Friday 5pm

This week Jonny and Brad filmed their first video on location since October, and celebrated by having one too many. They carry that energy over to today's podcast with lots of rambling about spies, bottomless lasagne and the benefits of slow mo for padding out short episodes. Finally, we take a great question about isolating and propagating wild yeasts! Watch this week's video here , buy...

After a brief rant at the absolutely STATE of the world, we enjoy an typically nonsensical chat about technology and beer, the art and science of homebrew, the cultural loss of pubs being closed, and something about fake Glenn's Vodka nearly sending Brad to an early grave. Watch this week's video here , see the Red IPA recipe here and buy the Five Points Cask Ale box here . You can also...

This week we look back on our biggest video of the year – Stout vs Porter.  We analyse the bits we got wrong, the bits we got right and whether a Stout can ever be referred to as crispy.  Somewhere along the line this turns on a lot of chat about Batman, and how he would have to monetise his work in the modern world.  Yeah it's one of those episodes. Watch this week's video here and buy...

You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month we chat to Jonny's favourite Youtuber, Alex – also known as French Guy Cooking. Alex has over 1.7 million subscribers who love his unique, obsessive and story-focused approach to cooking videos. Sure you get recipes and tips, but mostly you see a madman building beef-ageing machines, making his own knives and pans...

Phil Collins has haunted a few of our videos and podcasts, but never as much as he does today as we dive straight into Brad's bizarre dream about red plastic, that Call on Me Video, and which of Phil Collin's songs are least cool. Oh – we also talk about this week's 100k subscriber celebration video, and take a question about beer snobbery. Watch this week's video here . Brough...

This week Jonny blindsides Brad with a cracking question from the audience about his dream bar taplist. They also discuss the 400 comments left on their final World Series episode about the best core beers, the idea of serving cask on the beach in Rio De Janiero, and tonight's live show with the one and only Beak. Watch this week's video here , and enjoy that Shit Guinness Instagram acco...

This week Brad got up very early in the morning and seems to have found the BBC News most-read section, while Jonny got up very late with a Franconian Kellerbier hangover. They wrestle the train back on track to talk about their Best Brewery in the World video, go through the comments and take a question from a viewer about beer and pudding matching. Watch this week's video here , our video a...

Jonny's back on the booze, Brad is having out of body experiences and we manage a podcast that is mostly about beer! Join us as we dissect Jonny's Dry January video, some great comments on the role of alcohol in flavour extraction and why all DIPAs seem to be 8% ABV. Watch this week's video here and join the Pressure Drop live show here ! Brought to you by the team behind the Craft...

You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month Jonny goes solo as he interviews a hero of his, Grant Hutchison, the drummer of Scottish rock band Frightened Rabbit. The band produced several critically acclaimed albums but never quite got beyond cult status, not realising the impact they had on the world until Grant's brother Scott, the singer in the band, too...

We're off topic right from the start this week, covering off the zombie apocalypse before getting into this week's video about misinformation in the beer scene. We then take a huge question from a viewer about whether homebrewing hurts the industry before bringing it all back to zombies again. Happy Friday! Watch this week's video here , buy the Pressure Drop Taste Along Box here ,...

This week we talk about our surprisingly popular wit-based video, and get a history lesson from the comments that explains how dried orange peel and coriander might have ended up in a northern European beer style. On top of that we discuss the sad news that Achel is losing its Trappist designation – and suggest some TOTALLY workable solutions to the problem. Watch this week's video here and b...

Jonny is still struggling through Dry January and Brad is baiting him with one of the beers we picked as the best ever in this week's video. Join in as we discuss that never-ending search for the world's greatest beer, ruminate on the idea of brewery yoga and plot the addition of goats into the mix. We also take a question from a New Englander about American beer in the UK. Watch this we...

It's the first Friday 5pm of the year and we've started as we mean to go on – by jinxing the world with positive vibes and stretching the idea of a 20 minute podcast to its limits. This week we talk about WHY THE HELL Jonny is doing Dry January, delve deep into the comments on our Big In 2021 trends video, and spend an inordinate amount of time debating the merits of different Star Wars...

You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month we are joined by the hosts of the MFT podcast – one of whom just happens to be Kevin Baird of the awesome band Two Door Cinema Club. We spend a happy – and sometimes not so happy – hour debating the best Christmas songs and what a Christmas song even is. You'll be amazed by the variation in what we pick including...

It's the last Friday 5pm podcast of the year, so we've got a bumper edition as we look back on an amazing year's content, as well as our recent Live Show and Christmas Beer video. You'll also hear several Brad derailments including, but by no means limited to: The Munsters, murder, how to tell if someone is lying, melons, and the price of cheese boards. Watch this week's h...

We're getting to the business end of Christmas, and this week we talk about the second episode of our Mince Pie Dubbel homebrew video and just what went wrong. We also talk about the new British Beer Writer of the Year, and Brad tries and fails to make a Scotch Egg sound sexy. Watch this week's homebrew video here , read Lily Waite's best work here , visit our merch store here and j...

It's Friday it's CHRISTMAS! Ish. Join us for our first ever festive edition of Friday 5pm as we look back at our Christmas brew day video (mince pie dubbel anyone?), get railroaded by Brad's Cornish Brie, and take a question about artisan Snake Bite... which leads us down a whole new avenue of misadventure. Watch this week's homebrew video here , get the box for our liveshow he...

It's a wild one this week as Brad blames the bongos for his attempted murder at Glastonbury, we relive our favourite ever beer moments, and reflect on the impact of our last two videos all about cider. We also dive into the comments section to get your views, and tell you a little bit about next week's homebrew episode. Watch this week's cider video here and watch our Kout adventure...

We managed to find a new way to introduce the podcast! Kind of! This week we talk about our new merch store, how this week's video about the cider harvest in Herefordshire has got us all nostalgic about...well, being allowed outside, and then cheer ourselves up with some hilarious talk about methanol poisoning. Happy Friday, I guess? Watch this week's cider harvest video here , visit our...

This week we still have the taste of an awful beer from Wednesday's upload, but there's lots more important things to talk about like our huge new Patreon benefit and Brad's girly hat. Finally we take a question about pastry beer and whether we're all over it yet. Seems we aren't. Watch this week's Hypetrain video with Hudson Valley here , read Jonny's rant about...

You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. In what might be our best episode yet, we have a Zoom call with the inimitable Rufus Hound – comedian, actor, polemist and now DWARF BARBARIAN. We talk to him about his attempt to visit every pub called the Red Lion in London, then move onto his new obsession of Dungeons & Dragons – and how it has helped save him from persona...

It's a big week at the Craft Beer Channel! As well as talking about this week's video with Hop't Hot Sauce we launch an exciting new Patreon perk, announce our next live show and dig into our upcoming Bubble episode with Rufus Hound about Dungeons & Dragons – as well Brad's very strange connection to him. We also talk about temperance, the demise of Shelton Brothers and why...

This week it's a bit of a chaotic one as we catch Jonny on a shoot day with Hackney Brewery. We talk through our pumpkin beer triumph, Brad boasts about his beef bourguignon, and we take an involved question about getting into beer writing. There is also even MORE Spice Girl chat. Watch the latest  homebrewed pumpkin coffee porter video here , and register for all the info about Hackney'...

This week "Bob" and "Jim" dive into the manufactured controversy of pumpkin beer, and end up swimming through the back catalogue of Mel C. Emerging from that we talk about the circle of craft and how it always comes back to lager, the use technology in pubs, and brewers getting into fights on Untappd. Watch this week's homebrewed pumpkin coffee porter video here , our myth...

NEWSFLASH! Someone made an audio version of our book and didn't tell us! And they made it surprisingly sexual. Once we recover from the shock we talk about this week's video eating bugs, the fact that someone thinks we are in a cult, and the enduring success of our Strongest beer in the World video – before taking a homebrew question that we don't really have an answer to... Watch t...