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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Blue-Sky Drinking: The future of BEER with PETE BROWN

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We were living in a golden age of craft beer… and then COVID hit. Will the pandemic tally wound Britain’s independent beer makers? Or are government ignorance and Big Brewing more of a threat to this life-enhancing industry? Britain’s leading beer writer PETE BROWN – author of Craft: An Argument: Why The Term 'Craft Beer' Is Completely Undefinable, Hopelessly Misunderstood And Absolutely Essential – tells Andrew Harrison how we got here, and how to Make Craft Beer Great Again.   Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome back to the bunker daily I'm Andrew Harrison. It's not all

1:11.3

coronavirus recession exams chaos and Donald Trump on this

1:14.6

podcast, you know. As regular listeners note, we enjoy a quality beer now and again.

1:18.0

And the past couple of years have been a golden age for UK brewing, with more brewers than ever before,

1:22.0

better beers than in my lifetime at least, and a sense that in life at least one thing is going in the right direction.

1:27.2

How do we get here? What's the state of independent brewing in the UK and what will COVID-19 and the impending recession mean for the drink that is, according to

1:34.3

Homer Simpson, the solution to and cause of all life's problems.

1:37.9

I'm delighted to have Pete Brown, the dawn of British beer writers and a proper

1:41.0

raccoon seer here with me.

1:42.4

You can buy his new book, Kraft, an argument

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