The Malt TravAle Podcast

Episode 46 - Home Town Crawl 1st Half

Episode 46 - Home Town Crawl 1st Half  – we begin our 11 pub crawl of the town that gave the podcast its name – a beer town since Roman days – as we have covered previously Malton was once drowning in pubs and beer houses – after a bit of decline at the end of the last century, glad to say the drinking scene in the town has had a bit of a revival, linked to the Yorkshire food capital tag and is now quite a varied mix of traditional Yarkshire pubs, Tap rooms and bistro style bars – Expect some of our usual rants about some well know large pubcos and doom mongering about how pubs are not what they used to be when we were young!

Episode 45 – The Town that named a podcast part 2 - Norton the pub scene south of the river

Episode 45 – The Town that named a podcast – in this Episode part of a trilogy about our home town we focus on the other town Norton and our real home town – unfortunately the beer scene south of the river is a little limited but we reminisce about the pubs of our youth along with the usual catch up on our beery highlights from the last week and discuss the beer news, Coronation Beers, mixed news about the future of Black Sheep and the demise of the Friday night pub crawl

Episode 44 – The Town the named a podcast

Episode 44 – The Town the named a podcast – (Part 1) in this Episode (part of a trilogy about our home town) we reminisce about the pubs of our youth that are no longer serving pints – with keep contemporary with tales of working men’s clubs along with the usual catch up on our beery highlights from the last week and discuss the beer news, Nora Batty, a football ground with no beer, drinking from ash trays and the most beautiful Spoons feature in this episode

Episode 43 - We’re Back

Episode 43 – We’re Back After a lengthy break we catch up with our normal beery chat about trips and great pints – warning this episode contains a Spoons love in and mention of pies, this episode also features a discussion around the recent surge in continental beers brewed in Tadcaster/Burton and the positive benefits of the £2 bus fares.

Episode 42 - Hunting York’s lost brewing history

Episode 42 Hunting York’s lost brewing history- a different theme in this podcast. picking up a debate we started back in Episode 9 when we started our three episode traipse around York's very fine pubs, so expect a bit of brewing history, a beer festival and a few pints around York- Oh and a story about some nuns that ran a pub. 

Episode 41 – Searching for Stones in Steel City

Episode 41 – Searching for Stones in Steel City – back in Episode 14 we planned a virtual beer trip to England’s 4th city, the 7 hilled former industrial power-house of Sheffield, rightly known throughout the world for its fine steel and cutlery – in this episode we do the real thing and a spend a day supping 13 fines beers in a range of Sheffield’s finest hostelries old and new. We discuss the decline of brewing and beer in the city during the 80’s and phoenix like rebirth and continued growth from the 90’s onwards into to a city now of over 50 working breweries and The Guardian proclaims is possibly the Beer capital of Britain

Episode 40 - The A-Z of Beer & Pubs- Letters E, R, S and the awkward ones

Episode 40 - The A-Z of Beer & Pubs- Letters E, R, S and the awkward ones - The finale of our beery romp through the alphabet with our A-Z of beer and pub crawls – in this episode, we feature the letters E, R and S plus a quickfire completion the awkward letters left in the bag – 4 beers, 1 brewery, 2 pubs and a destination feature, with a catch up from our summer adventures and plans for the next chapter of MalTravAle Podcasts

Episode 39 The A-Z of Pub Crawls continues – the letters F, L & N

In Episode 39 tonight we continue our beery ramble  through the alphabet with letters F, L & N – a very nice mix of pubs, beers, towns and breweries that we are particularly fond off - and some chat about a pub that started off the whole MalTravAle journey and whether Friday is the best night for beer 

Episode 38 The A-Z of Pub Crawls continues – the letters D, M and P

Episode 37 The A-Z of Pub Crawls continues – the letters D, M and P
We continue our romp through the beery alphabet with letters D,M and P – up this week; a couple of beers, beers' key ingredient, a town with 2 names, two fine Yorkshire destinations and one of Whitby’s finest pubs established by Monks in the 10th century- quite a mix and a report from the Old Malton Royal Oak Beer Festival

Episode 37 The A-Z of Pub Crawls continues – the letters I, U & Q

Episode 37 The A-Z of Pub Crawls continues – the letters I, U & Q
After a Whitsun & Jubilee Break - Recording Episode 37 tonight we continue our pub crawl through the alphabet with letters I,Q and U - a little more challenging this one but we have come up with a nice mix of pubs, beers, towns and breweries - and some chat about a beery Walrus!