✨✨ NEW EPISODE ✨✨

Back in March, I did the rounds at SIBA Beer X with my mics to record some conversations about where various businesses were up to, what opportunities they saw, where the challenges lay, etc.

Wide variety of guests with too many characters for a tweet, so go find it online! 🎧

Got me a new episode of the pod this week with Kate from @handbrewco.bsky.social chatting all things brewing, beer and everything in between 🙌🍻

Go listen 🎧 bit.ly/3GULwj2

Best pint of cask ale I’ve had in ages from @kernelbrewery.bsky.social x @redwillowtoby.bsky.social at Walkley Beer Co.
Lovely lacing and a tight foamy head that would make Charlie Bamford proud. Plus a combo of not-exclusively-American hops made this exceptionally moreish given the ABV 🤤

NEW EPISODE of the Hop Forward Podcast is now LIVE featuring @davidjesudason.bsky.social talking about diversity, equity and inclusion... and The Simpsons!

Plus, I talk to Alix Blease from Lallemand about their 'magic power': ISY Enhance™

LISTEN NOW 🎧 bit.ly/4d1XnYG

NEW EPISODE featuring Dave from @indierabble.bsky.social and @ahoppyplace.bsky.social musing over the British beer scene, what it takes to run a brewery in 2025 and why they sell a shit load of NEIPA!

📻 TUNE IN: bit.ly/4bCFeQs

I logged into Twitter for the first time in a while and had a go with its AI 😂

FUNK YEAH!!! Brand new episode ✨✨
This week I'm joined by Dan Wye from @fyneales.bsky.social Origins to talk all things funk, farmyard and wild fermenation! We discuss barrels, foraging, packaging wild beers, selling them and a whole heap more!

Tune in: bit.ly/3WVKBUK

Never sure if anyone is actually reading these posts on Bluesky (not that Twitter was any better! 😂😭) but, for what it's worth, I recorded a great discussion with Nick from Steam Machine Brewing Co last September, which is finally available to listen...!

📻 TUNE IN: bit.ly/4hsc0W3

Went for a (Cannon Ball? run to the local supermarché earlier. Think everybody must have had the same idea as there were loads of other beers in the fridge but only a couple of Cannon Ball left!

I don’t know what will happen to Magic Rock… but I still really like this beer!

Been sitting on this recording for a while, so glad to finally get it on the t'interweb. Latest episode of my podcast features Dom from Buxton Brewery, talking about the challenges the brewery has faced and what lays ahead for the future.

📻 TUNE IN: hopforward.beer/episodes/bac...

Look what my youngest daughter bought me for Christmas! 😂🙌

✨🎄🍻 HOPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY 🍻🎄✨

Just in case you a) missed it and b) are dying to listen to a group of brewers and scientist-types talk about soil and barley on Christmas Eve rather than watching the greatest Christmas film of all time (Die Hard), then make sure you check out the latest episode of the Hop Forward Podcast 👀✨🎄

Having not had a beer (other than sampling beer from tank for QA purposes) since mid-November, tomorrow I break my beer fast. It’s been quite a journey! 😮‍💨 I’ve got so many great beers stored up I really don’t know which one to start with…!

Candidates are as follows:

What would you go for…?

📻 NEW EPISODE
“Are Regenerative Barley and Low-Impact Ingredients the Future of Sustainable Brewing?”

Recorded at Beer X in March, I host a panel discussion with @gipsyhillbrew.bsky.social, Stroud Brewery, Zevero and the @soilassocscot.bsky.social.

Take a listen 🎧
bit.ly/3P6RKxi

A year to the date since the last full episode, the Hop Forward Podcast is BACK 🤩

We kickstart Season 6 with a proper sound episode featuring Mike and Stu from Liverpool's Colbier. I also catch up with Sarah from Crisp Malt.

Sponsored by Charles Faram & Crisp Malt.

🎧 bit.ly/colbier

One week to go until I publish the first full episode of the Hop Forward Podcast since last year... exactly 365 days ago to be precise next Wednesday!

It's been a long journey to get back to this point but I'm glad to be a) sharing new content and b) on a platform where people will actually see it!

MUSIC NEWS!!! On Fri 7th Dec, I'm releasing an old-new song. Written over 23 years ago, "Jamie's Magic Rocket" never quite got the airing I felt it deserved.

Well, now you can help me get a Christmas No.1 with this completely new recording 🎄🎄

🎧 PRE-SAVE: distrokid.com/hyperfo.../n...

Anyone else getting an ‘Invalid Handle’? Just noticed it on mine 😔