#11 - The East Bristol Brewery Boozeup

Pete, Max and Ash are back again with more hijinks and tales of yonder. Max has been to Belfast, Pete and Ash have been to Bristol, it's all about the B's.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Good evening. Welcome to Summerton. Welcome to the Etsom Arms. And welcome to the Etsom Castcast.

SPEAKER_03 0:10

Good evening, listener.

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Woo! That's loud. I'm joined as ever by Ash and Max. Good evening, gentlemen. Hello. Happy Thursday. Get your beer in ya. It's another light evening. I noticed when episode two, episode ten, was published today. Oh yeah, it was. And that was the first one in the light, and it's now lighter. Yeah. It's staying lighter later. When did we record that? Like three weeks ago? Two weeks ago, three weeks ago?

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Yeah.

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Max has now got a tomato.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

He's cracked him open.

SPEAKER_04 0:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:49

Bruh, that's gross.

SPEAKER_04 0:51

So Max just chose to moist ass shit. Anyway, welcome to the Exxon Castcast. Tonight we are going back to our roots. The tomato's now been joined by some beef flavoured hula hoops.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

Bro, he's put it straight on his keyboard.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

Other snacks are available.

unknown 1:09

Sorry, let me distract you.

SPEAKER_04 1:11

Well, it's hard not to be distracted by somebody eating tomatoes and hula hoops. He's stacking them off. He's crunching it up. But important news today. Important news today, we are going back to our roots. This is a hundred percent cast cast. Oh my god. Yeah. So this is literally all cask. It's what it sells on a tent. It's what we should have been doing all along. The XMARMS tonight has eight Bristol beers on. And what we've got Bristol takeover. We've got an octahedron. Which I believe is regular octahedron. A regular octahedron. Which works in the form of a dice. So for those listeners who don't know, an octahedron is an eight-sided shape. Sha D. And then it's got numbers one to eight written on it. What with maths. What we're gonna do is.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

So do you want to explain why you got that dice though? Because it is actually a it's a it's a it's a bar prop. It's a smart staple.

SPEAKER_04 2:12

If people come into the bar and can't decide which glass which jar that which beer they want. Yeah. Uh we offer them the octahedral dice and and for the benefit of the tape, I think my Max might have to add in a dice rolling noise in post. Don't worry about it. Um but I just roll the dice and it goes to number six. I just won a fiver off Max earlier on a game of dice. Yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah, but it it wouldn't take part in the pub for the benefit of our Summerset licensing fee.

SPEAKER_03 2:47

Yeah, we're on the street. Yeah. Rolling dice. Rolling dice on the street playing crabs. Motherfucker rolled a one, he rolled a snake eyes.

SPEAKER_04 2:55

So um so tonight what we're gonna do is we're gonna roll the dice and decide which beer and the dice will tell us which beer we're gonna try. Beautiful. Should we go through what is on the list first? So we're only doing six, aren't we? We're only doing six, yeah, because we tend to get a little drunk, don't we? Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

So no, no, we shouldn't. We should we should leave it up to the dice whether or not these these breweries get mentioned or not. No, because we got some we've got some we got some doubles, haven't we? How many doubles have you got? What from uh two from one brewery? Yeah. What what do they do to get two then?

SPEAKER_04 3:31

Oh, backhand deals here. No, it's not. Um anyway, joining us is the lovely Sharon. Hello, Sharon. Um, and um Sharon will be serving us the beers this evening. Sharon's the co-owner of the Eczum Arms. Yeah. Oh yeah. And um, yeah. So should we shake should we roll the dice? Yeah, or unless anyone's got any other.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Okay. We need to get straight down to Bibbs. Any nonsense. What? Right, unrolling the dice. Unrolling the dice. Could be glass to roll in the case.

SPEAKER_05 4:06

Rolling in the glass. That'd be a nice sound. Anyway, do that. Shake it like the sound effect from the glass.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Shake it like the game of Yahtzee in a plastic cup or something.

SPEAKER_05 4:14

That's an Adele song, innit?

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Rolling in the glass.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

Yahtzee. Nice rolling in the deep. Ooh. Oh my god. Don't smoke, don't break that glass, Mode. Here we go. Oh, what are we gonna do? PD's pick of the week. Oh no fucking way. Yeah? This is rigged. No, it's not. Yeah, he's got a bit of blue tack still stuck on that dice.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

The dice doesn't lie. And instead of um we've got two forms of blurb. We've got the brewer's notes, and then when I do the pick of the week, I make my own notes.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

So I we're gonna go through both of them.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:52

So um Sharon's just arranging number five.

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This is the trouble with this system, we can't pre pre-prepare the beers.

SPEAKER_04 4:59

No, but we can build up.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

We can talk and um discuss. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

Anyway, we we haven't started, but what are you origin what are you drinking?

SPEAKER_03 5:06

No, you haven't done that. We jumped straight in with two down to business. Yes. You're eating that packet of Chris upside down.

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_05 5:13

Oh, that was well quick.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 5:16

Anyway, should we are we gonna go through what we're drinking or we should do, yeah? What are you drinking? I'm on the Bristol Lager, the gravity. Nice. Nice. It's back in the water. It's so popular, we ran out of it this weekend.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Is that your first sellout?

SPEAKER_04 5:30

Yeah, we had to go and buy.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Do you usually have a couple cakes? Usually, usually.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

It was a little bit of a in the purchasing system.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

So was there was it your fault or their end? I can't say that. Or you prefer not to say I can't really say it this time. Don't want to throw anyone under the bus. There was a supply issue, but um, you know, it we're talking about it, so any publicity is good purpose. We've worked it through. There you go. It won't happen again. Um patrons of the Etsom. So Ash, what are you what are you drinking? Um I've actually forgotten. I'm drinking now. What what did I get? What did I get? I think this is Motueka. It is Motueka for sure. Because I I've had a couple. That's why I've forgotten. My first one I had a catch me from Left Handed Giant, a rare, a rare cask ale from those guys. It's good good this, just in case the dice doesn't decide. Yeah, true. That was that was amazing. I really enjoyed that, although it's not Pete's pick of the week. And now I'm having a um a safe bet of an arbor motorworker.

SPEAKER_05 6:31

Should we probably put bets on what the dice will land on? Not in the pub. Not in the pub.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

We're gonna have to have a roaming roaming mic. I can we'll phone in. That would be so money. Do you know a guy? Called Mike.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Um and I am drinking the one which we're just about to sample. So I'm not gonna say any I'm not gonna say any more about that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Right then, should we um should we clink and drink?

SPEAKER_05 6:59

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 6:59

Well, you're having a sniff first.

SPEAKER_05 7:00

Oh yeah, we'll have a sniff first. You better add. Well, seeing as we're back on the cask. Well, it smells weird. It's gonna smell nicer. It smells like Bristol Beer Factory.

SPEAKER_03 7:11

It smells like Bristol Beer Factory. They got some weird water.

SPEAKER_04 7:14

It smells like a really clean glass.

SPEAKER_05 7:16

It does smell like Bristol Beer Factory.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

Yeah, facts.

SPEAKER_05 7:20

Is that what they call that Uber Mongols?

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Can I say that I famously like I think I've said it before, half dislike it.

SPEAKER_05 7:26

Well.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

I just don't trust them. Shall we clink? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 7:31

Shall we clink?

SPEAKER_03 7:32

If we haven't been there, where is Bristol Beer Factory? Yeah, Sharon and I have been on the Grand Tour. No, but I mean it's not we'll come on to it later, but it's not on the old trail.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

No, because it's in uh South Bristol. Is it quite a big place though? Oh it's massive. It's a factory. Oh really?

SPEAKER_03 7:49

Yeah, proper factory humongous. It smells like factory to be fair.

SPEAKER_05 7:52

Yeah, it does smell like a factory floor. A chicken factory. A chicken factory.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

I'm trying to do where the colonel gets his stock.

SPEAKER_04 8:03

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

That is good. Oh, it is nice. It smelled a bit weird, but I do like it, yeah. It's clean. That's why it's pick of the week, mate. It's clean tasting.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

That's so good. What do you want to hear first? Do you want to hear my blurb or do you want to hear the brewery's blurb? Uh yours. I was gonna say brewery.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Hello. Rutro. Max's mic stand has just collapsed for all you non-viewers. I'm gonna go for the um. Anyone not watching the VOD? That's a bit high, mate. Are you gonna bend it down?

SPEAKER_04 8:38

I'm gonna go for the brewery. Bend me over. Bus me over. Um so, end of chaos from Bristol Beer Factory, ABV 4.2%. Wow. Gluten-free IPA, strata for layers of fruit and citrus pine depth, Arebus adds black currant and floral.

SPEAKER_05 9:03

Well, what the fuck is a rebus? That whole I've never heard of that before. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

I didn't like that blurb. It was sent my mind away.

SPEAKER_04 9:11

You just don't like you don't like how do you spell Erebus?

SPEAKER_05 9:14

It sent my mind away with it.

SPEAKER_04 9:16

How do you spell Erebus? Okay. Sorry, my notes have gone at the moment. How do you spell away? Is it on there? No, not my notes. No, the word Erebus. Erebus. Yeah. E-R-E-B-U-S. Erebus.

unknown 9:31

Hey guy.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Erebus? I always said Erebus. Erebus.

SPEAKER_05 9:38

Primordial Greek deity representing darkness and shadow. Or type of hop.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

Is it a hop? Yeah, try hop. That's a good name for a hop. Gotta put my goggles on.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

You're such a fucking old man. Oh, that's good, uh, good start. The first result is from Reddit. Good. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Uh it means it is uh a people's a people's discussion.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

I can't.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Well you got age verification verification.

SPEAKER_05 10:08

I'm gonna have to let me talk my VPN out. Oh man. Don't you can't disclose it. Anyway, can we just um The government try to ban me from the dark web?

SPEAKER_04 10:16

So number five, number five, end of chaos, I wrote, very good, not too hoppy, lovely beer. Yeah. Yeah. Bristol beers can be a bit too hop led.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

I was about to say it's a bit too boring though. But it'd be I don't think it's boring. I don't think it's nice. It's beautiful. It's a nice one, but it's a yeah, it's and it's very clean. It's incredibly clean. No, it just tastes. I like a bit of dirtiness, a bit of funky.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

I t I think I could I could spend all day on that. Yeah and he probably will. Well we've got other things to try first. True, true. Someone said anyone used Arebus Hops. Um someone a guy called Beer Sucks said uh yep. Worked well with Alora, used in equal amounts in WHP and dry hop with anchovies. Anchevies? I don't know. Maybe that's another. My Reddit's fucked. Have no notes because it was for a company party, but the non-beer drinking people liked it. The non-beer drinking people liked it. This is called the brewery. This is a little brewer's uh subreddit. So shout out to them.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Have you ever been on the brewer's subreddit before?

SPEAKER_05 11:36

No, I only go on there for porn.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

Are they are they? Is that what is that what you mean by stacks and substacks and all that sort of stuff? Yeah, substacks? Yeah. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Substack is a different thing. Is it? That's like a blogging thing.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

You have subreddits.

SPEAKER_04 11:53

So yeah. Is it is it's good. Are we going off topic if we start explaining this?

SPEAKER_05 11:59

Because maybe maybe Substack is a website. So that's just the thing, and Reddit is a website. And then within Reddit you have subreddits, which are basically just like so Stack is a website. No, Substack is a brand. It's a website. Ah, okay. Yeah. Okay, so you have a sub Substack?

SPEAKER_04 12:18

No, no, no, no, I've just had it rever I've had it described as a Substack.

SPEAKER_05 12:23

Oh, okay. It might be a thing in like I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

It doesn't really matter. Substack is a web stack.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

If you're under 30 and listening to the website, Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing payment analytics and design infrastructure support. Subscription based content.

SPEAKER_03 12:39

Oh, yawn. What's the next beer? Are we doing that? I thought that was that was nice. That was nice. Are we rating these by the way, or are we we put them in a tower? We can't really stack them up, but like not under 72 gallon 72 pint. I was about to say gallon.

SPEAKER_05 12:58

Actually, I've got a fun little side quest we can do.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

What's that? Go to co-op.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Get some fucking co-op lines.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

Tomatoes. Eat tomatoes and beef.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Reduce tomatoes. We didn't mention that. They're orange labels.

SPEAKER_04 13:10

That killed two one birds with one stone if you had a beef tomato. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 13:15

Yeah, well that's why I've got them, because you have beef tomato. That's not why you got them, is it?

SPEAKER_04 13:20

Of course it's got them because they got yellow labels on them.

SPEAKER_05 13:24

I've got them because later on I'm trying to have fine healthy snacks. Yeah, but you'll end up in the kebab later. That's what I don't want to happen. This is part of the reason why I don't want to buy that's why I bought them. So I can go home and just have tomato with salt on it. Yeah, fair. Or watching a documentary about some sort of war. Yeah, fair. I haven't decided which one yet. That is enough of it. I just finished once upon a time in Northern Ireland last night. That was five five hours. Oh wow. Yeah, well it was it was a it was a really eye-opening experience actually, and I think that we should delete the podcast that we did before. Oh really? St.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Patrick's Day one.

SPEAKER_05 13:59

Oh really? Is it that bad? No, it's not that bad. Oh no. No, I think we didn't. It would have been that bad if I hadn't cut all the. So it I'll go and untapped and find the beers. Yeah. And then you can guess what the untapped score is. Okay. Okay. What was it called again?

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Uh End of Chaos. Get your list out. Right, while Max is doing that, shall I shake the dice again? Yeah. Give it give it another go, Pete. Can I get it near the mic?

SPEAKER_03 14:29

Yeah. Get a nice little sample. Oh my god. Really loud. But I'll be That's brilliant, that is. That's a solid. Number six. We need a drum roll, really. It's rigged. I'm not mad about that. I'm quite happy about that. Number six.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

I'm happy for everything. Number six. Which is um one for the team. One for the team.

SPEAKER_05 14:56

Oh, I like this. Um lovely purple. End of chaos. Untapped score, what do you think?

SPEAKER_03 15:05

What's our five again? It's out of five, yeah. I don't know. Three point nine. People are so harsh on untapped, it's bollocks. I reckon like three point three.

SPEAKER_05 15:14

Well, it's three point six seven.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

Are you joking?

SPEAKER_06 15:18

No, I'm not joking. 3.67.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

We split the difference. Oh, what do you say, 3.9? Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 15:25

So we might have to wait a little while for number six to appear. Customers have appeared. How's your dog bite, Ash?

SPEAKER_03 15:31

Oh is healing over. I'm I don't know if I'm gonna have a scar or not.

SPEAKER_05 15:37

No more barking. Oh my god, I've got a barking story. Actually, I forgot to be able to do that. You went to barking.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Link Mad Ping from barking. 7am in the morning.

SPEAKER_05 15:46

Yeah, um, so I went to Belfast over the weekend. Yeah. And we were staying in a really lovely, massive uh Airbnb in the middle of the countryside, which was like ten of us. Wow. Um I didn't know you knew ten people. The house was so big that we in the evening we played, we decided to spa after a few drinks. Manhunt. We decided to play hide and seek.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Um actually I can't tell this story.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

Were you all naked?

SPEAKER_05 16:14

No. But why can't you tell the story? Were you doing drugs? Um no, I just didn't sleep.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Why can't you tell the story?

SPEAKER_05 16:24

Because well, basically I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Shall I just um interject while you carry on with the listeners?

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Hello, Sharon.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

Apparently he's gonna tell me something that they can't hear. Yeah, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 16:36

So we the dice has decided we're gonna have number six.

SPEAKER_05 16:40

At one point I was pretending to be um when fight trying to find people, I was pretending to be an SS commander. Of course you were. I was walking around the house going like, come out now, and then a German accent. Like I had a pack of German ship. And everyone was like, What the fuck? There's dogs in here.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

And I'm like, come out now! It's like this place have neighbours. No, it was in the middle of the countryside. That's good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:15

Anyway, I'm gonna have to cut all of that out.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

It is No It is beautiful in the north of Ireland, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Is that your first time going to Ireland?

SPEAKER_05 17:23

Yeah. Uh no, I've been to Ireland before when I was younger to see my grandma, but um Not Northern Ireland. Not Northern Ireland, no.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

Okay. Do you have to go into Ireland first before you get to Northern Ireland?

SPEAKER_05 17:33

No, we flew straight from Bristol to Irel to Belfast, and you don't even have to show your passport or anything. No. Oh really?

SPEAKER_04 17:39

It's an internal flight. Yeah. It's the step on the.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

So where did you fly to? Belfast International.

SPEAKER_05 17:47

Alder Grove Airport.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

So what and you don't have to show your passport for that from Bristol? No.

SPEAKER_05 17:52

You just get on, it's like a bus. Well they they they must show you the passport or check-in. Wait, which one's part of the UK? Literally just we just had to show boarding passes, that was it. Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 18:01

Which one's part of the UK? Normally, yeah, yeah. That's why it works. Yeah. Okay. We probably shouldn't go into I've got more questions, but beer's arrived.

SPEAKER_05 18:12

I've been doing so much history on the whole subject for the last week. Nice. Nice. I feel like I'm not sure. Well, whilst you were there or just Well, a bit of both really. Because everyone there was sort of like not interested in the troubles. And I was like, Did you know a lot of history happening?

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Yeah, but that was like you when we went to Budapest.

SPEAKER_05 18:32

So I made everyone go to like the Peace Walls and Shankill Road and stuff. Yeah. And they were like, Why are we here? And I was like, Oh. Culture. It's kind of crazy what happened here. And then you went into it.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

And then the evening.

SPEAKER_05 18:43

Yeah, and then everyone just started yawning and going on their phone.

SPEAKER_04 18:47

Fucking hell, man. Anyway, 2026. Beers have arrived. This is number six. One for the team from Arbor Alex. Um, what were we looking at? Chat Arbor Alex, by the way, very generous, lovely people. Oh yeah, well, we're gonna talk about East Bristol Brewery Tower. Because whilst he was pretending to be a German border guard we were You're gonna have to beep for that.

SPEAKER_05 19:17

They're not necessarily a Nazi, just a German guard.

SPEAKER_04 19:20

Yeah, I just said German border guard.

SPEAKER_05 19:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:23

Okay. We were we were going round the brewers of East Bristol, more of which after Arbor Alex won for the tea.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

I've got a funny hot take about that whole thing, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

It smells very good. It's in the office, just saying. Available in cans in the offy. In pint cans. Yeah. We couldn't go an episode without talking about cans, could we? No, get your cans out.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

It arrived today from Arbour. They delivered to us today, and it is available in pint cans in the office.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

What colour are they?

SPEAKER_00 19:56

What colour are the cans?

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Yeah, do you know? Because they're usually like a two-tone, aren't they, with Arbor?

SPEAKER_00 20:00

They are. I think they're a dark colour. Is it red and blue?

SPEAKER_03 20:04

Is it red and blue? I reckon it's probably red and blue, but it looks like. Red and blue. What do you mean it used to be? I like the purple and yellow one because it looks like LA Lakers. Anyway. Anyway. Rest in peace, go be bright. Why do you care about the Lakers? They were my team. Fucking glory hunter. No, because they've never won anything back when I supported them. Now they got they didn't have LeBron James back then. Oh, that's nice. LeBron James! Always sad. That's lovely.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

Oh, that's nice, yeah. Yeah, I like that. That's insane. To be fair, um, I know I have a pick of the week this week. To be fair, though. But I if I had six more very close second stars, I could have I could have plastered them on any one of these beers.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

I'll print you some more out tomorrow, Pete.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

That's really, really, really good. Thank you. What I'm saying is though, if I was could if I'm comparing that to the the Bristol Beer Factory one we just had, that's amazing. To be that guy.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

I think they're they're different.

SPEAKER_04 21:12

I think I prefer the first one.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_05 21:16

This one tastes like juice.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

Which hasn't which hasn't been on the uh school run. Yeah. The athletics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Do you want to know what I said about it? Straight out of the tap. Uh number six. Number six one for the team. It's citrus lead, a smooth IPA. Yeah. That's what I said.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

I think that's about right. What did the brewer say?

SPEAKER_04 21:43

What did the brewer say? He said, or they said, sorry, I don't want to gender the brewer.

SPEAKER_05 21:48

Uh it's probably a bloke though, innit?

SPEAKER_04 21:51

Arborells Bristol, IPA, session IPA with Citra, Mosaic, Talus, and Idaho 7. Idaho. That sounds like 1960s cowboy film. Idaho 7. Why haven't I heard of that before?

SPEAKER_03 22:03

Just from the hearts.

SPEAKER_06 22:08

Idaho 7.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

It's Idaho State.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Am I giving you enough?

SPEAKER_03 22:14

I reckon I could do a bit more. I don't want to be that guy.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

You're always that guy.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

Yeah, can we go double on that one? No. Oh, okay. We've got four more. Pete's thinking of profit.

SPEAKER_04 22:30

No, because we can get the um you can have it back in the what are we drinking section.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Ah, true, true, true.

SPEAKER_04 22:38

That's very true. Well, no, we're going to regale ourselves with some funny stories. Here we go. Um you entered this is where you put the music.

SPEAKER_05 22:48

I haven't got any more funny stories. Who's telling the funny story?

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Well, no, we're going to talk about Easter. Okay, cool. Yeah, you're you were you you were invited, but you weren't involved. Yeah, well, it's gonna be like my birthday party, isn't it? Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 23:03

No, I actually really want to come to that because it's got that smoke van.

SPEAKER_04 23:06

Yeah. Well he was. A neighbouring arbour on Saturday. And and how good did that look? Yeah, really good. Did you not have any?

SPEAKER_03 23:15

We went, I had a bit of the vegan stuff, but I was saving myself for um Left Handed Giant, which I did. Do you have a pizza? No. What did you have? Fried chicken.

SPEAKER_05 23:24

Uh uh.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

One of our yeah, I had the fried chicken. Yeah. Um it was really nice. One of our number had a pizza at pretty much every place, didn't he?

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Who's that?

SPEAKER_04 23:32

Oh Big Pete.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

I don't know. I weren't I don't think I was paying much attention to anyone else.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Every time I looked around, he wasn't eating pizza.

SPEAKER_03 23:39

Fair, yeah. Yeah, nice. There was a lot of good food on our side. Oh, Big Pete. Right, so so I don't know if we've explicitly said it too much, but so last Saturday, last Saturday was it? Last Saturday, yeah. Yeah. Uh no, it wasn't last Saturday, it was Saturday before. Wow. I'm still I've still got a hangover from two weeks ago. It was the uh the East Bristol Brewery Trail. And do you want to know something actually mad? Yeah. I didn't realise it was like an actual event until I got there.

SPEAKER_05 24:07

What you thought it was just Etsom?

SPEAKER_03 24:08

What do you did? I thought it was just an Etsom thing. And then we got to Arbo and there was people queuing up. I was like, fuck me, it's busy here. Does everyone just come out on a Saturday just to go to Arbour at like 12 o'clock or whatever time we got?

SPEAKER_04 24:21

Had you no idea?

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Had no idea it was like that official. Yeah, it's like a big thing. So I was pleasantly surprised with like with the uh I guess the production value.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

If that's what you want to call it. So um should we do one or two breweries, then I'll be drinking and then yeah, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

So where so where did we start, Pete? Arbor. Well now we started in here. Oh, we had a bacon sandwich in here. Bacon tiny. Bacon tiny and breakfast out. Breakfast out. Okay. It like ten in the morning, wasn't it? Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

At 7.4%.

SPEAKER_05 24:53

Do you know what did you have mayonnaise? Mayonnaise from Arbor Alex as well, isn't it? Sharon, did you have mayo on your bacon sandwich?

SPEAKER_00 24:59

I did not. Who does I remember he bought sauces, he didn't buy mayonnaise.

SPEAKER_05 25:04

I remember last year when we went on the East Bristol Brewery Trail, you had mayo on your bacon sandwich.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Well, I would always have mayonnaise, but Pete neglected to bring the mayonnaise. Do you know what though?

SPEAKER_05 25:13

And I couldn't get it out of my head for like six months. Every time I ate bacon, I was like, I might try this with mayo, but I don't want to ruin it.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Oh no, but initially I was just like, what the fuck? But then if you look at the a chicken and bacon salad or like anything cold bacon, mayo, you'd have mayo. But then like a bacon sandwich with a hot bacon.

SPEAKER_05 25:33

Ketchup or brown sauce on a bacon sandwich. Brown sauce, brown sauce, brown sauce.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

I asked for uh mayonnaise in Burns of Bread and they all looked at me like I was mad.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Yeah, yeah, you're banned now, aren't you? I know them all by name in burns of bread. Yeah, they're great people.

SPEAKER_05 25:48

I used to love a burn salad chicken salad bat for lunch. Oh ham salad for me there. So you had a pint of breakfast out, so it started a sandwich in here, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

And then we got on a very nice minibus.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Yeah. Shout out who I thought I got text saying your drive your driver tomorrow is Jason. Oh yeah. And he got off the bus. I goes, alright, Jason. And he goes, I thought it was Jordan.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

It was Jordan, because Jordan and Jason says his name's Norman.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

Yeah, and then he goes, uh he goes, No, it's Norman. Oh. Yeah. Although do you think he's gonna listen to the podcast? Because I'm gonna say something.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

The d the the sat nav. Oh yeah, all of it. What happened? He well, initially like for a professional driver, he didn't have a phone mount, but he was using that as his sat nav. So he had it like just fucking rested against the between the dashboard and the the windscreen. Okay. But also, um I reckon he he needed a prescription to drive, but he didn't have his glasses on him.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

No, no, I think he was long-sighted, he could see a long way away. He just couldn't see up. He just couldn't see up close.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

He was just squinting the whole time.

SPEAKER_04 26:57

So he had his glasses on his head all the time. Right. They were obviously such a good prescription for short that you can't see anything far away. Okay. So he had the volume on the sat nav through the roof. Graham. Graham hated it. He hated it.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

He was fucking heckling there.

SPEAKER_05 27:16

We've got a whole team, Graham, for ages.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Yeah, well, I had a we'll get on to it later on, but I had a big discussion with him on the way home. It got political, yeah. Oh god. Yeah, do not get political with Graham. We'll get to that when we work through the breweries we went to, but we'll do the first two. So anyway, so lovely Norman, which is not Jordan. Turn left. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

In 500 yards, turn right. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

But it was a it was the bougiest minibus I've ever been on.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

Yeah, but not when you got a minibus full of people in intent on bents.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

From here to Bristol as well, it's like you probably should know that.

SPEAKER_03 27:51

Yeah. They had leather seats and they were like the lattice stitched leather seats. Do you know what I mean by that? Uh sort of. Like the diamond shape anyway, and they had USB C sockets on USB. Oh, you see you're not complaining. No, the fucking minibus was fancy, fanciest thing I've ever seen. I'm surprised they didn't have a screen to put your. I'm surprised it didn't have champagne that popped out in a fucking starry ceiling. Like a bloody linen.

SPEAKER_05 28:16

They have USB ports on the 376 sometimes. Yeah, but USB C. Not all the times. Not all the time, to be fair. Some of the times they're some older bus.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

You're so obsessed with that bus.

SPEAKER_05 28:26

Yeah, well, we've got to represent a set.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Yeah. So anyway, so we arrive at Arbor. Yeah. I'm like, okay, fuck me. Like, do people just turn over here? I didn't realise it was a whole event. I was like, oh, there's food and everything. Proper, you know. I obviously learnt quite quickly when I saw the beer mats that the East Bristol Brewery Trail is a rival. Again, this really doesn't work on podcast, but Peach has picked one up. We'll get to that. We'll talk through it. But yeah, Arba did a an amazing job of hosting us for our first um stop. I think we had three pints there.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

Yeah, because because we were very well looked out by shouting out at Arbour, Sharon. What was that girl's name?

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Ginny.

SPEAKER_04 29:08

She was lovely. Ginny. I was gonna say Ginny, but I didn't want to get it wrong. Shout out to Ginny.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Ginny came out with some wristbands, which was very lovely of her.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

We might not be able to include that. But yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:19

We we were well looked after, I think, is the Why why did you get wristbands? Free beer. Why?

SPEAKER_05 29:25

Because Fatnos.

SPEAKER_04 29:26

Because we're customers.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

So everyone got wristbands.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

No, because we're customers.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

Oh I see, but it's not yeah, because it's not a trade thing, is it? Yeah. Yeah. It's a public thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess you could say it. Well, I'm just so used to going to all these trade days.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

Yeah, that's what it felt like there.

SPEAKER_05 29:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

And the only reason you get to go on these trade days is because I always invite you.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Thanks, Sharon. Yeah, you don't even fucking work for him anymore.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

Well he's general manager. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Ah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

Yeah, yeah, true. Have you seen his Indeed? Head editor. Indeed, no, it's um Head editor then. LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Social media manager now.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

LinkedIn, not Indeed, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 30:02

Right, um, before we move on to the next one.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

Are we not gonna do two at a time?

SPEAKER_04 30:06

Yeah, but I'll shake the dice. Oh, okay. So we can get right up.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

But we had three beers then. I was sort of only expecting around one at each. We have rubber bingy rapids. It's number two, they didn't have it on. They didn't even have breakfast out on actually.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

They did. Did they?

SPEAKER_03 30:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Oh. On cask. Number two. Beer number two. I missed that, my bad. What's number two then?

SPEAKER_03 30:28

So do you know what you had there?

SPEAKER_04 30:29

Mutawica.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

From Arbor, appropriately. From Arbo. I do know what I had. I had an Everyday People. That was second. The first point we had was what? Yeah. I had Shangri's. Yeah, we had a we yeah. We had one Shangri-La to start, an Everyday People, then I had the Sour, which was can't remember what the fuck it was called.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

I don't know if I've ever had an Arbor Sour.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

Do you remember what it was called? Frambo, it's called. Oh yeah. Um that was that was really nice. Um but yeah. I would say my favourite pint there was the everyday people, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:05

You had a pint of sour? Yeah. Fucking hell.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Yeah, it was quite a lot. But it was nice. Yeah, I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_04 31:11

So, um we left there. Uh oh, we had a lot of food there as well. People ate.

SPEAKER_03 31:18

Yeah. We I had a little bit of food there. I think I just had a bit of showering.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

Because the people well, I I don't know if the listeners want to know, but Lil Smoker in Bristol can highly recommend.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

Yeah. So you had like beef brisket?

SPEAKER_04 31:30

I didn't. No.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

I had the vegan thing there. The vegan like satan.

SPEAKER_04 31:35

No, it's fame on the brain. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

What's the beef? It's called Satan.

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Satan. Yeah, like some sort of get thee behind me, Satan.

SPEAKER_03 31:48

Um, so that was like a it was really nice, it was very well seasoned.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

East Asian like with peanuts in.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

What? No, it's a protein. That's satay. Uh we did Google it when we were there, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 32:01

It's uh like some sort of protein flour. Yes, and lots of herbs and seasoning. Like KFC 11 secret herbs.

SPEAKER_03 32:12

Deep fried.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

That sounds pretty good. It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

It is really nice. If you if you can be bothered to come to my party, you'll be happy to try some out. Well, I'll have the brisket.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

Um so yeah, so that was um that was Armour. Made of gluten. Yeah. And then we um lovely weather at Arbour as well, which it didn't didn't end up being for the for the rest of the day. No. But it was so sunny, it was so nice, and you know take your jacket off, enjoy the sun.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Whoa. And then we walked down to um and another member of the Etson family joined us there. Shout out Natasha. Shout out Tasha.

SPEAKER_06 32:46

Boo.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

Why are you booing it?

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Why you booing it up? Don't boo your top, don't ever do that. Don't upset the landlady.

SPEAKER_03 32:57

Where do we go next? Was it wiper and true next?

SPEAKER_06 33:00

I'm joking. Wiper and true is the next one, wasn't it? Wiper and true, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

What's that got to do with Tash? Well no, Claire Sharon did say that Tash was like another daughter. Yeah. Yeah. I'd high five Tash as well.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

So next next we walked, this is gonna take fucking ages. There's seven breweries, and we're just waffling. Wiper and True next. Next we walked down to Wiper and True, and we had the only cask on that they had there. We actually went Cass there, didn't we? Endless love. For the first one.

unknown 33:34

Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

I can't remember. No, it's called Sunset something. Stop talking about this. Wasn't it? I wish we wrote this down. This is why I should have been there. We should have wrote you wouldn't have written it down though. I would have remembered. Yeah. Anyway, it was I mean, I mean, Wiper and True, lovely place. Again, really nice weather. There was loads of people there. They were busy at Wiper and True. The queue was bigger. No, I was sniffing it.

SPEAKER_05 33:56

I really want to drink it there. Yeah, I really want to do it. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

I didn't realise how massive Wiper and True was. It's a big place, isn't it? Yeah, but it's like it's really clean looking as well. Yeah, it's cool there. And they got like then when you see their like their um I've only been there when we went ferment fermentation chambers. On the thing last time.

SPEAKER_04 34:14

Tons. Yeah, yeah. The mash drums. Mash dogs. We did we went mad on this last episode.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

Mash tons.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Um it's a very impressive place. The bar was really nice. They had food there also, but I didn't indulge. And they had nice tables. But uh they got um they had uh multi-gender toilets. Great. Hang on.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

The best thing about the toilets is they had where the cistern was, they had a sink. To place it. No, so when you flushed, no, when water came out of the sink. No, no, the water that you use to wash your hands afterwards got recycled for the next flush. And behind behind the sink were the soap and I don't know how I feel about that.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

Well it's that how is that? I just went into the urinals. So, like I was gonna say, these like what did you name pictures in the toilets? Fuck me. What I meant the gender neutral toilets, there was still a separate urinal room, so it kind of defeated the point a bit. Graham loved them. We loved them. Yeah, he was talking about it the whole way up. My favourite toilet.

SPEAKER_04 35:36

Yeah, it's a little bit, yeah. A little bit. Right, are we going to uh clink and drink? Yeah, we better.

SPEAKER_05 35:42

Yes, please. I'm dining at first.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

Time's getting on.

SPEAKER_06 35:50

Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:53

Oh yeah. Well you can taste the strength, can't you?

SPEAKER_03 35:56

That's lovely that Which one's this one again? Oh of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

You won't get picked up.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

I've had a pint of this. I would say this is this is better than the last arbor. It's better than one for the team, I'm not.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

They had them in Broodogger in um thingy.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Sustainability and action, Max, that's what that is.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Fuck that. On behalf of the Etsom Arms management team, we do not want to fucking I've got very committed to developing a sustainable business.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

If someone's got really dirty hands, yeah, like they've been like changing a gearbox on a car and then nipping for a pint. Yeah, and then like does that then go into the toilet and then you like take a shit and a bit splashes up and now you've got oil. No, but what I'm saying is I don't know how much oil have they got on their hands? Well, too much for my asshole. I don't know. Like You're putting Max off his hula hoops. No, but you know what I mean? I understand the the process, but like I don't think it would be a problem. What are the rules behind a system? I don't think there's no rules. No, there's not. There's no cistern management.

SPEAKER_04 37:17

Anyway, should we talk about the Motowaker?

SPEAKER_03 37:20

What were you thinking? Um this is amazing, yeah. This is the best one we've had so far. It's better than the last album we had, even though it's um less strong. That was very good in terms of ABV. It's 0.5, it's only 4%. Um but I feel like it just tastes like beer.

SPEAKER_04 37:39

I bro, it's a smooth citrus blend. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:43

Blend?

SPEAKER_04 37:43

Yeah. Blend of what? Citrus flavours. Yeah. That are smooth.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

Yeah, yeah. That'll make sense. No, it does, it does. But I also feel it's well balanced. Yeah. It's not too sharp on the citrus front. And it's definitely like not overly hoppy, which is lovely.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

And it's only four per cent, so you can drink a truckload of it. I think it's a great bit.

SPEAKER_05 38:07

Do not drink a truckload of it and drive a truck.

SPEAKER_04 38:10

Obviously not.

SPEAKER_03 38:11

Who said about driving the truck?

SPEAKER_04 38:14

Uh so what do the good people at Arbor Ale say about it? It's a gluten-free pail, single hopped, gluten-free pale ale, giving flavours of lime and tropical fruit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:27

Yeah, the lime's really nice. It's fresh. It tastes like it does, it's like a larger lime top, but in beer form. That used to be my go-to drink back in the day. What lager would you got? Fucking whatever it was. Carlin. Carlin with lime in it. Doesn't matter what the beer is if you if you have enough cordial. Um I used to like that. And actually, I think it was Carlin that actually bought out the bottles that already had it added to it. And I used to drink a lot of those.

SPEAKER_04 39:00

Oh, there was a wasn't didn't Fosters do some lime. Yeah, they had a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

Yeah, it was Foster's then. It wasn't a shandy, it was still full strength lager, but with the lime flavour they already added.

SPEAKER_04 39:11

It was oh, I forget what it was. I haven't got Google.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

I've only just thought of that. That's brought up a sort of vivid memory. Foster's with lime in. Or anything with lime in, too, did it?

SPEAKER_05 39:22

Foster's Lyme.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

But I mean I've always been like a big fan of the whole like Corona or like a fucking Desperados.

SPEAKER_05 39:30

Ten years ago, Foster's released Radler, Lime, and it wasn't called Radler.

SPEAKER_03 39:35

I reckon it was a Carlin.

unknown 39:36

Carling Lime.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Yeah, but get on the Google again.

SPEAKER_05 39:39

Carling Lime. Uh it's called Radler. Is it called Radler? They did a cider.

SPEAKER_03 39:47

No, it wasn't a cider. Zest Lime. Yeah, it was called Zest. Hang on. It was like Carling Zest. It was 2.8% though. What the hell? That's why that's why I took it to school. They didn't like it at high taste, did they?

SPEAKER_05 40:07

Carling zest.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

There were no way it was at only 2.4%.

SPEAKER_05 40:11

Just what it says here, man.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

It got me fucked up enough. Can I see the bottle?

SPEAKER_05 40:17

I can't really sound it right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Let me come round.

SPEAKER_04 40:21

Ashley's just leaning across.

unknown 40:23

That's not what the bottle. Oh yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_04 40:26

Fucking get you buzzballs, these days.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

Yeah, shout out buzzballs. That's the that's the dangerous thing though, because buzzballs are well fucking strong. And that's like the the trendy drink. People people aren't drinking hoot hooch anymore. Nah, but people people used to just drink bottles of vodka. I love hooch. I used to love it hooch at the time.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

I think people still do drink bottles of hooch.

SPEAKER_05 40:46

No, but I remember when I was like 17, people wouldn't have like a bottle of water. Water. A bottle of vodka.

SPEAKER_03 40:53

I used to get I used to take a bottle of vodka and uh a fucking bottle of cranberry juice to a house party. Yeah. George got um grounded on a skiing trip for um shoving vodka up his ass.

SPEAKER_04 41:03

No bott bottle of water that a bottle of vodka had a bottle of vodka, poured it into a capped it into water. Ah busted class.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Did they sniff it?

SPEAKER_04 41:15

I don't know what the uh the relevant relevant educator did.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

That is nicknamed that is nicked vata.

SPEAKER_04 41:47

Right, shall we jake again?

SPEAKER_01 41:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:51

Where have we got to on the East Bristol Brewery Trail? Anyway, White Run Drew. We're two down. Yeah. And then we went to left-handed giant. Was that the next one? Which was a delight, left-handed giant.

SPEAKER_03 42:03

I'd never been there before. That was also fuck fuck me busy though. Yeah. I would say that I'd be like, number one! Yeah, the actual brewery. Which I didn't even realise was a thing. Yeah. I in the back of my mind I thought they did it all on the side of the canal river. No.

unknown 42:18

What number was it?

SPEAKER_03 42:19

Beer number one. Number one, please. Oh, that's a good one as well. Well, if we get a double, do we have do we still have it? No, we roll again. No, what we do, we have it, we have to neck it.

SPEAKER_06 42:29

It's like ring of fire or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:31

We have to do a different rule every time. We have to neck it and then roll again. That should be the rule. So left-handed giant, did we use We should do one episode where we just try and get as fucked up as possible to the point where we can't pack up anymore. We've never tried that before, have we? No, but I feel like we've never put it in the world.

SPEAKER_05 42:48

We should do the two tramp lager review episode. Just get all of them, like Kestrel, Special Crew.

SPEAKER_03 42:54

And then we should also do like a white lightning uh tidem.

SPEAKER_06 43:02

Frosty Jacks. Is it scrumpy or sugar?

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Frosty Jacks or Petrol.

SPEAKER_04 43:12

Oh, um, before we move on, new beers have arrived. Thank you very much, Sharon. Thank you, Sharon.

SPEAKER_03 43:17

Did we do the untapped score for no we're not been keeping up with that? We should do that for the last one. It's the first one we did. We've done number one. I thought we did three point six seven, didn't we?

SPEAKER_05 43:29

I've got one for the team up on here.

SPEAKER_03 43:31

Okay, yeah. We need to guess that one then. We already did that.

SPEAKER_05 43:34

Because it was three point six seven.

SPEAKER_03 43:36

That was the first one.

SPEAKER_05 43:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:37

Yeah, that was the um End of Chaos. Three point six seven. This one's three point six seven as well. Oh fuck me.

SPEAKER_04 43:45

They're all gonna be three point six seven, I think it's all rigged. What do you think the Moto Waker is? Motowaker three point four point one. We got a whole Bristol puff number four.

SPEAKER_05 43:55

Three point nine.

unknown 43:56

Um so they're all delicious.

SPEAKER_05 44:00

Three point five nine.

SPEAKER_04 44:02

That's lower. It is lower than the three point six seven. I think we I I think I've overestimated it. Please. So left-handed jar. We liked it, don't we? Yeah, but it was busy though. Busy. Yeah, they're all busy.

SPEAKER_03 44:27

No, I don't know if they were. Not like that though. That's a big space with a lot of people. Um I had food there last year. We had food there. How many did we have two pints there or just one? I only had two. I can't remember going to the bar that much, to be honest. I think we got people to get them for us. I just remember being handed beer. Did you have a table? No, not there. That's what I mean, busy. Stood up business. Yeah, I was stood up. I I don't I forgot her name, but I'd never met before. But there was a thing it was um whoever I can't remember their names either. Someone's friend.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

What?

SPEAKER_03 45:02

Who David Joanna? David Joanna's friend. David Joanna's friend held my beer whilst I was um eating my my chicken burger. Right. Thank you very much for to her. Sorry I don't know your name, but and I felt really bad. I was like, you sure you're right holding that?

SPEAKER_06 45:15

As I was like, what did you have?

SPEAKER_03 45:19

I had a like a spicy ass Korean style chicken burger or something. Wait. With some waffle fries. It was well knocked. I feel like I might have had that from when I was there last year. W what were they called? Her manios? Were they like uh Los Poyos? Los Poyas. Something like that. From Breaking Bad. Yeah, that's what I say. So um yeah, so that was really, really nice. Um the beer was obviously great. Um and we got uh we got a lovely stamp. So what we didn't mention earlier was um at the very first stop, they had um beer mats, coasters, beer mats, with um all the logos of the breweries on the trail. And then as you go around, you could get a little stamp. Yeah. So um yeah, the first three uh that we mentioned, lovely little branded stamp on all of those. We'll get to the others. I've still got mine somewhere at home from last year. I've still I think mine's still in my coat pocket. I was gonna bring it tonight, but luckily, Sharon has saved her one and had it on display in the bar, which is lovely.

SPEAKER_05 46:18

So you didn't get anything for getting all the six stamps, did you?

SPEAKER_04 46:21

Seven, just the armor.

SPEAKER_05 46:23

It was only six last year, because that this is the one I'm most interested in hearing about. There's a new brewery on that trail. Oh well, you'll have to wait.

SPEAKER_03 46:29

Yeah, you have to wait until we get there.

SPEAKER_04 46:31

We got two more and then we get to that.

SPEAKER_03 46:35

Wait, so before we try this beer, we'll do the next the next brewery then, right? Yeah, get on. Do you remember what it was? It was good.

SPEAKER_04 46:42

It was a chemistry. I was good. So you walk down France. That's when it started raining. Yeah, well across the well, across the canal? Well, it's not a canal, it's the old railway line. I think I was like six points deep at this point. I was across the old railway line, which is now a cycle path, and you go into the back end of the industrial estate, and there's good chemistry, and it had down a dodgy alleyway. It had absolutely started hooling down by then. So you know you know small good chemistry is not a big building. No, everyone got in there. How many of you were there? Ten. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:14

Okay. But I was I was saying to Pete earlier, this whole day, over the last couple weeks since the date, my brain has just been drip feeding me memories of like, oh yeah, that happened. Oh yeah, that happened. Just because of sort of like Did you get fucking amnesia?

SPEAKER_05 47:32

Yeah, I don't know, yeah. Someone spiked me.

SPEAKER_03 47:33

Yeah, what I don't know, but uh, I definitely didn't remember it like for a couple days after. It's kind of mad. Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 47:40

Good times were had.

SPEAKER_03 47:41

It's a good, good, good. But it's all coming back. So good chemistry. I didn't rate it very much, the beer. No. There. Or the atmosphere. I don't know. It's obviously not there far well as well.

SPEAKER_04 47:52

Nah, nah. Yeah, they had a DJ above the bar, didn't they?

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Yeah, but it was it just it wasn't a very good vibe in there compared to the others.

SPEAKER_04 48:01

And the beer's not as good as the others. We've been drinking some cracking beers, and yeah, we get nothing against good chemistry, but it's all it's all very brown, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 48:12

I've had a good beer in a can from them before though. Yeah. But only one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:18

Um I don't know what they do so much anymore. I I remember them back a few years ago.

SPEAKER_03 48:23

But we and there was a massive queue, and we sort of like the whole queuing system was a bit weird everywhere. I don't think we pushed in this time. No, no, we didn't push in, we didn't push in, but it like bar culture of just like going up to a bar. Yeah. So we sort of went up to a bar, but all these Bristol lot were just like queuing out, queuing like single file into the rain. And I we got in and we're just like, well, you can then some guy just served us, and we were like, alright then. So they're the the first they're the first um culprate on on our little stamp thing. I'm gonna be petty because why not? They had a different coloured stamp, they didn't have a black stamp like everyone else. They had an orange stamp, and it was just a bit didn't look very good.

SPEAKER_05 49:01

That's the reason why you didn't like 'em.

SPEAKER_03 49:03

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, I did I did like them. I enjoyed it. It was good. It was nice it was, you know. It was just wasn't as good as the others. Okay. It was a bit dark in there, it was just so I just feel like the the the premises for this thing maybe wasn't as suitable.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

Yeah, I think that's a very true. Because like there was no there was no like. Because even when it was beautiful sunshine, you're all out in the road and they've still got those big urinals out in the road, haven't they? I don't remember that. Did they recycle the water? No, they're just they're big things that you just sit round you stand round.

SPEAKER_03 49:36

Yeah, they had they had the urinals up the stairs and then they had the hand wash station underneath.

SPEAKER_04 49:45

Anyway, when uh number one has appeared, which is number one.

SPEAKER_03 49:49

I've just taken a sip of it. Yeah, I'm dying of thirst over it.

SPEAKER_04 49:53

But we all know T Joss, don't we? It's been a regular in the pub.

SPEAKER_03 49:56

It has been a regular is a regular in quite a few places locally as well. It's a really um Glass and Reader Crown have it quite a lot um in their subsequent bars, the mitre and stuff like that. Yeah. But they all have it on keg, but I think it almost it shines differently in cask. Yeah, I think it's good that they still do it in cask. Because I think some some keg beers is like nice because it's cold and refreshing and all that, but I think you get a different flavour.

SPEAKER_05 50:22

It's definitely a different flavour from the from the coldness.

SPEAKER_03 50:25

No, but I don't know if it's just from the coldness or from how it's kept or what what they do to it to to prepare it for cask or keg. You know?

SPEAKER_05 50:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

But um I I've always really really enjoyed it when I've had it here on cask. And then to have it on keg is just like, oh yeah, I know that, but it's it just seems a bit a bit too not carbonated, yeah. But like yeah. Whereas it's nicer as like a flatter tradition, traditional straight out of the cabinet. Should we go for it then?

SPEAKER_04 50:56

Yeah, oh no, there's clink. Let's have a clink. Yeah, great. You can't beat T Jos.

SPEAKER_05 51:04

It's nice. I don't really go. Actually, compared to the other ones we've had though, I'm not that's my least favourite, I think, so far.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

I'd I'd maybe put it second.

SPEAKER_05 51:14

I think one for the T Just.

SPEAKER_04 51:16

What I did notice when I drank them all is how bitter there is a bitter finish. 100%, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A bitter finish to that, which you don't really notice when you drink it in isolation. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:26

It's also darker than I remember. I would say. I thought it was like slightly more pale. I know it's described as a pale, but it is quite like a uh like a I haven't drank all day peace colour. Oh lovely. It's like what I wash my hands with outside good chemistry. Lovely enough.

SPEAKER_04 51:49

So I said it was a hoppy citrus citrus balanced hoppy citrus balance, meaning that the citrus was well balanced. Yeah, you love a balanced citrus, don't you? Yeah, I know. Um and it's a slight bitter edge.

SPEAKER_05 52:03

Yeah, it definitely has a bitter edge.

SPEAKER_03 52:05

But I kind of like that. It's kind of like a you know.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

Oh actually, compared to the others though, I think I'm that's that's in last place for me. Really? Yeah. To the others we've had tonight. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_04 52:17

I'd probably say I mean I I'm probably not agreeing with you on that, but that's a game of opinions. But we're talking about the top 10% here, right? Yeah, these are you know 100% the top 10%.

SPEAKER_03 52:32

But this is what happens as well. Like, I think we've mentioned Bristol before and how much we rate what what they're doing there. So when you have a Bristol takeover, yeah, it's all about this is like you know, the Premier League of this area.

SPEAKER_05 52:48

The Premier League, yeah. I think it could be the Premier League of the country.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

Not to shit on like uh other breweries around here, but I feel like other breweries in terms of consistency they'll have like a a good beer once in a while.

SPEAKER_05 53:02

I think there's also a healthy competition in Bristol.

SPEAKER_04 53:04

Yeah, they couldn't do this. The more local brewers, the more provincial brewers. It doesn't mean that those guys don't see a banger about it now and then. Yeah, true. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? If you've got all those pubs where there's a market for this in Bristol, you can just bang this stuff out week after week.

SPEAKER_03 53:23

It's almost like I'd say, like, we we're grateful that Bristol's so close that you can still call it local. Yeah, for someone that sells local beer.

SPEAKER_05 53:31

Because it's just so different and then I think the fact that they can sell it pretty much anywhere in Bristol means that they are all then competing to make the best.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Was there like a national or potentially even global market like Bristol? Well they do you see it much like you. You're yeah, yeah, they don't buy anything because of the that. You're you're a well-travelled man, Max. Do you see on about breweries or did you ever go up to Sheffield and there be a Bristol Beer Factory beer on tap?

SPEAKER_04 54:00

Uh Bristol Beer Factory, yes.

SPEAKER_05 54:03

No, well, I can't remember I can't recall seeing anything from Bristol.

SPEAKER_04 54:07

You said that I think in Sheffield you said you saw a Bristol Beer Factory.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

It's just interesting because obviously, like with the can game, cans kind of fly out here, there and everywhere. Cans fly quite a bit.

SPEAKER_05 54:16

Yeah, I did see uh um actually like I saw a left-handed giant can in Barnsley last week last week. I can. Yeah, I can. In a fridge in a in like a craft beer place.

SPEAKER_03 54:25

Yeah. I mean I saw not what I asked, but that's kind of like the what I said that I would expect, but I meant like in a pub like on on like on draft. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 54:38

Whether it be cask or keg. Dunno. No. Just drank loads of John Smith's.

SPEAKER_03 54:43

But you do get like a decent amount of Bristol rounds.

SPEAKER_05 54:46

£2.10 a pint.

SPEAKER_03 54:48

Like you get Bristol, like I said, you get it in in Glastonbury, you get it in in the fucking halfway, you get it.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

Yeah, I reckon I reckon probably the whole of the South I don't know. Because then London has its own scene.

SPEAKER_03 55:03

But then also then you get like the shittier places. Yeah, but you never seen it.

SPEAKER_04 55:07

You see a lot of Bristol in London.

SPEAKER_01 55:11

I don't know, do you?

SPEAKER_04 55:12

I couldn't say I have.

SPEAKER_03 55:13

But then there's also the brewery-owned places around here, like the fucking like the globe or whatever, you're never gonna see Bristol in there. Exactly. It's so strange. Yeah. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 55:26

But a lot of the the lot of the Bristol brewers don't need to sell to To those big breweries, yeah. Yeah, true. And why would they? Because all they'll get done is screwed on margin, won't they?

SPEAKER_03 55:41

Do you want which is also what what like to me now defines I see I see uh real ale bars and freehouses as as different things to pubs. I I always feel like fuck me. I'm trying to trying to get deep and deep and personal. Yeah, but like local pubs, no but even if local pubs, even if they are like brewery-owned, right? Then they're just as good as the weather spoon's sometimes. Because all you're gonna get on tap is Heineken, Guinness, Cruz fucking campo. You can do one. I hate that so much. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. Um I know it sells and people love it, and people go out to drink that shit, but like I see it now as two completely maybe more maybe people have have have realized this quicker than I have. But I've just realised in the last maybe year or so, even though I've been drinking here for many years, yeah, that there is a a very big difference between I guess like a free house that can sell whatever they want, or like they're actually passionate about the beer, and then just a pub that's owned by a brewery.

SPEAKER_05 56:52

Then they go, Oh yeah, we got John Smith's and we got But then I think that's why the micropub and uh tap house became such a big thing.

SPEAKER_03 57:01

Like, yeah, but is it I don't I don't know if it's like I was gonna say I don't know if it's big enough, but maybe I don't know if it's like people. Yeah, I know uh but that's in Bristol.

SPEAKER_04 57:13

I meant like you know I mean Oh no, every every major city has its own beer scene, doesn't it? Yeah. So so if you went to Manchester, and Manchester's probably a poor example because it's it it's known for a good craft beer scene.

SPEAKER_03 57:26

Leeds has got one, Newcastle's got one. Equally though, I can't come in here and get a Newcastle Brown.

SPEAKER_04 57:32

No, because that's not really a craft beer, is it?

SPEAKER_03 57:35

No, that's a craft beer. That's what I mean. But sometimes I want a nukey bee, so I have to go to a spoons. Or the Rodney or the rifleman's right, I'm gonna take the dice on that note.

SPEAKER_05 57:49

Yeah, did they ever do Nuke B on tap?

SPEAKER_04 57:52

Wait, that's a really good question.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

I've never seen that.

SPEAKER_04 57:54

No, it's always bottled. It's always been bottled. Google it. Right, I'm shaking.

SPEAKER_01 57:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 58:01

Number eight. How weird is this? We're getting. We haven't had a double yet.

SPEAKER_03 58:06

We haven't had to net one yet. Number eight. Which is Shangers! Fuck me, we've had triple arbor.

unknown 58:14

Shangers!

SPEAKER_03 58:16

I reckon Arbor have paid you. Nah. No? I will say they're all very similar colours.

SPEAKER_05 58:23

Very similar colours.

SPEAKER_03 58:26

Um don't drink with your eyes. Because it all comes out of the River Avon.

SPEAKER_04 58:32

It all comes from the cistern. Yeah, it's a recycle. Shangers, 4.2% ABV. Would we say this is their their their staple? Their flagship beer.

SPEAKER_00 58:48

It's a cult classic, isn't it? Smoggish board of 4.2 pales this week. Yeah, yeah. It's very difficult to distinguish between all of them.

SPEAKER_05 58:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:56

They're all good. They're all really good.

SPEAKER_05 58:59

There's never been a time where Arbour haven't done Shangers. Is there? By the way, we call it Shangers. Colloquially. It's because it's a lot of effort, saying it's because we're from Summers.

SPEAKER_03 59:13

I can't remember if I asked for it as Shangers or not. I probably put it out and didn't. Shangers. I think I said I'll have a Shangers. Did he know exactly what you meant? I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 59:23

He had no pipe.

SPEAKER_05 59:26

What the fuck happened? You guys just don't remember anything from this day.

SPEAKER_03 59:30

I'll tell you what, it was fucking wild. It was it was a it was an absolute boozer. What time did you get home? 8 30. Yeah, but I was here until like But you text me saying like what past midnight. What are you doing now? Yeah, I know. I but I and also I said if you heard this song, but and I know that we sat there and watched it together. The 376 song by the Bad Cowboys. Oh yeah yeah. And I read these texts in the morning and I was like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 59:58

And have you have you smelled this?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:03

Wow, fruit.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:05

It's a nicer smell. That's a real real nice. A real raw hop. Yeah. You know what I mean? When you Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:15

You like smelling a clink and drink. Clink and drink. It smells like a brewery in the the best way. You know, like when you like it's a hop oil, I think. It's like an enticing smell, which you don't often get with beer.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:30

Nice. Oh, hang on, move the stars. I've just got it wrong, I think.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:34

That's good.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

That was really kind of like.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:39

So many times. It's always pick of the week easy when we got it all.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:43

That is good. It is good, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

With your calling system, is that the first one that it goes into?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:50

Yeah, because it's very cold.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:53

Uh I've never thought about this.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:57

Yes, I think it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

But I never drink number eight.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:02

That's good.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:03

What is number eight usually? But I I know I know for a fact I never really drink. It'd be a quantok or something. Yeah, so I always go for like a a two. I'll go for like a two, a five. Maybe not a five actually. It's a really good temperature, isn't it? It is really good. Yeah. That's nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:20

Apparently you can get Nuki Brown on tap in the US. In the US and in Hong Kong. That's a long way to go.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:27

Yeah. But that's interesting.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:29

Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

That's really good. It is. I mean it's Shangers, isn't it? It tastes like Shangers.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:36

Yeah, get your sh get your Shangers on.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:38

What do um condition wise and the way the way that that's you've served that to me now here at the Etsom Arms. Fucking brilliant. Would you say beautifully presented? Oh, incredibly, yeah. Exceptional.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:52

So um I said I this is all I put because also I get bored as I work down this. Yeah, yeah. I just put I just put brilliant beer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:04

Fair. You're not wrong. But you knew that before you tasted it. Yeah. So is that a bit of a cop-out?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:09

I think I taste better than the last it in my mind it tastes better than the last time I had Shangers. That might be top for me now.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:16

But the thing is with Shangers, is you can just go back to it all the time. You could just I'm Yeah, it's safe, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:30

You're right, you like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:32

I just like how it casual it's become. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:38

The thing is with Shangers. The thing is with Shangers. They're gonna have to change the name. Yeah, they are gonna have to change the number. Just for the Southwest market. For the for the some for the Somerset market. Oh my god. Imagine if you get a limited edition cam with Shangers written on it. Can we make that happen? Fuck. Can we get we can get a I'll have it for the birthday party? Has anyone got Dinny's numbers? Anyone got Dinny's number?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Shangri La from Arbor Alex, Bristol. It's a pail liberally hopped with brewed with citra, Columbus, Ecunaut, and Mosaic hops.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:16

See, I wouldn't even describe it ever as too hoppy though. No, they're liberally hoping it's a real real hop flavour. Yeah, but it's so like well-rounded though. Because like a lot of things, like when they go or shove loads of hops in it, it's just like yeah, you can tell they've shoveled a hops in it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:32

This has got a bit of four on untapped, hasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:35

Uh okay, good question. If it's not, I'm gonna fucking write it.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:41

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:41

I don't write. I'm gonna go and get my pi my my picket picket.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:46

It's got a 3.7.

unknown 1:03:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:48

3.7. Well that's still the highest so far, isn't it? But it also has the by far the most ratings of anything we've looked at. It has 22,284 ratings. Wow. The end of chaos had like 503. Yeah, but it's a new beer, the end of chaos.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:03

Uh right, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:04

Well uh what about Motueka then? Motueka has two 2,700. As opposed to 22,000. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:14

Well Shangers is a staple though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:16

What colour is Shangers? Is that the um it's purple and yellow? That's that's the purple and yellow, isn't it? That's the the LeBrangier, that's the uh LA Lakers one.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:27

That's the reason you like it, not because it's the one.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:29

I didn't realise it that was that one. But maybe subliminally, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:36

We'd got to um we'd got to Goodkem. Good chem, so we can from there round the corner through cobbled streets to more beer.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:49

More beer, also with a branded stamp by this point to be fair. To be fair, it only fell off at the end. Spoiler. We'll get onto that if we've got time. So tell us about more beer, what's your thoughts? I've been there before. Do you want to know my initial memory of more beer when I um maybe I probably thought of this on Tuesday this week? Uh was listening to um smooth operator, and then you knocked my my beer out of my hand onto the floor. Can't remember that.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:19

I remember listening to smooth operator.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:20

Yeah, so they they had a good old sound system with like a proper DJ in like a little like caverny room, yeah, which was past toilets. It's in the brew house. Yeah, but you had to go past the toilets, like everyone queuing for the pisser, through into where they had the car scales at the back, they sort of just shoved them out the back. Right. Which we didn't end up getting. I think we just got a keg one from the front. Yeah. Um I think I've got a video of maybe. There's more.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:58

Wait, so what happened was this was

SPEAKER_03 1:06:00

Pete knocked my fucking beard. Wait, yeah, I've got it on video. I didn't know it didn't there. Oh yeah, you see? Evidence. I don't even know how you did it though.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:10

I was just getting down with it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:14

There it is, though. Put that on the socials, Max.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:17

When you release it, you can't get one hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:19

Oh, we fully look.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:24

Wait, I th I thought you I thought you'd like he's like knocked a bit out of it, not the entire pincoat.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:32

Well I don't know what we I think we're just dancing or like dicking about or whatever. Is that a gun? Is it straight from work? Yeah, yeah, he's just straight from the site in his high bird. It's a Royal Mail. He's a posty. Oh, he is a Royal Mail posty. Yeah, I don't know if you've seen it before. When do you remember that? When beer knocked my beer? When Pete knocked my beer. But then he he very kindly um gave me half. A half of his and we shared it out. I'm shaking. Oh, you got it on. Don't need a stab. Oh, we've had to. We gotta we got a down one then, are we all? No, no, no, no, no. Or a shot of vodka.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:19

Number four.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:21

You have to have a tomato. Yeah, we have to oh we eat a tomato. Number four, we're on. Don't need to ask. Wait, but this is more as well. Yeah. We don't throw this stuff together. Oh my god, this is definitely rigged. Yeah, it's definitely rigged. So we were talking about more, and now we're on to uh more. So what did you drink? And it is on number four. What did you drink at more? You can't remember. It was I had it was an IPA, it was on a keg. He actually drank about that much. Well you saw the colour of it, it was like a pale yellow, it wasn't as dark as what we got here. Okay. Because like you said, we didn't I don't think we knew about the cast stuff until we sort of ventured deeper into the venue.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:04

A bit of woodwork and more.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:10

Are we doing that now?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:12

Yeah, we went to Unwins. Wait, we should do those two together though. Yeah, because I've never heard of this.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:19

Neither had I. I honestly didn't even realise where I was going.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:23

This wasn't on the trail last year either.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:26

So it was um Lil Martha's on the trail last year. Yeah, Little Martha was. That was the last one.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:33

Rebrand? Well we didn't see that on the yeah, we've talked about them having new owners.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:37

New owners, and it's being rebranded, and they're going back to their roots, and they're going back to Norhop, and they've renamed the Stout. Oh yeah. And yeah, when um I'm selling the old stock quite cheaply in the offie. Oh. Because I want to get the new stock in.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:53

Nice. I knew I knew Sharon would have the information.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:55

There's um oh god, I've forgotten his name.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:57

Well Justin Hall. Does Will he's gone to a uh he's gone he's gone to another brewer, which maybe may maybe we'll talk about uh in another episode. Oh, okay. Might be another brewery visit, who knows? Right, what's next then? Um Right, we've got um Bristol bitter. From more.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:21

From more. So we didn't have this when we were there. I've never tried this. It's actually called Bristols. It's actually called Bristol Best. I'll correct you, but it smells like a bitter, is that what you just said? It's a very strong beer, smelling. Fuck me, we're gonna break his glasses.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:43

Oh it's not my type.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:49

No, I think it's quite actually alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:51

Yeah, it's quite nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:52

It's a good it's a regional. What's the what would you it's caramelly. What is that taste? Yeah, like the traditional bitter taste. What would you what would you describe that flavour as? Is it like caramel? That like it's a big thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:05

It's almost like cinnamony.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:08

I like it, but like it's one of those ones that like I think I'd have one pint in and not want another one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:14

I think you could have that on a winter lunchtime. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:19

With uh a stew.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:20

Isn't I I I could have it with a ploughman's.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:25

I could have it with uh uh a pot uh pot noodle a pot pie. With a reduced pot noodle from co op.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:35

A pot pie. Or like a pasty. We had a couple of pasty, yeah. Oh yeah. We'll come on to that with the next two breweries. How much did you eat? Yeah, fucking quite a bit. I drank more. Um so we were at onwinds then, weren't we? Hold on though, I like that beer. Just speaking about what we just tasted, I actually quite like that. Well, I say it's 3.4%, but it still tastes very beery. Oh yeah. I didn't reduce the percentage. It's weirdly, it's weirdly weak for how much flavours there.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:06

I put caramel eat, sweet traditional bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:09

Oh wow. Yeah, okay. Nice. Caramelle. What do they say on the old official blurb from Moorbeer?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:16

Uh Bristol Best. Moorbeer, Bristol. Bitter malt, backbone of toffee and biscuit balanced by a firm traditional hopper. Bitterness. Bitterness. Bitterness.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:28

Bitterness. Bitterness. Malt's the word I think I was trying to search for earlier, but I don't really know what fucking malt is, honestly. I know what maltaser is, and I know what malt drink's malt drink is. More like that. But I've never even a malt teaser. But like, what is malt? Is it a grain? Or a wheat wheatiness?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:46

Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stop from germinating further by drying with hot air. Process known as malting.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:55

Who started doing that? Or do you reckon they did it by the way?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:57

Oh, they did it low. I think the Egyptians did it first. Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:02

Well, I'm on the Wikipedia page. Um probably been used as ingredients of beer since ancient times, for example, in Egypt, ancient Egypt. You are welcome cuisine. Fuck me. Sumer and China. That's why he's the landlord.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:20

Oh yeah, we they had talk, they had a two-hour talk this week. What? Politics live now. Donald Trump and the Chinese fucking guy. China! It was only supposed to last an hour and it took two hours. Oh, that's good then.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:33

I thought about this because I was hearing this on the news. I was driving driving somewhere. Um, I just again for the listeners, I just did the universal cyber driving. We were either driving or jacking off two blokes.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:49

Um and I thought it's bound to take longer than you're scheduled for. Yeah, that's what I thought. Because you have to go for an interpreter. Yeah. So imagine if I had to be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:58

And an hour's not very long to talk about everything.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:02

But imagine if I had to say something and then Sharon had to repeat it. It would take twice as long.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:07

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's only an hour's talk. Do you think it was designed to be like good publicity? As in if they had a two-hour talk.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:16

When it was only scheduled to be an hour.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:20

Someone in politics might be lying to us. Yeah. Who knew?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:24

I'm shocked. But I d I you know, apparently it's looking quite positive, their relationship, when they they thought they sort of somewhat hated each other.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:31

Well, you know. It's like when you meet the guy that you think you hate in person, you're like, he's actually alright. Yeah, I thought I thought he was alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

Or you pretend or you pretend to be friends with someone to get something that they have and you don't. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:43

Anyway, we've had four beers tonight. Yeah. Have we? But it's yeah. I thought we'd had five. Well, the first one. We'll have to listen back to the tape. Um, but it is now quarter past nine, because we shut early on a Thursday. Yeah. And it's my chance to say. Do you think?

unknown 1:14:06

Last orders of the bar, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:09

Last orders. So, it is last orders. Um what are we going to be drinking, gentlemen?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:18

Uh I'm gonna have a one for the team, please.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:23

I know exactly where I'm going.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:24

I know where I'm going.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:25

Easy. And I'm going for a pint rather than I'm going for a full pint of this, and it's easy. Easy choice for me tonight.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:33

What? Uh Shangers. Yeah, Shangers. Yeah, fair. And two pints of Shangers, please, Sharon. Fair. I I forgot to say I went on a brewery tour in Ireland. But it wasn't beer.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:45

Guinness?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:46

It was whiskey. I saw you drinking Guinness.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:48

That's not a that's not a brewery, is it? It's distillery. Distillery tour. Distillery. You can go to the bushmills, I think. I did go to Bushmills.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:54

Oh beautiful. I went to the bushmills distillery, Northern Ireland. It was really good. What'd they distill there? Whiskey.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:03

What kind of whiskey?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:04

Fucking Irish whiskey. Oh shit. All kinds of whiskey. Did you drink it? Fucking I did. I didn't sleep the night before and we got there at half an hour. Wait, you were so excited.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:15

Right, so is this a night you were up all night playing hide and seek or whatever?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:19

No. So the night that we left, because the flight was at 7 a.m. I got picked up at like four and I just didn't sleep because I don't usually sleep before then anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:29

So you were up mixing.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:32

I actually went to bed but I didn't sleep. Anyway, I was knackered, and we went straight from the airport to uh whiskey distillery. Just got on the whiskey. Straight on the whiskey. Straight whiskey.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:43

What time?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:43

About half eleven in the morning. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:46

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:47

Everyone needs a hobby. And we went to Giants Causeway and almost fell over because I was pissed. Well that's where you were squatting.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:53

Are you a general generally a whiskey drinker?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:56

No, uh it actually broke my four-year streak of not drinking straight spinks. I had a phase. Yeah. I stopped drinking straight spider.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:04

I like whiskey, um, but as you get older, it's like it it messes with your um indigestion and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:13

It's quite fertility, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:16

No problems there, mate.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:18

I was gonna I I used to drink a lot of Jameson's whiskey. That was my tiple of choice.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:25

So Bushmills is like the second biggest uh uh distillery in Ireland after Jameson's. Oh right. But Jameson's like stratheric. What does that mean? Just fucking cute, like through the transnational corporation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:38

But um probably part of DiAgio or someone like that. Yeah. Asaki. Yeah, Sahi. Sahi or Asaki? Sahi. Sahi. The Japanese lager. Yeah, they're a massive drinks. That's the it's one of the biggest drinks corporations in the world.

unknown 1:16:53

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:54

I think they own do they own uh Anhouse Bush? Do they own Anhouse and Bush? I don't know about that. Why is it not in more pubs then? They got it done the Royal. No, but at Hashi, they row they own Fuller. They f own Fuller's. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:13

I saw he brought so these brands all ownership.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:15

Are they Japanese? Like by origin, or is that just a uh 1960. Jesus. It's a global world we live in, mate.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:23

They own 19 crimes wine.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:25

Is that what Donald Trump was having a chat about?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:27

They own seven up.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:29

Japan, not China.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:32

They own loads of things, but I'm gonna read I'm gonna read some of the ones you might know out. They own Carlsberg. What? I thought that was like uh Corona. They own Fosters, they own Gatorade.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:49

Oh my god! They own Wait, so why why are the own Lipton like Lipton Ice T. Yeah I know all these subcompanies are just like conning us into thinking that they're own they're their own thing. They own mountain. It's like Unilever, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:01

Funnily enough, they own and this is this this is spelled. They own the some arms? This is U N W N I R.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:11

I'm just throwing this out here. I'm gonna throw shade. I wasn't gonna be this harsh, but I'm gonna be this harsh. They were the first beer, the first brewery that didn't have a fucking stamp. Who signs up for the brewery trail doesn't have a stamp. You go out to the bar, queue up like a little child in the fucking National Trust place that doesn't can't focus on anything, so they they collect bugs around that the place. What are you talking about? Have you never been to a National Trust thing and they've got things to entertain kids because they're not actually interested in the history? No. This is basically me with my little stupid beer coaster. Right. Sorry, I'm drunk now. That feels like I we we need to unpick this. Yeah, yeah. No, but what I'm saying is the other ones they had like a nice stamp and all some of them you stamp your own, that's fine. I prefer if someone did a stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:55

Did you ask for a stamp?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:56

Of course I did. I said, can I have a stamp, please, Mr. Unwin? And he gets a fucking red Sharpie out and writes a W on it.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:03

Yeah, that's alright, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:05

No!

SPEAKER_03 1:19:07

It's not alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:08

Like, how long have they been? I'm with Ash on this. I was very disappointed. Everybody else had a little stamp.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:13

Maybe someone stole their stamp.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:15

Shut up. They lost their song.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:17

I don't think they ever had a stamp.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:18

It ran out of ink. Someone else didn't have a stamp, though. Yeah, Little Martha's didn't have a stamp. They wrote a heart, so I somewhat forgo forgive them. No, I don't, I don't actually. I don't forgive them. But um maybe it's because of fancy. Unforgivable. Unforgivable. But no, it kind of just pissed me off a bit. Because like they've obviously like, look at how well orchestrated this whole thing. Bearing in mind, at the start of the day, I didn't know this was this official.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:44

To be honest, some of them just had a stamping table. You did it yourself.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:48

Yeah, I didn't like that either.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:50

Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:51

Fucking hell. They could have just not had this gimmick and it would have been made out of the way.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:57

Yeah, maybe somebody did it for you. But I bet half the people didn't collect them all. I collected them all.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:04

Was there a prize for getting all of them? No. So who cares?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:07

Um, it's not all about it's about the emotional satisfaction of doing it, isn't it? And also I feel like I feel more connected to the brewery now that I've got a stamp from month.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:16

You're gonna forget about it in a week. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:19

I don't think he will. I won't forget about it until next year, until I make and I go round.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:25

So anyway, I'm gonna call time in a minute. Yeah, we've all got a few minutes. But before I call time, before I call time on this, um I just I think we should just sum up today. These Bristol beers are amazing, aren't they? Mention little Marfas. Fucking hell.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:43

We didn't really mention either of those. They were basically in the same place. There was a pasty shop in between. And also Full Court Press, the coffee place was there, and I actually had a coffee sour. This was a different this wasn't even on the bill. This is how pissed I was.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:57

You had a coffee?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:58

No, I yeah, and an espresso, and also they made a coffee sour. Did you shit yourself on the way back? Yeah, it all came up my mouth when I was talking to Graham.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:09

Did you chant?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:10

No. I meant I was just chorting chatting shit. Right. But anyway, thanks, Graham, for listening.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:18

So we had a great time in Bristol.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:21

But I wish I had more time to talk about it. You can't remember half of it, and you don't know what beers you had.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:28

Um Bristol next year. Bristol was a blind.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:34

We'll be going again next year. Thank you, Bristol. Thank you, the East Bristol Brewery Trail. Yeah, for sure. And uh thank you for what you do up there. We tasted them tonight and they are quality. Happiness.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:47

Love Bristol. I don't think that's any surprise to anyone. But um We're biased maybe. Are we? Do you think? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:55

Yeah, but equally though, if there's any brewers, any brewers or any listeners who know where else we should go next for our city tour, you can do dark revolution.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:04

Email in. Funny enough, Dark Revolution are up there with with their quality of beer though. And that's fucking Salisbury. Glazing Dot. You know, but they've got they've got some really, really nice beers. Yeah, they do. They certainly do. Um especially when it comes to like the Hazier and like the double IPAs and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:20

Showing us is beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:22

Yeah. This is this is you got a nice traditional lineup this week, Pete, to be fair.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:26

Thank you. Well, some people would probably come in here and say it's a bit too fancy. Yeah. Fuck off. They would. Really? I reckon. I think I think our friend over there would um know people who come in and say that haven't they got anything that doesn't taste like fruit juice?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:43

Ah, yeah. Yeah. Well, what you're gonna do, eh? Have a coke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:50

Can't please all the people all the time. You can't, you can't. Um so we should wrap it up, shouldn't we? Yeah. Please. Um we haven't given Max too much to do. I reckon one night we should I reckon one night. We're an hour forty.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:08

We should we should do a I was about to say we should do a Saturday night special where we keep going.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:13

I'd love to do one like Saturday night live. I'd love to do one live, like so I don't have to edit it.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:19

Yeah, but then we would really be have to very be very careful what we said.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:23

Yeah, but also we could it could just be set like on live so it wasn't saved.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:28

Oh yeah. No, but also I feel like we would be responsible. I feel like a lot of the times, not that we we ever you don't have to include this either, but not that we ever say anything that bad. I think we're getting more funny.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:38

So we've had a blast, we've had some great beers from Bristol. Um and um so Ash, you got a leaving thought?

SPEAKER_03 1:23:48

Yeah, I do actually. Bristol. You feel so far, but you are so near. When I drink your beer, my mind is clear. I'll take you home. It wasn't on that tour. I'll take you home and I'll think about you dearly. Um the things I did, I wake up in fearly.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:11

Wow. That's pretty fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:13

There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:16

Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:17

I I I think on that note there's no school.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:20

What the fuck was that?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:22

We'll say goodbye to Max.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:25

Goodbye. Goodbye. But I want to do a poem. Go on, Bristol, Bristol Baby, I wasn't there. That's that's more a statement. Instead, I was over there.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:40

Yeah, he's pointing at Northern Ireland, everybody. The non-visual listeners.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:45

Northern Ireland, I was not. Yeah, Driver Mon Festival. I almost got shot.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:54

There we go. Beautiful. Beautiful. I didn't really always get shot. It was really nice. No, you should have left it there.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:02

So, one other person to emailed in. One other poem. One other poem. Have you got a poem, Sharon? A rhyme? Couple bars?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:14

Anything, any la lasting thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 1:25:16

Any last thoughts? Any anything you want to share with the listeners?

unknown 1:25:21

Not really, no.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:22

I should have said that. I should have said that. Do you want to say goodbye then? Goodbye. Have you got a poem, Pete? Yeah, go on. No, I haven't got a poem. Go on. I don't do uh no, I'd do it properly and rehearse it, not like you idiots.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:37

Whoa.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:37

I I mean I've I'm the only one who's brought one to the to the table. I thought about doing another one, but I cut me asked. Do another one. No, no, I meant like another proper one.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:45

But do you know what?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:46

John, my thought of writing a poem is a lot of time.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:48

It could be like your thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:49

Yeah, it could be, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:51

Every episode we end we're asking.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:53

So I'm sat here at the table. Not drunk enough because I am still able. To make my way home to say thank you to my friends. I hope that this podcast never does end. Anyway. This episode is ending right now, we'll leave it then. So until next week, we'll be doing this forever. Go in and say hello to your mate, and you're not going to be able to do that. It's not ending, is it? Right. I've been Peter. And I've been Ash.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:28

I've been Max. Good night, Summerton. We'll see you. We'll see you in a couple of weeks.