Sheffield Hopcast

Adam and Laura on the show this week (along with a bonus guest). We drink beers from RedWillow Brewery and Alvarado Street Brewery and chat about what we’ve been up to since the last show along with some regular beery news.

This October we are back at the Steel City Beer and Cider Festival at Kelham Island Museum. James and Adam are part of the judging panel this year so we hear how that went. We’ll also be picking a beer each from the beer list to talk about along with all the usual beery talk. Finally, we had the pleasure of chatting to acclaimed beer writer Roger Protz.

This month we return to the Rutland Arms for September 2019’s Hopcast Half Pint. James and Adam sample a couple of beers from Sheffield’s St Mars of the Desert and Nottingham’s Black Iris Brewery. We chat about our recent visit to Abbeydale Brewery’s Funk Fest, the opening of the new Industry Tap and other local pub news. We also look forward to October and the Sheffield St...

We’re at the Itchy Pig in Broomhill – it’s a small pub, so we’re drinking small beers. The now-legendary Schofferhofer is first on the agenda, followed by a Northern Monk lemon raddler, North Brew Micro IPA and a typically stupidly named Cloudwater. Which will get the vote of Adam, James, Laura and Sean as the best? Plus we talk Funk Fest, a sour beer festival at Abbeydale Brewery this weekend, an...

This month after a couple of months away from our usual Half Pint format, James and Adam are back with a couple of beers to drink while having a catch up about what’s been happening in the Sheffield beer scene. Beers from Vocation Brewery and Siren Craft Brew. Recorded at The Rutland Arms on 8th August 2019

This month we celebrate Yorkshire Day with a head-to-head with some Yorkshire beers and non-Yorkshire beers. With 3 rounds covering 3 different styles of beer, will Yorkshire be victorious? Recorded at the famous Kelham Island Tavern, we chat to Josh who took over the pub 8 months ago to see how things are going on after taking on the multi-award-winning pub.

This month we’re at The Rising Sun in Nether Green ahead of their annual Sun Fest. Sean has been tasked with picking 4 ‘sunshine’ beers and opted for offerings from Brass Castle, Shindigger, Northern Monk and Thornbridge. James is away this month so, friend of the show, Lucienne joins us and tells us all about here beery history in Sheffield and beyond.

It’s a month to go until Tramlines… so we’re doing a trial run! Adam and James are joined by Tramlines organiser Alex Deadman at Cutlery Works to try to cram Tramlines into just an hour. We have beer – of course! But how has James picked out the cans to go with our Tramlines theme? We have food cooked up for us by of Gravy Train, residents at Cutlery Works, and also serving...

It’s our first away day as the Hopcast gang head to Scarborough. Sean’s in charge and all he tells us is to be at Sheffield station at 9.30am. Join us to hear how the day unfolds including some nice beers, great pubs, excellent toilets, plenty of rain, slot machine winners and losers and some rather messy ice creams. * Our rather swanky equipment is from Rebel Base Media and is availab...

Six beers; six special guests joining Adam and James This month’s Hopcast Half Pint comes from the first Podcast Rebellion Sheffield meet-up at Rebel Base Media at Sheffield Technology Parks, as part of the Sheffield Digital Festival. We set up our mobile studio and crack open the beers from Verdant, North, Vocation, Korrupt’d, Turning Point and Northern…

We’re at a pub that’s so new it’s not even open this month. We join Chris Bamford at The Crow Inn on Scotland Street ahead of its opening in a few weeks. Adam, James, Laura, Sean and our guest Chris check out four beers: Cloudwater’s Hoppy Little Lager, Brew York’s Rhubarb and Custard (extra custard…

Laura’s been banging on about beer cocktails for ages now – you’ve probably heard her talk about them on previous episodes. So we decided to see what the fuss was all about. Episode 16 is in Laura’s kitchen as she mixes up four beer cocktail treats for us – Grand MargarIPA, Evening Sunset, Stouty Mary,…

Adam and James try a cracking line up of beers – from a DDH Pale, to a Strawberry Daiquiri sour, to a New England IPA. They reflect on Sheffield Beer Week and particularly the excellent Indie Beer Feast and look ahead to some more upcoming events in Sheffield.

For Sheffield Beer Week we get together at a **mystery** venue – can you work it out from our clues (and ridiculously obvious photo?) The beer choice is easy: Adam, James, Laura and Sean each pick one with a link to the beer week. And we run through the events we’re most looking forward to.

Adam and James are counting down to Sheffield Beer Week in this month’s Half Pint. The beers come from Turning Point, Samuel Smith and Thornbridge x Planet Rock. Check out the video version on our YouTube channel soon.

Love is in the air this month on the Hopcast… … As it’s Valentine’s Day, we set Sean the task of picking a beer each of the team will love. So will he pick right for Laura, Adam and James? And will he actually like the beer he picks for himself?! Thanks to our awesome…

Welcome to the first of our new series of special episodes, Hopcast Stories – where we go under the surface of the beer scene to hear the amazing tales of the people within in. Our first Hopcast Story comes from Martha and Dann, who travelled the East coast of the United States, half of Europe and the…

Adam and James try out beers from a couple of new breweries in the spirit of Tryanuary, plus one from an old favourite. We talk beer festival news and reveal the winners of our first ever Golden Hop awards. James was banned from seeing the vote, so see if he correctly predicts the winners in…

It’s our first birthday and so we head back to where it all began: Bar Stewards. Al and Charlie join James, Adam and Laura for our Tryanuary special, as we each bring a beer to try we wouldn’t normally go for. We get through beers from Black Jack / Wild Weather, Yonder, Northern Whisper, Magic…

We’re feeling festive for this month’s Hopcast Half Pint. Adam and James try a Christmas-ish cranberry and ginger dark sour from Marble in Manchester, a new Gluten Free offering from Acorn in Barnsley, and a waffle and blueberry breakfast stout from Vocation and Yeastie Boys. Plus we find out about a new brewery coming to Sheffield, the…

It’s December and so the Hopcast team get into the festive spirit in the only way we know how – going on a pub crawl… or should we say Podcrawl. Adam, James, Laura and Sean make four stops around Sheffield, with each responsible for picking one round. Whose beer pick will prove the most popular? We start…

Adam and James are reunited for November’s Half Pint and try out beers from Brewdog, Loka Polly and Blue Monkey Brewery There’s a lot of news to get through as they talk new venues in Sheffield, moving venues in Sheffield, a venue celebrating a birthday and one celebrating a top honour in Sheffield, plus news…

November’s Hopcast comes from The Lescar in Sharrow Vale and gets us in the festive spirit, trying out four Christmas beers. Adam, Sean and Laura are joined by our special guest, Hannah from Neepsend Brewery. James is away for the main recording, but we hear from him as he chats to Josh from Blue Bee brewery…

  Adam’s away so it’s James and Laura on October’s Half Pint. They try out new beers from Magic Rock and Abbeydale, and reflect on Cloudwater’s big cask announcement. Plus we reflect on Sheffield Beer Festival (hint: it was good) and talk about plans for two new pubs in Sheffield. *Thanks to Sheffield band Hot Soles…

Here’s the story of the opening night of Sheffield Beer Festival 2018 at Kelham Island Museum. James catches up with the organisers along with Sean and Laura, plus the charity side of the festival, news of an amazing book, gluten free beer, and the Bar Stewards may pop up too.