Friday 5pm

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...

It's a week of trying new things as Brad has a go at the intro to the podcast, and Jonny travels to Hereford to help with the apple harvest and get to grips with the world of cider. Hear all about what he learned there, before we dive into an unusual acerbic set of comments about our latest video, tasting the strongest beer in the world. Oh, and we give a little preview of tomorrow night&apos...

You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out.  This week Jonny heads down to Elusive Brewing, a microbrewery in Woking, England to meet founder Andy Parker. Andy is a bit of a celebrity in the homebrewing world, having written books on the topic and inspired hundreds more beer geeks to take up the mash paddle.  After winning £5,000 in a homebrew competition, though, he decid...

We're stuck inside as Storm Barbara or whatever it is batters our shores, but we've got a heartwarming and jam-packed episode for you as we dive into this week's video all about Pilsner, talk about our upcoming Oktoberfest live show, relive our late-night interview with Untappd founder Greg, and take a question all about matching beer and food/carbohydrates. Check out our latest vid...

Afternoon beer geeks. We've got a bumper episode for you this week, as we talk about our surprisingly controversial Thornbridge video, the joy of bus-ride pub crawls, our next full Bubble Episode and how Brad got ridiculed by Nick Cave because he got sunburned in Sydney. We also answer another fan question. I say answer it, we actually deflect pretty hard. Check out our latest video here ! Br...

We're back! And we're immediately completely and utterly off topic! Join us for a proper ramble about our exploits in surfing and snowboarding, and then lots of homebrew chat as we wrestle to bring the podcast ship back under control. We also take our first recorded question – which sends us on a reverie about the olden days of fermenting in caves and clay pots. Yeah, we're not sure...

It's the last Friday 5pm for a little while because Jonny is off to get HITCHED! We start by talking about that exciting development before moving on to something equally (OK maybe not equally, but still very) exciting in the second episode of our homebrew NEIPA odyssey with Lallemand UK. We managed to brew a beer Verdant's head brewer actually enjoyed, and have been emboldened to do lot...

Happy Friday beer geeks! This week we discuss our latest homebrew odyssey – this time using a dried version of Verdant Brewing Co's house yeast made by Lallemand. As well as exploring what's possible with amazing yeast, we also accidentally make a CO2 bomb, discuss how Punk IPA is underrated, insult Samuel L Jackson and do silly voices when quoting homebrewers. So we're winning frie...

This week Brad and Jonny are in the same room for podcast recording for the first time in...well...the first time. We talk about Brad's scooter woes, Brick Brewery being underrated, Jonny's amazing homebrew NEIPA, and the fact that GMO is fine. Totally fine. We're all fine with it. Right? Check out this week's video here , buy tickets to LCBF here and read Jonny's article...