The Pub Notice Board - Greg Wells from We Are Beer

The Moon Under Water

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4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Both the Landlord and Regular are swanning about Europe this week, as is their want. But Robbie joins us from The Moon Under Water’s German outpost to chat to We Are Beer director Greg Wells.

We Are Beer run some of the UK’s biggest beer festivals and they also recently released their Top 50 UK Beers list, so be sure to have a look at the list for a buffet of British recommendations.

Robbie and Greg settle in to cover all sorts. From carbon positive beers and current trends to behind the scenes on the sheer logistics of organising beer festivals with thousands of people and kegs. Plus, what is the impact of serving masses of people almost unlimited beer samples?

Do get in touch with any of your correspondence. From famous historical pubspeople to animals in the local, we’ll have a bumper round of emails next week. The place to email is [email protected]. Or feel free to DM us on socials @moonunderpod.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Moon Underwater Pub Notice Board, the spin-off to the main show.
0:24.7	You will notice a lack of Dan here.
0:26.9	He is currently gallivanting around Europe.
0:29.4	As am I, I'm coming here live from the Moon Underwater's branch in Germany.
0:34.6	But we are joined by a special guest.
0:38.2	It's Greg Wells, the co-founder of We Are Beer.
0:40.9	Greg, how are you?
0:42.2	I'm good, thanks. I'm good, Robbie.
0:43.6	We just finished London Craft Beer Festival, so it's still a little bit tired.
0:47.9	Excellent.
0:48.8	For those you don't know, what are We Are Beer?
0:52.5	What is We Are Beer?
0:54.0	We Are Beer is, well, we run, I guess the UK's
0:59.2	biggest kind of big, good beer festivals. We've got one in London at Tobacco, Dark Manchester and
1:05.8	Bristol. So we do about 40,000 guests, bring together a lot of beer, great food, music, a lot of entertainment.
1:13.0	Just, yeah, our aim is to sort of, yeah, celebrate and grow good beer and good beer culture.
1:18.3	Excellent. Well, I've been to a few of your festivals and they've been absolutely
1:22.0	marvellous, but we got you on here to chat about your new list of the top 50 UK beers that I'm proud to say I was part of the
1:31.8	judging panel for. Indeed. Indeed you were, Robbie. First of all, it's the list of all
1:40.6	sort of beers in the UK, the most popular ones. How did the judging process work?
1:44.6	Well, that's a good question. We had a panel of 150 people and that was made up of brewers and
1:54.5	founders and, you know, beer media people like yourself and some retailers, our own team. So that was one
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