Beer O'clock Show Podcasts

This week Martin & Steve are discussing the value of #beerpoints and calories in beer. The news is full of new releases and we might have discovered a beer featuring sabro that we actually enjoyed! Beers | Siren Craft Brew ‘Twin Flames (Classic)’, ‘Twin Flames (Nitro)’, ‘One Through Three’ and ‘Cacao & Cherry Broken Dream’ Hopinions [&#8...

This week Martin & Steve are joined by Guest Drinker and all round great bloke Rob Edwards to talk about Sabro, advertising opening hours and the world’s strongest beer Beers | Camden Town ‘Beer 2019’, Brew York ‘Red Panda 2020’, Cheshire Brewhouse ‘Little Saturday’, Kernel/New Barns ‘Multi-Grain Galaxy IPA’  and Kernel ‘India Pa...

This week Martin & Steve are enjoying beers from Neptune Brewery, chatting about brewery expansions and discussing keeping up with the Jones’ Beers | Neptune Brewery ‘Mosaic’, ‘Wooden Ships’ and ‘Scylla’ Hopinions | Has a hop variety ever changed so much it’s stopped you from drinking a particular beer? | Will the “rule of 6”...

This week Martin & Steve are celebrating four years of the Hopinions podcast and are joined by Guest Drinker Stephen Carter from the Points of Brew podcast Beers | Yeastie Boys ‘The Reflex’,  Neptune ‘Charybdis’ and Goose Island/Wimbledon Brewery ‘Obadiah Poundage’ Hopinions | Are breweries missing out on potential custom by only focusing on one [&...

This week Martin & Steve are chatting about the age-old tradition of buying rounds Beers | Wiper & True ‘York Street Helles’ & ‘Milkshake’ Hopinions | When visiting a pub with friends these days, do you still buy rounds? Links | SBR Petition – sign here    Many thanks to Alice from Wiper and True for […]

This week Martin & Steve are joined by long time friends Janice & Wayne Dunne, aka The Irish Beer Snobs, to chat lockdown in Ireland, human nature and festival-going Beers | Oakham ‘JHB’, Hobsons ‘Postman’s Knock’, Sambrook’s ‘Battersea Rye’, Tyne Bank ‘Silver Dollar’, Titanic ‘Stout’ & Bedlam ‘Phoenix&#...

This week Martin & Steve dive into some more offerings from Brew York while discussing whether becoming a member of CAMRA shoudl entitle you to discounts Beers | Brew York ‘Go Big and Stay Home’, ‘Muffin Else Matters’ & ‘Juice Forsyth’ Hopinions | Should discounts/vouchers be part of the membership package? Links | SIBA Digital Awards [&#8...

This week Martin & Steve are joined by Guest Drinker Jules Grey, owner of the Hop Hideout in Sheffield (among many, many other roles) to discuss the challenges of running an independent bottle shop through a global pandemic and successfully coming out of the other side Beer | Amity Brew Co ‘Red Lane’, ‘Sunnybank’ & Festoon […]

This week Martin & Steve are exploring the things that will forever remind us of Lockdown 2020 and also discus the latest developments in the Small Brewers Duty Relief Beers | Fyne Ales ‘Jarl’, Utopian ‘Vienna Keller Lager’ and Wiper and True Mixed Fermentations ‘Hinterland’ and ‘Narrow Sea’ Hopinions | When the dust settles on lockdown...

This week Martin & Steve celebrate the 8th Anniversary of the Beer O’clock Show with a very special Guest Drinker Beers | Sierra Nevada ‘Pale Ale’, Lagunitas ‘IPA’, Wychwood ‘Hobgoblin’ & McEwans ‘Champion’ Hopinions | Do you ever revisit what you consider to be ‘the classics’ & what are they? Links | Roger Protz on t...

This week Martin & Steve are enjoying beers from Brew York and chatting about those breweries which are sometimes overlooked, underrated or simply forgotten about Beers | Brew York ‘Kiwi’, ‘HHH’ and ‘Big Eagle 2020’ Hopinions | Do you feel some breweries are underrated & who are they for you?   Many thanks to Lee from […]

This week Martin & Steve are joined by ‘The Beer Wrangler’ Jonny Tyson as we chat about Jonny’s beer journey and the reopening of pubs in the UK Beers | Brasserie d’Achouffe ‘La Chouffe Blond’, Bières de Chimay ‘Chimay Blue (Grand Réserve) (2020)’, Abbaye de Leffe ‘Leffe Blonde’ and Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy ‘Trappist...

This week Martin & Steve get into the week’s biggest only topic – the reopening of pubs in the UK. One of us rants and we discover an amzing new mixer for gin. Beers | Signature Brew ‘Festival Saison’ and ‘C-Sharp’ Hopinions | Pubs Reopening Polls Links | Govt Guidance | Beer Nouveau view of guidance (thread) | […]

This week Martin & Steve are joined by YouTube legend Rob Derbryshire from Hopzine. We also discuss our beer journeys while enjoying 11% beers Beer | Duette Beer ‘Duette’ & Camden Town ‘Beer 2019’ Hopinions | Since you started your beer journey how much have you seen the beer landscape change? Links | Try Duette Beer | […]

This week Martin & Steve continue to discus the reopening of pubs in the UK and sneak in 2 back-door pilots for spin off shows Beers | Simple Things Fermenatations ‘Big Ideas 01 European Pale Ale’ and ‘Big Ideas 04 Foreign Extra Stout’ Hopinions | Do you think it’s too soon for pubs to re-open? Links […]

This week Martin and Steve are joined by another guest drinker Simon Dewhurst to enjoy some beers and talk about details on beer packaging and pubs reopening in the UK Beers | Anspach & Hobday ‘The Zest of Friends’, & ‘The Cream Ale’, Brewdog Overworks ‘Cosmic Raspberry’ and East London Brewing Co ‘All City Poet’ Hopinions […]

This week Martin and Steve are diving into four beers from Andy Parker’s Elusive Brewing while we continue to discuss how pubs in the UK may reopen Beers | Elusive Brewing ‘Overdrive Lap 18’, ‘Level Up: Level 22’, ‘Shadow of the Beast’ and ‘Altered Beast’ Hopinions | Do you think that social distancing can be truly […]

This week Martin & Steve are talking heritage beers and we’re joined by returning (serial) guest drinker Ruth Mitchell Beers | Cheshire Brewhouse ‘Disco Fruit Baby’, ‘Mosaic’ & ‘Govinda’ Hopinions | In your view, what classes a beer as a ‘heritage’? Govinda | Watch the video here SummerSesh | Session 1 | Session 2   Ma...

This week Martin & Steve are enjoying some refreshing lagers and talking about associations in (and with) beer Beer | Freedom ‘lager’ and Utopian ‘Rainbock’ Hopinions | How much do affiliations/associations influence your beer buying? Fantasy Pub Crawl Europe | Early Bird | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3   Many thanks to Freedom Bre...

While one of us nurses a slightly sore head, we’re joined by guest drinker Paul Grant to chat about our current fear of missing out on new beers Beers | SIgnature Brew ‘Nightingale’, ‘All Together’ & ‘Pink Vinyl’ Hopinions | Over the last few months how have you been feeling about new beer releases? Fantasy Pub Crawl […]

This week we’re talking about how our behaviours towards drinking and physical activity may have changed and how pubs may re-open in the future Beers | Beavertown ‘Nanonbot’, Cloudwater ‘Light Lager’ and Thornbridge/Hawksmoor ‘Session IPA’ Hopinions | Over the last 6 weeks has your drinking | Over the last 6 weeks has your physical activity...

This week we’re joined by our first ‘guest drinker’ Richard Taylor as we talk about pubs being closed and blending beers. We also chat about our ‘Mount Rushmore’ of beers. Beers | Anspach & Hobday ‘The IPA’ & ‘The Porter’ and Broughton Ales ‘Wee Jock’ & ‘Old Jock’ Hopinions | Which 2 beers would you...

This week Martin and Steve are discussing what corkage means and the different ways in which we view it Beers | Utopian Brewing ‘British Pilsner’, ‘Unfiltered British Lager’, ‘British Lager’ and ‘Dark Lager’ Hopinions | Are you happy to pay corkage on beers to drink in bars/bottle shops? Fantasy Pub Crawl | Session 1 | Session [&#...

This week we’re wondering what even is a bank holiday these days and talking about early beer of the year contenders Beer | Cheshire Brewhouse ‘DBA’, ‘Blues Breaker’, ‘Lindow’ and ‘Cheshire Gap’ Hopinions | We’re 1/4 of the way through the year, any beer of the year contenders for you yet? Links | Buy the NHS a pint […]

We’re back and prodcuing our first Hopinions episode via Skype! Beers | Abbeydale ‘Heavy Nettle’ & ‘Deliverance’ and Anspach & Hobday ‘The Ordinary Bitter’ & ‘The Sour Dry Hop’ Hopinions | If you could only spend your day in one, which would it be?   Many thanks to Abbeydale and Anspach & Hobday for sending us [&#...