A Woman’s Brew
A Woman’s Brew Podcast follows the ‘beer-ventures’ of two beer-loving women – Joanne Love & Tori Powell – on their mission to get more people drinking and talking about great craft beers. The duo look to infuse equal parts education, playfulness, and story-telling with a dash of chaos across their episodes with the aim to make the craft beer hobby more fun and approachable for all – made by women for everyone! Tori and Joanne are both UK based, but weave in their US connections with their love of travel to bring you – dear listeners – stories from across the industry and across the globe. They hope that you’ll grab a drink of your choosing and join them for a round or few – CHEERS!
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7 days ago
7 days ago
This week we catch up, after far too long, with Sophie from Buxton Brewery. We first met Sophie at IWCBD at Heist back in 2022 and we are excited to hear about her adventures since then.
Sophie shared 3 excellent beers from Buxton with us – Plan Bee, a honey pale ale, Adventure is Worthwhile, a Kviek NEIPA from IWCBD and The Wang Doodle, an American brown.
We talk about Sophie’s journey into beer, her involvement in International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day and her experience of brewing internships. We also here about her time at Buxton and her tips for visiting the brewery.
We loved catching up with Sophie and can’t wait to have her back on again! Who do you want to hear us interview next?
Go grab the tasty beers we had over at Buxton’s webshop here:
https://buxtonbrewery.co.uk/shop/
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @lovebeerlearning
Jo’s website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Monday May 05, 2025
Monday May 05, 2025
We’ve got a long one for you this week as we welcome Kate Hyde from Hand Brew Co to join us once again!
This time we take the opportunity to hear about Kate’s journey into beer – it is captivating! We then dive right into International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day. Kate shares how she planned her first event, we talk about this year’s brew at Hand Brew Co, celebrating all the great people that attended and made the day special. Kate also shares how she goes about planning the event each year to make sure it is jam packed with value for the attendees. And we chat about her role as a mentor on the Women in Beer mentorship programme.
We drink Hand Brew Co’s IWCBD beer, Shimmy Up together and even get into hop innovations and trends.
This is an episode full of laughter and info – go grab yourself some Shimmy Up to drink while you listen here:
https://www.handbrewco.shop/products/shimmy-up-dipa-8-4-hand-x-iwcbd
The beer will raise money for the Women In Beer mentorship programme, donate to the fund yourself by joining the Women in Beer Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/WomenInBeerProjects
And find out more about IWCBD and Women on Tap here:
https://unitebrew.org/
Did you attend an IWCBD or have you drunk any of the beers brewed for International Women’s Day? Let us know!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @lovebeerlearning
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Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
We’ve been inspired by Mauldon’s Brewery and their International Women’s Day beer Anna Maria, to find out about some lesser know women in beer.
We find out more about Anna Maria, the founder of Mauldon’s. We also introduce you to Mary Lisle and reintroduce you to Sister Doris, who you may remember from A Woman’s Place Is In The Brewhouse by Tara Nurin.
Do you have any women you’d like us to feature in future episodes? Let us know!
Find out more about Anna Maria and Mauldon’s here:
https://mauldons.co.uk/pages/history?srsltid=AfmBOopAiNWDho1UXFm2gn0X8ZzcWXDBJvEDO-XcRB1qzPqCEAJyICz7
Read the article by Miller about Mary Lisle here:
https://www.molsoncoorsblog.com/miller-lite-mary-lisle-brewster-alewives
And read about Sister Doris here:
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1026707774/a-pilgrimage-to-meet-germanys-last-beer-brewing-nun
If you are interested in more stories about women in beer, we recommend these books by Tara Nurin and Dr Christina Wade:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-woman-s-place-is-in-the-brewhouse-a-forgotten-history-of-alewives-brewsters-witches-and-ceos-tara-nurin/5753551?ean=9781641603423
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-devil-s-in-the-draught-lines-1000-years-of-women-in-britain-s-beer-history-dr-christina-wade/7621870?ean=9781852493868
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/filthy-queens-a-history-of-beer-in-ireland-dr-christina-wade/7738083?ean=9781738479528
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Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
It’s April already – so that can mean only one thing… Our quarter 1 review!
Jo can’t remember any of her bear goals, so sets herself some new ones. Tori is making good progress and we are both filling up the super spreadsheet of (beer) wonder!
We share our highlights from the first quarter of the year, our plans for Q2 and how we are doing with the A Woman’s Brew challenge and the Drink Harder challenge.
Are you joining us on our beer challenge? Check our links to download the challenge list!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @lovebeerlearning
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Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
We are starting a new series – Bucket List Beers! And if this beer isn’t on your bucket list, you should probably add it. We’re starting with Westvleteren 12!
We go deep, giving you the history of the beer, the BJCP guidelines, tasting notes specific to the beer and Jo’s live reaction to her first ever taste!
Find out more about this beer here:
https://www.trappistwestvleteren.be/en/our-beers/trappist-westvleteren-12
Check out the BJCP guidelines here:
https://www.bjcp.org/style/2015/26/26D/belgian-dark-strong-ale/
What bucket list beers do you want us to try in this series? Let us know!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
This week we are joined by Nia and James from Ideal Day Family Brewery. Based in Cornwall, Nia and James tell us about their vision of success for the brewery and how the whole family gets involved.
We sample some of the delicious beers from Ideal Day and discuss the beer styles on offer – what is a field beer and why is it so refreshing? We talk regenerative agriculture and how brewers can learn more about the grains they use in their brews.
We also go deep into how and why makers are gonna make and how the hands on approach is an important part of the ethos at Ideal Day Family Brewery.
Beers we drank:
Path to the Sun – Field Beer
Scenic Route – Lagered Beer
Campfire – Hoppy Stout
Check out Ideal Day’s website to find out where you can try these beers:
https://idealdaybrewery.com/
And make sure you give them a follow on their socials!
https://www.instagram.com/idealdaybrewery/?hl=en-gb
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @lovebeerlearning
Jo’s website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
This week we are being chatty Cathys and bringing you some random, news, topics, updates and answers to questions you didn’t even know you needed to hear!
Our topics range from sustainability, brewery closures, haunted restaurants, beer & food pairing and KFC mac & cheese! We also introduce you to our ‘new’ logo… we’ve had it for a year, but we never told you about it! Oh! And we’ve got a new website, so go check that out too!
We ask – should we go bi-weekly? Let us know what you think!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
We are revisiting tasting mystery beers this week, but we let our husbands pick the beers….. do we know our stash as well as we think we do?
Join us as we try to guess the beers with literally no context. We put our tasting skills and knowledge of the beers in our fridge to the test. Will we guess them correctly, or will we fail miserably?!
We also top off the episode with some questions from the Question Jar. If you would like to add a question for us to answer, add it to the comments!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
We bring you rest and relaxation this week when we take the podcast on the road and visit the UK’s first beer spa!
The Norfolk Mead, near Norwich, opened it’s beer spa in July 2024. We visited in January 2025 and share our experience. This is a 45 minute experience with unlimited beer – we see how much you can really drink in this time and still have a relaxing experience. We share out tips for staying in the area and what we might change about our trip if we visited again.
Find out if we recommend the beer spa experience in the UK, and let us know if you think you will be visiting soon!
Read Tori's blog post about the experience here:
https://adventuresinhoptimism.com/beer-spa/
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Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
We are very excited to welcome Dr Christina Wade to talk about her new book Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, which is being published this week!
We find out what makes a Filthy Queen (spoiler, it’s the opinion of a man!), discuss historical drink recipes, how varying historical sources and experimental archaeology bring us closer to the truth of our history and share our favourite stories from the book. Of course, you will just have to order a copy to get the full picture!
Reading the book and catching up with Dr Christina has made us want to visit Ireland and she gives us her top tips for doing just that. We suggest that you grab yourselves a copy of this wonderful book and get as excited about it as we are.
Preorder a copy of the book here:
https://ninebeanrowsbooks.com/en-gb/products/filthy-queens
Check out Dr Christina’s Substack here:
https://braciatrixnewsletter.substack.com/
Find her on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/braciatrix/
Find the documentary Drunk? On YouTube here:
https://foodcult.eu/2023/09/21/drunk-adventures-in-sixteenth-century-brewing/
The 1641 Despositions Project:
https://www.tcd.ie/history/research/1641.php
And let us know your favourite story from the book once you have read it!
Get in Touch:
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Website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @lovebeerlearning
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