Shows
The Mike Kara PodcastsHello World with Mike Kara - Audio Podcast - Matthew Curtis - Final Edit3/23/22 - Edition of Hello World With Mike Kara Today we have a wonderful interview with Matthew Curtis, who is the
author of the book - "Modern British Beer"
Pellicle Magazine - Founder, and Editor-in-Chief (Beer & Cider) of Pellicle Magazine. Matthew Curtis currently resides in beautiful
Manchester, England, United Kingdom. His website can be found at
http://www.pelliclemag.com
2022-03-2536 min
Undercurrent StoriesBritish Beer Revolution*'Over the course of the past two decades beer as we know it has changed forever. Taking their cues from the craft beer revolution in the US and the resurrection of traditional styles in continental Europe, the brewers of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have carved out a unique and world leading beer culture'* (Excerpt from *Modern British Beer).In today’s show I am joined by Matthew Curtis - Matthew is an award-winning writer, photographer and author based in Manchester, England. His work has been published in BEER, Ferment and Good Beer Hunting. Originally from Li...
2022-01-2448 min
The Pellicle PodcastEp20 — Does Cider Still Have An Image Problem?In October 2016, six months into being a full-time beer writer, I waded into the murky waters of cider writing. On publishing my first piece I was—a little surprisingly—met with a considerable amount of resistance to my view that “cider had an image problem” but there were also positives, which kick-started my journey into cider in earnest. This episode takes a dive into that piece, in which I said that “there needs to be more British cider that takes itself seriously in terms of both flavour and the way in which it presents itself.” It could be argued tha...
2021-02-0155 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp19 — Our Beers, Wines and Ciders of the Year 2020It's that time of the year where we're making our lists and checking them twice. No, not for Christmas, but for our annual best-of's! In this drink-along Christmas special, join Matthew as he recounts his favourite beers, wines, ciders and meals of 2020 over a couple of cans. It's been a rough year for many of us, but hopefully this will help spread a little bit of Christmas cheer. Thanks again to our Patreon subscribers for making this podcast possible throughout this tumultuous year. If you’re able to support Pellicle with a monthly donation, please head to pat...
2020-12-221h 07The Pellicle PodcastEp18 — Is the UK Beer Duty Debate a False Flag?Welcome you what you could consider the beginning of The Pellicle Podcast 2.0. After much deliberation we've made the decision to switch from a series-based format to an episodic one. We just didn't have the time or the resources available in our current schedule to produce the documentary-style episodes we had in mind when originally launching this podcast. This change will allow us to produce episodes in a more timely fashion, thus keeping the show's momentum going.We've also made a few editorial changes, for example we'll be introducing more long-form interviews. We know a lot of beer...
2020-12-0753 min
Photography Insights - important industry interviews by PhloggerMatthew Curtis - beer blogger, photographer & podcasterI’m pleased to bring you episode 102 which is all about one of my favorite subjects – beer!!! During COVID it’s been great to get to the weekend and relax with a couple of beers (obviously you all should drink in moderation like me). After a recent delivery from Beer52 I looked through the Ferment magazine and noticed some interesting articles. This work led me to the author behind the work - Matthew Curtis. Matthew is a freelance photographer, blogger, podcaster, and now a magazine publisher!It was really interesting to talk with someone who actively has an interes...
2020-09-231h 18The Pellicle PodcastEp17 — Friends & Family & Beer 2020: Hurry Up and WaitWelcome to this special edition of the Pellicle Podcast. Today’s episode was recorded back in February at Cloudwater’s Friends and Family and Beer Festival. It’s hard to believe that such a brilliant event actually happened in 2020, but we’re so glad it did, and we’ll remember that weekend fondly for a long time to come. Thanks again to Paul, Doreen and Connor at Cloudwater for inviting Jonny and I up to host these talks at the festival.In this episode, we chat to Alex Troncoso of Lost and Grounded in Bristol, and Katie Pietsch fr...
2020-08-2431 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp15 — Friends & Family & Beer 2020: Looking Back to Go ForwardWelcome to this special edition of the Pellicle Podcast. Today’s episode was recorded back in February at Cloudwater’s Friends and Family and Beer Festival. It’s hard to believe that such a brilliant event actually happened in 2020, but we’re so glad it did, and we’ll remember that weekend fondly for a long time to come. Thanks again to Paul, Doreen and Connor at Cloudwater for inviting Jonny and I up to host these talks at the festival.In this episode we take great pleasure in chatting to two bonafide industry legends: Doug Odell from Odell...
2020-08-2434 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp14 — In Search of Pliny the ElderHere’s something a little different for you. The latest episode of our podcast is spoken word recording of our co-founder Matthew Curtis’ popular article on his visit to Russian River’s brewpub in Santa Rosa, California, for a taste of its revered Pliny the Elder at the source. It’s a short episode at just 13 minutes, but one we still hope you’ll enjoy a great deal.Regular listeners will know that we’ve narrated a couple of our stories before during a couple of the episodes in the first series of our podcast. This time, however, we’...
2020-08-1113 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp12 — FyneFest 2019: Crafting a LegacyIn recent months I’ve become fascinated by the idea of legacy in modern beer, and what kind of impact today’s brewers will have on the next generation of beer lovers. We’re incredibly fortunate for the existence of beers like Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, Harvey’s Best, St. Austell Tribute and Fyne Ale’s very own Jarl—beers with a seemingly timeless quality that will hopefully continue to be enjoyed for decades to come. But what’s next? They say it takes at least 10 years to build a brand, and with many modern breweries focusing instead on limite...
2020-07-0649 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp11 — FyneFest 2019: Hybrid TheoryYou already know how much we love beer, wine and cider here at Pellicle. Something that also fascinates us, however, are hybrids—co-fermentations of beer with wine grapes for example, or blends of beer and cider, which is sometimes referred to as graf. These boundary pushing beverages aren’t just incredibly delicious, but within them also lies potential. Too often the worlds of beer, wine and cider are viewed separately, but I see them as three cards within the same deck. Hybrids provide each of these worlds with an opportunity to understand each other, and, hopefully, bring them closer toge...
2020-06-2955 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp10 — FyneFest 2019: Independence MattersTime. It makes fools of us all. When listening back to this episode I couldn’t decide whether to publish or not, as so much has changed over the last 12 months. However, I feel this episode is still relevant and worthwhile. Perhaps serving as a marker of how we felt about independence in beer in 2019, feelings that have likely intensified significantly over the past few months. Independence is hugely important to me, but getting to the bottom of why it’s so important is challenging. On this panel I’m joined by Eddie Lofthouse, founder of Harbour Brewing...
2020-06-2248 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp9 — FyneFest 2019: The Joy of CaskToday’s show is part of a series of panel talks recorded at 2019’s Fynefest—The annual festival held by Fyne Ales, at the home of their brewery and family farm in Cairndow, Scotland.In this episode we debate about one of my favourite subjects—cask ale—and why it means so much to both British brewing traditions, and to modern beer culture. Our panelists in this session were Stuart Ross of Magic Rock Brewing Company, Abbeydale Brewery’s Laura Rangeley and Doreen Joy Barber of Cloudwater. Plus, there’s a special guest appearance at the start from Cloudwate...
2020-06-1557 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp8 — Beer & Socialism with Unity Brewing's Jimmy HatherleyToday’s episode is an interview with Jimmy Hatherley, founder of Unity Brewing Co in Southampton. Jimmy is a good friend of mine, and a fantastic brewer. He established his brewery in 2016, influenced by modern, hoppy beers such as Russian River’s Pliny the Elder and Focal Banger from Vermont’s The Alchemist. His other influence is closer to home, however: Belgium. He’s just as interested in perfecting his crisp, nuanced saisons as he is his intensely hopped IPAs.The other thing that interests Jimmy is building his business—but not in the way you might think. He...
2020-01-161h 00The Pellicle PodcastEp7 — Where It's At feat. Duration, Verdant and Five Points BrewingWelcome to the question time episode.A few months ago I hosted a panel talk at a bar called Five Miles in Tottenham, North London called Where It’s At. It’s intent? To figure out where the UK craft beer industry is at the moment, perhaps taking stock of it in the process and figuring out how it might look in the future.I’m joined on this panel by three influential people within the world of beer: Ed Mason, founder of the Five Points Brewing Company here in London; Miranda Hudson, founder of Durati...
2020-01-161h 30The Pellicle PodcastEp6 — Leeds Leeds LeedsToday’s episode is a bumper special: a narrative exploration of one of my favourite cities in the UK — Leeds. This bastion of West Yorkshire is very special to me, and that’s because it’s such a wonderful place to visit and to drink some very fine beer.During this episode we’ll hear from several key people from within the Leeds beer scene, including: Richard Brownhill of Little Leeds Beerhouse and bar, Brownhill and Co, Russel Bisset, founder and director of Northern Monk Brewery, Katie Marriot and Mike Hampshire of Nomadic Beer, and finally Christian Townsley...
2020-01-161h 13The Pellicle PodcastEp5 — St. John's Trevor Gulliver Gatecrashes a BreakfastIn today’s episode I get to visit one of my favourite places in the world—St. John—a place the late Anthony Bourdain described as “the restaurant of my dreams.” A truer statement has seldom been uttered.I was invited by Will Bucknall, co-founder of Kicking Horse, a beer distributor with a wine industry background, helping to educate and supply some of London’s best restaurants with great beer. The subject of food and beer is one of my favourites, which is unsurprising considering they’re some of my favourite things. Put them together and you have perfectio...
2020-01-1658 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp4 — Down to Business with The Real Ale ShopToday’s episode is a “lost podcast” of sorts. I originally recorded this interview in late 2018 for the Good Beer Hunting podcast. Sadly, I left before it was ever submitted, and it has sat, languishing on my hard drive ever since. Listening back to it recently I decided it was too good not to publish.It features Nick Dolan, Zeph King and Tim Peyton of Real Ale, a small, independent chain of bottleshop/bar hybrids. What’s fascinating is that their business isn’t simply that of a retailer. They’re also in the distribution game, perhaps most notably...
2020-01-161h 02The Pellicle PodcastEp3 — Natural Wine, Lambic and the Joy of AcidToday's episode flits between two of our favourite topics: natural wine and lambic—beers own spontaneously fermented equivalent. In this episode you'll hear from Ola Dabrowska and Duncan Sime of Huddersfield-based natural wine shop Kwas, followed by Karel Boon, heir to the storied Boon brewery in Lembeek, Belgium.In our first interview we'll learn how Ola and Duncan came to open a natural wine bar in a West Yorkshire town better known for its traditional pubs and cask ale. Then we'll jump to a busy Hackney pub where we chat to Karel briefly about his family brewery an...
2020-01-161h 04The Pellicle PodcastEp2 — Chatting Cask with St. Austell's Roger RymanIn today's episode Matthew ruminates briefly on the importance—nay magnificence—of cask ale, before chatting to Roger Ryman, the head brewer at Cornwall's St. Austell Brewery and creator of Tribute, one of the best selling cask beers in the country. Following the interview Matthew reads his article on another of the UK's great cask ales, Harvey's Sussex Best. Host: Matthew CurtisGuests: Roger Ryman — St. Austell BreweryRead more at www.pelliclemag.comSupport our podcast at patreon.com/pelliclemag Editors Note: Sadly Roger passed away in May 2020. Read our...
2020-01-1651 minThe Pellicle PodcastEp1 — The PilotWhen brewer Jonny Hamilton told writer Matthew Curtis he wanted to start a magazine, a seed was planted and Pellicle was born. In this episode, our very first—and a pilot of sorts—Matthew and Jonny discuss our magazines origins over a couple of nice bottles of wine and beer. They get there, eventually.Hosts: Matthew Curtis & Jonny HamiltonRead more at www.pelliclemag.comSupport our podcast at patreon.com/pelliclemag
2020-01-161h 02