Rhythm & Brews

Luke and Andrew head down to Bethnal Green Working Men's Club to chat to Wilson and Rich from Three Sods Brewery about cask ales, how Morrissey is an egotistical wanker and whether Screamadelica or Loveless takes the prize. Beers include: Three Sods Brewery - Session IPA Three Sods Brewery - Dark Magus (Chocolate Stout) Three Sods Brewery - Mon Cherie (IPA) Three Sods Brewery - Maelstrom  (IPA) Th...

THE LIVE EPISODE live from Signature Brew Taphouse in London with Special Guest Pete Brown. Beers include: Signature Brew - Roadie (Session IPA) Signature Brew - Studio Vienna (Lager) Orbit Beers - WLS030 Beetziki Sour (Tzatziki Sour) Thank you to Mawkin for the use of the theme song I Can Hew Theme tune is “I Can Hew” by Mawkin, from their album The Ties That Bind.

Luke and Andrew bite down hard on the leather strap and prepare to take a full episode of macro beer, from AB Inbev to Heineken to Coors to Carlsberg. This ones isn't pretty, but surprisingly there are some fairly decent beers. Beers include: Camden Town Brewery - Show Off (IPL) Affligem - Affligem Blonde (Belgian Blonde) Carlsberg - Special Brew (Strong Lager) Staropramen - Staropramen Lager (Lag...

Luke and Andrew sit down to drink some beers that they bought for less than £3, and get sidetracked by corporate Pride (hot take #1), why women don't like beer (hot take #2) and whether an £11 can is actually worth it. Beers include: Big Drop Brew Co - Stout (Low Alcohol Milk Stout) Moncada Brewery - Pink Grapefruit Sour (Sour Pale Ale) The Kernel - Table Beer (Table Beer) Orbit Beer - WLS025 Cina...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Bryan and Oscar from Weird Beard to discuss beards, Iron Maiden, Tom Waits and occasionally beer. Beers include: Weird Beard - Little Things That Kill (Session Pale Ale) Weird Beard - Bat Oat of Hell (DDH Oat Pale) Weird Beard - Two Minutes to Flameout (Sour IPA) Weird Beard - Fade to Black (Black IPA) Thank you to Mawkin for use of 'I Can Hew' as a theme song. Check...

Andrew and Luke sit down on their death beds to discuss portion sizes, drinking and masculinity and what Luke would sound like as a sock puppet. Beers include: Wild Card Brewery - Lime Berliner Weisse (Berliner Weisse) Double Barrelled & Elusive Brewing - Too Much Excitement (Yuzu Pale Ale) Wander Beyond - Nautiloid (Imperial Milkshake IPA) Lervig - Toasted Maple Stout (Imperial Stout) Extra b...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Sam McGregor, co-founder of Signature Brew, to talk collabs, shit beer in music venues, Partridge and that Mastodon story, which he still won't tell us. Beers include: Jam Sour (Raspberry Sour) B-Side (Brown ale) Slow Brew (Dry-hopped lager) Nightliner (Coffee porter) Thank you to Signature Taproom for hosting us, and thank you to Mawkin for the use of our theme tune...

EARLY EPISODE FOR YOU! Andrew, Luke and Producer Paul head out on another podcrawl, this time joined by the award-winning Steve and Martin from Beer O'Clock Show fame. We stumble through Shoreditch and Hoxton, and end up with at least 80% of the original contingent... Pubs include: Mikkeller Bar London The Old Blue Last Goose Island Shoreditch The Pride of Spitalfields Thank you to Mawkin for the...

Andrew and Luke sit down to discuss what will be 'trendy' and 'hip' in beer and music in 2019. But mostly beer, because they are both old and not 'lit'. Topics include alcoholic water, the supremacy of lager tops and Andrew's ability to dad joke. Disclaimer: Sorry for the audio quality on this one! We had a new audio setup and couldn't figure out how to stop the buzzing, and did what we could in e...

Andrew and Luke sit down, match some Christmas beers, talk about depression (serious bit), talk about how shit Winter Warmers are (not serious bit) and match the song chosen by YOU to some beer... Beers include: The Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. - Blitzen (Cherry Kriek) Anchor Brewing Company - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018 (Christmas Ale) To Øl - 1 Ton of... Christmas (Cherry, Redcurrant and...

Luke and Andrew look back over 2018 and pick 4 of their favourite beers from the year and discuss what deserves a top rating, how pissed you need to be to rate it and how much of a crime it is that Tom Waits hasn't released anything in 2018. Beers include: North Brewing x Northern Monk - Hit the North v2 Brut IPA (Brut IPA) Duration Brewing - Turtles All The Way Down (American Pale) Tiny Rebel - I...

Andrew and Luke are joined by Paul Wade, from Brutalligators and Wade Bros Productions, to do an on-air pub crawl through the iconic music venues of Camden, London, from Amy Winehouse's watering hole (spoiler: it's every pub apparently) to the fact that Oasis are terrible (sorry Paul). Pubs visited (Beers drunk): The Dublin Castle (Madness Brew Co - Absolutely) The Good Mixer (Signature Brew Co -...

Andrew and Luke are turning Japanese and proving that everyone was kung-fu fighting, with this special episode dedicated to Japanese beers. Domo Arigato Mr Roboto. Beers in this episode: Asahi - Asahi Super Dry (Lager) Fourpure x Kyoto Brewing - Temple (Satsuma and Seaweed Gose) Coedo - 紅赤 (Beniaka) (Imperial Sweet Potato Amber Ale) Hitachino Nest - Red Rice Ale (Red Rice Ale) Theme by Mawkin. O...

The very first LIVE Rhythm & Brews podcast in front of an ACTUAL AUDIENCE. Luke and Andrew pop down to Mason & Co, and are joined by beer extraordinaire Rebecca Pate (@rpate) to talk about Spanish beer, math rock and (of course) Tom Waits. Beers include: Mad Hatter - Gintziki (Juniper and Cucumber Sour) Salamander Strawberry Milkshake IPA - Browar Stu Mostów (Milkshake IPA) Railway Porter...

Andrew and Luke sit down with Fullers' ex-Head Brewer and current Global Brand Ambassador, John Keeling, to talk about what craft lager is, free jazz odysseys and selling out to Big Beer. Beers in this episode: Fuller's - Southern Star (Australian Hopped Pale Ale) Fuller's - ESB (Bitter) Fuller's - 1845 (Strong Ale) Fuller's - London Porter (Porter) Theme tune by Mawkin Theme tune is “I Can Hew” b...

Andrew and Luke sit down to drink some craft beer via UK supermarkets, discuss brotherly pop bands, drinking beer and sausage for breakfast and how to pronounce weird Belgian words Beers include: Revisionist - Craft Lager (Lager) from Tesco Thornbridge - Tart (Kettle Sour) from Tesco Vocation - Life & Death (IPA) from Co-op Brouwerij Boon - Oude Gueze Boon l'Ancienne 2015 (Gueze) from Waitrose...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Stu McKinley from Yeastie Boys, the amazingly awesome Australian (right, stu?) brewery. We talk about making beer that gets you hate mail, Antipodean country music and how New Zealand is actually just the 8th state of Australia. Beers included in this episode: Yeastie Boys - White Noise (chamomile wheat beer) Yeastie Boys - Gunamatta (earl gray ipa) Yeastie Boys - Pot...

Luke and Andrew are joined by Luke's mum for an evening of weird and wonderful beers, and Andrew teaches two philistines (or one and his mum) how to properly taste beer. Beer Listing: One Mile End - Morello Cherry Gose (Cherry Gose) Weird Beard - Smoke (Rauchbier) Brick Brewing - Kerala Stout (Spiced Stout) Bristol Beer Factory - Barleywine (Barleywine) Theme tune by Mawkin. Theme tune is “I Can H...

Andrew and Luke head up to Edinburgh to chat with Pat from Twitter celebrity (and occasional brewery) Pilot Beer, drink all their beer and talk about Pat's favourite topic: Untappd. Featuring: Pilot Beer - Mochaccino Stout (Chocolate Coffee Stout) Pilot Beer - BløndonBlønd (DIPA/NEIPA) Pilot Beer - North Sea Stout (Salt Liquorice Stout) Pilot Beer - Transatlantic Breakfast (Rauchwine/Brown Ale) Tu...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Jo Llewellyn-Jones, co-founder of Brew Club, the open brewery in London, and chat about Napalm Death, fraud hobos and Chocolate Truffle Pale Ales. Beers in this episode: Pig & Porter - Red Spider (Rye Red Ale) Elgoods Brewery - Coolship (Lambic) Burnt Mill - Green Path IPA (IPA) Theme tune from Mawkin Theme tune is “I Can Hew” by Mawkin, from their album The Ties...

Andrew and Luke have a chinwag with John and Dan from It's All Happening about Christmas beers, non-Christmas songs and how hard it is to do a good low-ABV beer. Beers in this episode include: 08|03 Chocolate & Orange Stout - Brew By Numbers Dark Sister (Black IPA) - Brussels Beer Project Drink'in The Snow (Low ABV Beer) - Mikeller Plum Pudding (Porter) - Wiper & True Theme by Mawkin Theme...

We're joined by Matt Chinnery ( @halfpintgent ) or West Berkshire Brewery and Renegade Brewery for his Hip Hop Challenge, where we're challenged to match exclusively hip hop tunes to three beers. The beers for this episode include: Signature Brew's Live Up! (Bourbon Aged Golden Ale) Evil Twin's Bikini Beer (Session IPA) Magic Rock's Dark Arts (Stout) Theme tune is “I Can Hew” by Mawkin, from their...

Andrew and Luke sit down with Vince from Brewheadz in London to match their awesome core range with some music and talk about Italians setting donkeys on fire, mariachi bands and Luke's terrible tasting notes. Beers in this episode: Brewheadz - Sunny Side of the Street Brewheadz - Electro Beat Brewheadz - Fired Up Donkey Brewheadz - Kitchen Porter Theme tune by Mawkin Theme tune is “I Can Hew” by...

Luke and Andrew are alone again for an episode full of Bristolian beer, with brews from Arbor Ales, Moor Beer Co, Wiper and True and Lost and Grounded. Luke attempts to match his beer to Bristol-based artists, and Andrew just does whatever the hell he wants, because that's what he does. Beers in this episode include: Arbor Ales - Limelight Moor Beer Co and Arbor Ales - Dark Alliance Wiper and True...

Luke and Andrew sit down with Simon and Ruth of Renegade and West Berkshire Brewery to chat about both brewerys, Ruth's beer sommelier qualifications, yeast infections, little boy pants and hoppy/malty beers. In this episode we make our way through Renegade Craft Lager, Renegade West Coast Pale, Maharaja Pale Ale and the Tamesis Stout. Theme tune is “I Can Hew” by Mawkin, from their album The Ties...