Brewers Journal Podcast

What’s it like heading up production of the UK’s best-selling cask beer? Producing in excess of 1 million pints each week, coupled with a host of other beers, is no small feat. Alongside that, you’re managing a team of some 32 brewers to ensure your whole operation goes smoothly. It would be enough to keep...

How did a small bar in Leeds serving Beamish Red and Kronenbourg become a driving force in the craft beer revolution? Founded by John Gyngell and Christian Townsley (above) back in 1997, North Bar is an institution when it comes to great, modern beer. And nearly 25 years on, the team has just opened the...

As we remerge from lockdown, it’s important to reflect on the lessons we’ve learned from it. And when it comes to the ways we maintain our breweries, and the venues that sell much of the beer produced by these businesses, it’s imperative to ensure that the hygiene levels are impeccable. Belinda Jennings has worked in...

Making great beer that people enjoy is the goal of any brewer. Whether that’s a clean, crisp lager or a rich, decadent stout. Producing beers that make people happy is what it’s all about, isn’t it? But not every brewer follows the tried and tested path when it comes to the beers they create. So...

An Astrophysicist and brewer walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the start of a joke and in this instance, we actually talking about the same person. Bobby Fleshman, is the founder of McFleshman’s in Appleton, Wisconsin. Located a stone’s throw from Green Bay, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers football team, Bobby is...

Started in a shed but something that has become a local institution, Brick Brewery has come a long way since being founded in 2012. A brewery, like the London landscape that surrounds it, that has changed and evolved over the last nine years. And for the ever-growing fanbase of this excellent outfit, that progression has...

We’ve all been there, right? You know, travelling the best part of 3,500 miles across the Atlantic to go and see one of your favourite musicians play live in the company of a stranger. Well, that’s exactly what Rich White chose to do back in 2012. Flying from Syracuse in New York State to London,...

Brewing, like any other profession, can take us on a journey we might not have planned for. When Dylan Mobley (pictured far right) left his role at Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, to improve his work/life balance, he already had his next role mapped out. Instead, he’d spend the best part of the next five...

To make a mark in your field of expertise once is a sign of hard work and, perhaps, good fortune. To do that regularly shows there’s more at play than a bit of luck. Whether you’re in sports, a musician or maybe a director, to hit the mark time and time again shows that you’re...

The Czech Republic isn’t short of fantastic beer that’s for sure. But what happens when a group of childhood friends decide to get together and open a new brewery? Then you get Vinohradský Pivovar, of course… In this podcast we speak to the brewery’s managing director, Dan Hojdar, about how the Prague-business has made its...