This Week in Craft Beer

Crafty Cats started life in lockdown No.1 as the brothers bunkered down in the family farmhouse to ride out the pandemic. Having dabbled in home-brewing for some time, they decided to start sharing the fruits of their labour with friends and family.

In September, following positive reviews and perhaps beginning to believe their own hype, they took the plunge and bought a 4 barrel brew house and set up in a disused barn on the farm.

Crafty Cats, born out of lockdown, two brothers, back in the family farmhouse, with nothing left to do, but brew.

https://craftycats.beer/

The Cats wholeheartedly recommend The Hive in Crowthorne. Please check it out...!

https://www.thehivecraft.co.uk/

Bone Machine Brew Co. are a fierce craft brewery inspired by a love of stoner rock, cosmo punk, Russian music and an idiosyncratic sense of humour. Underpinning the apparent chaos lies great values of honesty, hard work and innovation.

Originally established in 2017 in East Riding, Bone Machine relocated to the splendid Taphouse in Hull in 2019, which must be a contender for Britain's largest Brewpub?!

https://bone-machine-brew-co.myshopify.com/

https://www.taphousehull.co.uk/

Kimi wholeaheartedly recommends https://www.vittlesandcompany.co.uk/

Roman is a Dutchman who was born in Brussels, but he studied for many years in London.

After completing his studies, Roman began brewing part-time in 2014 on a farm near Ilford. Inspired by both the scientific and brewing traditions of his birthplace, Roman named his brewery Solvay Society and began producing modern Belgian-style beers with a twist.

In 2019, Solvay Society opened a railway-arch Taproom in Leytonstone, East London, and are currently fundraising to relocate their brewery into the adjacent arch.

https://www.solvaysociety.com/

Roman wholeheartedly recommends the following establishments:

http://www.fillybrook.com/construction/ https://www.facebook.com/fillybrook/

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=tottenham%20wines

https://indiebeer.co.uk/

Oli and Sam met at Cardiff Uni where Sam began brewing in his bedroom at their shared house.

After graduating, Sam moved back to Birmingham and began brewing in his attic. Meanwhile Oli almost escaped to the world of advertising in London, before Sam dragged him back in, to start Attic Brew Co in 2018, in the modern-style of a Taproom led Brewery on the Stirchley beer mile!

https://atticbrewco.com/

Olie wholeheartedly recommends Stirchley Wines & Spirits

https://www.stirchleywines.co.uk/

Jordan began as a home brewer a decade ago. In 2014 he launched Unbarred as a 100l nano brewery in his back garden, and began to win awards.

Jordan went on to serve his apprenticeship, volunteering at local Sussex breweries, before joining up with Missing Link in 2017, brewing both for Unbarred as well as for other Contract breweries based there.

In 2019 Unbarred were finally able to establish their own home brewery and taproom in Central Brighton.

https://www.unbarredbrewery.com/

Jordan wholeheartedly recommends Rockwater in Hove https://rockwater.uk/

FLOC Brewing was established in Margate in 2020 to brew hop-forward, delicious beers with the finest ingredients. FLOC beers are liquid sunshine - beer that makes people smile!

https://www.flocbrewing.com/

Ross wholeheartedly recommends Time & Tide Brewing https://www.timeandtidebrewing.co.uk/

I am delighted to welcome to the podcast Shaz and Mike from Docks Beers in Grimsby.

Docks Beers was established in Grimsby in 2018 and was built from the ground-up in a disused Grimsby Mission church.

www.docksbeers.com

Named after the mythical carnivorous version of the cuddly koala, Drop Bear was launched by Joelle and Sarah in 2019 with a clear mission - brew game-changing alcohol-free beer and build a better world in which to drink it.

https://www.dropbearbeers.com/

Joelle and Sarah would love you to consider investing in Drop Bear via their CrowdCube Campaign here:

https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/drop-bear-beer-co/pitches/bVpmVl

Joelle and Sarah wholeheartedly recommend Cheers Win Merchants in Swansea

https://www.cheerswinemerchants.co.uk/

For Joe and his friends, Jon and Russ, it all got a little out of control in 2015, when they first uttered the sentence ‘Hey! Shall we get together on Sunday and brew some beer?’.

From the moment they started they knew they weren’t cool and they couldn't grow beards, so they focused on what they knew best… brewing quality beer (and dinosaur puns)!

https://www.staggeringlygood.com/

Joe wholeheartedly recommends https://thebeermusketeer.com/

Check out Staggeringly Good's amazing 2018 CrowdCube pitch video here https://vimeo.com/301574335

I am delighted to welcome to the podcast, Lotte Peplow - The American Craft Beer Ambassador for Europe for the Brewers Association.

The Brewers Association is an American not-for-profit Trade Association, who can take considerable credit for the prosperity of the Independent US Craft Beer Scene, which is celebrated and revered by Craft Beer Fans the World over.

https://www.brewersassociation.org/