierra Nevada - Website / UK Webshop / Twitter / Instagram Deschutes Brewery - Website / Twitter / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 141: THE BEER PRIME HALL OF FAME - PART 2 // I hope you enjoyed Part 1, here's Part 2! For the podcast's 6th birthday I have pored over hours and hours of recordings to bring you The Beer Prime Hall of Fame! Any guest or company that have featured 5 or more times is inducted into the Hall of Fame and I play you clips of some of their best moments over the last 6 years! Members of the Hall of Fame are: - Andy Parker - Adrian Tierney-Jones - Matthew Curtis - Dave Hayward - James Rushforth - Colin Gilham - Jordan Mower - Siren Craft Brew - Elusive Brewing - UnBarred - Two Tails Taproom Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 140: THE BEER PRIME HALL OF FAME - PART 1 // For the podcast's 6th birthday I have pored over hours and hours of recordings to bring you The Beer Prime Hall of Fame! Any guest or company that have featured 5 or more times is inducted into the Hall of Fame and I play you clips of some of their best moments over the last 6 years! Members of the Hall of Fame are: - Andy Parker - Adrian Tierney-Jones - Matthew Curtis - Dave Hayward - James Rushforth - Colin Gilham - Jordan Mower - Siren Craft Brew - Elusive Brewing - UnBarred - Two Tails Taproom Part 2 coming soon! Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 139: TWO TAILS TAPROOM UPDATE // I catch up with Colin Gilham about their plans for a permanent Two Tails Taproom. Colin and Deena have recently been busy behind the scenes working to make this a reality, and Colin has some news for us! LINKS Two Tails - Twitter / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 138: BRIGHTON, WITH HAND BREW CO, BRIGHTON BEER BLOG, AND UNBARRED // I headed down to Brighton to sit down in the Hand in Hand Pub with Clark Left and Kate Hyde from Hand Brew Co, and David Elphick of Brighton Beer Blog. We talked about the brewery and how it started in the tiny local pub with a unique Tower brewery, as well as the new Brighton Beer Guide website, and much more. Then I caught up with Jordan Mower of UnBarred for a quick update on them. LINKS Hand Brew Co - Website / Instagram / Bluesky Brighton Beer Blog - Website / Instagram Brighton Beer Guide - Website / Instagram UnBarred - Website / Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 137: TAP SOCIAL CHANGE IS BREWING WITH FRIENDS 2026 // My most ambitious episode to date - 12 breweries to interview! I attended Tap Social Movement's beer festival Change is Brewing with Friends, and sat down with each of the 11 guest breweries and, of course, the hosts too. Pour yourself a beer, have another in reserve, and dive on in! LINKS Tap Social Movement - Website / Twitter / Instagram Attic Brew Co - Website / Twitter / Instagram Bluntock Brewery - Website / Instagram Closet Brewing - Website / Instagram Drop Project Brewing - Website / Twitter / Instagram Duration Brewing - Website / Twitter / Instagram Elusive Brewing - Website / Twitter / Instagram Indie Rabble Brewing Company - Website / Twitter / Instagram Pretty Decent Beer Co - Website / Twitter / Instagram Siren Craft Brew - Website / Twitter / Instagram Sureshot Brewing - Website / Twitter / Instagram Verdant Brewing - Website / Instagram Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 136: GARAGE PROJECT // What's this? A new episode just one week after the last one? Yes, a sneaky extra episode for you, as I had the opportunity to speak with Pete Gillespie of New Zealand's Garage Project, and couldn't pass it up. What was intended to tag onto another episode in a month or so, ended up being a great conversation about their recent UK beer drop and all that they are up to over in NZ. So, I thought "Why not drop an extra episode straight away?!" and here it is! LINKS Garage Project - Website / Twitter / Instagram If you can still find some Garage Project beers in the UK, I'd suggest you get some. Here's a few places that received some of the Garage Project beers... Online The Alcohol Free Drinks Company SANZA indiebeer The Craft Beer Cabin Beer Shop St Albans Dead Time Sober Sloth Left Field Beer MK Biergarten Stirchley Wine & Spirits Hops & Crafts The Malt Miller Cornelius Beer & Wine The Beerhive Wee Beer Shop Craft Republic London Battersea Brewery (Battersea) Caps and Taps (Kentish Town) Craft Metropolis (Brixton & Penge) Ghost Whale Putney (Putney) Hops Burns & Black (Peckham & Debtford) indiebeer (Holloway) Jars Bar (Market Yard) Real Drinks (Maida Vale) The Craft Beer Cabin (South Norwood / Bromley) The Rake (Borough Market) The Rusty Bucket Pub (Eltham ) waterintobeer (Brockley) South East England Beer Belly (Brighton) Beer Shop St Albans (Hertfordshire) Bison Beer (Hove) Brewery Market (Twickenham) Dead Time (Essex) Elusive Brewing (Finchampstead) Fuggles Beer Cafe (Tunbridge Wells) Radio Social (Essex) Siren Craft Brew (Wokingham) Sir Loin of Beef (Portsmouth) Twelve Hundred Postcards (East Sussex) Two Brews (Essex) 7000 Jars of Beer (Kingston upon Thames) The Greedy Banker (Gillingham) Midlands & East England Beer Hatch (Norfolk) Left Field Beer (Birmingham) MK Biergarten (Milton Keynes) Stirchley Wine & Spirits (Birmingham) Thirsty Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) Message in a Bottle (Lincolnshire) South West England Hops & Crafts (Exeter) Maltings Taphouse (Devon) Small Bar (Bristol) The Malt Miller (Wiltshire) North England Atomic (Yarm) Axis (Tyne & Wear) Chain House Brewing (Preston) Hop Hideout (Sheffield) That Beer Place (Cheshire) West Walls Brewing Co. (Cumbria) Rhythm and Brew Room (Blackpool) Scotland Cornelius Beer & Wine (Edinburgh) Hop Shop Aberdeen (Aberdeen) Inn Deep (Glasgow) Koelschip Yard (Glasgow) Salt Horse (Edinburgh) The Beerhive (Edinburgh) Wee Beer Shop (Glasgow) Wales Beer Riff Brewing (Swansea) Craft Republic (Vale of Glamorgan) The Bottle Shop (Cardiff) Northern Ireland Bullhouse East (Northern Ireland) The Vineyard Belfast (Belfast) Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 135: PALINDROME BREW CO // Learn all about a brand-new brewery based in South London, Palindrome Brew Co . They are so new they don't even have any beer ... yet! Find out what types of beer they want to produce, where you'll be able to drink it, the origins of their brewing kit, and much more. LINKS Palindrome Brew Co - Instagram Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 134: MAIDENHEAD CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL 2026 // Hear all the exciting news about Maidenhead Craft Beer Festival 2026 from organiser Dave Hayward. We talk about the breweries involved, including a colossal giant of the American Craft Beer scene! Plus there's a message from Colin of Two Tails Taproom, who tells us about his latest pop-up and teases news to come about a permanent site. LINKS Maidenhead Craft Beer Festival - Instagram / Tickets (don't forget to use code BEERPRIME25 for a 25% discount) Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 133: PIGLOVE BREWING // In this episode, I chat with Marcos Ramirez of Leeds brewery, Piglove Brewing . We talk all about his use of ingredients from Latin America, combined with traditional British brewing methods and ingredients to create beers with eccentricity. We also discuss their riverside taproom, brewing cask in its heartland, and much more. LINKS Piglove Brewing - Website / Twitter / Instagram Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 132: SUPERCUTE BREWHOUSE // In this episode, I chat with Hammant from Supercute Brewhouse in Brixton, all about their genesis, their branding style, and their ethos about beers and brewing. LINKS Supercute Brewhouse - Instagram / TikTok Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 131: KLAIRE ALEXANDER AND STEVE JACKSON // There are two guests in this episode - first up is Klaire Alexander , who is bidding to become the World's first Anosmic Cicerone. Find out all about her condition, how she got it, and a whole lot more! Then we've got Steve Jackson , the man in charge of Beer Guide London . We meet in two of the 298 pubs/bars/taprooms contained within Steve's guide to talk about what it offers, how to get hold of it, and what the criteria for an entry is. Then there's an announcement about two special "live" episodes to be recorded at this summer's Change is Brewing with Friends festival run by Tap Social in Oxford! LINKS Klaire Alexander - Instagram Steve Jackson - Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky Beer Guide London - Twitter / Bluesky Tap Social "Change is Brewing With Friends 2026" Festival tickets can be obtained here . Ways to reach me : Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 130: UTOPIAN BREWERY // In this episode I headed down to Exeter to sit down with Utopian Brewery's Richard Archer and Jeremy Swainson, and Beer Writer Adrian Tierney-Jones. We talk about lager styles, decoction mashing, the Reinheitsgebot, Cask ales, and a lot more. LINKS Utopian Brewing - website / Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky Adrian Tierney-Jones - Substack / Instagram / Bluesky Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 129: PILGRIM BREWERY // In this episode I sit down with Rory and John from Pilgrim Brewery, based in Reigate, Surrey. We talk about how Rory took over the brewery, which was established in 1982, in 2017; their two pubs, that complement their on-site taproom; and their month-long Ale Trail, which runs from 1st to 31st March every year. LINKS Pilgrim Brewery - website / Twitter / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 128: LALLEMAND BREWING // In this episode I have a fascinating conversation with Lallemand Brewing's Alix Blease, all about Yeast! Lallemand are one of the foremost providers of brewing yeast in the world, and Alix has some amazing insight into the organism that makes our favourite alcoholic beverages... well, alcoholic! LINKS Lallemand Brewing - website / Twitter / Instagram Alix Blease - Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 127: ART & CRAFT CR0, THE OVAL TAVERN, AND THE ROYAL STANDARD // Welcome to a new year of Beer Prime, and in 2026's first episode I travel to Croydon to talk with the landlords of three pubs in the city. We discuss their venues and the challenges that they - along with pubs across the country - face at the moment. LINKS Art & Craft CR0 - website / Instagram The Oval Tavern - website / Twitter / Instagram The Royal Standard - Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky MUSIC : Erin Knight
EPISODE 126: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2025 WITH INDIE RABBLE, THORNBRIDGE, UNBARRED, AND BRASSERIE DE LA SENNE // It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! So, why not delve into a big hitting Christmas Special? In this episode, I sit down and chat with Dave Hayward from Indie Rabble , Dominic Driscoll from Thornbridge , and Jordan Mower from UnBarred , as we go through the year in beer and peek ahead to next year too! Then I went to Brussels and drank lots of great beer, and whilst there visited Yvan de Baets from Brasserie de la Senne to talk about their modern Belgian brewery, and of course drink some of their great beer too! LINKS Indie Rabble - website / Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky Thornbridge - website / Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky UnBarred - website / Twitter / Instagram / Bluesky Brasserie de la Senne - website / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 125: COLLABAGEDDON 2025 // In this episode, I focus on the collaboration project that is Collabageddon, run by Elusive Brewing and featuring 11 other breweries each year. I spoke with Andy from Elusive, Miranda from Duration, and Brook from Brolly Brewing. LINKS Elusive Brewing - website / Twitter / Instagram Duration Brewing - website / Twitter / Instagram Brolly Brewing - website / Twitter / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 124: BREWPOINT // I went to Bedford to visit Brewpoint and have a chat with Tim Hickford about the brewery and its history - both in the recent years in its current guise, and their greater history dating back to 1876! Sandwiched between two sessions of chatting with Tim, I went on the regularly scheduled brewery tour, run by Tim himself. There's also an impressive live tasting of 6 beers in 30 minutes! LINKS Brewpoint - website / Twitter / Instagram Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
EPISODE 123: CONCRETE BLUES // I met Al Upshaw from Concrete Blues at Beak's These Hills Festival in August. I was bowled over by his beer, and asked him to be a guest on the podcast, which he agreed to. So here is the resulting conversation. Also featured on the podcast: A round up of best Beer books of 2025 for your Christmas wishlists Details of the beers of Collabageddon 2025 and where to find them Siren's latest beer/movie tie-in for Predator: Badlands LINKS Concrete Blues - website / Instagram Collabageddon 2025 - blog post on Elusive website Siren's Predator beer : Get 10% off of your Siren Craft Brew order of £50 or more! Click here and use code PREDATOR10 2025 Books: Tasting Notes - Pete Brown London's Lost Pubs - Sam Cullen Beer Breaks in Britain - Phil Mellows and Kate Simon The Meaning of Beer - Jonny Garrett A Pub for All Seasons - Adrian Tierney-Jones Beer Festivals - Laura Hadland Leave me a message on Speakpipe - CLICK HERE Email me - beerprimeuk@gmail.com Follow, Comment, and/or DM me on Twitter , Instagram and Bluesky
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