The Malt TravAle Podcast

Episode 19 – Summer Catch Up – this podcast was recorded over the August Bank Holiday 2021 – mostly live in Malton and York as our three podcast amigos met up after the summer break, includes a fleeting visit to Scarborough, a day at the Malton Food Festival – including cask pints of Yorkshire Pudding Beer and final a trip to York to add a couple of recent shop conversion bars to our never ending recommendations for great drinking venues in York.

Podcast Episode 18 this week-a trip around our glorious Lake District - so many great pubs and brewers to cover, so we are splitting 3 ways- Nick the 5 best scenic pubs, Mike 5 great breweries & where to drink a pint of their finest & Bruce 5 best foody pubs – this will be a 2 parter – so look out for part 2 next week or so

Episode 17 - A bottle of Dog and a Schooner please-Pints on the Tyne - our humble view of the best pubs to visit in Durham & the Toon -includes ice cream in Whitley Bay & mention of a vibrant brewing scene. Our beery trip around the North East will also pay homage to 2 regional delicacies The Stottie & The Parmo (though Singing Hinnies will also get a mention) both fine booze soakers. Warning Sam Smiths may be mentioned!

Episode 16 – MalTravAle on the Road and Live – after several months of Zoom drinking, the three of us finally get to sit around a table, drink too many beers and twaddle on – this Episode is a combination of 5 live recordings around a number of pub and tap tables – covering the fine towns of York, Harrogate and Knaresborough and a visit to one of the legendary homes of modern Yorkshire brewing – Roosters – a tale of 13 pubs and over 22 different beers that made our voices go very funny – hope you enjoy some of this, as much as we did!

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 – 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 – 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 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 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 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