Podcast appearances and mentions of Matthew Curtis

What do you think of when you think about a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord? Is it a seamless marriage of hop, malt, yeast and water? Or is it perhaps the pristine vistas offered by the hills and dales of Yorkshire? God's Own Country they call it, modestly. Maybe it's about that duff pint you had in a random Soho pub that tasted of idleness and regret? All three perspectives are valid.There is a lot that goes into the production, consumption and (potentially) enjoyment of this near universally acknowledged and appreciated beer. One that is the second largest cask beer by both volume and value in the United Kingdom, neatly behind the ubiquitous Doom Bar from the Molson Coors-owned Sharp's (which also makes Landlord the largest independently produced cask beer in the UK.) 19 million pints of this pale, Yorkshire bitter are supped, swilled and scoffed at every single year. That's quite a feat, when you think about it. It is these reasons that stimulated our latest long read: A Polyptych of a Pint, by Rachel Hendry. As a feature it is one that came into being thanks to a little bit of serendipity. While Rachel and I were wrapping up the production of an earlier piece she wrote for us on the history of Babycham, at the end of an email she opted to include a couple of sentences that indicated she wished to write about Landlord. By coincidence I had also been sitting on the open offer of a tour at the brewery, and suggested she might like to join me, as research on her yet-to-be feature began in earnest. That tour was led by the current CEO of Timothy Taylor's, Tim Dewey. An ex-spirits man who formerly led marketing at brands like Smirnoff and Drambuie, he's sat in the big chair at Taylor's for over a decade now, and announced his impending retirement earlier this year. More serendipity, then, in that Rachel and I were lucky enough to catch Tim before he started to enjoy a well-earned retirement.In this episode join Rachel Hendry and Matthew Curtis as we chat to Timothy Taylor's CEO Tim Dewey about all things Landlord. Find out why it's one of the most well loved, and indeed, talked about (and argued over) cask beers in the country in this must-listen-to episode of our podcast.We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month.

In this episode of the ASIAL Security Insider Podcast, we speak with Matthew Curtis, one of the authors and a principal driver of the new ISO 22340 Security and Resilience — Protective Security — Guidelines for an Enterprise Protective Security Architecture and Framework, the first-ever standard providing guidance on protective security. This new standard has been developed and completed within the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization. The draft has now passed the final ballot – the process of resolving final editorial matters, conducting the final edit, and, ultimately, publication will then follow.In this podcast, we discuss how the standard is designed to meet a pressing need for organisations to adopt enterprise governance arrangements, enabling formulation implementation of all security controls coordinated within a single framework and strategically aligned with the business of the organisation.ISO 22340 is the first international standard on protective security and following its planned adoption as an Australian standard, the first of its kind here in Australia as well.Matthew went to great lengths to ensure that he explained the development and deployment of this standard was a team effort, stating, “I owe a great debt of gratitude to the team of professionals who have given so much of their time, knowledge and intellectual rigour to the project. These include Jason Brown, Head of Delegation for Australia to ISO/TC 292, Anna Harris, Chair of the Standards Australia committee MB-025 Security and Resilience, Alex Webling, Julian Talbot, Adam Incher, Matt Warmington, David Harding and Robert Gore, and more latterly, Vern Amey. Also of great value were the contributions and support of colleagues on the project team representing France, United States of America, Norway, Japan, Sweden, Republic of Korea and United Kingdom.”

Since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent cost of living crisis, the UK has experienced the closure, or change in ownership of nearly 200 small, independent breweries. Prior to that, however, we saw a boom, growing from just over 700 in 2013, to more than 2000 at the start of 2020.Around 700 of these breweries are members of SIBA, the Society for Independent Brewers and Associates. In March 2024, our host Matthew Curtis visited its annual trade show, Beer X, in Liverpool, and wandered the trade floor asking members two simple questions: what's the biggest challenge facing their business at the moment, and what's one thing they're feeling positive about when it comes to beer and brewing.It seems like a simple premise, but it revealed that while the industry is still facing hardships—illustrated by that decrease in overall brewery numbers—there's still plenty to smile about. Independent beer, it seems, still has plenty of fight left in it, and that's something all drinkers should take to heart. This episode features, in order of appearance: Catherine Webber (Attic Brew Co), Charlotte Thomson (Indie Rabble/A Hoppy Place), Paul Jones (Cloudwater), Sean O'Reilly (Brids Cross Brewery), Steve Dunkley (Beer Nouveau), Laura Rangeley (Abbeydale), Julie and Les O'Grady (Neptune), Richard Archer (Utopian Brewing), Cameron Brown (Turning Point Brew Co) and Sam Martin (Leigh on Sea Brewery).We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month.

# On Becoming Hawk Hi there - this is Michael Kiser, founder and publisher of Good Beer Hunting. I'm coming to you today with a difficult message—but a simple one.  Good Beer Hunting—after nearly 15 years, and at least 10 of that that I would consider serious years—is going on a platform-wide sabbatical. It'll be indefinite. It might be permanent. We have some ideas for what the future of Good Beer Hunting might look like—and soon I'll be working on that vision with the counsel of my colleagues to see where it takes us. But the earliest vision is so drastically different than what GBH currently is, that the only way to get to the other side is to make a clean break. We've got to clear out the cache. We've got to quiet everything down for a bit and see what it all sounds like on the other side of that silence. We're shutting down our various content streams—the podcast, the website, social—ending a sort of always-on feed of content that's been, for many of us writers, editors, and artists, our life's work. And for most of us, our best work. This thing that started as my personal blog would go on to be published in the annual Best American Food Writing, and win multiple Saveur blog awards before I had the courage to start publishing other voices beyond my own. It began as a way to pursue my curiosity for beer, combining the beauty I saw in it with the strategic implications of a new wave of culture and industry the world over. Good Beer Hunting came from a simple idea and simpler execution of a blog and grew into an international publication covering unique stories from countries all over. With every major shift, from one editor in chief to another, it would morph into something that felt beyond any reasonable ambition. Eventually winning awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Imbibe Magazine, more than 100 awards from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, and most recently nominated for 6 James Beard Awards and winning 3 of them. If I consider what it would mean for us to achieve something beyond all that, I'd have to believe in a truly insane fantasy. In the many years of running a beer publication that took us to the top echelon of all publications —literally taking podiums next to the New York Times, Washington Post, and The New Yorker—we've had to build and sustain an organization that simply doesn't have a roadmap for survival in 2024's media landscape. And to be clear, it never did.  From day one, I vowed to not try and make GBH profitable, because the media world already showed that to achieve profitability was to welcome a certain kind of death—and often a shameful one. Chasing advertisers and clicks with listicles and promotions—and as a result, never creating anything of real value to anyone but the advertisers. It was a fool's errand, and one we didn't follow. By not hunting down ad revenue and declining offers over the years, Good Beer Hunting was able to remain a personal project in a way, even as our ambitions continually grew and results showed what an impact our stories and contributors made on the world of beer and beyond. Instead of trying to manage our costs with advertising, we've been able to form longstanding partnerships with companies like Guinness, which has helped mitigate at least some of financial losses we took on every year. We also launched an experimental subscriber community called the Fervent Few, which took a meaningful chunk out of the debt and paid its dividends by connecting readers and fans from all over the world during the loneliest parts of the pandemic. But in reality, even these things combined didn't cover the gaps as we continued growing.  The challenge of expanding GBH during its rapid growth phase came from my own pocket, which kept our editorial team independent and in control. But it also guided us to this moment. Paying for writers, designers, and editors was a budget pulled from my own strategic consultancy called Feel Goods Company, which was no small thing. Each year, the costs sometimes crested over $100,000 that weren't covered by underwriting partners like Guinness or subscribers from the Fervent Few. And in the last couple years, costs went far beyond that. For years, I put other important things in my family's life on hold to continue supporting GBH's growth and ambitions.  As a father of three kids—and sometimes the only one working—that decision wasn't made lightly. I exhausted myself making the consulting business uncommonly successful in order to keep both things afloat and growing. And as costly as that was in a financial sense, I've never regretted the decision to do it—and I never took a dime. In fact, there was one year when we more or less broke even, and with the small amount left over we gave the editorial team, including our freelancers, a surprise end-of-year bonus. More like a tip really.  Good Beer Hunting is the longest I've ever done anything, and it's also the best thing I've ever done. And it existed entirely because I wanted it to. But outside of anything I wanted it to become—my own pride and ambitions for GBH don't really compare to the awe I feel when I look at what people like Austin Ray, Claire Bullen, and Bryan Roth helped it become. Our three successive Editors in Chief over those 10 years—each of whom shaped a new generation of Good Beer Hunting into an image that only they could have. Each of whom provided the shoulders for the next to stand on. And the countless writers and artists who were drawn to their leadership and the level of execution in our collective work—who gave us some of their own best work.  I'm thinking of Kyle Kastranec from Ohio, the first writer other than myself, who wrote a feature for GBH, setting a high bar. I'm thinking of Charleston's own Jamaal Lemon who won a James Beard award for GBH alongside other winners and nominees like Stephanie Grant, Teresa McCullough, Chelsea Carrick, and Mark Dredge.  I'm thinking of people like Matthew Curtis, our first editor in the UK who turned the lights on in an entirely new country for us, and Evan Rail who kept turning on lights in dozens of countries since as our first International editor. Emma Jansen, and Ren Laforme who joined our editors team in the last iteration, rounding out some of the most ambitions and wide sweeping storytelling we've ever produced. Kate Bernot, who leveled up our news reporting to create an unmatched source of access to explain to readers why things matter in beer and beverage alcohol, which is now a growing stand-alone business unit in Sightlines. What felt like a fluke at first, has become something I can confidently own. We produced industry-changing, internationally-recognized, and James Beard Award winning material…consistently. I'm also often reminded of the smaller things we've done—like the blogs and short stories we wrote—about the politics and personal traumas of the way we eat, drink, and relate to each other in our families, in our communities, and against the injustices so many people face in an industry that's ancient and profoundly immature at the same time. It's an unlikely place for a beer publication to have a voice —but GBH has always built its scope around the perspectives of the individual souls who occupy space within it rather than narrowing down a profitable and popular slice of the beer conversation and reduced them to it.  Mark Spence unpacked his Midwestern anxieties around family and food, Lily Waite and Holly Regan opened a door to discuss non-binary and transgender issues,  Jerard Fagerberg and Mark LaFaro took big risks to focus us all on the dangers and costs of alcoholism, David Jesudason and many others captured our attention with stories of harassment, racism, labor abuse, and more that so many readers told us were critical and prescient and more importantly, helped. These stories helped people. Over the years, we've had readers cry as they recounted what a story meant to them. We've had others scream and curse at us for the same. Some even went on the record as sources to ensure our reporting had the substance it needed to make an impact. Careers were started and ended because of the stories we wrote. Those stories had the same effect on ourselves. We've had writers put something heartbreaking or inspiring into the world only to have it wake something up in them and want to do more—take even bigger swings —and find a voice within them that carried them far beyond Good Beer Hunting. And ultimately, that's where my heart is today. This week, I was struggling to find the words to describe what I was going to do with Good Beer Hunting—what comes next. I knew what the move was, and why, and I knew it was time—but I didn't have the poetry for it—so I couldn't quite feel it yet. 

On a long drive to rural Michigan to pick up my son from summer camp, I was listening to an episode of my favorite podcast, On Being. And I heard Azita Ardakani and Janine Benyus, two biomimicry specialists who have a way of describing the natural world with a stunning relevance. They said:  “Life is just so full of vitality and so much ON and being alive and then it's not.” “…What is the difference between something that's alive and something that's not? It seems that with the holding on to life —there's also a feeling of once it's gone, the letting go—like a body breaking down—but it doesn't really. I mean, not for long. What happens is a tree falls and eventually becomes a log. Eventually grows a fungus and you think of it as breaking down—it is no longer a tree. But then a mouse comes along and it's the end of the fungus. And that material—thats' where the reincarnation comes in —that fungus becomes mouse.  “And then a hawk comes along and the material—that material of that mouse becomes hawk. There's this circulation—called metabolism. It's catabolism—then it gets anabolized up into a new form. The grief is brief because transformation happens almost right away—it gets transformed.” Now, GBH isn't dying and it's not wasting away. The truth is it's still sort of thriving in its own manner of being. It's a tree taller than I ever imagined. But success can kill an organization—I've seen it a hundred times in the companies I've worked for, companies I've consulted on—big and small. It's all proportionate. How far away from the roots does that beautiful canopy get before it surprises itself with its own extended weight? How much life force does it expend trying to prop itself up at the expense of something new? 

There's never an objectively right time—but there is a good time. A time not informed by reactionary fear and loathing - but by guts, love, and ambition for something new. 

So I've decided it's time to take the tree down.  
If I look back over the past few years I can see that Good Beer Hunting will be that fallen tree for many. It'll be a source of nutrients for many a mouse that becomes hawk. But the truth is, GBH has been the start of a kind of upward anabolism for some time now. Jamaal Lemon recently took a dream editors job at the Institute of Justice. Stephanie Grant has launched her own community project called The Share. Before that, Matthew Curtis started Pellicle Mag in the U.K. Lily Waite opened a brewery. So many GBH writers have gone on to write books, start podcasts, and create platforms of their own, it's astounding. And what I'm describing right now isn't something that started with GBH—indeed, GBH has been a recipient their upward anabolism from the lives they've lived—each bringing their own energy and nutrients here and nourished us with lifetimes full of curiosity, learning, and love for their craft. The risks in starting something like Good Beer Hunting are myriad. Financial risk is everywhere—but I've happily and defiantly borne the brunt of it for many years. There's personal risk—in media, everything you put out into the world has a way of coming back to you in unexpected, and often dangerous ways. And it does. There's opportunity risk—if this thing fails, and if it takes a long time to fail, what opportunities might you have missed out on in the meantime? But to me, the biggest risk of all is it just not mattering. Not being relevant. Missing the mark. Today, I feel satisfied that Good Beer Hunting matters. I have so many people to thank—and so many feelings to share that are best relayed one-on-one. It'll take me many months and years to pass along those sentiments to individuals who took that risk with me and succeeded. I'm not going to the final word on all this.  My experience of GBH is singular—being the sole source of continuity over those 15 years. But so much of what's defined GBH have been the perspectives and voices of those who've invested their talents in it over the years. So before our final sign-off this summer, you'll hear reflections from leaders, contributors, partners and friends of Good Beer Hunting as well. This is part of the grieving and metabolizing process.  There are a few more episodes of the podcast to share still, and a few remaining stories we've been working on that you'll see this month and maybe into August. If you want to stay up to date on future plans, sign up for the newsletter.  
This episode—along with all podcast episodes over these many years—was edited by Jordan Stalling. And it was scored by my friend, soulmate, and composer, Andrew Thioboldeax, who himself has been along for the ride for over a decade.
 Aim true, pour liberal folks—have a great rest of the year. 

How important is the role of sustainability in brewing? How does beer actually get made sustainably when it's an incredibly energy-intensive process to actually get your beer from the farm to your glass? And how does the industry avoid greenwashing as it attempts to be more responsible about its impact on our climate and the environment?All these questions and more are answered in our latest podcast episode: An Open Discussion About Sustainability in Beer. Recorded live at IndyManBeerCon in October 2023, this episode features Ben Stubbs of Rivington Brew Co, Chris Drummond of Allkin Brewing, IMBC founder Jonny Heyes, and is hosted by our very own Jonny Hamilton. At the start of the episode there's also some reflection from our regular host Matthew Curtis about IMBC's decision not to hold an event in 2024, and what the festival means to him.We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month.

There is no getting away from the fact that producing beer is a hugely energy intensive process. The very nature of brewing requires boiling a huge vat of liquid, which then needs to be cooled quickly, and kept at near freezing temperatures for several weeks. The finished product also needs constant refrigeration if it's to be kept at its best. Other processes connected to brewing, such as the farming of ingredients, and the production of the chemicals used for sanitisation, all add to its large carbon footprint.In this panel discussion, hosted by Matthew Curtis, we examine what both breweries and the folks who drink their beer can do to encourage breweries to take responsibility for adopting more sustainable practices in brewing. There's plenty to debate, from the use of organic grains, to carbon dioxide capture and reuse, to the controversial deposit return scheme that is just around the corner for the United Kingdom.Featuring Sarah Luxon (Wiper & True), Jamie Delap (Fyne Ales), and Sam McMeekin (Gypsy Hill).We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month. Get  your tickets to FyneFest 2024 here.

Join Matt Watson as he welcomes Matthew Curtis, Founder of Insight Voice, back to the show. Enjoy an engaging conversation about the latest developments in ChatGPT, navigating the path to product-market fit, and the evolving landscape of AI. You'll hear insightful discussions on the commoditization of AI and the ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence. Gain valuable perspectives on the intricacies of startup growth, effective product marketing strategies, the quest for market fit, and the enduring rewards of content creation and business building.    Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://gigb.co/l/YEh5   This episode is sponsored by Gusto: https://gusto.com/startuphustle Get three months free when you run your first payroll.   Learn more about Insight Voice: https://www.insightvoice.ai   Check out Matthew's first episode on Startup Hustle: https://link.chtbl.com/buildwithchatgpt  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the pandemic to Brexit, the cost of living crisis has impacted everyone's pockets. For brewers, the price of beer production is through the roof, with rising ingredient costs and soaring energy bills, everything has become significantly more expensive. Perhaps the greatest challenge, however, is passing this cost onto the consumer. Beer is an egalitarian product, and drinkers have always had an expectation that it remains affordable, accessible, and live in hope that it doesn't become a very occasional luxury.In this debate, featuring members of the brewing industry and hosted by Pellicle co-founder Matthew Curtis, we'll discuss the difficult subject that is the price of a pint. From the cost at the bar, to concepts like premiumisation, and whether there's actually a benefit (or not) to the price of beer going up, no stone will be left unturned. Audience participation will be encouraged—think of this as like Question Time but with much more beer.Featuring Andy Parker (Elusive Brewing), Charlie Harding (Bonne Vivante Marketing) and Alice Hayward (Cloudwater). We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month. Get  your tickets to FyneFest 2024 here.   

In a recent team discussion both of our associate editors, Katie Mather and Lily Waite, asked if they could narrate some of their stories for a podcast episode. Long-term listeners will know this is something I experimented with in early episodes, with varying results. I found reading my own stories to be a delight. I felt it gave me the ability to add detail using tone and inflection that might not have quite the same impact when read, but I struggled a little when narrating those written by others. It really needs the writer's voice to help the listener understand the mood that they're trying to communicate with their writing.This is what made me jump at the opportunity as soon as they both asked, and Katie got straight to work recording a narration of a piece of her writing from 2020 called: ‘Hand-Held Rebellion — An Ode to the Burger Van'. It's a shorter episode than usual. An easy 15 minutes as opposed to an hour; something you can easily enjoy on a lunch break, or during your daily run. Katie is a very special writer. She has this uncanny ability to conjure poetic majesty in topics that some may find mundane. In the latest series in her newsletter The Gulp—which she calls PROCESS—she makes eating spam sound like enjoying a delectable, three-course meal. That Katie's viewpoint is grounded in her working class roots is arguably what makes her ability to tackle subjects like these so potent.This piece, which internally at Pellicle we simply call ‘Burger Van', is one of her very best. It's a tale from memory, about childhood, nostalgia, and how that has manifested in Katie's adult life. It will absolutely, 100%, make you want to head straight to your nearest butty van and order a belly buster with extra bacon and cheese. Before Katie reads her article, Matthew also takes the time to check in with some thoughts he has on the beer industry after a visit to Duration Brewing in Norfolk for their 4th anniversary celebrations.  If you want to read the original Burger Van article, you can do so here. We're able to produce The Pellicle Podcast directly thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and our sponsors Loughran Brewers Select. If you're enjoying this podcast, or the weekly articles we publish, please consider taking out a monthly subscription for less than the price of a pint a month.

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at New York Fashion Week? In this episode, we interview four members of our New York Fashion Week team: Kimberly Loomis, Serina Battaglini, Roxanne Muir, and Kayla Orth! They share what it was like working behind the scenes with celebrity stylist Matthew Curtis at the Alice and Olivia showcase. Press play to discover what helped them reach this professional milestone and gain inspiring insights from our incredible team of pros!  Links and Resources:  solasalons.com  Sola x NYFW: Get the Looks    Follow Sola on Social:  Facebook | Instagram    Connect with Our Guests:  @kimberlyloomis  @hairbykaylaorth  @serinas_styles  @roxannemuir 

Manchester has a fascinating beer history, stretching back well over two centuries, and into the industrial revolution. What's remarkable is how that history still influences the northwestern city's beer culture today, whether via one of its four, storied family brewers like Robinson's or JW Lees, or one of its modern trailblazers such as Track or Cloudwater. One of the city's most unquestionably influential breweries is Marble, which was originally established in the Marble arch pub in 1997. The brewery has since gone through two expansions, its most recent in 2019 when it relocated from Manchester to Salford (the difference of which is very important to locals). The latest episode of our podcast takes place here at the brewery, where we hosted a panel discussion in front of a live audience, and delved into the recent history of the Manchester beer scene, as we joined in Marble's 25th anniversary celebrations, which took place towards the end of 2022. Hosted by our very own Matthew Curtis, the panel features a host of luminaries from within the Manchester beer scene, including Jason Menzies, Marble's events manager. We're also joined by Stephanie Shuttleworth, a former Marble employee who has worked in and around the Manchester beer scene for over a decade, and is currently working on a PhD centered around pubs and brewing. Last but not least we're joined by John Clarke, chair of Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA, who has been living and breathing beer in Greater Manchester for over three decades. It's a fantastic discussion, and one of our lengthiest to date, as there was so much interesting history to talk about. Thanks again to Marble for inviting us to host this talk, and to our guests for providing such great insight.Don't forget that if you enjoy this, and other content that Pellicle creates, please consider subscribing via Patreon, and support our independent magazine and podcast.

Join Matt Watson and Matthew Curtis, Founder of Insight Voice, for a discussion about building an AI business using ChatGPT. Listen in as they talk about the extreme value of social marketing and selling, talking to and focusing on your customer's needs, and how AI and ChatGPT are impacting businesses and everyday life.   Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://gigb.co/l/YEh5   This episode is sponsored by Full Scale: https://fullscale.io   Learn more about Insight Voice: https://www.insightvoice.ai  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode shines a light on the city and its rich brewing and pub culture. The episode is virtually hosted this month by the Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA Branch, and covers the much-loved mild beer style, why you should consider cider throughout all the seasons, and Matthew Curtis' upcoming CAMRA book Manchester's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars. Quick links for the episode:Stockport and South Manchester Branch Mild MagicLittle Pomona Cider Is Not Just For SummerTemperance Street CiderPellicleJoin CAMRA if you're not already a member for just £28.50 a year at https://join.camra.org.uk/ - gain access to great audio and visual content on our Learn & Discover platform.Don't forget to support the show at https://supporter.acast.com/pubs-pints-peopleIf you'd like to get involved, simply contact podcast@camra.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @PubsPintsPeople or on our Facebook account @PubsPintsPeopleSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/pubspintspeople. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you've been on Beer Twitter at all recently you'll have likely noticed our podcast host Matthew Curtis harping on about bitter and mild. Cask beer is something we love at Pellicle and so we were always going to dedicate one of our panel discussions at Fynefest 2022 to this much debated category.Joined by an expert panel including Mark Welsby of Stockport's Runaway Brewery, Laura Rangeley of Sheffield's Abbeydale Brewery, and Malcolm Downie of our hosts Fyne Ales, we attempt to get serious about the discussion around cask. We start by asking whether or not the resurgence in traditional styles such as bitter and mild is here to stay, or if it's merely a flash in the pan. (Or, indeed, consider if it never went away in the first place.)We also dig into some more serious topics. With statistics indicating that the cask ale category is ailing, we ask if premiumisation is the answer to sparking a true resurgence, and debate the much talked over discussion point that is the price of a pint.It's been a thrill, as always, to host these discussions, and we hope you've enjoyed them as much as we have. We'll be back for more at FyneFest 2023, so make sure you grab your tickets now so you can join us there. And don't forget to subscribe to Pellicle via Patreon if you're able to support our website and podcast with a monthly, or yearly donation.

Mental health is a seldom talked about subject within the brewing industry. Perhaps this is because the demographic working within brewing skews highly male, and men are infamous for often being unable to discuss this topic adequately. Thankfully, in more recent times, the discussion is becoming more open and more frequent—valuable indeed, considering how tumultuous the past couple of years have been on our minds, as well as our bodies. In this discussion recorded at FyneFest 2022, host Matthew Curtis is joined by Miranda Hudson of Duration Brewing, Vik Stronge of Magic Rock, and Dominic Driscoll of Thornbridge. The panel discusses a range of points within the subject of mental health, from setting boundaries within the workplace, to managing the mental health of our colleagues, employees and friends, as we try to make the beer industry a safer, friendlier place to work.CW: Topics discussed include depression and alcoholism. If you're struggling with your mental health we urge you not to suffer alone, and recommend contacting an organisation such as The Drinks Trust or The Samaritans for support.

At the beginning of the year I arrogantly tweeted that this would be my “year of podcasts.” For various reasons I ended up managing to produce less than half of my target number of 20 episodes, but I hope that those who've been waiting for new episodes have enjoyed what we've managed to publish this year. This brings us to one of my favourite, and our most popular episodes, now in its third edition: our beers, w̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ and ciders of the year. Why are wines struck out, you ask? Simply because when recording myself talking about this year's favourites I didn't find myself vibing with my selections. I don't want to disappoint our listeners, and I didn't feel there was enough conviction (or indeed, knowledge) about my favourite wines of the year to warrant including them in the show. This is something I'll figure out in future years by hopefully bringing the rest of the team into this episode somehow. Either way, I'm considering shaking up this format a little next year. What this did give me is plenty of space to talk about my favourite ciders—as well as sharing a few thoughts on how my cider drinking has changed this year. I also reveal a handful of my favourite pubs in 2022, before ploughing into another bumper beer list—with no less than 10 beers—including announcing what I'll be awarding my coveted beer of the year prize. This being our third edition I also decided to hand out a few accolades, including cider/cidermaker of the year, brewery of the year, new brewery of the year, as well as naming the beer I enjoyed more than any other over the past 12 months. Initially, these will only be revealed on the podcast, so make sure you listen in to find out which beers really rocked my world in 2022.Thanks to all of you for listening this year. Here's to a fantastic holiday season, and a promise from me to deliver all of those long awaited episodes in 2023.Pellicle is supported by our Patreon subscribers — please consider helping to keep our independent magazine and podcast sustainable with a monthly, or yearly donation. If you are interested in sponsoring future episodes, please get in touch.

I worry about the beer industry, it sometimes keeps me awake at night. Following the unprecedented experience of the pandemic and lockdowns that changed our lives, to the newly realised cost of living crisis, the breweries and pubs we love are up against it. The reality is that many will not survive these challenges, and some already haven't. While, relatively speaking, things have been pretty good for the past 10-15 years—during which the number of breweries in the UK has more than doubled—now, whether you're operating a production brewery, or a hospitality business, the outlook is bleak. The cost of everything is increasing, from raw materials such as hops and malt, to chemicals, carbon dioxide, aluminum cans, and the devastating increases to utility bills. That's even before you've considered your staff, and increasing their wages so they can work through this crisis too. When looking at the big picture, it feels like not only are the glory days over, but that we are yet to see the true extent of the damage this will cause to these livelihoods. But there's always hope. Right? In this episode I decided to take a look at how the cost of living crisis is affecting the beer industry from two different perspectives. Inspired by the classic Red Dwarf episode ‘Confidence and Paranoia' I listen to both of these internal voices, to try and make sense of what's happening out there at the moment.This was inspired by the interview featured in this show with William Burgess, co-founder of Gan Yam Brew Co. Based in Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District. Back in February on a visit to the brewery I had the opportunity to William about what it's like to set up a business during the middle of a pandemic, without really understanding (at this point) how the cost of living crisis was going to make things even worse. But if things are truly so awful, then why exactly are new breweries like Gan Yam deciding to make a go of it at all? Listen on to find out…This episode of The Pellicle Podcast is sponsored by Hand & Heart. We've partnered with them to offer listeners of The Pellicle Podcast a free 30-minute advice session. You could be a business owner wondering what the hell DEI means, an employee wanting to upskill, thinking about starting a business, or at a loss of how to develop your current business. To sign up head to www.handandheart.eu/pellicle.Pellicle is supported by our Patreon subscribers — please consider helping to keep our independent magazine and podcast sustainable with a monthly, or yearly donation.

Welcome back to another episode of The Thirst Time. This week we speak to Matthew Curtis. Beer writer extraordinaire and founder of the wonderful online publication, Pellicle. It was great to talk to Matt about his journey, a slightly different path to any other guests.Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

3/23/22 - Edition of Hello World With Mike Kara Today we have a wonderful interview with Matthew Curtis, who is the author of the book - "Modern British Beer" Pellicle Magazine - Founder, and Editor-in-Chief (Beer & Cider) of Pellicle Magazine. Matthew Curtis currently resides in beautiful Manchester, England, United Kingdom. His website can be found at http://www.pelliclemag.com

Hello World with Mike Kara - Audio Podcast Zoom Audio - Guest is Matthew Curtis, author of the book, "Modern British Beer", and Founder, Editor-in-Chief (Beer & Cider) of Pellicle Magazine

A disclaimer: this episode of The Pellicle Podcast is intended as a piece of escapism. Since this episode was recorded in early February, a lot has changed in the world around us. As much as we don't want to minimize this, we also accept that this is a podcast largely about beer, and other tasty beverages, and this episode is presented very much in the spirit of that.While the majority of our episodes are either driven by an interviewee, or by an idea our host wants to spend a little time mulling over, this time we've changed things up. Several of our regular listeners have sent in questions over the past few weeks, which over the next hour Matthew dutifully works his way through. What came as a surprise is that it afforded the opportunity to really dig into what's happening in beer at the moment, and expand on what that might mean for makers and drinkers alike over the next few months and years. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you enjoyed it and you think we should do it again, or if you have any feedback about the podcast in general, drop us a line to matthew@pelliclemag.com. This episode of The Pellicle Podcast is sponsored by Hand & Heart. We've partnered with them to offer listeners of The Pellicle Podcast a free 30-minute advice session. You could be a business owner wondering what the hell DEI means, an employee wanting to upskill, thinking about starting a business, or at a loss of how to develop your current business. To sign up head to www.handandheart.eu/pellicle

Matt Curtis is an author, blogger, and beer lover who is the author of Modern British Beer and Pellicle Magazine. He joins us for a jaunt through the world of Modern British Beer. We talk about where it came from, … Episode 38 with Matt Curtis Read More »

This week we continue our conversation with beer writer Matthew Curtis. If you missed part 1 of our discussion, I recommend you go back and give it a listen. In that episode, Matt and I discussed his work with Pellicle, his online beer, wine, and cider magazine, how he developed his voice as a writer and podcaster, and about his profile of St. Mars of the Dessert in Sheffield, England. We also discussed important and sensitive subjects such as balancing work while maintaining your mental health. In this episode, we compare the US and UK beer scenes, discuss Matt's excellent new book, Modern British Beer, and discuss how joy is the central message and lens through which he translates the world of beer to his audiences. We also discuss how Pete Brown robbed him, his words, at the recent British Guild of Beer Writers awards and how he feels about awards generally in light of his recent experiences. We also discuss his plans for the future of Pellicle and as a writer. For more information on the Beer Edge Podcast, follow us on Twitter @thebeeredge. And visit Beer Edge for more articles and engaging content.Host: Andy CrouchGuest: Matthew CurtisSponsors: Arryved

Look, here's the truth. I would love it if more of you listened to my podcast, and so please accept this episode as a bribe. I want you to know what my favourite beers, wines and ciders of the year are, and I want you to revel in the joy of experiencing them as much as I did. But if you want to find out what they are, which includes no less than 17 beers (in hindsight, post-edit, I will make this smaller next year) then you've got to tune in. I won't be sharing this list anywhere else.I love making this podcast, it's become one of my favourite mediums for creativity. This has become especially the case since I switched up the format of the show towards the end of 2020. I'm stoked that those who listen to it enjoy the style, and my off the cuff riffing on our favourite beverages, and I pledge to try and record as many as I'm physically capable of in 2022.I'm especially thankful of the support of both our new sponsor, Hand & Heart, along with our generous Patreon subscribers. Thanks to them I've got a bit more time and space to spend more time producing podcasts this year, which means more episodes for you to enjoy! If you're able to support our content at Pellicle, then please consider signing up to our Patreon. Every penny goes back into making more features and podcasts.Please enjoy this list of things I really enjoyed over the past 12 months, and stay tuned, because we've already got more episodes in post production that should be released soon!This episode of The Pellicle Podcast is sponsored by Hand & Heart. We've partnered with them to offer listeners of The Pellicle Podcast a free 30-minute advice session. You could be a business owner wondering what the hell DEI means, an employee wanting to upskill, thinking about starting a business, or at a loss of how to develop your current business. To sign up head to www.handandheart.eu/pellicle

A small piece of me permanently exists in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado. Ever since my dad emigrated from the UK and took a job here in 2010 I have visited often, and become more enamoured with the place each time I do so. While it was the beer that first made me form an attachment with Fort Collins (and, indeed, start writing about it) over the years it became more to me than simply a place I visited. Trips were about seeing friends, hiking, relaxing by the Poudre River, and, over time, the beer became less central to each visit. At least, that's what I convinced myself.The truth is, as a true beer enthusiast it was always about the beer. And I was reminded about how much this matters to me when New Belgium—headquartered in Fort Collins and once the fourth largest craft brewer in the United States—announced its sale to Australian firm Lion in November 2019. The news of this triggered in me a deeply emotional response. So tied had I become to the story, the people and the product of this place that I could not figure out how to deal with it.I had hoped to reconcile these feelings on a scheduled visit in April 2020, but when the inevitable happened and my flights were cancelled, this thought process had to be temporarily paused. Thankfully I was finally able to make my way back to Colorado in November 2021 (and I reflect on this trip during the episode.) This meant I was finally able to visit the New Belgium Taproom, enjoy a pint, chat to my friends who work there, and try and figure out how I feel about the next stage in this brewery's journey. Those thoughts stowed away, once I returned home I turned on the mic and riffed on those feelings. Is it truly irrational to have a strong emotional response when a brewery you're fond of sells out? In this episode, I make my best attempt to answer that question.I'm also thrilled to welcome on board a brand new sponsor for this episode. Hand and Heart is a business consultancy focussed on supporting industries including hospitality—and that includes breweries and other beer-centric firms. We've partnered with them to offer listeners of The Pellicle Podcast a free 30 minute advice session. You could be a business owner wondering what the hell DEI means, an employee wanting to upskill, thinking about starting a business, or at a loss of how to develop your current business. To sign up head to www.handandheart.eu/pellicleIf the Hand and Heart sound familiar, it's because they recently published the documentary podcast Super Cool Toxic Workplace, investigating the allegations of abuse and toxic workplace culture at the Danish brewery, Mikkeller. We're thrilled to partner with a business that shares the values we have at Pellicle, and thank them for their support in helping our own podcast to flourish.

One of the best parts of covering the craft beer industry for a while is experiencing new voices. Perspectives tend to harden over time and without the addition of new blood, they can calcify and begin to become immovable. And the industry so often feels like a singular experience, one that speaks with a too uniform voice that serves as so much retread. Matthew Curtis stands in the middle of all of this. He started writing about beer long enough ago that he has seen a few things. But he's also not so deep in the game that he can't see the value of supporting new voices. He started as a blogger, working on his voice and technique. He eventually parlayed that into some freelance work, including at Good Beer Hunting, where I first recall encountering his writing. He added photography to his portfolio of talents and adorned his well crafted pieces with striking photos of their subjects. His photos imbue substantial character into the tiniest of subjects, a clamp or hose in a brewery cellar, the way light lands on a dusty barrel filled with wild ale. After deciding to turn his freelance hobby into a full time gig, Matt did what I wish so many others would do. He picked his head up, looked around, and plotted an intentional path forward. He wasn't happy writing the same old pieces for the same old publications. He wanted to express himself in new ways, new formats, and to give others the opportunity to discover and amplify their own voices. So in 2019, Matt founded the online drinks, food, and travel site Pellicle with co-founder and brewer Jonny Hamilton. Based in the UK, Matt and Johnny had a clear vision of what they wanted to capture in the worlds of beer, cider, wine, and food among other subjects. The central directional principle behind Pellicle is one that is often absent from so much similarly focused writing: finding joy with the cultures they cover. Over time, Pellicle has evolved into a website delivering weekly in-depth dives into people, places, and drinks, an occasional podcast of the same name, one that delightfully meanders between interviews and long monologues of Matt's own thinking, and occasional events. All told, they aim to capture the “joie de vivre we so often find within our favourite cultures. This might be at a favourite bar or restaurant, adjacent to a steaming brewhouse, or within an orchard or vineyard. At Pellicle, we hope to take you there with us.”As you'll hear me say during the interview, which we'll present to you in two parts, I have been a Patreon subscriber of Pellicle for some time and I'd encourage others to do so as well. I support beer media and believe there should be dozens more publications bringing great beer content to a thirsty world. Pellicle remains a shining example of what can happen when two people get together with a vision and help enlist and raise up others in support of their collective mission.In our discussion, which we conducted over a long Zoom call, Matt and I discuss his back story, how he developed a love of beer while visiting his ex-pat father who now lives in the United States, and we delve further into the work at Pellicle. We also discuss one of my favorite recent pieces of beer writing, his long and lovely profile of Dann Paquette and Martha Holley, once of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project here in Boston and now of St. Mars of the Desert in Sheffield, England. For more information on the Beer Edge Podcast, follow us on Twitter @thebeeredge. And visit Beer Edge for more articles and engaging content.Host: Andy CrouchGuest: Matthew CurtisSponsors: Arryved - Lallemand

The start of 2020 was an especially weird time for me—not just for the obvious reasons with the pandemic swirling around us in those early stages—but because right at the cusp of it I signed a book deal. I'd come up with the rough idea and concept for Modern British Beer in 2018, having thought at length about how the emergence of well over 1000 new breweries in the UK had changed our beer culture forever. But what I didn't realise then was the idea needed time. Some of that was to allow the idea to properly gestate and to become fully formed, but the rest of it was waiting to find the right home for it. That home turned out to be the capable hands of CAMRA Books; the publishing arm of the Campaign for Real Ale, and the gracious editing of Alan Murphy and Katie Button, to whom I am incredibly thankful. In this episode I work through the ideas at the book's core. I explore how I created my own personal beer philosophy, which I call “the broad spectrum of joy” as well as explaining why my definition of what constitutes beer as being “modern”, at least, in context of the book and how I think about beer these days. I then try to explain (or make excuses for) how I selected the 86 beers to use as case studies which, together, I hope form a solid case for how I feel beer in the UK has changed so dramatically over the past 20 years—but also, in many ways, has stayed exactly the same as it has always been.I've also used this episode as a chance to pick up on some current affairs—namely, the controversy presently surrounding Denmark's Mikkeller Brewing company in the wake of numerous accusations of sexual harassment and toxic workplace culture from several former employees. This situation escalated on the eve of the brewery's annual Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen (MBCC) event in late October, which saw over 40 breweries pull out at the 11th hour so as not to associate their brand with the accused. Kate Bernot at Good Beer Hunting has been covering this in some detail for several months, and I recommend catching up on what's happening by reading her excellent reporting here:https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2021/7/1/former-mikkeller-employees-allege-culture-of-bullying-harassment-and-indifferencehttps://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2021/10/29/mikkeller-meetings-a-chaotic-situation-as-brewery-focuses-on-hr-issues-not-survivors-voicesModern British Beer is available now from all good retailers, including several brewery tap rooms and bottle shops. You can get yours direct from the publisher here:https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product-category/modern-british-beer/

It's been a hot minute since our last episode and for this I can only apologise. Work and life has gotten in the way for too long, however, and I'm pleased to present our latest episode at last. Over the next hour you'll hear Pellicle co-founder Jonny Hamilton chat to long time friend, and regular Pellicle contributor James Albon. An exceptionally talented illustrator, James has illustrated for the likes of the Wall Street Journal, CAMRA's Beer Magazine, and for us at Pellicle. You might recognise his work from Eoghan Walsh's piece on Brasserie de la Senne Zinnebir, or Hollie Stevens' recent missive on catering, catharsis and collapse. He's also recently released his latest graphic novel, The Delicacy, which charts a pair of young, ambitious restaurateurs who struggle with the relentless demand of the high end dining world.Jonny and James talk about the book, as well as some of the real world stories in food and dining that draw eerie parallels. It's a wonderful chat we sincerely hope you enjoy. Stay tuned, as we've got another bunch of episodes in the pipeline that we'll try to get with you as soon as possible.Buy The Delicacy here.

Welcome back to a brand new season of CAMRA's Pubs. Pints. People. podcast! We're kicking off the season with a look at two brand new CAMRA books, Modern British Beer by Matthew Curtis, and Modern British Cider by Gabe Cook. Listen to CAMRA biography author Laura Hadland interview fellow beer writer Matthew Curtis about his book Modern British Beer, and the fantastic range of beers available today. Then, drinks educator Alison Taffs chats to The Ciderologist Gabe Cook about his new CAMRA title Modern British Cider. Get voting in the CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain: cbob.camra.org.ukFind out more about Cask Ale Week: http://www.caskaleweek.co.uk/Don't forget to support the show at https://supporter.acast.com/pubs-pints-peopleOr join CAMRA if you're not already a member for just £28.50 a year at https://join.camra.org.uk/ - gain access to great audio and visual content on our Learn & Discover platform.If you'd like to get involved, simply contact podcast@camra.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @PubsPintsPeopleSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/pubspintspeople. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joining us this week is Matthew Curtis, an award-winning freelance writer, broadcaster and author based in Manchester. You may be familiar with his work as Editor-in-Chief of Pellicle Magazine, a publication and podcast focused on beer, cider, wine, food and travel. Matt's most recent book, Modern British Beer, is the focus of our conversation. The book itself provides a look at eighty different beers produced annually in the UK. In sharing the perspectives of the producers - and the tasting notes of the beers themselves in first person narrative - Matt highlights the diversity of these beverages and how they are a reflection of place, values and ethics. Our conversation dives into the aspects of modernity, the influence continental and American producers have had on the flavors and production practices he documents, and the space these beers occupy in an evolving contemporary European beer market. We also consider who drinkers of modern British beer are, where traditional brewers sit in the landscape Matt describes, and the statement CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale - made by publishing this book. Modern British Beer can be purchased directly from the publisher HERE. Find Matthew Curtis: Pellicle Magazine Twitter Instagram Find Heavy Hops: Website (Listen to all episodes and access detailed show notes!) Facebook Instagram Twitter Support The Show By Donating Episode Art and HH Logo By: Bryn Gleason This episode was edited by Esben Willems at Studio Berserk in Gothenburg, Sweden Music by: Sam Cangelosi Please Subscribe to our podcast via your preferred listening platform. Rate and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts to help others find us! Support The Show By Donating. Give the gift of HH by sharing our episodes on social media! Small actions such as these go a long way in helping others find us!

Its a Classic Mini Breakdown Road Report with my local Classic Mini group (Atlanta Classic Minis) as we visit a very special chippy in GA, Wright's Fish & Chips.  It was an amazing day and we interview the owner of Wright's Fish & Chips as well as a few of the Atlanta Classic Mini members and ask them about their Classic Minis.  Grab some salt and vinegar because its about to get mouth-watering good in this episode! Episode Links Wright's Fish & Chips Atlanta Classic Mini Facebook Page Grayton Beer Company (Florida) Brickstore Pub in Decatur, GA Pellicle Podcast (episode #18 with host, Matthew Curtis)

The episode where Matthew Curtis (SMITE, Dark Envoy, Source of Madness, The Seagull) and I talk voice over, narration, IMDB credits, theater, documentaries and a whole bunch of other stuff. Matthew's website and social media: https://micthematt.com/ https://twitter.com/MictheMatt  

It often dawns on me that, as cool as my job of being a writer is, it's also pretty-fucking-weird. This never felt more the case than over the past nine months where I worked on not one, but two very different books. Not only is having a self-defined career writing (predominantly) about beer, cider and wine strange, but it's also quite a lonely experience, and largely revolves around working solo. This has felt especially true over the past 18 months. This—incredibly self-indulgent episode—is part explainer, part therapy session, where I talk about the idiosyncrasies of what I do for a living, my process as a writer, and what it's really like on my side of the screen. It's something that I've wanted to talk about for a long time, and honestly it felt really good getting it out there. To round out this episode I also read what I consider to be my personal favourite piece of feature writing of my career so far: my profile of Sheffield's Brewery of St. Mars of the Desert. If you're interested in writing, especially regarding food and drink, then this episode is for you.You can pre-order Matthew's new book Modern British Beer here. 

The brand new Toucan Sam is taking us through the loop this week and his name is Matthew Curtis! You have heard his voice in animation, commercials, video games and all kinds of narrations. Now you get to hear all about his upbringing, how he got into voice over, what his first career choice was and see just how goofy these dudes can get. So listen and have some laughs with us and enjoy!As always make sure you support the podcast by rating and subscribing to us on Apple Podcast, it really helps us out in the algorithms, you can also listen on all podcast platforms. You can find those by clicking the link below:https://pod.link/levelingupbanksAlso, make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel where we post a brand new video everyday and upload the video portion of this episode on Friday. You can find that by clicking the link below:https://www.youtube.com/c/LevelingUpwithBenjaminBanksGolden Ink Tattoo Golden Ink Tattoo is the premiere nerd tattoo shop in Portsmouth, VA! Get your tattoo at Golden Ink!Dear Dominic By Dejuan O'Neal Dear Dominic is a story written by pro wrestler Dejuan O'Neal as a life guide for his son Dominic.Nerdy Crafts By Tiny T Unique and hand painted home decor for all things in nerd culture.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LevelingUpBanks)

Film Florida Podcast Episode 72- Matthew Curtis is the Director of Programming and Tim Anderson is the Programming Coordinator for one of the premiere film festivals in the country, the Florida Film Festival, celebrating its 30th year in 2021. They talk about the festival being an Oscar Qualifying Festival, the evolution of the Florida Film Festival, their favorite memories from years past, and what to look forward to at the 2021 Florida Film Festival, April 9-22 in Central Florida. Audio editing by Rob Hill.

Join hosts Dave Cock, Grant Hutchison and Martyn Goodwin-Sharman as their dings are misplaced in the Neutral Cider Hotel!First, Gabe updates us on the demand for his book, Martyn confuses Wildling and Wilding again, and Grant, celebrates a birthday of a family member not really pulling their weight. Producer Scott drops two nuggets of gold, with the birth of the Perryologist, and our very own Voicemail Service! You can now leave audio messages for us from your phone, tablet or laptop and will be featured in future episodes, just follow the link here. In this week’s news, the guys return to the Caledonian Cider Factory, with twigs and leaves in a barrel, before Gabe brings Japan’s Vinvie to the guys and their focus on low and no alcohoo drops.The guys then sit down with Matthew Curtis! An award winning freelance writer and photographer, who made his name with Total Ales, then as the UK Editor of the legendary Good Beer Hunting and is now the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Pellicle Magazine. The guys chat everything; from his latest podcast episode on cider, his voice as a beer writer, and his new book (dong)! They also have a taste of Pilton’s delicious Fox Dog Cat, which Martyn was part of the blending process, so expect deep insight, dissection and honesty from the guys!And finally, Producer Scott has come up with a game that he’s passing off as his own creation; Like, Totally Recall! He’s done the deep dive into previous episodes, challenging the guys on their small talk for points! The Team:Gabe is a cider expert: The CiderologistGrant has two cider businesses: Re:Stalk and Aeble Cider ShopMartyn loves to write about cider: CiderShitThe Rest of The Team:Executive Producer/Editor: Scott RiggsMusic: Billy KennedyConnect:Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/NeutralCiderHotelInstagram: NeutralCiderHotelFacebook: NeutralCiderHotelTwitter: NeutralCiderPodWebsite: https://www.neutralciderhotel.com/

Welcome you what you could consider the beginning of The Pellicle Podcast 2.0. After much deliberation we've made the decision to switch from a series-based format to an episodic one. We just didn't have the time or the resources available in our current schedule to produce the documentary-style episodes we had in mind when originally launching this podcast. This change will allow us to produce episodes in a more timely fashion, thus keeping the show's momentum going.We've also made a few editorial changes, for example we'll be introducing more long-form interviews. We know a lot of beer podcasts already do these very well, but you know the feeling where you're listening to a conversation and wish they'd ask the question that's burning away at the back of your mind? Well, we're in an advantageous situation where we can do exactly that, and who are we to deny you folks? In addition, our host—Pellicle co-founder Matthew Curtis—will be using the podcast as his personal scratchpad to explore his feelings on some of the bigger (and smaller) topics in beer, wine and cider.Which brings us to our latest episode. Over the past few years the UK's beer industry has been embroiled in debate over whether or not some of its smallest brewers are paying enough tax, and if some of its larger brewers are paying too much. In this episode our host explores his personal feelings on a matter he's spent much of the past three years covering, with few holds barred, and a conclusion that perhaps changes to the duty system should be the least of small brewers concerns. If you enjoy this new format of the show—or you didn't—drop us a line and let us know.In this episode we reference an article on Marston's by Jonny Garrett for Good Beer Hunting, which can be read here: https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2019/12/9/years-of-lying-to-pub-tenants-could-cost-marstons-millions Thanks again to our Patreon subscribers for making this podcast possible. If you're able to support Pellicle with a monthly donation, please head to patreon.com/pelliclemag.Episode Host: Matthew CurtisRead more at www.pelliclemag.com 

Live Stream Studies | Matthew 21:1-22 // Curtis, Cliff & Nick In this lesson on the book of Matthew Curtis, Cliff, & Nick Discuss the coronation of Jesus as King coming into Jerusalem for the last time before his death. From Here forward we begin the descent into the week that changed the world! Visit wvcoc.org to find out more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/west-visalia-audio/message

I’m pleased to bring you episode 102 which is all about one of my favorite subjects – beer!!! During COVID it’s been great to get to the weekend and relax with a couple of beers (obviously you all should drink in moderation like me). After a recent delivery from Beer52 I looked through the Ferment magazine and noticed some interesting articles. This work led me to the author behind the work - Matthew Curtis. Matthew is a freelance photographer, blogger, podcaster, and now a magazine publisher! It was really interesting to talk with someone who actively has an interest in great beer, but has the vocabulary to describe this. Matthew really has understood how to use each medium (the written word, the spoken word, and photography). He’s originally from my local area, so it’s nice to hear about his roots and also how traveling to breweries around the world has helped him. Matthew doesn’t pull his punches and will tell you honestly about his work, mistakes, and his thoughts of some labels. He talks to us about his magazine label - Pellicle, its beginnings, and how COVID has affected the brand and his life. Matthew also talks about his roots in adult life and how he stumbled into photography. He's now very experienced and works for a few brands and even helps teach others. In this one we discuss: magazines how to get paid for writing beer varieties lactose intolerances supporting local businesses amazon vs online breweries shooting fruit learning editing working with CAMRA layout vs imagery pride and North/South divides Random questions Yes, Matthew eases his way through these and won't forget thinking about hitmen from now on! So don't forget to check out Matthew's unique way of banning daydreaming. Links Please do check out Matthew's lovely work. His magazine is made through voluntary contributions, so take a look! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/totalcurtis/ Magazine - https://www.pelliclemag.com/ Podcast - https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2020/1/15/the-pellicle-podcast-series-one-is-now-available Twitter - https://twitter.com/totalcurtis From the show During the podcast we mention a few brands too, so don't forget to check them out: Beer52 - https://www.beer52.com/ Brewdog - https://www.brewdog.com/uk/ Cloudwater brewery - https://cloudwaterbrew.co/ Ferment Magazine - https://www.beer52.com/ferment Good Beer Hunting - https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/authors/matthew-curtis Beer Guild Training event - https://www.beerguild.co.uk/events/online-training-advanced-beer-photography-with-matthew-curtis/ Chosen Brew podcast - https://shows.acast.com/thechosenbrew/episodes/matthew-curtis-beer-writer-the-pellicle Friends of the show Thanks to: Chroma Camera, Filmdev & Static Age --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/photography-insights/message

In this week’s episode, we’re talking all about brewing IPAs with Pipeline Brewing Co’s Jonny Cooper. There’s not a shadow of a doubt that the craft beer revolution owes much of its success and prominence due to the humble India Pale Ale. As we all know through historians and beer writers, the passage to India back in the 18th century was a lengthy excursion, giving the beer ample opportunity to change in its qualities while stored in wood for prolonged periods. But there’s no denying that the humble IPA has long since been on an equally unparalleled voyage ever since. Rescued from closure in the 1960’s, Anchor Brewery - arguably one of American’s first craft breweries of the modern era - released Liberty Ale in 1975 and was the archetype for the modern day IPA. America’s love of extravagant flavours and hop-bills of biblical proportions counteracted the myriad of bland lagers offered from the same handful of multinational drinks corporations. Taking inspiration from English brewers such as Fullers, Smith & Turner breweries such as Sierra Nevada, Goose Island and Stone drove the IPA craze to dizzy new heights, showing us Brits what brewers could really do when unleashed with hops flowers and pellets. Whereas we gave the USA the template for the IPA, our Stateside cousins gave us Cascade, Chinook and the revered Citra. In an Atlantic rivalry that can only be matched by The Beatles and The Beach Boys, it wasn’t long before British brewers were taking American hops and smashing out punchy IPAs such as Jaipur, Gamma Ray, Cannonball and Punk IPA. And thus the cycle continues. When juicy, hazy IPAs came onto the scene several years back, Manchester’s Cloudwater Brew Co rode the crest of the wave producing bigger, bolder, fruiter IPAs - setting a new precedent for the capabilities of hop infused beers in this country. Most contemporary breweries of notoriety have largely gained their success off the back of a flagship IPA. (I’ve yet to meet a brewer who does not have several variations in their core range and plenty more in their back catalogue). The types of IPA are endless… check out this article by Matthew Curtis written for Mash Marketing about IPA styles and how a Session IPA is an oxymoron: https://www.mash.marketing/ipa IPAs sound easier to brew than they actually are… the good ones at least! One brewer who is making waves in the world of IPAs right now is Cornwall based brewery, Pipeline Brewing Co. Should their beers be placed in a blind tasting lineup with the usual suspects, it would be hard to tell the real Keyser Soze apart: they’re that good. There’s lots to be learned from Jonny - a passionate brewer with an insatiable thirst for juicy IPAs. I would highly recommend getting hold of his beers to taste and see for yourself that he certainly knows his stuff when it comes to brewing. --- BREWERY SHOUTOUTS Fierce & Noble are based a Bristol based brewery defined by independence, committed to brewing modern, seasonal beer, with a fierce intuition that makes them unemployable anywhere else. Though they never sought to be traditional, they still respect the nobility of craft. In fact, tradition is part of the adventure, helping them explore what great brewing means today. Fierce & Nobel look to discover the extraordinary, to make beer that stimulates creativity and makes us all smile. Their path is their own, but you are welcome to join them on their journey and pick up from beer from fierceandnoble.com --- FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA @hopforwardbeers FIND OUT AND HEAR MORE AT hopforward.beer about how you can get ahead in the brewing and beer business CHECK OUT brewing-jobs.com FOR ALL THE LATEST JOBS ACROSS THE UK BEER INDUSTRY.

Greg Avola chats with Matthew Curtis, an award-winning beer writer, photographer, and co-founder of Pellicle Magazine. He is currently based in London, U.K., where he lives with his partner Dianne and cat Cricket. This segment was recorded as a live broadcast on Untappd TV on August 13, 2020. To watch the full original version with video, visit untappd.tv!

Here's something a little different for you. The latest episode of our podcast is spoken word recording of our co-founder Matthew Curtis' popular article on his visit to Russian River's brewpub in Santa Rosa, California, for a taste of its revered Pliny the Elder at the source. It's a short episode at just 13 minutes, but one we still hope you'll enjoy a great deal.Regular listeners will know that we've narrated a couple of our stories before during a couple of the episodes in the first series of our podcast. This time, however, we've not only decided to produce a spoken word version of a feature, but also underpin it with a score. One will—hopefully—add a little extra drama and impact to the listening experience. It should go without saying that we welcome all feedback on how this worked (or didn't) for you.There is intent behind this too, as we wanted to see how viable it would be in terms of time and resources to record scores for the episodes planned as part of The Pellicle Podcast's second series. The answer is that 12-minute-long soundtracks probably aren't going to become a regular part of our broadcasting, but hopefully we'll figure out a more time-sensitive way of adding a little colour and flare to S2 when it's in post-production. More on that soon.For now, please enjoy this episode, which you can either stream or download below, or via popular services such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many more. If you're enjoying our podcasts please subscribe on your app and leave a review if you've time, and if you want to help fund more content like this, please consider signing up for a monthly donation via our Patreon page. The track in this episode is called “Sonoma” and is written, produced and performed by Matthew Curtis. We recommend sitting in a big, comfy chair with headphones and a cold class of IPA for an optimal listening experience.  Host: Matthew Curtis Read more at www.pelliclemag.comSupport our podcast at patreon.com/pelliclemag

My name is Eoghan Walsh from Brussels Beer City, and you’re listening to episode 20 of Cabin Fever - less a podcast than a group therapy session for writers, brewers, and friends who like to enjoy a beer together but, well, can’t.I was delighted to be joined remotely in Brussels by:Matthew Curtis (@totalcurtis), co-founder of Pellicle magazine, where he is also the beer and cider editor, and is an award-winning writer and photographer in his own right,Jeff Alworth (@beervana), co-host of the Beervana podcast and author of several beer books including The Secrets of the Master Brewers and The Beer Bible,And Melissa Cole (@MelissaCole), award-winning writer and author of, among other books, including The Beer Kitchen.Over beers from Galway Bay Brewery, Wayfinder, Deya, and Big Drop, we talked about how much the world has changed in the past three months, bewilderment at the speed of that change, and optimism about the future - even if it seems grim right now.I hope you listen in, for one last time.

In this episode, I talk with beer writer and photographer Matthew Curtis from Pellicle. Follow Matthew on Twitter or download The Pellicle Podcast.Mentions for:The Harp, Covent GardenCarling Black Label 1980s adsCAMRAShip and MitreThe Roscoe HeadPilsner UrquellStone and WoodWildflower Brewing and BlendingMarble BreweryBurning Sky Brewers and BlendersTimothy TaylorsOdell BrewingHarveys BreweryWatch the Beer Together YouTube Channel and the new show Have a Beer, Guess the Year with comedian Nick Capper.The Chosen Brew is a podcast for people, passionate about beer, to talk us through the six beers that changed them. Their chosen brews. Expect choices to be full of nostalgia, emotional wanderings and plain old loyalty as the guests tell their story through the beers that they treasure.Follow The Chosen Brew on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Log on to the website at: www.thechosenbrewau.comGuests are given the following guidelines:- Each beer choice has to have been commercially available at some point.- Although this is essentially a quality beer podcast, choices can be any beer, however mainstream. ​- Guests will choose their favourite drinking vessel from which all their beers will be consumed.- Also, guests will choose their ultimate beer snack to go alongside their choices. ​- Talking about the beers that didn't quite make the six is encouraged.The Wheel of Sport, my other podcast is, the greatest sports stories ever told. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My name is Eoghan Walsh from Brussels Beer City, and you’re listening to episode 9 of Cabin Fever - less a podcast than a group therapy session for writers, brewers, and friends who like to enjoy a beer together but, well, can’t.I was delighted to be joined remotely in Brussels by:Matthew Curtis (@totalcurtis), co-founder of Pellicle magazine, its beer and cider editor, as well as an award-winning writer and photographer, and most recently a contributor to Good Beer HuntingJeff Alworth (@beervana), co-host of the Beervana podcast and author of several beer books including The Secrets of the Master Brewers and The Beer Bible, the latest edition of which he just finishedAnd Max Finnance (@maxfinnance), Education & Training Manager at Artisanal Brewing Ventures.Over the course of a couple of beers from Brasserie du Borinage, London Beer Factory, and Exale Brewery, we talked about personal care during a crisis, the yearn to travel to our favourite places, and the central importance of the pub to civilisation.Listen in!

When brewer Jonny Hamilton told writer Matthew Curtis he wanted to start a magazine, a seed was planted and Pellicle was born. In this episode, our very first—and a pilot of sorts—Matthew and Jonny discuss our magazines origins over a couple of nice bottles of wine and beer. They get there, eventually.Hosts: Matthew Curtis & Jonny HamiltonRead more at www.pelliclemag.comSupport our podcast at patreon.com/pelliclemag  

On this episode of The Saturday Night Special, Amy talks gambling & legalized sports betting. She talks with history professor @Kaufmak, Indiana State Representative  @terrijaustin, sports journalist @adamcandee  and founder of @ViceLotteries, Matthew Curtis, who’s trying to change the game. Listen to the podcast here: Follow Amy on Twitter!

My guest today is Matthew Curtis, founder of the startup Vice Lotteries. Vice Lotteries is a new startup that aims to challenge state governments' legal monopolies over lotteries. State lotteries are amazingly and bizarrely unethical. They drain billions of dollars out of communities, primarily poor ones. Lottery spending has increased substantially over the past decades, with the average lotto player spending $600 per year, and many spending significantly more than that. Vice Lotteries aims to create a more ethical alternative to state lotteries, allowing people to have the fun of gambling without losing significant amounts of money. From the Vice Lotteries website: Vice Lotteries was founded with one purpose: Allow our customers to enjoy gambling while saving money. With Vice Lotteries, you can enjoy the tremendous pleasure of tossing the dice without losing your ability to afford all the other things in life that you love. However, it is currently illegal to run a private lottery. Before Vice Lotteries can start operating, they need to win one of the multiple lawsuits they are filing in state courts to challenge state lotteries.  

The Representation Roundtable! Sean and Paul are joined by Michael Schwalbe, Moe Rock, Matthew Curtis and Heather Costa to talk about what it means to have an agent in today's VO World.  https://www.vometer.com https://www.paulstefano.com http://www.dailyvo.com/ https://www.vocalboothtogo.com/ https://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ https://www.voiceactorwebsites.com/ https://www.audiopub.org/ https://globalvoiceacademy.com/ https://timpaige.lpages.co/podcast-demos/