Podcasts about cave direct

Nestled in a railway arch down in Ardwick, Manchester, is a brewery doing things differently to its next door neighbours. Within a stone's throw of Wander Beyond, Alphabet Brewing Company and Track Brew Co - and a mere walk from Cloudwater - Manchester Union Brewery are not turning out big juicy DIPAs or thick luscious imperial stouts, but have turned to traditional central European lager brewing techniques with a modern local twist to create a unique legacy beer that the people of Manchester can be proud to call their own. Talking to Will Evans - an employee of Cave Direct in the North and one of the four directors of Manchester Union Brewery - we discuss some of the challenges Will and his business partners have faced in running a lager brewery, including being muscled off taps by multinationals, fermentation times vs. cash flow, and running a tap room bar next to some of the UK's hottest craft breweries. Although we didn't record sampling the lagers themselves, they were utterly sublime! Check out https://manchesterunionbrewery.com for more details. --- Today’s show is proudly sponsored by Brew Broker – the marketplace for the brewing industry. With over 500 traders already on board, BrewBroker will find you buyers for your spare capacity, or the perfect brewery to create, contract or white label a beer. Create a supplier profile to fill capacity or sign up as a buyer to start your tender with their easy to use platform. Join today for free at brewbroker.com

A tale of fire and ice - we taste beers from Hawaii and Norway. Ben tells us of his drunken escapades with Cave Direct and Chris talks about a hallowed beer that requires us to go to Belgium to pick up.Plus we make up a competition on the fly to win a ch

A tale of fire and ice - we taste beers from Hawaii and Norway. Ben tells us of his drunken escapades with Cave Direct and Chris talks about a hallowed beer that requires us to go to Belgium to pick up.Plus we make up a competition on the fly to win a ch

You're listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out. This week we talk to Colin Gilhespy, managing director of beer importer Cave Direct and Rob's boss. As one of the first importers of Belgian beer, and such a huge champion of it that Belgium gave him a MEDAL, Colin is probably the most influential man in beer that you haven't heard of. And we're only partly saying that because he's Rob's boss. We talk about the beer scene before craft beer – including why Cantillon used to attached sugar packets to their bottles and how Delirium has spread around the world – before getting into what happens from here.DISCLOSURE: Obviously Colin's company sponsors our podcast so you can take it all with a grain of salt (or rather sugar) if you want. Brought to you by the team behind the Craft Beer Channel and sponsored by Beer Merchants, The Bubble takes an irreverent look at beer from the outside, inviting new people to give us their perspective on the world we're all obsessed with. You're listening to the bubble, the podcast turning beer inside out.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/craftbeerchannel)

In food and drink we often talk about the supply chain—the line we draw between the farm and the glass. The truth is, it’s far more complicated, and far more protracted than that.  The beer world is a web containing thousands of people who work to get beer in your hands, and only a few of them brew it, still they influence which beers are brewed, how they are packaged, how they get to the bar and how they are served. Even a small scale beer scene like Britain’s is full of people you have never heard of, but who influence what you drink on a daily basis. Few of them have had as much influence as Colin Gilhespy, managing director of speciality beer importer Cave Direct. [Disclosure: I worked at Cave Direct from 2013 to 2018.] He has been in the distribution business since the early 80s, when he and his dad were among the first to bring Belgian beers across the Channel. Not just any beers either, but niche, expensive beers Trappists, Lambics and Flemish reds. At the same time that some Californian homebrewers were just waking America up to adventurous beer, Gilhespy and his family were doing the same in the U.K. I’ll leave the stories to him, but over the last 40 years he has had a huge hand in the growth of the British craft beer industry as it grew from the ashes of 1970s consolidation to one of the world’s most diverse and exciting scenes. From growing the Belgian beer category to helping new British brewers on the way up, he has laid a path for huge change and over the last decade has seen phenomenal growth.  Cave Direct is now the U.K.’s only national direct-delivery beer wholesaler, and Colin’s services to the Belgian beer industry has even won him awards from the country’s brewing guilds. Even so, it’s difficult times to be an importer with Brexit on the horizon, huge competition from macro-breweries buying taps and pushing prices down, and several buyouts of breweries that Cave had built their business on. There’s still a long way to go. I joined him and sales director Neil Kitching at the Beer Merchants Tap, Cave Direct’s bar in East London where they have just taken delivery of their first batch of spontaneous wort for a blendery project, and where in June they will host their 40th birthday party with the breweries and friends that helped them come this far. This is Colin Gilhespy and Neil Kitching of Cave direct. Listen in.

This week we’re joined by Jonny from Cave Direct to talk us through a beginners guide to loving Belgian beer. We also chat about crowd funding in the modern beer scene and Cantillon’s recent announcement. Beers | Elusive Brewing ‘Plan B’, Brasserie de la Senne ‘Taras Boulba’, Unity Brewing ‘Coalescence Saison’, Brasserie Dupont ‘Saison Dupont’, Brew […]

In our 37th episode, on lambic-lovers Christmas, Zwanze Day 2017 we spoke to Will from Cave Direct North. Cave Direct North the Unit 101 railway arch where the Manchester event was being held. We discuss what Cave Direct do, their relationship with Cantillon, how the day has been organised, how much Zwanze has been allocated to the UK, the nature of importing Belgian beer and more. We also find out Will's plans for Unit 101, how they wanted to make the day special and how to allocate a rare beer to thirsty drinkers. http://www.cavedirect.com https://twitter.com/unit101mcr https://www.cantillon.be --------------------- www.beernomicon.com Available for free download on Soundcloud. We are on iTunes too @ apple.co/2bBssoV Also find us on Stitcher and other podcast apps. Please share around and any feedback is welcome. Rate and review us on iTunes. www.twitter.com/beernomicon www.facebook.com/Beernomicon Instagram: @beernomicon