For this week’s Hopinions, we drink 4 beers, all without alcohol and chat about whether they’re actually any good.

Beer | Beck’s ‘Blue’, St Peter’s ‘Without’, Brewdog ‘Nanny State’ and Erdinger ‘Alkoholfrei’

Hopinions | Alcohol free beers (we’re talking 0.5% and below)…

Blogs | The Ale Trail, Beervana and the Pub Curmudgeon

Prizeless Prize | Congrats to Gregor J on winning this week’s big box of nothing

Bonus | Martin & Steve finish the show by gaining their Untappd ‘Elite’ badge with a very special beer

Many thanks to the folks at St Peter’s Brewery for sending through samples of Without and to the checkout assistant at a well-known supermarket for taking our money for the other two. Neither experience has influenced our thoughts. 

The first ‘proper’ Hopinions show is packed full of news, 3 great beers fresh from the US and some chatter about labelling and freshness.

Beer | Cigar City Brewing Invasion Pale Ale, Jai Alai IPA and Jai Alai IPA aged on white oak

Hopinions | Should breweries include bottled/canned on dates as well as BBD?

Blogs | Justin Mason, Pete McKerry & Mark Johnson

Prizeless Prize | Congrats to Gammon Baron on winning the first ‘new’ big box of nothing

Interview | Steve talks to Neil from Cigar City Brewing

T-Shirt | Get your limited edition Hopinions t-shirt before 29 September here

Many thanks to the folks at  Cigar City Brewing for the hospitality shown when I visited the brewery. These beers weren’t gifted but were hugely discounted but that didn’t influence our thoughts. 

Welcome to Hopinions, the new podcast from the Beer O’clock Show.

In this pilot episode, Steve & Martin get to grips with presenting a new show, play around with some sour beers and talk about the latest Hopinions.

Beer | Petrus Aged Pale, Petrus Oud Bruin & Petrus Aged Red

Hopinions | Should GBBF feature exclusively British Beer?

Blogs | Pete McKerry & Matt Chinnery

Groovy tune | Thanks to Duncan Vaughan, a musician from Sheffield for producing our new theme music. Find out more about Duncan’s work here.

Many thanks to the folks at Boutique Bar Brands for sending over the Petrus beers for us to try. We were gifted these beers this but that didn’t influence our thoughts. These are now available from Ales By Mail.

It’s our last ever show and we’re live from Hop Burns & Black in what was an emotional evening as we said goodbye.

Featuring two collab brews that we made – ‘Echo Peach’ our salted peach IPA with Northern Monk and ‘Starship Fleet: Wave 2’ with Elusive Brewing. We’re also joined by Andy Parker from Elusive Brewing as we try his collab in a cask vs keg tasting.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our listeners for sticking with us for the last 4 years and for engaging in all of our madness. Thank you also to all of the suppliers, shops, breweries, brewers, event organisers that we’ve worked with over the years, it truly has been our pleasure.

For one last time folks, it’s Beer O’clock!

Images courtesy of Justin Mason (top) and Matt Curtis (bottom)

On 26 July 2012, we released the first ever ‘Beer O’clock Show’. Almost 4 years to the date we’re now releasing our last ever ‘studio’ show.

It’s an emotional episode as Mark & Steve are joined by long-term #No1Fan Myles Lambert to reminisce about the past and to enjoy Almasty Brewing Co’s ‘Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout’.

Some big news this week, a final #Hopinions and we award the last-ever Beer O’clock Show great big boxes of nothing in the #prizelessprize and the bonus GIF #prizelessprize

It’s Beer O’clock!

Check out Myles post about Almasty Brewing Co here and many thanks to the folks at Almasty for providing us with the beers for this show.