Growing Beer Podcast
1) S2:E6 - Sustainability
It's the final episode, certainly for this series and I suspect for the Growing Beer journey. We've spent the last 5 episodes delving into our brewing past and exploring our local environment - it's ...Show More
2) S2:E5 - The Brew
We're into the final stretch, going through the last couple of processes with the ingredients and equipment, and then into the brew itself. We're in another national lockdown so it's just me this epis...Show More
3) S2:E4 - Foraging
We're heading out into the countryside as we go on the hunt for the wild plants that we can use to brew our ale in the final episode. We'll find out about herbs, hops and gathered and grown barley, wh...Show More
4) S2:E3 - Barley
This episode we're finding out about that key ingredient - barley. I speak to an archaeologist and brewing duo to find out how beer came to our shores, what is was like and what I need to do to get ba...Show More
5) S2:E2 - Bees and mead
This episode we're on the hunt for that earliest of sugar sources - honey. I take a visit to beekeeper and mead-maker Thomas O'Hanlan to find out more about these amazing little insects, the honey the...Show More
6) S2:E1 - Finding Beer
I'm back for a second series and this time we will be taking a journey through history as well as beer. 2020 will see us finding out how our earliest counterparts would have made those first brews, lo...Show More
7) The End
We're at the end of the year, at the end of the project, and about to find out if it was all worth it. I run through the final few days, announce the name and open up that first bottle with an inte...Show More
8) Episode 10 - Fermentation and bottling
In this, the penultimate episode, we've safely navigated the brew but I've still got to guide the beer through the fermentation, bottling, naming and labelling. I catch up with graphic designer Jim...Show More
9) Episode 9 - Brewing
It's the start of November and after 11 months of digging, growing and harvesting we've finally arrived at the big day - it's time to combine the barley, hops, water and yeast and get on with the brew...Show More
10) Episode 8 - Harvest pt.II
It's the last activity on the allotment as I work out how to judge when the hops are ripe before picking and drying them ahead of the brew. I then catch up with Jake at Crisp Malting to find out ho...Show More