Beer, Together 🍺 – Finding what’s worth sharing.

Darbys Premium Lager has returned — and given the choice between this, Madri, Beck’s or Holsten, we know which one we’d order. But how much of the original Darbys has actually returned? Beer, Together is back with Darbys Premium Lager, a revived British beer name with roots in the Black Country and a history stretching back more than a century. The original Darbys brewing business grew into a subs...

New Forest beer festival, 40 real ales, 50 ciders and one very traditional country pub — Beer, Together is unexpectedly back. We head to the Cuckoo Inn for a surprise episode from its real ale and cider festival, drinking New Forest IPA and working our way through a proper old-school beer festival. There’s Rebellion Brewery's Bee's Knee honey beer, disappearing festival ales, questionable...

Mad Squirrel Sumo is a 4.7% hazy pale built around Summit and Mosaic — and tasting it raises a bigger question: can an independent craft brewery get into Wetherspoons, supermarkets and more taprooms without losing what made people care about it in the first place? Sumo is the beer we used for our never-released practice recording before Beer, Together properly began. Now it finally gets its own ep...

DEYA Steady Rolling Man has twice topped We Are Beer’s Top 50—but is this 5.2% pale ale really Britain’s best beer? Elton and Matt review its Mosaic, Motueka, Amarillo and Idaho 7 hops, its famously soft, pillowy mouthfeel, the Robert Johnson blues story behind the name and why different batches of Steady Rolling Man can offer a different drinking experience. Then DEYA faces  I Could Get Better At...

Can craft beer justify costing more than a supermarket can? Matt and Elton review I Could Get Better at Tesco for a Quid, the 4.5% Session IPA from Pretty Decent Beer Co. We taste the tropical mango, tangerine and grapefruit flavours delivered by Simcoe and Mosaic hops, uncover the one-star Google review behind the beer’s extraordinary name and ask whether supermarket beer can ever offer the same...

23 beer tastings and three standout craft beers: Anspach & Hobday London Black, St Ives Brewery Slipway and Oakham Ales Citra. Beer, Together goes live from Southwark Park for our most chaotic episode yet — tasting nitro stout, New England IPA, session IPA, pale ale, lambic, sour beer, wheat beer and more while becoming steadily less capable of recording a podcast. We begin with London Black b...

Fruli Strawberry Beer shocks two fruit-beer sceptics: could this be the best Belgian fruit beer we have ever tasted? Elton and Matt review Fruli, the 4.1% Belgian strawberry beer from Huyghe Brewery, made using wheat beer and real strawberry juice. Expect an enormous strawberry aroma, a creamy yoghurt-like flavour, subtle vanilla and banana notes, and a surprisingly balanced finish. We ask whether...

Double Diamond beer is back, and somehow the pint once treated like the enemy of real ale has returned as a surprisingly drinkable summer beer. In this episode of Beer Together, Elton and Matt open a 440ml can of Double Diamond, the revived 3.8% pale ale that claims to be “brewed as a pale ale, drinks like a lager, tastes bloody wonderful.” What follows is part beer review, part British pub histor...

Northern Monk Faith is in the glass this week as Beer Together takes on one of the UK’s best-known modern craft beers: a 5% hazy pale ale from Leeds with big gateway beer energy, soft tropical fruit, pineapple, citrus, stone fruit and a clean, gently bitter finish. In this episode, Elton and Matt crack open Faith by Northern Monk and ask whether it still deserves its reputation as one of the beers...

Seven Giraffes IPA from Williams Brothers Brewing is the focus of this Beer Together craft beer review, as we taste a Scottish gluten-free IPA from Alloa and ask whether this unusual beer is really an IPA, an ESB, a golden ale in disguise, or simply one of the most drinkable beers we have tried so far. This week’s episode explores Williams Brothers Brewing, the Scottish family brewery behind Seven...

We started with puckered faces and an emphatic “absolutely not”. We finished the can, admitted we’d buy it again and somehow crowned it our new Choose Your Fighter champion. This week, we’re drinking Vault City’s Hot Honey Apple Mango — a 6.2% smoothie sour combining fresh apple, tropical mango, chilli flakes and Scottish blossom honey. It looks like a defrosted ice lolly, pours like mango juice a...

France finally gives us a beer we actually enjoy — and then immediately confuses us by calling it a pils. This week we’re in Carcassonne, inside a 700-year-old fortress, drinking  Ciutat Pils  from  Les Brasseurs de la Cité , a small artisanal brewery based in Carcassonne. Ciutat is the Occitan word for “the city”, and the brewery describes itself as a family-run artisan beer producer reconnecting...

Matt tried Leffe Blonde for the first time in 20 years. It did not go well. This week on  Beer, Together , we’re on the Canal du Midi for the second of our France specials, drinking Leffe Blonde from a 750ml bottle and asking whether one of Europe’s most recognisable Belgian beers still deserves its reputation. There’s abbey history, AB InBev, monks, marketing, banana notes, clove, honey, Belgian...

This week Beer, Together goes international. Recording from a canal boat on the famous Canal du Midi in southern France, Elton and Matt crack open a bottle of  3 Monts Saison  from Brasserie Saint-Sylvestre and explore one of Europe's most traditional beer styles. What exactly is a Saison? Why were they brewed for farm workers? And how has a humble farmhouse beer evolved into the 6.5% French class...

This week on  Beer, Together , we crack open a West Coast IPA that might just reset everything we thought we knew about modern craft beer. We’re drinking  Outland Brewery’s West Coast IPA  — now renamed  Dead Reckoning  — a 5% classic that leans hard into caramel malt, citrus hops, and that unmistakable dry bitterness. But this episode quickly becomes something bigger… Have we overcomplicated beer...

This one wasn’t planned… but the best ones never are. It’s Elton’s birthday 🎂 so we’ve ditched the format, grabbed a couple of  Camden Pales , and spent 15 minutes doing what Beer, Together is really about — sharing stories. From how we met nearly 25 years ago, to a genuinely surreal near-miss story involving a pub, a bomb scare, and a missing phone… this episode is less about the beer, and more...

This week on  Beer, Together , we take on something completely different —  Fresh Pulp from Buxton Brewery , a 6% double dry-hopped New England IPA… and let’s just say, it divides opinion. From the first pour, this one is loud. Hazy, juicy, and packed with tropical fruit flavours — pineapple, mango, citrus — it’s a full-on fruit assault. But does more flavour actually mean a better beer? We break...

Bank Holiday Sunday. No work tomorrow. A 500ml bottle of  Adnams Ghost Ship … this could go anywhere. This week on  Beer, Together , we’re drinking one of the UK’s most recognisable ales — and asking a simple question:  is Ghost Ship actually good, or is it just the safest pint in the pub? Brewed in Southwold by Adnams, Ghost Ship has quietly become a staple across pubs, supermarkets and bottle sh...

Milk stout shouldn’t work in today’s craft beer scene… but somehow it still does. Sweet, creamy, and completely different to anything else behind the bar — this one splits opinion fast. Is it a hidden classic… or a beer that never moved on? This week on  Beer, Together , we dive into Black Sheep Milk Stout and uncover what makes it so different from the Guinness, craft beers, and IPAs we’re used t...

Is Neck Oil actually a great beer… or just the safe option? 🍺 In this episode of Beer, Together, we take on one of the most recognisable beers in the UK — Neck Oil — and ask the question most people don’t: is it genuinely good, or just everywhere? From pub fridges to craft beer taps, we break down what makes a “go-to” beer, and whether popularity actually means quality. We get into: * Why some be...

Is Thornbridge Jaipur still one of the best IPAs in the UK — or has the beer world moved on? In Episode 3 of Beer, Together, we dive into one of Britain’s most iconic pale ales and ask whether it still deserves its reputation in today’s craft beer scene. We get into how beer styles have changed, why hazy and juicy IPAs have taken over, and whether classic, bitter IPAs like Jaipur still hit the mar...

Episode 2 of  Beer, Together . Has craft beer lost the plot? 🍺 In this episode of Beer, Together, we get into the reality of craft beer in the UK — from the rise of BrewDog to what it actually feels like in pubs today. Is craft beer still exciting, or has it just become the safe option? We cover: * The rise (and shift) of craft beer culture * BrewDog’s impact on the UK beer scene * Whether mainst...

Every good story starts with a first pint. In our first episode of  Beer, Together , we sit down, crack open a beer and talk about why we’re doing this — from years in pubs and hospitality to the moments, people and drinks that stuck with us. We get into what makes a beer worth sharing, how our tastes have changed over time, and what you can expect from the podcast going forward. No scripts, no sn...