A Woman’s Brew
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew – The Podcast, where women talk about beer! A Woman’s Brew is two beer loving women on a mission to get more people drinking and talking about great beer. Joanne & Tori want to talk you through beer styles, breweries we love, beer tasting tips, beer traditions and more from the world of craft beer. Joanne has been drinking beer since she was handed a Sam Adams Boston lager and realised that not all beer was yellow and fizzy. She was travelling the world while working on cruise ships at the time and tried every beer she could get her hands on. When she came home she decided she wanted to learn more about where the aromas and flavours in her favourite beers came from. During lockdown in the UK in 2020 she set herself the challenge to pass the Cicerone Certified Beer Server exam to earn a qualification in beer, just for fun! She passed with 97% and began to build her beer school Love Beer Learning to support other women to discover beer, build their confidence in...
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Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Let us introduce you to the newest power couple in craft – Merakai and Eko! Two of our favourite breweries have collabed on a decadent coffee and vanilla imperial stout – One Day.
We chat to Emma from Merakai and Helena from Eko about how you go about setting up a collaboration like this one. We look at how to select coffee to use in beer and how the cost of ingredients is underestimated. There are some important (and fun) conversations in this episode and it was amazing chatting to two female co-owners about their businesses.
Go buy One Day now – it does not taste it’s 12% abv!
Check it out on Merakai’s website here:
https://www.merakaibrewing.com/craft-beer-merch/one-day-imperial-coffee-vanilla-stout
Or via Eko’s webite here:
https://www.ekobrewery.com/shop
Get more than one so you can see how the flavours develop over time (we are!)
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Email: lovebeerlearning@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Be warned, this episode might make you hungry! We chat with Ro from Beer Snack Club and look at his first subscription box of beer and snack pairings. We discuss how to pair beer with food, resources to build your beer and food pairing knowledge and how Ro came up with this business model anyway!
The December box from Beer Snack Club will be out soon – check it out and grab a subscription here: https://beersnackclub.co.uk/
Ro recommended Garret Oliver’s The Brewmaster’s Table as a great beer and food pairing resource. Find it on Amazon.
Jo recommended books by Mark Dredge – Beer & Food and Cooking With Beer, find his books here:
https://uk.bookshop.org/books?keywords=mark+dredge
We also mentioned the podcast Bean to Barstool for beer and chocolate pairing, find them on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/beantobarstool/
Get in Touch:
Email: lovebeerlearning@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We don’t know about you, but after the great summer of festivals we’ve had, we don’t want it to end! This week we talk to Full Circle about their time at festivals this year and why they are so important for our independent brewers. We also chat about their brilliant diversity and charity work.
The beautiful artwork for the Kindred label and glass was produced by @Sheldo_draws
https://www.instagram.com/sheldo_draws/
If you would like to donate to the great efforts of Women’s Street Watch Newcastle, you can find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/WSWNCL/
This episode was a long time in the making – thanks to Alex and Graham for chatting to us! Check out their webshop here:
https://www.fullcirclebrew.co.uk/collections/beers
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Happy Birthday to Top Rope – 5 years young! We can honestly say that A Woman’s Brew: The Podcast wouldn’t exist without Top Rope and their Cold Stone Cream Austin range, which we featured in one of our first ever episodes. (we looked at Ice Cream Pale Ales in episode 003, which you can listen to here: https://awomansbrew.sounder.fm/episode/icecreampaleales)
If you don’t know, Top Rope loves wrestling, and their co-founder Neil has some very deep knowledge about the subject. We find out how they come up with their beer names (spoiler – it’s to do with wrestling but often it’s not as obvious as you would think) and how they managed to get Frank Turner to do a gig at the brewery.
A massive thank you to Neil for coming on and we will definitely be stopping by the tap room when we get up to Liverpool!
Top Rope’s birthday beers are available on their webshop now here:
https://www.topropebrewing.com/shop
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Email: lovebeerlearning@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lovebeerlearning.co.uk
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We brewed a beer! And our wonderful friend Rachel at Heist Brew Co made it all possible. We were honoured to be asked to brew with Heist and to have the opportunity to develop the beer from recipe creation right through to naming and art work! Together we created a very drinkable peanut butter and jelly porter (using Jo’s base porter recipe!) called When The Beer Is So Lit You Turn Into A Bagel!
We also chat to Rachel about the life of a brewer – congrats Rachel for just getting a full time position on the brew team at Heist. We chat about her journey into brewing, so if you are thinking of this path give us a listen to see how Rachel did it.
Our beer is only available at the Heist taproom so if you are in Sheffield or can get there go try it now and let us know what you think! You can buy other Heist beers from their webshop here:
https://www.heistbrewco.com/store
Check out photos from our brew day on our insta here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CViV01tKY8q/
Heist are now a firm friend of the show and we can’t wait to visit them and brew again. Thank you so much for having us – it was such an honour!
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Email: lovebeerlearning@gmail.com
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We are shattering glass ceilings and smashing the PINT-riarchy with Grace from Liquid Light this week. We chat about developing beers, how music inspires the brewery and Grace’s latest endeavour - the Smash the Pintriarchy zine.
Liquid Light hold very similar values to us here at A Woman’s Brew – we can’t wait to get involved with the Smash the Pintriarchy beer fest when it happens!
You can find out more about Liquid Light on their website here:
https://www.liquidlightbrewco.com/
And make sure you are following Smash the Pintriarchy on Instagram here
https://www.instagram.com/smashthepintriarchy/
If you have any suggestions are submissions for the Smash the Pintriarchy zine you can get email Grace at smashthepintriarchy@hotmail.com
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Since trying the Light Nights foraged grisette, Tori wanted to find out more about foraging. We are lucky enough to chat to Red from First & Last Brewery to learn more about the process of foraging, how you can join in and how to sustainably managing collecting nature’s bounty.
We also have a taste of other foraged beers from Wild Weather Ales and Duration. A big thank you to Miranda for sending us some photos of Bates foraging the wood that went into their beer Dropped Limb. Check out the video for those!
Check out First & Last’s website to grab some foraged beers here:
https://www.firstandlastbrewery.co.uk/collections/all
Get in Touch:
Email: lovebeerlearning@gmail.com
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We celebrate a belated Oktoberfest with Maz and Floz from Time At The Bar Podcast which specialises in beer history. We take a look at the popular beer styles drunk at Oktoberfest – Marzen and Festbier – and how you can tell them apart. Then with Time At The Bar Pod’s expert research skills we look at women in relation to Oktoberfest. Why is the dirndl the recognised dress at the festival? What is it like to be a waitress in the tents? And how has Oktoberfest been leading the way with festival safety? Oh! And can you guess the now traditional song played at the end of the festival? You are never going to get it!
We had the best time chatting with Maz and Floz! Future plans are already in the making so watch this space for future collaborations!
Check out Time At The Bar Podcast on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/timeatthebarpod/
And have a listen to their previous episodes here:
https://tatbpod.com/
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
It’s pumpkin spice season y’all!! You know Tori & Jo love a bit of pumpkin – they managed to grab Alex from S43 Brewery to chat about their pumpkin collab with Brew York, pumpkin beers in the US and how you add pumpkin to beer anyway!
Grab a can of Pumpkin, Pumpkin Imperial while you can!
https://s43brewery.com/shop/
Also check out the Pumpkin Spice TikTok Jo & Tori keep going on about here:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM82Wmorm/
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Down from the Swiss mountains, this week we chat with David from Schwarz Monch. Bringing a traditional Schwarzbier to the UK, we chat about deciding to stick with one beer, how to choose a partner brewery and the differences between Swiss and British drinking culture.
Help us welcome the Monch to the UK!
Check out the Schwarz Monch website here:
https://www.schwarzmonch.com/
And check out the mountain view from the hotel here:
https://www.schwarzmonch.com/360-tour
Get in Touch:
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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