I think I first met Tom around 2019 when we were both working for Northern Monk - him in the ground-floor brewery, and me at the first-floor taproom

He's worked a variety of brewies across the North in the past decade, and has run the beer podcast, Beernomicon, for the past 6 or so years - this becoming a brewery of sorts under its Cvlt of Independence collab series

He's the person I'd always go to if I had a serious question about literally anything beer-related, so it was fantastic to finally dig into where all this knowledge has come from, and yes, why is he now making cider. And how do you make cider? And is it a Cidery or something else I can't think up?!

Let's find out