A Woman’s Brew

We are back with our lager series and this time we bring you Japanese Rice Lager! With Tori jetting off to Japan we thought we would bring you some actual Japanese versions…. Listen to find out how that worked out! This style is pretty new in the grand scheme of lagers, so we bring you a little history and a little bit about using rice in beer and brewing. Beers we tried: Asahi Super Dry Akita Inu...

There’s been talk recently about ingredients in beer and if here, in the UK we should restrict what can go in a beverage called beer. Here at A Woman’s Brew we say why stifle creativity?! So, we bring you some beers that use interesting or even unique ingredients. Some of these beers we’ve been sitting on for a little bit, so they may be difficult to get hold of if you want to try them – soz! But...

We are delighted to have Kelly from Good Chemistry back on the podcast this week, chatting about their new beer All Welcome. The beer was brewed to celebrate the 2nd birthday of She Drinks Beer – a regular night at the pub for women who enjoy beer. To mark the occasion, Kelly and the team at Good Chemistry welcomed women from the Bristol hospitality scene to the brewery to brew a delicious pale al...

Stouts – for some they are a seasonal indulgence and others they are an all year round affair. But often you will hear in the craft beer community cries of ‘it’s too thin!’ or ‘this would be better if it was barrel aged!’ We are here to challenge this misinformation – session stouts are a thing and they can be just as flavourful as your 15% syrup thick beers! There is always a time and place for i...

Beer is often linked to music, pop culture and other interests that craft beer drinkers enjoy – but have you ever considered pairing beer with tarot? Courtney Iseman has been pulling tarot cards and pairing them with beer experiences for a while in her newsletter Hugging The Bar, which Jo loves to read. She’s now put her experience into a new beer zine - Beer Tarot: Pulling Cards, Pouring Beer, &a...

We couldn’t just tell you about Marzen, we have to do Festbier as well! The current favoured beer of Oktoberfest, we talk you through how this relatively young beer style came about and what to expect in your mass! Check out the rest of our lager series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmO-fOFdLEdqjHZZ2nkKqXCB6zg_UW2Jq What crispy bois should we investigated next? Let us know! Get in T...

We are a bit late for Oktoberfest this year, but we’d drink a Marzen all year round! Continuing our lager series, we’re moving to Munich and the beer festival of all beer festivals. Marzen was one of the original beers drunk at Oktoberfest, so lets look at its origins and what you should expect from the style. Beers we tried: Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe - Eucharius Marzen Kulmbacher Brauerei - Mönc...

During our visit to Unbarred to brew Like & Subscribe (available now!), we sat down with Emma Inch and Dan Philips to talk Social Media. You might love it, you might hate it, you might have a relationship status that’s ‘it’s complicated’ with social media, we all have our viewpoints. And the internet is the place to air those! We discuss our own relationships with social media, the platforms w...

Have you liked & subscribed?! We were given the unique opportunity by our friends at Unbarred to collaborate on a beer. Now, that doesn’t sound too unique, as you know we’ve done that before. However, this time we were collaborating with other content creators as well as a brewery! Pulling together all the people who love craft beer so we can support and champion one another, the new beer Like...

It’s our birthday!! Can you believe we’ve been doing this little thing for 3 years now?! Thank you to each and every one of you that has listened and watched so far. We revisit ice cream beer with three beers inspire by our fave dessert. We also look back at what we’ve achieved over the last three years and share what we are most proud of. Beers we tried for our birthday: Lucaria by Thornbridge Ch...

How are we ¾ of the way through the year already?! It’s time for our Q3 roundup, where we let you know how our beer goals are going! We’ve been to a few places this quarter and share our Bristol and Brighton beer recs with you. There’s some pumpkin spice latte chat (tis the season, jump 5 mins in if you want to skip it!) and we consider writing our own beer challenge for next year. Let us know wha...

We’re solving the mystery that is Mysterious Brewing, this week! We chatted to Ken, co-founder of the brewery about his homebrewing background and how the brewery began only 5 months ago. We were very lucky to try 3 beers from Mysterious – Citrus Triangle, Citra single hop pale, Black Light, a black IPA and Sitka, a spruce ESB. Ken gives us his best advice for budding homebrewers and those that wa...

Everyone has an opinion on beer, some of them more popular than others. We gathered some of your unpopular opinions about craft beer and share our own thoughts on the subjects. Do you agree with our thoughts or do you have any unpopular opinions of your own you’d like to share? Let us know! Get in Touch: Email: awomansbrewpodcast@gmail.com Website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk Instagram: http...

We are continuing our lager series with episode 3 looking at Bocks! There are several different styles of bock beer, so we look at all of them, and a mixed fermentation version for good measure! Beers we tasted were: Einbeck by Overtone Celebrator by Ayinger Aventinus by Schneider Weise Eisbock by Kulmbacher MF Bock by Ampersand And if you want to see us ‘poke’ these bocks, head over to our Ko-Fi...

Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer! Grab your favourite bone china cup – it’s tea time! We’ve talked about tea in beer, but this time we look at beers that emulate tea flavours. Tori gets educational and teaches us all about different types of tea and hits us with the fun facts! Beers we tried in this episode were: Tamaki II by Pomona Island Gratification by Bereta Brewing Co C...

Today we make a Brave Noise with Cath from Attic Brew Co. Attic’s Brave Noise beer is available now and Cath tells us why it was important for the brewery to be part of this initiative. Cath is also the founder of Brum Beer Babs and Brum Brew Fest. Jo has serious FOMO from nit being able to go to Brum Brew Fest – maybe we can go next year?! We chat about women’s beer groups and why diverse spaces...

Episode two of our lager series focuses on Munich Helles! Cleaner than a Czech Pils, and designed in response to their arrival in Germany, Helles is made to be drunk in quantity and enjoyed with friends. We look at a traditional version and compare it to craft, alternative and hotness versions! Our beers are from: Augustiner Pillars Siren Craft Brew Verdant Do you have a favourite Helles? Let us k...

In this episode we are being brave and making noise with Balance Brewing & Blending and their Brave Noise beer. It’s great to have a saison in the Brave Noise arsenal, a very delicious one too! We chat about why Will & James wanted to be part of the Brave Noise initiative and the changes they would like to see in the beer industry. We touch on the process they follow to make their wild bee...

Did you know you can make beer out of pasta? We didn’t, but Beyond Belief Brewing are here to show us how they aim to be more sustainable by using food waste in their brews. Christian talks about how the brewery came about and what their plans for the future are. If you want to try the beer, keep an eye on the Beyond Belief website or catch them at a festival soon! https://www.beyondbeliefbrewing....

Where has 2023 gone?! We’re in quarter 2 already so let’s check in on our beer goals. As always Tori is overachieving in our attempt at the Drink Harder challenge, but Jo is smashing her personal goals. If you want to have a go at the Drink Harder challenge from Katie’s Beer School, check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm2-oc-jr4d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link What are your top 9 beers of...

Welcome to our new series about Lager! Often people just ask for ‘a lager’, but there are so many different styles that come under the umbrella of lager. We wanted to share our favourites with you! We’re starting with Czech Pilsner, also known as Czech Premium Pale Lager. We look at the history of the style, tasting notes according to BJCP and share a few examples – from traditional to craft. Whic...

We are still being brave and making noise, with our latest Brave Noise episode! This time we welcome back Jon from Spookton to chat about his version of Brave Noise. We also welcome Amelie from Women in Beer to talk about how the proceeds from Spookton’s beer will benefit the beer community. You can grab Spookton’s Brave Noise here: https://spookton.co.uk/shop/ols/products/bravenoisecan And give t...

Breweries are looking for ways to diversify in the current climate, and one of those ways is hop water! It’s potentially a good alternative if you aren’t drinking for whatever reason – but are they as good as they sound? And how are they made? We try three different hop waters and throw in a Cloudwater soda for good measure. We try: Lupho Apricot & Citra Hop Soda from Only With Love Holy Hop W...

While at Bristol Craft Beer Festival, we were delighted to catch up with Kelly from Good Chemistry Brewing! As the owners of the beautiful Kings Head pub in Bristol, we chat about what it’s like to take over a pub and give it a new lease of life. Alongside the pub, Good Chemistry also have their own taproom at The Good Measure and Kelly talks to us about what it’s like to be part of the beer commu...

Welcome to the Will It Slushy podcast takeover! Yes, Tori has really taken that joke all the way with a YouTube channel and everything. Tori gives you her top tips for procuring a slushy maker and what she has learned from her experiments in slushy-ing. We take three different beers and try them in the slushy machine with varying results: The Mystery Tour by Phantom Brew Co Raspberry Gose by Yonde...