You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month we welcome Ali of the London Pub Explorer, an incredible Instagram account that documents the best pubs in London. While beer geeks tend to focus on the beer lists, Ali focuses on their history, the buildings and the stories while campaigning for their protection and the culture that has built around them. We talk about London's great pubs, gentrification, the impact of craft beer, chain pubs and loneliness. Check ou...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 27 min
This week we talk RISKY BOYS, the strong version of a crispy boy that we just made up. We also dive into the hundreds and hundreds of comments on our video about Cloudwater's move into supermarkets, and reveal some of the episodes coming your way soon after a mammoth week of recording. Watch this week's video here , read Jonny's GBH piece on Cloudwater here , and watch Jonny drink too many risky boys here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent ...
Apr 23, 2021•26 min
This week we are assume you're all in the pub, or listening to this hungover after being in the pub. So enjoy this soothing ASMR version of Friday 5pm. Ok not really, actually we talk about maggots quite a bit so it's kind of the opposite. We also talk Best Bitters, take a trip to Harvey's Brewery, and take a question on homebrewing outside. Watch this week's video here and watch our video at the amazing Forest & Main here. Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble...
Apr 16, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 49
It looks like we dodged a bullet with our What Even Is Lambic video this week, so join in the relief in this week's Friday 5pm! We read through our favourite comments, go on rants about Fourpure's new Lager branding, THAT Punk Squirrel IPA video and take a question about Belgium's amazing beer glassware. Watch this week's video here , join tonight's live show here , watch the Punk Squirrel video here and see Michael Jackson on Conan here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 48
It's Good Friday tomorrow so that means that Friday feeling starts a day early! Join us for the behind the scenes chat about this week's Low Brau episode – the first in a new playlist about beer tech. We also get stuck into a question about extract brewing, and tomorrow's appearance on Siren's Grateful 8 Digital Beer fest! Watch this week's video here and pick up the Siren Craft Brew taste-along pack here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent ...
Apr 01, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 47
It's Caskmas Eve and Jonny are like two kids waiting for Santa as we prepare for the Cask Festival Broadcast tomorrow with Five Points. Listen in as they chat about Easter beer, Cascadian Dark Ale, taking AC/DC to court in shorts, and why breweries insist on putting giant beers in 440ml cans. Watch this week's video here , join the Five Points Cask Festival Broadcast here tomorrow from 6pm, and pick up the Siren Craft Brew taste-along pack here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer ...
Mar 26, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 46
This week Jonny and Brad filmed their first video on location since October, and celebrated by having one too many. They carry that energy over to today's podcast with lots of rambling about spies, bottomless lasagne and the benefits of slow mo for padding out short episodes. Finally, we take a great question about isolating and propagating wild yeasts! Watch this week's video here , buy the Five Points Minicask her e and watch our video with Yonder here . Brought to you by the team behind the C...
Mar 19, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 45
After a brief rant at the absolutely STATE of the world, we enjoy an typically nonsensical chat about technology and beer, the art and science of homebrew, the cultural loss of pubs being closed, and something about fake Glenn's Vodka nearly sending Brad to an early grave. Watch this week's video here , see the Red IPA recipe here and buy the Five Points Cask Ale box here . You can also read Jonny's Good Beer Hunting piece on the cultural loss of COVID-19 here . Finally, if you want to understan...
Mar 12, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 44
This week we look back on our biggest video of the year – Stout vs Porter. We analyse the bits we got wrong, the bits we got right and whether a Stout can ever be referred to as crispy. Somewhere along the line this turns on a lot of chat about Batman, and how he would have to monetise his work in the modern world. Yeah it's one of those episodes. Watch this week's video here and buy the Siren Festival box here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irrev...
Mar 05, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 43
You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month we chat to Jonny's favourite Youtuber, Alex – also known as French Guy Cooking. Alex has over 1.7 million subscribers who love his unique, obsessive and story-focused approach to cooking videos. Sure you get recipes and tips, but mostly you see a madman building beef-ageing machines, making his own knives and pans, and taking on Michelin chefs at their signature dishes. We talk about the murky business of Youtube, Al...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Phil Collins has haunted a few of our videos and podcasts, but never as much as he does today as we dive straight into Brad's bizarre dream about red plastic, that Call on Me Video, and which of Phil Collin's songs are least cool. Oh – we also talk about this week's 100k subscriber celebration video, and take a question about beer snobbery. Watch this week's video here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent look at beer from the outside, inviti...
Feb 26, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 41
This week Jonny blindsides Brad with a cracking question from the audience about his dream bar taplist. They also discuss the 400 comments left on their final World Series episode about the best core beers, the idea of serving cask on the beach in Rio De Janiero, and tonight's live show with the one and only Beak. Watch this week's video here , and enjoy that Shit Guinness Instagram account here Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent look at beer...
Feb 19, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 40
This week Brad got up very early in the morning and seems to have found the BBC News most-read section, while Jonny got up very late with a Franconian Kellerbier hangover. They wrestle the train back on track to talk about their Best Brewery in the World video, go through the comments and take a question from a viewer about beer and pudding matching. Watch this week's video here , our video about Green Bench here , and check out our merch store here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft ...
Feb 12, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Jonny's back on the booze, Brad is having out of body experiences and we manage a podcast that is mostly about beer! Join us as we dissect Jonny's Dry January video, some great comments on the role of alcohol in flavour extraction and why all DIPAs seem to be 8% ABV. Watch this week's video here and join the Pressure Drop live show here ! Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent look at beer from the outside, inviting new people to give us their pe...
Feb 05, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 37
You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month Jonny goes solo as he interviews a hero of his, Grant Hutchison, the drummer of Scottish rock band Frightened Rabbit. The band produced several critically acclaimed albums but never quite got beyond cult status, not realising the impact they had on the world until Grant's brother Scott, the singer in the band, took his own life. This week we talk about the pressures of being a cult band, of mental health and music, a...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 19
We're off topic right from the start this week, covering off the zombie apocalypse before getting into this week's video about misinformation in the beer scene. We then take a huge question from a viewer about whether homebrewing hurts the industry before bringing it all back to zombies again. Happy Friday! Watch this week's video here , buy the Pressure Drop Taste Along Box here , and find out about BigFoot Festival here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble tak...
Jan 29, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 39
This week we talk about our surprisingly popular wit-based video, and get a history lesson from the comments that explains how dried orange peel and coriander might have ended up in a northern European beer style. On top of that we discuss the sad news that Achel is losing its Trappist designation – and suggest some TOTALLY workable solutions to the problem. Watch this week's video here and buy the Pressure Drop Taste Along Box here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The...
Jan 22, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Jonny is still struggling through Dry January and Brad is baiting him with one of the beers we picked as the best ever in this week's video. Join in as we discuss that never-ending search for the world's greatest beer, ruminate on the idea of brewery yoga and plot the addition of goats into the mix. We also take a question from a New Englander about American beer in the UK. Watch this week's video here , plus our boat drinking in Prague and Stavanger . Most importantly here is the video in which...
Jan 15, 2021•32 min
It's the first Friday 5pm of the year and we've started as we mean to go on – by jinxing the world with positive vibes and stretching the idea of a 20 minute podcast to its limits. This week we talk about WHY THE HELL Jonny is doing Dry January, delve deep into the comments on our Big In 2021 trends video, and spend an inordinate amount of time debating the merits of different Star Wars films and TV shows. Watch this week's video on beer trends here, and watch a playlist of Brad's favourite Mand...
Jan 08, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 36
You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This month we are joined by the hosts of the MFT podcast – one of whom just happens to be Kevin Baird of the awesome band Two Door Cinema Club. We spend a happy – and sometimes not so happy – hour debating the best Christmas songs and what a Christmas song even is. You'll be amazed by the variation in what we pick including Bob Dyan, Sufjan Stevens, Chris Rea and the Pretenders. You can also expect plenty of weird and wonderful...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 18
It's the last Friday 5pm podcast of the year, so we've got a bumper edition as we look back on an amazing year's content, as well as our recent Live Show and Christmas Beer video. You'll also hear several Brad derailments including, but by no means limited to: The Munsters, murder, how to tell if someone is lying, melons, and the price of cheese boards. Watch this week's homebrew video here and visit our merch store here ! You can also watch our videos Strongest Beer in the World , What Even Is ...
Dec 18, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 35
We're getting to the business end of Christmas, and this week we talk about the second episode of our Mince Pie Dubbel homebrew video and just what went wrong. We also talk about the new British Beer Writer of the Year, and Brad tries and fails to make a Scotch Egg sound sexy. Watch this week's homebrew video here , read Lily Waite's best work here , visit our merch store here and join our liveshow tomorrow at 8pm here ! Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes ...
Dec 11, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 34
It's Friday it's CHRISTMAS! Ish. Join us for our first ever festive edition of Friday 5pm as we look back at our Christmas brew day video (mince pie dubbel anyone?), get railroaded by Brad's Cornish Brie, and take a question about artisan Snake Bite... which leads us down a whole new avenue of misadventure. Watch this week's homebrew video here , get the box for our liveshow here , and visit our merch store here ! Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irre...
Dec 04, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 33
It's a wild one this week as Brad blames the bongos for his attempted murder at Glastonbury, we relive our favourite ever beer moments, and reflect on the impact of our last two videos all about cider. We also dive into the comments section to get your views, and tell you a little bit about next week's homebrew episode. Watch this week's cider video here and watch our Kout adventure here! Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an irreverent look at beer from t...
Nov 27, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 32
We managed to find a new way to introduce the podcast! Kind of! This week we talk about our new merch store, how this week's video about the cider harvest in Herefordshire has got us all nostalgic about...well, being allowed outside, and then cheer ourselves up with some hilarious talk about methanol poisoning. Happy Friday, I guess? Watch this week's cider harvest video here , visit our merch store here , and find out about BrewDog's Collabfest right here . Brought to you by the team behind the...
Nov 20, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week we still have the taste of an awful beer from Wednesday's upload, but there's lots more important things to talk about like our huge new Patreon benefit and Brad's girly hat. Finally we take a question about pastry beer and whether we're all over it yet. Seems we aren't. Watch this week's Hypetrain video with Hudson Valley here , read Jonny's rant about Cantillon here, and support our Patreon right HERE for access to our new forum! You can also watch tomorrow's live show at this link t...
Nov 13, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 30
You’re listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. In what might be our best episode yet, we have a Zoom call with the inimitable Rufus Hound – comedian, actor, polemist and now DWARF BARBARIAN. We talk to him about his attempt to visit every pub called the Red Lion in London, then move onto his new obsession of Dungeons & Dragons – and how it has helped save him from personal demons related to the end of his marriage, his fury at the government and the loneliness of Lockdo...
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 17
It's a big week at the Craft Beer Channel! As well as talking about this week's video with Hop't Hot Sauce we launch an exciting new Patreon perk, announce our next live show and dig into our upcoming Bubble episode with Rufus Hound about Dungeons & Dragons – as well Brad's very strange connection to him. We also talk about temperance, the demise of Shelton Brothers and why Brad was up all Wednesday night singing AC/DC. Watch us cooking up a storm with Hop't here, read about Shelton Brothers...
Nov 06, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week it's a bit of a chaotic one as we catch Jonny on a shoot day with Hackney Brewery. We talk through our pumpkin beer triumph, Brad boasts about his beef bourguignon, and we take an involved question about getting into beer writing. There is also even MORE Spice Girl chat. Watch the latest homebrewed pumpkin coffee porter video here , and register for all the info about Hackney's Pay It Forward campaign here Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes an ir...
Oct 30, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week "Bob" and "Jim" dive into the manufactured controversy of pumpkin beer, and end up swimming through the back catalogue of Mel C. Emerging from that we talk about the circle of craft and how it always comes back to lager, the use technology in pubs, and brewers getting into fights on Untappd. Watch this week's homebrewed pumpkin coffee porter video here , our myth busting video here , and listen to Mel C here . Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel, The Bubble takes a...
Oct 23, 2020•32 min
