This has been quite a year for Pellicle. Not only has it seen us set new records in terms of our readership, but we also released our first piece of print media in Katie Mather’s A PLACE TO BE and recruited the talented Claire Bullen onto our editorial team. Between us and our contributors we also picked up no less than 17 awards, including being named as the Beer Publication of the Year in 2025.

We’re dead chuffed as you can imagine, and have spent the holiday season taking stock ahead of planning out our content that will see us head into the new year with excitement and anticipation. 

This has included Matthew taking time to sit down, microphone on, and take stock of the year in Pellicle. Our podcast has had a great year too, picking up one of those 17 awards, and producing episodes consistently on a three-week release schedule. This will be our 18th episode of the year, ensuring that 2025 has seen us publish more features and podcast episodes than ever. 

In this episode, Matthew looks back at the year that’s been, taking time out to share a few thoughts on his favourite articles and podcast episodes. He also talks through what were his beer and pub experiences of the year, after his favourites were published by our good friends at Craft Beer & Brewing a few weeks ago. It’s good wholesome fun, best enjoyed with something delicious pulled from your stash.

Most importantly, none of this would have been possible without the incredible support of our Patreon subscribers, and our friends and sponsors at Get ‘Er Brewed. Thanks to all of you for making sure Pellicle has been as good as it can possibly be in 2025. If you’d like to support our award-winning work, and ensure all of our writers, illustrators, photographers and small team are paid fairly for their work, you can sign up for just the price of a pint a month by clicking here.