Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!

Well, here we are again at the end of another year. It’s been better than 2020, that’s for sure. Tori and Jo reflect on the things they have achieved this past 12 months and look at what is to come in 2022. There was a lot to be thankful for – including good beer, good people and of course you our fantastic listeners for coming along for the ride!

We do a quick review of Christmas beers, see if we managed to complete our 2021 beer goals (spoiler – we didn’t!) and set some new goals for 2022. But what do you want to see from A Woman’s Brew: The Podcast in 2022? Send us an email with your thoughts and wishes to [email protected]and we will see if we cn make them come true!

Cheers to a Happy New Year – see you in 2022!

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Welcome to A Woman’s Brew, where women talk about beer!

We’re not sommeliers, but let’s talk barley wine. The nights are drawing in and we need big beers to sip by the fire (even if it’s playing on YouTube). We look at the history of barley wines and compare English and American styles. We also talk about what constitutes a wheat wine. So go grab yourself some big beers for the holiday season and let us know what your favourite is over on Instagram.

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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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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/

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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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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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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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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 [email protected]

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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

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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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