The Moon Under Water

Do Reverends and pubs go together? This week's guest answers this question with an emphatic yes, as The Moon Under Water opens its doors to its very first member of the church, Reverend Kate Bottley. Kate talks about the deep links between priest and pub. She reveals how she once cancelled evening church services to host a pub quiz, and spills the communion wine on what priests use for communion w...

It's a bumper week of pubbing for Robbie as he sails past the 130 pubs in a year mark. Quite impressive for a man who doesn't like late nights. Unsurprisingly, such unfettered pub-going leads to some serious questioning from Dan. And after last week's intriguing drink suggestion, Robbie and Dan try another strange drink sent in by a listener. They also discuss the country's ultimate pub crawl, and...

Thomas J. Vosper aka Historic Pub Crawls stops by to design his dream pub. And boy is this a man who knows his way around a pub. He's visited hundreds in the past year alone, and has amassed thousands of followers showcasing the best pubs this fine isle has to offer. Want to know the best pub to visit in Nottingham? The creepiest pub to go to in Derby? The oldest pub to have a pint in in York? All...

A bumper sack of messages this week as listener Olivia suggests an intriguing drink for the boys to try, and Alma our South East London correspondent her minions with carrying out an important review. Elsewhere there’s pubs in parks, metal pubs in Colorado and a tease of the promises of Hull. Send in any interesting suggestions you might have for the lads to drink and we’ll try them on the show! A...

Sketch comic, the lovely George Lewis, has now built his dream pub (see the previous episode for that), so now it’s time for head into even more that will round off the experience of walking into The Stumbling Turkey. There’s some Oasis oneupmanship, talk of strapping wine to oneself and a very observant thing for George to bar from his pub. Plus there’s a quiz that parents will thrive at. George...

Comic and parenting observer George Lewis is in the Moon Under Water this week. Best known for his observant parenting sketches, George leaves the kids at the door to take Landlord Robbie and Regular Dan through his dream pub. And he takes us on a journey through gin in film canisters and neat Pepsi syrup to fashion a wonderfully wistful establishment we’d all love to be a part of. Plus there are...

There’s connoisseurs and then there’s connoisseurs. And today we’ve got a man who has smashed past many milestones in on The Pub Notice Board today. For Robbie and Dan are blessed with the presence of a man who has drunk 50,000 *different* beers in the form of the delightful Andy Morton. And not only that but he's had 50,000 different *British* beers. Andy's someone who's written down every pint h...

Internet chef and wordsmith WhatWillyCook has built his dream pub, from the foundations to the pumps. Now he fills it with tales and all manner of chat on Drinks In Time, Dream Companions and twiglets. It’s the second consumable bite of the pubbing cherry. And in said cherry is a dive into heroes and a rather harrowing drink which inexplicably Will is choosing to relive.  And Dan wheels out a...

What do you get if you combine one squeeze of lemony p*ss, two cracks of pepper noir and a heaping dollop of Shoju, it’s Whatwillycook’s dream pub of course. There’s a lot of people cooking food online, but there’s few having anywhere near as much of a laugh while doing it as Will Hughes. No not the Crystal Palace midfielder, rather better known to you as Whatwillycook on the socials.  ...

Much to cover on this week’s PNB from intriguing tops to 'raz juice', and accusations of yet more information. This time from Down Under. The landlord and reliable regular are absolutely inundated with requests for correspondents. A Battery? A Draught of Correspondents? Here to provide pubdates from around the globe, the roving reporter network is quickly building a vast web from a road in Liverpo...

Chelsea Dickenson, aka Cheap Holiday Expert has constructed her dream pub. But now for the information which you at home can actively use. Given that Robbie spends half of his life travelling across Europe's watering holes, he has many questions that need answering. As well as a wistful holiday Drink In Time and big light hatred, Chelsea divulges some crucial travel nuggets that could inform your...

Chelsea Dickenson, more widely known as Cheap Holiday Expert is in building her dream pub. You’ll have no doubt seen Chelsea on social media as the Martin Lewis of weekend and annual leave activities, and she has much to bring to the bar. As someone who has trailed across country after country on a Ryanair budget this is a guest with a cornucopia of foreign beverage insight useful for the man on t...

Call AC-12 and bring in Ted Hastings, for there are serious accusations of corruption flying around the 52 Pub Challenge! Our Landlord steps through the South of France portal to join Dan for an absolute boozy shopping trolley full of correspondence. There’s Romanian tales, Dan thinks he’s found the nicest beer in the world, there’s an incredible bucket-based tale and news from Batley sends shockw...

Musician/YouTuber/Tiktoker Arthur Hill joins Robbie and Dan in the pub he’s just built to dig into some of the bigger questions bobbing around. Namely, has he seen his mum drunk? And, what’s his greatest drink ever in his Drink In Time? And what’s the hot insight into the YouTube scene? There’s some very different pub companion suggestions, human sized animal chat, plus, how big are things? ...

We’ve got a guest who does it all today. Music, YouTube, TikTok and a podcast that he does with his mum. A content da Vinci, it’s Arthur Hill! And he’s a real pubsman, eschewing the youthful pull of bars, pub chameleon blending into their various settings. And he’s got a delightful one to build, some wonderful tales and nuggets on the YouTube world. Whether it’s delving into his music playing like...

Both the Landlord and Regular are swanning about Europe this week, as is their want. But Robbie joins us from The Moon Under Water’s German outpost to chat to We Are Beer director Greg Wells. We Are Beer run some of the UK’s biggest beer festivals and they also recently released their Top 50 UK Beers list, so be sure to have a look at the list for a buffet of British recommendations.  Robbie...

Grammy-winning band Dry Cleaning have constructed and stocked their dream pub. But that’s just the start, for we’ve got a lot of rules to dig into, some ingenious pub features to unveil, and a unique grandmother to discuss. Throw in a bready sommelier who must turn their hand to anything, it’s a delightful chat with our prospective landlords Flo and Lewis. Want to share anything with The Moon Unde...

Flo and Lewis from post-punk band Dry Cleaning are in with Robbie and Dan to build their dream pub. We’re looking at two pubfessionals, who’ve put a serious amount of thought into their setup.  So much so that Regular Dan’s own facts are sidelined for a guest masterclass in knowledge nuggets. There’s an ingenious food suggestions, talk of pets, Antiques Roadshow and being the complaint guy.&n...

Many a musing in the Moon today for the Landlord and his Regular as Robbie and Dan sift through your thoughts with a tooth comb. And a fine one at that. Nearly as fine as our prospective pub correspondents up and down the land. And the job applications take us off in directions as varied as Great Historical Pub goers and KPIs. If you have your own amusing musing, such as a great rubber of time gon...

Comedian, actor, writer, everythinger, Stevie Martin has built her dream pub brick by brick, pint by pint. It’s a really lovely classic pub called Jack’s Balls. Now it’s time for her to let us know of a whole host of things that’ll also be going down there including the drink she’d most like to relive and her Dream Pub Companion. We skate across your usuals - nuts, wasabi peas etc. - but also into...

Multi-talented comedian, actor and writer Stevie Martin descends on the Moon Under Water to design her own magical dream pub! And with her pub comes an inside scoop on the working practices of gastropubs of the past, discussion of the delightful land of Durham and what W H Smith even is. Oh and a big testicular sign. Check out the second part of the chat for so much more! Stevie is at the Edinburg...

Lots to deal with on today's PNB, taking in the four corners of the world: Newport, Leytonstone, Thetford and Kazakhstan. The latter locale featuring a fascinating insight into the establishments of Karagandy. The quest to find Britain's cheapest pint potentially reaches its peak with an astonishing finding from South Wales and we have more of your correspondent applications. If there's anything t...

Now that Aussie comic Josh Thomas has built his dream pub he beds in to inform Robbie and Dan of all the bad things that will take place there. Namely, bland food, a horrific favourite memory and a pub companion who wouldn’t want to talk to him. All sounds like great, cool stuff. This is the 2nd part of our chat with Josh. You can listen to this episode on its own if you like - it'll make sense -...

The Moon Under Water manifests itself in Melbourne as we’ve got energetic comedian and Taskmaster Australia star Josh Thomas building his dream pub! Let’s cut to the chase here. Here’s a pub for The Gays (TM). BUT *we think* others are also welcome. At the end of the day there’s certainly big gay energy floating about what is hands down a completely 100% original pub in all of its choices with art...

Landlord Robbie and Regular Dan convene to open all your happenings, and there are applicants flooding in to be official pub correspondents across the globe. Elsewhere Dan accidentally goes into the wrong pub and there’s more happenings around Britain’s Cheapest Pint. And where is it that all this delightful conviviality correspondence floods into? Well it’s robbie@moonunderpod.com of course! And...