The Malt TravAle Podcast

Episode 15 - All the threes in London

In this week’s Episode 15 we get competitive & each pitch our best 3 London pubs (we have all gone North of the river) and there may well be too many Sam Smith pubs discussed, we catch up on beer news & our CaskIsBack adventures and plan for our live ‘in the flesh’ podcast next week from some of Yorkshire’s finest Spa towns

Sheffield a Soiree round Steel City

Sheffield a Soiree round Steel City – this week Nick regales us with beery tales of his student days in Yorkshire Athens – 10 proper pints in 10 proper pubs around Sheffield – Warning this will be a Cask heavy podcast – catch up on our recent pub garden adventures and talk about some very strong beers    

Episode 13 – York Pubs Part 3 - The Final Stagger

Episode 13 – York Pubs Part 3 – we complete our York tribology as we virtually stagger through to beyond 40 pub recommendations, we also take time to discuss pub beer gardens, shandy and once again, pork pies feature strongly. We finish by setting ourselves the challenge of each choosing out top 3 York pubs

Episode 12 - York Part 2 - North of the River

Episode 12 – York Pub Crawl part 2 – ‘North of the River’. Following on from our ramble around Micklegate, Bishy Road and all things York Brewery, 4* hotels and toilets in pubs, we continue our jaunt round the pub capital of Britain; York – this time focusing on the area around the Minster – Europe’s largest Gothic building and a mighty fine one it is – we also find time to catch up on pub reopening, more on Yorkshire pudding beer and a very famous umbrella shop in London – and to kick it all off we have an exclusive release from the very talented Sophie Hope and her, about to be released, single ‘ Humour me’.    

Episode 11 Easter Reflections

Episode 11  Easter Reflection – a sit back and relax discussion this week as we reflect on our first 10 episodes and look forward to pub visits (outdoor) starting again next week, we revisit our Moon Under Water choices from Episode 2 and yearn and yarn about our unlocking first cask pints, we also find time to discuss Beery Easter eggs, @SeabrookCrisps, @WXM_lager, the lack of breweries in Wales and Jam Roly Poly & Custard Pale ale

Episode 10 -Episode 10 North Yorkshire Moors Moors, Railway & Coast

Episode 10 Smugglers, ice cream, steam trains & beer – North Yorkshire Moors and Coast, in this week’s podcast we start at Malton and then jump on the best steam railway in the world NYMR transporting the beer team from Pickering towards Whitby and then down the coast calling at Robin Hoods Bay and Scarborough in our North York Moors & Coast episode

MaltTravAle Episode 9 – York – City of Romans, Vikings & Pints

MaltTravAle Episode 9 – York – City of Romans, Vikings and pints. This week we take a gentle ramble around the West of York (we will be returning in a future episode to do east of the river) visiting a  smorgasbord of Jorvik’s finest hostelries (got to get a bit of Viking in). We also discuss the paucity of breweries in York, wax lyrical about Yorkshire Pudding Ale and Cream Egg beers and delve into the myth that there are enough pubs in York to visit a different one every day of the year! 

Epsiode 8 – Labels, logos and reflections

A slight change of tack this week we talk a little bit of brewery and beer history and delve into Nick’s extensive collection of Brewerymania. We remember and discuss some of the classic beer branding of our youth – so lots of cheesy beery strap lines, some iconic images of red triangles and huntsmen and quite a lot of thankfully, forgotten, mass produced lagers mentioned. In our Beery news catch up this week; Lakes Brewing Co, pub reopening, International Women’s day  and Thornbridge/Adnams Collabs get a mention.

Episode 7 - Leeds City of Beer

Episode 7 – Leeds City of Beer
In this weeks podcast we try the impossible and pick out 20 or so great pubs and bars from the 560+ that now serve this fine city – we talk Tetleys, heritage pubs, rough pubs, brewery taps  and lots of great beer as well as the now compulsory pub toilet tale! We also talk in rapture about another must visit pub Whitelocks

Episode 6 Trans Pennine Real Ale Trail - the MaltravAle way

MaltTravAle Podcast Episode 6 this week focuses on the legendary Trans Pennine Real Ale Trail, our chosen version starts with a Cheeky pint in the Arndale, Manchester and hits the buffers at the Scarbrough Taps in Leeds with a few stops in between!
We talk Mild, Heavy Woollen, Sarah Lancashire and ramble on about some stupendous Yorkshire and Lancashire watering holes, two pubs with the longest and shortest names (possibly) and wax lyrical about the Stalybridge Original Buffet Bar - to steal a quote 'simply a magnificent place to sit and drink beer'.