Rhythm & Brews

Luke and Andrew are joined by their long-suffering partners, Nicole and Sue, to discuss Charlie Puth, our beer matching process and what's next for Rhythm & Brews (we're opening a theme park) Spaten - Oktoberfestbier (Oktoberfest lager) paired with Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline The White Hag - Púca Pineapple (Dry Hopped Lemon Sour with Pineapple) paired with Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves th...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Francesca Slattery, Sales and Beer Experience Manager at Neptune Brewery, to discuss getting A Career In Beer By The End Of The Year™️, managing beer experiences successfully, Eddie Vedder's voice and the c-word (... *whispers* Coldplay) Beers include: Neptune Brewery - Melissa Cöle-sch (Kölsch style lager) paired with   Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbr...

Luke and Andrew have a special guest-free episode to talk about getting IDed, beer festivals, blending beers and cryo hops.  Beers include: Wildflower - St Walter 2020: Black Muscat (Wild Australian Ale) paired with Frankie Rose - Apples for the Sun (The Go! Team Remix) Rodenbach - Grand Cru (Flanders Red) paired with Fascinating Aida - Look Mummy, No Hands Additional beers include Coast Sabro IPA...

Luke and Andrew sit down with beer blogger and king of smoke, Mark Johnson , to discuss mental health, popping your grains of paradise, Taylor Swift and beer that smells like fart.  Beers include: Track Brewing - Sonoma (IPA) paired with  AZ feat Nas - The Essence Torrside Brewing - Borderlines (Smoked Dunkel) paired with Lianne Le Havas - Au Cinema Thirst Class Ale - American Brown Ale (American...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Emma Inch , podcaster, writer, beer nerd and rockabilly DJ extraordinaire, to drink some Beak Brewery beers and chat about queer pubs, rockabilly vs rock n roll and whether Harry Styles is a nice person or not.  Beers include: Beak Brewery - Cliff (Saison) paired with Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time Beak Brewery - Parade (IPA) paired with  Wayne Walker - All I Ca...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Laura Rangeley from Abbeydale Brewery, Does It Shandy and Sheffield Hopcast to discuss KT Tunstall, shandies and Shefferhoffers. Beers include:  Abbeydale Brewery -  Unbeliever (Grapefruit Radler) paired with Fightmilk - Overbite Abbeydale Brewery -  Indulgence (Raspberry Muffin Beer) paired with   Paramore - Still into You Abbeydale Brewery - Deliverance (Double West...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Stacey Ayeh, head brewer at Rock Leopard Brewing Co to talk about industry gatekeeping, hair metal and how to look around once in a while to make sure not everyone around you looks exactly like you. Beers include: Rock Leopard Brewing Co - Paper Scissors  (NEIPA) paired with Arlo Parks - Caroline Rock Leopard Brewing Co - Are We Human or Are We Chancer? (IPA) paired w...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Julie and Fergus Fitzgerald from Adnams to discuss all things Ghost Ship Love (or not), Grunge Vikings, sitting on walls, fresh hops and the top 10 pigeon songs of all time. Beers include: Adnams Brewery  - Red Phantom (Rye IPA) paired with   Modern Baseball - Your Graduation Adnams Brewery - Wild Hop (Green Hop Amber Ale) paired with The Frames - Star Star/Pure Imagi...

Luke and Andrew sit down with beer educator, cicerone and sommelier, Natalya Watson and three Burning Sky beers, to discuss beer school, microbiology, dancing to pop music and how terrible raisins are. Beers include: Burning Sky  - Pretty Mess (IPA) paired with Illuminati Hotties - will i get cancelled if i write a song called, “if you were a man you’d be so cancelled Burning Sky - Petite Saison (...

Luke and Andrew do a special #tryanuary special (double special) and pair up beers from UK breweries we've never tried before! We also brainstorm better names for Tryanuary (personal favourite: Sweet Fanuary Adams), and Andrew dumps on Christian Lee Hutson for no reason. Beers and Music include: Rock Leopard Brewing Co - Are We Human or Are We Chancer (Session NEIPA) paired with Fridge Poetry (fea...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Ed Cosens, venerable solo artist, guitar-slinger-extraordinaire in Reverend & The Makers, and occasional guest brewer at Thornbridge Brewery. They talk about COVID's effect on the music industry, what pillowy means and weirdly agree on all the song choices (it will never happen again). Beers include: Thornbridge Brewery - Kasperia (Single Hop Pale Ale) Thornbridge Bre...

A special feed drop! Luke and Andrew took part in an amazing panel discussion all about the state of beer in 2020 with the likes of Ferment Radio, Beer with Nat, Beers Without Frontiers, Sheffield Hopcast, Men Beerhaving Badly, and of course, Beer O Clock Show - Hopinions, who organised the whole thing.  Sit back with a case (it's a long one) and enjoy hearing the cream of the UK beer podcasting c...

Luke and Andrew sit down with 4 (or 6) Christmas beers, a crackling fire and freeze their bollocks off. They also discuss Christmas music, what an ESB should be and why nothing should be put to a public poll. Beers include: Brew York - Fairytale of Brew York 2020 (Peanut Butter and Maple Stout) Signature Brew - Bells End (Extra Special Bitter) SALT Beer Factory - Stingo Bells (Pannetonne Stingo) L...

Luke and Andrew sit down to discuss what's going to happen in beer for 2021, from alligators driving monster trucks to 500 year old beer that was actually started in 2007.  Beers include: Schöfferhofer - Schöfferhofer Grapefruit (Mixed Grapefruit Wheat Beer) Yeastie Boys - Cuddle Party (Nourishing Ale) Alphabet Brew Co - Florida Nan (Vegan Key Lime Milkshake IPA) S43 - Such Great Heights (TIPA) Th...

Andrew and Luke are joined by Dan W De Bechevel, founder of Wander Beyond Brewing out of Manchester, where they discuss monster beers, adjuncts, 15% lagers and the criminal concept of not playing music while brewing.  Beers include: Wander Beyond - Imperial Anura (Imperial Berliner Weisse) Wander Beyond - Octopod (Imperial Milkshake IPA) Wander Beyond - Deep Bloom (Imperial Black Milkshake IPA) Wa...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Paul Spraget, head brewer at Orbit Beers, for a bumper episode covering off experimentation, Tay Tay and liking 'proper metal'.  Beers include: Orbit Beers - Nelson Pale Ale (NZ Pale Ale) Orbit Beers - Munich Dunkel (Munch Dunkel) Orbit Beers - Peel (Belgian Pale Ale) Orbit Beers - Tzatziki Sour (Cucumber & Mint Sour) Theme tune is I Can Hew by Mawkin, from their albu...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Ben Landsberry, who brews at The Kernel, to discuss ripe fruit, making the same beers over and over again and how Rebecca Black's Friday is one of the greatest songs of all time.   nb. Apologies for the audio quality on this one! We definitely won't be recording on a phone again! Beers include: The Kernel - Biere de Saison Quince (Quince Saison) The Kernel - Pils Motu...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Jo Llewellyn-Jones, who brews at Hackney Brewery and runs beer tasting as The Rambling Beer Man , to discuss accidental sours, being the Danny Wallace of beer, crystal clear NEIPAs and zombies at Glastonbury.  Beers include: Hackney Brewery - Millions of Peaches (Peach and Basil Sour) Hackney Brewery - Early Riser (Hazy IPA) Hackney Brewery - Shadow Puppets (Chocolate...

Luke and Andrew are joined by Steve and Martin from Beer O'Clock Show/Hopinions to drink some brews from Glasgow's Simple Things Fermentation and chat about Steve's love of Ed Sheeran, French film noir and hot takes on the Marston's / Carslberg deal. Beers include: Simple Things Fermentation - Big Ideas Series 03 (Scottish Light) Simple Things Fermentation - Big Ideas Series 06 (Twisted Pilsner) S...

Luke and Andrew are joined by Myles Lambert, he of NE Sippin' Forecast and #beerysecretsanta, to drink some glorious Full Circle beers from the toon. We make our way through post-lockdown predictions, Mike Ashley (he's a c**t), and what 8 year olds are listening to today. Beers include: Full Circle - Across The Bridge (DDH Pale Ale) Full Circle - Lake of Stars (Pale Ale) Full Circle - Tango Sierra...

Andrew and Luke do their first remote podcast via video and drink all of the big impy stouts. They go through everything from getting the Rona to how much of a wanker Tim from Charlatans is. Beers include: Wild Beer Co - No Water (Milk Chocolate Stout) Puhaste - Maskeraad (Imperial Stout with Tonka, Vanilla and Coffee) Neon Raptor Brew Co - Total Eclipse (Jaffa Cake Stout) Boundary x Zapato - You'...

Luke and Andrew are back a month early for Season 2! We're back off the wagon and back into our usual rubbish, including friends and family, foamy wee, Portman Group and agreeing with each other too damn much. Beers include: Mikkeller - Limbo Raspberry (Low-Alcohol Raspberry Flemish Primitive) Bubble Works Brew Co - ODB (Ol' Danny's Brown) (Brown Ale with Tonka Beans) Abbeydale Brewery - Hop Cult...

Luke and Andrew wrap up Season One of Rhythm & Brews with a Christmas Special, much in the vein of The Star Wars Holiday Special, but with more robots. Big beers, big Christmas songs, and whether ET is a horror film. Beers include: Amundsen Bryggeri - Super Santa (Chocolate Shake Stout) Brick Brewery - Druže (Fig & Cherry Schwarzbier) Tiny Rebel Brewing - Welcome To The Party Pal! (Snowball IPA) D...

Luke and Andrew attempt to cram way too much into this mega episode, covering off the trends they forecast in 2019, the best beers they've had in 2019 and looking forward to what's going to be making waves in 2020. They also agree with each other a lot, which is strange. Pomona Island Brew Co - Jimmy Nail Ale (Brown Ale) Alvinne - Cuvee Sofie Quince Edition (Quince Barrel Aged Sour Ale) Brewdog x...

Andrew and Luke sit down with a cold and four beers from the four breweries they started with in episode one. Talking about the shifting tides, the way autumn leaves fall off trees and the subtle art of aging is something that they don't do. Instead, it's trawling through Untappd lists, why honey doesn't belong in beer and the longest award acceptance speech you've ever heard. Beers include: Gosne...