A Woman’s Brew

Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
In case you missed it – we brewed a Brave Noise beer with Merakai Brewing Co. While we were making a noise about it in podcast episode 80, Olly was talking to the guys at Beer Fridge Podcast and Jonny Garrett from the Craft Beer Channel. Check out their episode here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/brave-noise-with-jonny-garrett-and-merakai-brewing/id1423388212?i=1000555686023
To round this trilogy off, we organised a mixed panel to discuss the issues in the beer industry with the guys at Beer Fridge and Emma & Olly from Merakai. We have an open and frank conversation about the Brave Noise initiative, festivals, harassment and what it’s like to be a woman in the beer community.
We pledge to continue to have the hard conversations around these topics and be the change we want to see in the beer community. Are you with us?!
Listen back to episode 80 here:
https://embed.sounder.fm/play/285125
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
This week we set each other a challenge – 4 beers, no labels, no clue what’s inside and we’ve got to guess the beer style and brewery! Points are awarded for how quickly you lock in your guess and a bonus point for the name of the beer. Who will win?!
Let us know if you liked this challenge and if we should do it again by heading to Instagram now!
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We are super excited to have been invited to curate a bar at Arundel Brewfest! We chat to Ellie, aka Hoppy Raptor on Instagram who is organising the festival this year. We talk about collaboration brews (spoiler alert – some you will only be able to taste at the festival), what it’s like to organise a beer festival and how the breweries were picked.
The A Woman’s Brew bar will feature Heist Brew Co, Full Circle Brew Co and Eko Brewery and there are going to be loads of other amazing breweries on offer as well. Tickets for Saturday have SOLD OUT! But you can get a ticket for the Friday session here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arundel-and-friends-brewfest-beer-festival-tickets-204350296237?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Or if you would like to volunteer at the festival drop a line to Ellie here:
Ellie.arundelbrewery@gmail.com
Do you want us to organise a meet up at the festival? Head over to Instagram and let us know – we’d love to meet you!
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We are getting spicy this week with a chat with Sam from Hopt Sauce. The process of making hot sauce draws some interesting paralles with the process of brewing beer. Sam created Hopt Sauce out of his love for craft beer and flavour. We chat about how to make hot sauce, how collaborations work and how hot sauce is surprisingly marketed in a masculine way.
Go buy some of Sam’s delicious sauces at his website here:
https://www.hoptsauce.co.uk/
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We are finishing off Women’s History Month by interviewing the women who are closest to the podcast – us! Jo and Tori interview each other in the episode through a combination of questions from listeners, social media followers, speed dating questions and just what they want to know about each other.
This episode is an opportunity to find out more about is outside of our beer adventures. Find out what motivates us, what our autobiographies would be called and what our dream jobs were when we were kids. Jo talks a lot about cruise ships so be warned!
We also do a round up of our Brave Noise brew day with Merakai Brewing Co – an experience we can highly recommend.
Do you still have burning questions for us? Head over to Instagram and let us know!
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
We are making a Brave Noise – both physically and by brewing the beer!
If you haven’t heard about Brave Noise, it is a global collaboration beer started by Brienne Allan. It started as a question:
“Have you ever experienced sexism in the beer industry?”
This opened the flood gates to reports of not just sexism, but racism, homophobia and sexual assault within the beer industry and community. To honour those that have spoken out and to try to have a safer, more inclusive beer industry, the Brave Noise collaboration was born.
To take part breweries must submit their code of conduct and make this publicly available to staff and consumers. They must also commit to doing the long term work of building a more inclusive industry and make a donation to an appropriate charity or non-profit that reflects the mission of the collaboration.
We were honoured to be asked by Merakai Brewing Co to be part of their Brave Noise brew – not only brewing the beer with them but also expressing why the cause is so important to us and helping to choose the non-profit partner to receive funds from the sale of the beer.
We chose The Coven Brewsters Wellness Officer initiative. These with be trained staff that will attend beer events and festivals to help, support and act as witness for attendees.
In this episode we talk to the whole of our Brave Noise Team:
Emma O’Neill-Parsons @merakai_brewing
Bex Morton @bexdrinksbeer
Emmie Harrison-West @beerwomxn
Kimberly Owen @craftbeerpinup
Leeann Craven @craftbeer_redhead
Ranjana Cartwright @ranji86
And shout out to Rebecca Price (@beerme_becky) who couldn’t make it.
The beer has SOLD OUT from the Merakai website already but check out their socials to find all the local stockists who have supported the cause and grab yours from there.
If you would like to learn more about Brave Noise and encourage your favourite brewery to take part check out the website here:
www.bravenoisebeer.com
And if you want to find out more about The Coven Brewsters, check out episode 53 where we talked to their founder Pip here:
https://youtu.be/SMa0MYerabw
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Continuing our Women’s History Month series, we chat to Shannon from Brew Export UK. Shannon has built a global export business based on a college project that has been successfully running for 7 years. Despite Covid and US restrictions, Brew Export UK is managing to bring US craft beer to the UK at excellent prices and through cold chain storage.
Shannon’s story is quite inspiring and we loved chatting to her, finding out what is to come from Brew Export UK. We hope to have a beer with her one day in the future!
Check out Brew Export UK on Instagram for updates here:
https://www.instagram.com/brewexportuk/
And go order some great US fuss beer from the Brew Export UK website here:
https://brewexport.co.uk/
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
It’s March and that makes it’s Women’s History Month! In March we plan to showcase the voices of people who identify as female and we are kicking off with a chat with Sammi from First Sip Brew Box.
First Sip is a subscription and brewery merchandise service from Pennsylvania, USA but ship their awesome boxes worldwide. They are also black-owned, woman-owned and veteran-owned and do all they can to support everyone in the beer community.
Sammi talks us through how they got started, the interesting products they put in their boxes and how she finds them and introduces us to Big Dankie!
Take a look at their boxes on their website here:
https://firstsipbrewbox.com/
And give them a follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube my searching First Sip Brew Box.
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
This week we have been lucky enough to chat to Jordan from Unbarred Brewery. Not only do they brew amazing beer, they also support their local community and collaborate with local artists. From their home in Brighton they have big plans for the future!
We drink their Cold IPA – the first in a series of IPAs they are creating this year and a relatively new style here in the UK. Jordan talks us through the style and how it differs from a regular IPA.
You can find the Cold IPA and their other delicious beers on their webshop here:
https://www.unbarredbrewery.com/collections/frontpage
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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!
Tori and Jo both love coffee… they love coffee in beer even more! In this week’s episode Tori takes you on a tour through how coffee is harvested and made and Jo talks about how it’s used in beer. We recommend different coffee beer styles for you to try and hit you with the fun coffee and beer facts!
The similarities between beer and coffee are vast – do you love a bit of Joe in your beer? Let us know in the comments!
Beer featured from:
@sirencraftbrew
@phantombrewco
@madsquirrelbrew
@browarmaltgarden
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