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 Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Have you heard of a Hopfenweisse? This is a relatively new style in the grand scheme of beer. A combination of the banana esters and clove phenols of a wheat beer and the fruity, bitter notes of hops. Tori and Jo were inspired to produce this episode after they got a can of Nacken by Siren Brew Co. Luckily, they managed to grab the original Hopfenweisse from Schneider Weisse to compare it to.
Jo shares the interesting evolution of this style with you, while Tori tells the tale of how Nacken came to be through Swedish homebrew, naked sea gods and missing wheat!
Have you tried a Hopfenweisse and what did you think? Come find us on
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
This week we are honoured to have Jane from Mothership Beer with us in conversation. Mothership are a brewery that A Woman’s Brew: The Podcast holds in high regard – their ethos aligns with ours completely!
Jane tells us what it’s like to be a nano brewery, especially during a pandemic, where her beer ideas come from and why makers are gonna make!
We also talk about how the beer Text Me When Ur Home was influenced by the tragic events surrounding the death of Sarah Everard and the discussions that have followed. This is one of Mothership’s charity beers - check out Mothership Beer’s webshop or your local bottle shop to buy it. £10/keg and 10p per can is donated to Rosa (www.rosauk.org), a charity that helps to resource grassroots women’s and girls’ organisations across the UK.
You can find Mothership Beer at their website here: https://www.mothership.beer/
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
Joanne: @awomansbrew.
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
How have we got to the middle of 2021 already?! At the beginning of the
year Tori & Jo set themselves some beer goals. At this, the mid point of the year, we are reviewing those goals and setting some new ones. We talk you through what Untappd stats are, decide what breweries we want to try in the next 6 months and begin organising a podcast homebrew session.
If you would like to hear our original beery goals, check out our 2020 year in review episode here: https://awomansbrew.sounder.fm/episode/yearreview2020
Jo mentioned Kweza brewery as a source of information about African brewing. Check out their Insta profile here: https://www.instagram.com/kwezacraftbrewery/
Featured breweries this episode:
Pillars Brewery: https://www.instagram.com/pillarsbrewery/
Top Rope Brewing: https://www.instagram.com/topropebrewing/
The Beak Brewery: https://www.instagram.com/thebeakbrewery/
Braybrooke Beer: https://www.instagram.com/braybrookebeer/
Neptune Brewery: https://www.instagram.com/neptunebrewery/
Have you got a beer of the year yet or do you like to wait until you’ve tried all the beers? Let us know in the comments!
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Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Welcome to Conversations from the Taproom! When we were recording our episode for the Women On Tap festival (episode 40 – The Pub That Didn’t Exisit if you haven’t had chance to listen!) there were so many interesting (and off topic) conversations had, we couldn’t fit them all in. We wanted to share those with you today.
A big thanks to Louise from Women’s Pint Club and Charlotte from Phantom Brewing Co for joining us.
We talk about Tori’s first trip to an actual pub, neon signs, cask beer, online beer shops and were lucky enough to catch up with Andy from Three Hills again while at The Outpost.
We hope that you are getting out to your favourite pubs, bars and taprooms and getting to have excellent conversations just like these!
What’s your favourite topic of conversation to have over a pint? Let us know in the comments!
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Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We’ve finally been able to take the podcast on the road! This week we talk
you through our experiences at Bigfoot Festival in Warwickshire.
Tori went along as a volunteer for Full Circle Brewing Co and Jo brought along her friend Liz who doesn’t drink beer and doesn’t camp! Each of us shares
our unique perspective on how we felt before the festival, what it was like there and our top tips for anyone going to a beer festival in the future. Jo is particularly excited as she managed to find a beer that Liz liked!
We didn’t get to record as much at the event as we wanted to, mainly because we were having too much fun! But be prepared for our Saturday recording session – it was a bit loud!
Did you go to Bigfoot Festival? What was your best moment? Have we missed any beer festival tips? Let us know in the comments!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Tori & Jo are out and about recording on the road, but we didn’t want to leave you hanging. Here’s a bonus episode we’ve been saving for a special occasion.
Back in October, Boutilliers released a green hop version of their core beer Doki Doki – a Helles lager. Whereas the original version is hopped with Polaris and Hallertau, Green Doki was hopped with fresh English Challenger.
Jo discusses what OG stands for and how brewers find the ABV of their beers. As a homebrewer there are lots of apps that can help with this – Jo’s fave is Brewer’s Friend which you can check out here: https://www.brewersfriend.com/
We are heading towards green hopped beer season again – did you get a chance to try Green Doki Doki? What other green hopped beers have you had?
If you would like to know more about green hopped beer we covered it in episode 7 which you can listen to here: https://awomansbrew.sounder.fm/episode/greenhopvspumpkin
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Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We’ve got a very special episode for you today that was specially commissioned by Women on Tap CIC for the 2021 Festival.
Women on Tap were looking for creative commissions for this year’s festival and A Woman’s Brew: The Podcast were honoured to be selected as one of 6 submissions. We want to showcase the wonderful women of Women’s Pint Club – a beer group started in person by Jo but then expanded to include all those online via a Facebook group and Zoom. Throughout the lockdown period these women have found a way to connect, make lasting friendships and support one another in ‘the pub that didn’t exist’ on Zoom. Tori and Jo asked the group about
their differing experiences of the lockdowns, their feelings about the pub and
virtual events and how Women’s Pint Club affected them during the pandemic. We speak to the international members and find out their differing experiences. Finally, a few members who felt comfortable to do so met in person and discussed the difference between the real pub and the virtual, what it means to us and the benefits of both. We want an inclusive society and experience in beer – virtual and in person events can aid this inclusion.
What we want you to take away from this episode is our love for the beer community and the hospitality sector; how it has helped us get through the devastating impact of a global pandemic, but also how we’ve managed to help each other in the process.
The ‘organised chaos’ that is our beer group Women’s Pint Club is here to stay, both in person and virtually. The pub isn’t just four walls, it’s the community that you build.
If you would like to know more about Women on Tap and see what other events – both virtual and in person – are part of the festival you can visit their website here:
https://www.womenontap.co.uk/
If you identify as female and want to join us in Women’s Pint Club you can find us on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenspintclub
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Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
The day has come! We’ve been telling you about Jo’s homebrew of the mustard beer for a while and in this episode we finally get to taste it! We thought we’d look at other savoury beers while we were at it – we’ve got a Yorkshire pudding pale and a pizza gose for you!
Beer usually goes down the path of sweeter flavours, but there are some great beers that use savoury flavours out there – think herbs, veg, bread, chilli, seafood, even squid ink. It’s worth giving beers with this in a go as brewers can create some really interesting results.
Of course, there is always the thought ‘just because they could, does that mean they should?!’ In this episode we say, maybe!
To learn more about the Yorkie P beer, check out their website here:
https://yorkshirepuddingbeer.com/
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Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We’ve got a minisode for you this week looking at Siren’s award-winning Broken Dream and its variants. Jo and Tori taste this breakfast stout, compare it to the nitro version and discuss what the Spinbot 5000 is!
Don’t forget you can support the podcast now by becoming a supporter on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/LoveBeerLearning
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Come to the dark side – we’ve got beer! In this episode, we look at black beer styles – how they are made, what they taste like and why we love them! We drink beers from Iron Pier x Elusive, Wild Weather and Fierce, discover the land of Cascadia and talk about great beer memories.
What black beer styles have you tried? Let us know in the comments!
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Tori: @adventures_in_hoptimism
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