Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It has been hot, hot, hot, but the beers are still nice and cold for the latest episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! We enjoy speaking to all our guests, but every so often we have a chat to breweries where the enjoyment in what they do really shines through, and this was the case with Neighbourhood Brew Co . Based near Stockport, Jake and Corinne are very proud of their beers, and with good reason. Dave B was suitably impressed to p...
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 74
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Tonsillitis troubles and festival frolics, but you don't have to wait any longer, the latest episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast, is here! The sun is shining again and there's not much better than enjoying a crisp lager and a few rays at the same time. Blackjack Brew Co feel the same as evidenced by the seven styles of lager they brew! Matt from the brewery joins us for a deep dive on all things lager and Blackjack. Titanic Plum Port...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 73
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! May is proving a big month for birthdays and Daftaboutcraft are here for another celebration in our latest episode! Mysterious Brewing turned two by the time you listen to this and we spoke to co-founders and co-brewers Adam Sculthorpe and Ken Adams to get the lowdown on what they had planned for the big day plus everything that has happened since they launched. It's a great chat, and one that shows how you can grow a brewery slowly and organicall...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 72
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! This episode is a special bonus, which we are delighted to release to coincide with a brand new craft brewery being launched in the UK. Coldframe Brewing is launching today, May 2, and we were able to talk to the man behind the project, Simon Court, just days before the big launch. Simon's ethos is to brew beers that are connected to the local area, in this case Cornwall. Simon is passionate about creating and sourcing ingredients that are part of...
May 02, 2025•42 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Have an early Easter treat on us, its the latest episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! Sulwath Brewery have been operating for 30 years this year and were an amazing surprise to both Daves in our feature interview. Scott Henderson is the third generation of the family to be involved in the brewery and he got in touch having listened to previous episodes. If you want classic beers brewed to an exceptionally high standard, Sulwath are f...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 71
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Easter may not be quite here yet, but that doesn't mean you can't have a treat, go on, indulge yourself, it's another episode of Daftaboutcraft! We love finding out about the people behind the beer, and in James and Nia Rylance, aka Ideal Day Family Brewery from Cornwall, there's a great story to be told. James will probably be able to forget more about beer than most people will ever learn, having been around the scene for a long time - and he ha...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 70
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Spring has just about sprung and it's time for another hit of your favourite craft beer podcast, Daftaboutcraft, THE craft beer podcast! Rewind to 2024 and both Daves were blown away by a new brewery putting out excellent pales. Dark Element Brew Co proved the hype was real with a stunning first year of brewing, and the man behind the magic, Tom Kendall, joins us to discuss how the year has been, as well as enjoying some birthday beers to mark the...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 69
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Not one but two episodes to start the year and, after chatting to Ben Gibbs, aka Sober Boozers Club, we felt it was only right to give him his own episode. Ben's story on how he overcame alcoholism and has become an authority on alcohol-free craft beer is inspiring, fascinating and unflinching in equal measure. The craft beer scene has caught up to making quality alcohol-free beer and in some part that is due to people like Ben, who have champione...
Jan 28, 2025•40 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's a new year and a new episode of your favourite craft beer podcast, Daftaboutcraft! We start 2025 with a returning guest, but this time he brought beer! A lot has changed for Dan Harvey, aka Radio City Beer Works , since we last spoke to him in October 2022. The brewery has gone from strength to strength and Dan brings us up to speed with all the changes. A new year requires a new feature, so in Pints Of View, Dave and Dave discuss whether one...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 68
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Dave D was recently asked to take part in a live Instagram and LinkedIn chat with The Brand Weaver called Beer Meets Podcast: How to get your brewery heard . The conversation deals with some Daftaboutcraft history and touches on how a podcast like ours can potentially help a small craft brewery. It was something different for us and an experience we really enjoyed. So, just in case you missed out on hearing the chat, we're adding it to our collect...
Jan 20, 2025•30 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Longtime listeners will know that as much both Daves love beer, they also love cheese! Each year there has been a special bonus cheese and beer episode for Christmas, but this year is definitely the best yet! Andy from The Courtyard Dairy in Settle, on the borders of the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District, joins us to talk through some wonderful British cheeses, and discusses the type of beers that work best with them. Andy's knowledge is second to...
Dec 19, 2024•39 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Ho ho ho! It's time for your Christmas instalment of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! Dave D and Dave B must have been good this year, as they finish on a high with some awesome beers courtesy of Oxfordshire-based Bman Brewery . Alex Berryman is the man behind the beer and tells us all about how Bman came to pass. Brew To Me only has one beer, but it's a doozy, as Twisted Tree Brewery continue the Oxfordshire theme with a corking stout that...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 67
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! In our latest bonus episode we chew the fat with Ben Balla-Muir, sales director for Only With Love Brewery in Lewes, East Sussex. After a busy summer on the festival circuit, Only With Love are now in collab mode and also starting to gear up for dry January, which is anything but dry for them given their range of alcohol-free and low-alcohol beers, together with calorie-free sodas. Ben tells us all about the brewery, his journey in the beer indust...
Nov 06, 2024•39 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's Halloween! And what better thing to do at Halloween than mess around with pumpkins! We might not be doing any carvings but what we're doing this time is trying not one, not two, but three pumpkin beers from those Sheffield legends Abbeydale Brewery , whose pumpkin spiced ale Pilgrim was first released in 2017 and now forms the backbone of the trilogy we're sampling. Joining the original are Twilight Pilgrim, a pumpkin spice latte stout and Im...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 66
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's time again to listen to Dave and Dave, it's another episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! Our main guests hail from Swindon, as Vibish Brewery join us. Dan and Tom have carved out a loyal local following but their beers can easily hold their own on a wider scale... these guys are names to note! Kohia Nelson has piqued the interest of both Daves over the last few months, and they complete their journey with the hop courtesy of Thr...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 65
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! We're back, and we've got not one, but two new sponsors on board! We're delighted to now be backed by Craft Brew Festival , curators of unique beer festival experiences across Britain, and Mosaic Board Print , manufacturers of epic beermats. On to our latest episode, and we had a very informative chat with Will France, Brand Manager for Weekend Project Brewing Co . This Cheshire-based outfit may be new in terms of releasing beer, but the experienc...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 64
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's that time again, it's a new episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! In one of our most packed episodes ever, there's not one, not two, but three Daves on the podcast as we chat to Dave Goddard, aka Trapped Under Ice Brewing . Dave surprised us with an imperial stout in the post and he is looking to get up and running on a larger scale very soon! Join us for an interesting chat with a brewer right at the beginning of his journey! Br...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 63
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Last month, Durham Brewery celebrated their 30th birthday and released a special beer to mark the occasion. We were blown away with the barrel aged versions of Imperious that we tried last year, and were delighted to chat to owner and head brewer Elly Bell. Elly took over the business and brewing operations from her father-in-law Steve Gibbs in 2020, and since then has overseen a huge amount of exciting and innovative beers. Sumerian, the brewery'...
Aug 05, 2024•43 min
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Summer has briefly shown itself recently, and Stewart Brewing took advantage of the warm weather with some special releases that definitely hit the spot! We sample four beers and are led through by the process by Nathan and Sam from the brewery. Hype or Tripe hones in not a beer, or even a brewery, instead the focus is on the Kohai Nelson hop. It takes centre stage in Floc Brewing's Dipa, Plenty. Is it a hit or a miss? Have a listen to find out! D...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 62
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Dave B has often bemoaned the lack of options in his part of the world, but he has nothing to complain about this time around, with not one, but two, breweries from Essex and Cambridgeshire! Alan from St Botolphs Brewery offers a fascinating insight in what it's like to be brewing on a small scale at a target audience, while Ricky Dolphin from Burwell Brewery provides more classic beers with a modern twist. Dave D is angry, again, in our Tried and...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 61
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's another little milestone for the podcast as we release our 60th episode! We're closing in on four years of Daftaboutcraft but there's no sign of slowing down! Big beers are the order of the day with our guest, Mike Watch, aka Breakbeat Brewing . Mike unashamedly brews imperial stouts and not much else and when he's as good at it as he is, why do anything different? Our Brew To Me selections are from a chance encounter in a service station for...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 60
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Easter has been and gone but we've still got lots of hops for you in the latest episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! Our main guest is Alex Bell, who is head brewer for New Wharf Brewing Co . Alex has a raft of experience in the industry, dating back the best part of three decades, and that shines though in a discussion that ranges from fish and chips to witches and everything in between! Brew To Me has a pair of beers which sound si...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 59
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's Easter this week, and we have something better to offer than chocolate, the latest episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! The two Daves may be left hopping mad later in the year, as they take on Siren Craft's three 'Guess The Hop' beers. The results won't be in for a couple of months, but the taste test was still very enjoyable! Our guest for this episode is Sean O'Reilly from Brid's Cross Brewing (pronounced Breed's). Sean is a n...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 58
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! We're back with a brand new episode, and also the start of a new era for the podcast! Having hinted at our big news on the previous episode, we're delighted to announce our new partnership with Tap Door . Tap Door is a craft beer webshop with a difference, as they, like us, love to shine a light on smaller breweries. The beers you hear us talking about on episodes will more often than not be available on Tap Door, and we're looking forward to work...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 57
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's the Valentine's Day gift you've been hoping for, another episode of Daftaboutcraft, the craft beer podcast! There's a distinctly Welsh feel to this episode as we feature not one but two breweries based in the land of the dragon. First up are Axeljack Brewery , aka Craig and Ian, who only started their South Wales-based brewery in August 2023, but have wasted no time in releasing quality beer. While Craig looks after the brewing, father-in-law...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 56
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Welcome to our first episode of the new year! We're back (that's us, Dave B and Dave D) with a whole raft of craft beer goodies for you. We chew the fat with Dan Wright from Hideaway Brewing Company, one of six breweries in Salford, and he tells us 'it's all about people' as we discuss the realities of the beer industry at a time when breweries are closing on what seems a daily basis. Just because it's January doesn't mean we're not drinking - far...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 55
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! It's Christmas! And with the festive season comes what has become a Daftaboutcraft tradition, so we're pairing up another six beers with six cheeses in a bid to find the perfect taste sensation. But that's just part of this bumper episode as we're also shining the spotlight on new York-based nano operation Trig Brewery , whose webshop has gone live in the last few days. We talk to founder Patrick, find out what made him want to start a brewery in ...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 54
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Our latest episode kicks off in traditional style with the Brew To Me feature. Dave B heads to Surrey to check out a beer from Disruption Is Brewing , while Dave D pinpoints Scotland's most southerly operation and tries Summerisle from Five Kingdoms Brewery . We are joined by Craig and Gareth from Worcestershire's 3 Words Brewing for an in-depth chat about a hobby that turned into a business and is all about brewing harder to find craft beer style...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 53
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! We kick off episode 52 of our craft beer podcast with Brew To Me, in which we sample beers from breweries we have yet to try. This time the spotlight falls on Renegade Brewery in Berkshire and Iron Pier Beer from Kent. We're in Reading for our main chat this time, getting the lowdown on an operation that is not just about the beer, but also about the music and the films. All will become clear as we chat to Rich from Future State Brew , who is as p...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 52
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages! Welcome to episode 51 of the craft beer podcast presented by Dave B and Dave D. This time we're peeling back the layers of Edinburgh's Stewart Brewing to find it's not at all what we expected. We find out about their Project 7, an innovative concept that has produced all manner of exotic offerings since its inception in 2018. As we're chatting with brewer Nathan, we try their Oktoberfest beer, and that is a theme that runs throughout the episode. ...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 51
