Hop Forward: Getting You Ahead in the Brewing and Beer Business

Hop Forward is a biweekly podcast dedicated to the craft beer industry. Including both interviews, discussions and stories from a range of brewers and entrepreneurs within the industry, to advice from founder and host, Nick Law, about starting, scaling and sustaining your own ventures, the Hop Forward podcast is here to help you get ahead with your beers, brand and business.

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Update frequency: every 10 days
Average duration: 59 minutes
Episodes: 206
Years Active: 2018 - 2025

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Raise a Toast to Sustainability [with Louisa Ziane from Toast Ales]

In 21st Century life, we are becoming increasingly conscious about our plastic consumption and our carbon footprint upon the earth. Yet, for many of us, we don't stop to think about another source eq…

00:59:27 | Wed 23 Oct 2019

Building a Sustainable Cask Ale Brewery

On the Hop Forward Podcast this week, we sit down with Lincoln Green Brewing Co. owner and SIBA Chair of the Midlands Region Anthony Hughes to talk about how partnering with an established pub compan…

00:58:53 | Thu 17 Oct 2019

The Quality of Cask Beer [with Nigel Sadler]

Cask beer: there really is nothing quite like a sparkling pint of the creamy headed golden stuff. And yet, why does it suffer so much from bad press and Untappd reviews that make reviews in the Sun…

00:55:20 | Wed 09 Oct 2019

A Bottle of Rum and a Shot of Reality [with Team Toxic]

Gazz Prescott - formerly of Hop Craft - and Sue Hayward, from the now closed Waen Brewery in central Wales join us on the Hop Forward Podcast this with, along with a cameo appearance from Dave Unpron…

00:58:59 | Thu 03 Oct 2019

50 Observations from 500 Breweries [Joel Geier travels across America]

Brewery travel writer, Joel Geier, shares his observations and thoughts from his travels across America, sampling everything from 30L commercial home brewers selling from a residential property, thro…

00:55:26 | Mon 23 Sep 2019

Inside a Liquid Delicatessen [with Real Ale Ltd]

On the Hop Forward Podcast, we travel to Notting Hill, London, to meet Nick Dolan and Tim Peyton from independent bottle shop Real Ale Ltd. Having been running shops across London for 14 years, Nick…

01:01:05 | Fri 13 Sep 2019

Independence [with Jules Gray from Hop Hideout]

Independence. It's a word that conjures up lots of emotions. When independent breweries sell-up to global beer businesses, many supporters and followers feel a wide range of feelings; everything fro…

01:00:25 | Fri 06 Sep 2019

What Would Jesus Brew? [with Hackney Church Brew Co.]

This week on the Hop Forward Podcast, Nick shares some of his personal journey as to why he left the megachurch to start a microbrewery and visits a brewpub based in the heart of Hackney, associated …

00:47:20 | Thu 29 Aug 2019

Don't Talk about the Sparklers [with Claudia Mayne from Five Points Brewing Company]

This week on the Hop Forward Podcast we are joined by Five Points Brewing Company Marketing Manager, Claudia Mayne, in the Pembury Tavern, Hackney, talking all about core range beers, branding, cask …

00:49:17 | Fri 23 Aug 2019

Brokering the Brew from a Custard Factory [Daniel Rowntree from BrewBroker]

BrewBroker are a company that connects brewers to breweries, brands to beers within the global marketplace. Whereas contract brewing once had - and some would argue, still does - a stigma attached t…

00:35:41 | Thu 01 Aug 2019

Ric Womersley is Raising Awareness One Beer at a Time [at Spotlight Brewing Co.]

Ric Womersley runs a social enterprise with the aim of raising awareness one beer at a time. Spotlight Brewing, based on the outskirts of Snaith, aims to produce top class beers along with providin…

01:00:50 | Wed 31 Jul 2019

Something BIG is Brewing in the City of Bradford [at EYES Haus]

On the podcast this week, we talk to Dan, Pip and Lizzy from Eyes Brewery about something BIG that is brewing in Bradford: There are some amazing beers being produced in the UK at the moment. Howev…

01:02:27 | Tue 23 Jul 2019

Bars, Buying, and Beer Bros

On this week's episode of the Hop Forward podcast we catch up with owner of Bath's Chapter One, Michael Heap, to discuss setting up and running a bar, what considerations bar owners make when purchas…

00:53:36 | Thu 18 Jul 2019

Lager Drinkers Demand Rights [with Will Evans from Manchester Union Brewery]

Nestled in a railway arch down in Ardwick, Manchester, is a brewery doing things differently to its next door neighbours. Within a stone's throw of Wander Beyond, Alphabet Brewing Company and Track …

00:43:14 | Tue 09 Jul 2019

Beer Riffing it up in Swansea [with Rhys Pillai from Beer Riff]

On the Hop Forward Podcast this week, we mix skateboards with brewing as we talk to Beer Riff's Rhys Pillai all about the Swansea based brewery and tap room. We discuss everything from building a br…

00:40:54 | Wed 03 Jul 2019

Mental Health in the Beer Industry [with Paul Jones from Cloudwater]

In this week’s episode, Nick ventures over the Pennines to one of the leading breweries in contemporary beer: Cloudwater Brew Co. However, if you’re expecting an episode about Cloudwater rise to suc…

00:55:29 | Wed 26 Jun 2019

What Ails Cask Ale [Shane Swindells on the Plight of Cask Beer]

There are so many issues surrounding cask beer, everything from low margins and dodgy pump clips, to bad cellaring and badly brewed beers. The list is seemingly endless. However, for all it's neg…

01:07:05 | Wed 19 Jun 2019

Melissa Cole on Beer Writing... and why her face is on a pint of Guinness!

Award-winning writer Melissa is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading beer & food experts. In this episode of the Hop Forward Podcast, Nick invites Melissa to share her experiences as a beer…

00:54:03 | Tue 11 Jun 2019

Why Carl Marshall thinks a well kept pint of Hobgoblin and clean toilets are the hallmark of a good taproom.

Designating himself as driver, he taxied a group of friends around a variety of brewery tap rooms - everything from craft upstairs Wild Weather and Siren Craft, to the well-established West Berkshire…

00:53:52 | Thu 06 Jun 2019

The Queer Brewing Project [with Beer Writer, Lily Waite]

The Queer Brewing Project is a new non-profit collaborative brewing initiative led by artist and beer writer Lily Waite. Inspired by the likes of Denmark’s Hops Not Hate and People Like Us, and Lond…

00:38:48 | Tue 28 May 2019

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