Sheffield Hopcast

This month with James away on holiday in New York we decided to not let that get in our way and record April's episode anyway. We discuss New York and trips to America whilst using a transatlantic theme for our beers.

Alas it has arrived: Sheffield Beer Week 2022.

We head away from the city centre and down London Road to the super Jabbarwocky - if you need a better description of where it is, there's a very very long one in the episode.

James, Adam, Laura and Sean talk about their adventures for beer week so far including Indie Beer Feast and what else we have planned in the coming days.

And of course there are some lovely beers consumed including the launch of something very seasonal!

A month later than our usual anniversary episode we are back at Bar Stewards and joined by Charlie and Al A.K.A THE Bar Stewards.

We're back online this month because of you-know-what, so we put a brave face on it and share our Christmas Leftovers.

No, not turkey or nut roast - the beers we still have in the fridge after the festivities of the last few weeks.

We also discuss an alpaca named Gordon, the beer names of Eyam Brewery, Mastermind specialist subjects and find out what Sean won a massive trophy for.

Happy 4th birthday to us!

And so this is Christmas... and after spending it on Zoom last December, we're back out in Sheffield this year.

It's not quite a pub crawl but we pop into the Beer Engine and our old favourite the Rutland Arms for a couple of beers and some festive chit chat with Laura, Sean, Adam and James.

Whatever you're up to this Christmas - stay safe and all the best from us to you and your family.

Merry Christmas!

This month we visit one of Sheffield's newest ventures, The Social on Snig Hill. Tune in to find out what makes them a little bit different.

Expect some great beery (and often non-beery chat) as the team catches up on the last month's events.

James, Adam, Laura and Sean pay a visit to The Bear on Abbeydale Road - one of the newest venues in Sheffield.

And it's October so that means Halloween. Each of the crew have to decide whether they want a 'Treat' - a beer they'll definitely like - or a 'Trick' - something a bit out of their usual comfort zone.

We're joined by Matt, who runs The Bear, who tells us how his fledgling venue is already an award-winner.

Happy Halloween folks!

September takes us back to Sheffield and to a new venue - Industry Hophouse on Leadmill Road. It's owned by our good pal Darren, of Industry Tap fame, who also joined us on one of our lockdown episodes.

James, Laura and Sean set Darren the task of picking them each a perfect beer from his full to overflowing fridges. So where does the cock ale come in? Well have a listen and find out.

Industry Hophouse is well worth a visit and is two minutes from the train station, so a pretty perfect location.

With restrictions lifted we finally got the chance to have our Summer away day this year and after a lot of love shown for York in a recent episode, we decided we should pay it a visit.

In amongst all the beer chat we found time to check out Sean's best animal impressions and have a little chat about the recent Olympics... as you do!

James and Adam bring you a special podcast recorded live at this year's Tramlines festival at Hillsborough Park in Sheffield, including some highlights of the Everly Pregnant Brothers' set on Saturday afternoon and a chat with their lead singer, Big Shaun.

It was amazing to see so many people back together having fun. Lots of smiling, and lots of laughing.

Tramlines went ahead as a Government test event, with everyone needing proof of their Covid status using the NHS App. It was amazing well organised and run by the Tramlines team and a huge well done to all of them for making it all happen at such short notice.

Tickets for Tramlines 2022 go on sale 6pm on Monday 26 July here: https://tramlines.org.uk/

Find out more about the Everly Pregnant Brothers at https://everlypregnantbrothers.co.uk/ and get tickets for their September gig at Sheffield City Hall at https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/35005859D8CAA4FC?did=ukvenpre

You can also follow Shaun on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BrotherShaunEPB

Roll on Tramlines 2022 :)

WARNING: There's a quite a bit of swearing in this episode and if you're from Doncaster, Chesterfield, Rotherham, London or particularly Leeds, well.... if you're easily offended, you might want to give this one a miss hey?