Friday 5pm
Welcome to the Friday 5pm podcast, a weekly ramble chat from Youtube's award-winning Craft Beer Channel designed to be consumed as you sup on your first beer of the weekend. Join us for a weekly roundup with behind the scenes stories, beer news and whatever Brad decides to dredge up from his mind palace this time. Crack a beer and join us every Friday at 5pm to wind down and a look back at the week in beer, including the comments on this week's Youtube video.
Friday 5pm – muddy rainbow
Jonny's been all over the place and Brad's been on a session. Thankfully not a Tripel session.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5KB7jm0vY
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Friday 5pm – Ravendell
This week we've been busy launching a collab beer, celebrating Paddy's Day and drinking Champagne.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57HRHAxcwc
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Friday 5pm – Jason and the Lagernauts
Brad's back, so we're going off the rails again.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjEP0vkpEg
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Friday 5pm – Disney adults (ft Rachel Auty)
This week Jonny is joined by Women on Tap founder Rachel Auty, for a conversation about International Women's Collaboration Brew Day, diversity in the beer industry and what on earth a Disney adult could be.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN_1i_1YesY
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Friday 5pm – elephant in the room (ft Matt Curtis)
Brad couldn't record this week, so Jonny ropes in Matt Curtis for a grilling on BrewDog, shortform content, Pellicle and Manchester pubs.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO56Td_zdNg
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Friday 5pm – Jonny spontaneously combusts
This week Jonny's been drinking Creamy Beamy in Belfast, Brad's dyed his hair, and Flemish Red is the new Marmite.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5dACyl4WI
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Friday 5pm – the fat is tasty, too
WE'RE BACK FROM OUR WINTER BREAK! Join us as we talk about the 2,000 miles Jonny has driven already this year, dissect this week's epic video about Donzoko, and muse over the joy and pitfalls of making long-form video.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55_Ft0CKfM
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Friday 5pm – St Birdnardus
This week is the last Friday 5pm of the year and ho BOY do we have some big Cask Ale related news for you...
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9YIxs7wXPA
BUY THE CHRISTMAS TASTE-ALONG BOX: https://www.beermerchants.com/craft-beer-channel-s-annual-christmas-taste-along-box
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Friday 5pm – it's not an ESB
This week we answer the questions on everyone's lips and no, it's not an ESB. Brad's got his tin foil hat on and a Terry's Chocolate Orange Calendar, and Jonny is pouring Mliko Brown Ales.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/d_eH6oOnm5s
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Friday 5pm – is that a Polly Pocket?
We're back from various parts of the world. Brad's been eating Spag Bol in Japan, Jonny's been drinking cask by a roaring fire, and we have a lot to catch up on.
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Frightday 5pm – Ernie Schwarznegger
This week we're leaning into Halloween with a token hooded intro, then getting stuck into our Utopian brewday, Meantime visit, and Dubbel homebrewing.
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Friday 5pm – if anyone's listening
This week we relive our festival, Love & Beer, muse about the idea of the CBC Awards, and dig a bit too deep in Dunderwasser.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJo-tCM-0A
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Friday 5pm – erogenous is the wrong word
This week we're using the wrong words, binging House of Madri, and tasting Jonny's Oktoberfest bier.
GET TICKETS TO LOVE & BEER: tinyurl.com/love-and-beer-2025
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80x-4v_DwtE
WATCH THE HOUSE OF MADRI: https://youtube.com/shorts/YiwF8NGa5vI?si=0mBcMvp5d_szQISO
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Friday 5pm – bad sculptures
This week Brad muses on how CBC will be immortalised and Jonny offers a tank pour to someone else for a change.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/H1HRhgPf5lw
GET TICKETS TO LOVE & BEER: tinyurl.com/love-and-beer-2025
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Friday 5pm – multicasking
This week Jonny is literally brewing while podcasting. Brad has lost some teeth.
SIGN THE PETITION: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
TIX TO LOVE & BEER: https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/love-beer-3-festival-october-17th-2025-ticket/
THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/21Vo1LTDrNo
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Friday 5pm – yellow citric bullet
It's International Talk Like a Pirate day, we've been in Cornwall breaking St Austell's cask line, and then in Devon brewing a triple decocted Czech pils. This is why the video was late. Sorry.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/kyQzSmQaVBQ
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Friday 5pm – ankle swingers
Apparently young people in short trousers are putting ice in their beer. And now so is Brad.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJhQgMSDk0
WATCH THE KOUT VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJcBfaMcOcs
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Friday 5pm – replica Blobby suit
This week Jonny tries his latest homebrew, Brad's been watching a show about Noel Edmunds opening a pub, and the sheer weight of bad news forces us to talk about BrewDog.
LEARN ABOUT THE TAYBEH BEER: https://www.beerguild.co.uk/news/palestinian-brewer-launches-new-lager-in-the-uk
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1wtUNZD5VeY
WATCH SOMEONE THROW BEER AT SOMEONE ELSE: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNilmCJsvhU/?igsh=aGJzMW82b2N4ZTFu
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Friday 5pm – unseen particles
This week Brad and Jonny have not insignificant hangovers, but are recording at 10am. This explains most of what happens in the podcast.
This week's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbZibrutfk
Kout Na Sumave video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJcBfaMcOcs
FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/27e39875-7b7b-4282-ac2c-11aed4c05117
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Friday 5pm – cccraft beer
This week we've got LOTS to catch up on – not one but THREE CBC events, our trip to the Great British Beer Festival, the Champion Beer of Britain result, and of course two videos to talk through.
BUY THE DONZOKO BOX: donzoko.org/cans/craft-beer-channel-live-show-box
BUY TICKETS TO LOVE & BEER: https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/love-beer-3-festival-october-17th-2025-ticket/
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOp-vRtfc2A
WATCH LAST WEEK's VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C55yLAfpZEY
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Friday 5pm – Industrial Slushie Machine
This week we find out cheese helps hangovers, Slushie machines need to be BIG, and muse of why badly poured Czech beer tastes worse than badly poured German beer.
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Friday 5pm – George the Fifthman
These week Brad's been planning Nitro Fest, Jonny's been filming at St Mars of the Desert, and we both agree the Aldi Beer Dispenser is crap. But it could be great....
The pub Jonny couldn't remember the name of was The Harlequin
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Friday 5pm – The Gurse
This week, someone's been filling a glass handbag with stout, The FT did an expose on the finances of BrewDog, and Jonny's been ranting on the internet again.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQVJ3LHF58
READ THE STUDY: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-beer-civilization-alcohol-ancient-societies.html#google_vignette
READ THE FT: https://www.ft.com/content/5da2dc2e-8791-421a-bf60-0de83de6d961
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Friday 5pm – We're back!
After 5 weeks in the wilderness (occasionally literally) we're back on the pod with news of our campaign, Jonny's next book, our video with Harvey's and something about bees with broken legs.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZC6JUMeIIA
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Friday 5pm – bears on the moon
This week is the last podcast for a few weeks as Brad is off to the Fjords, Jonny to Cape Town, and um... water bears to the moon?
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/UiR2m5XYWOg
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Friday 5pm – Isle of Dan
This week we mostly talk about Bedford.
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Friday 5pm – show me generation
Jonny's won another Fortnum & Mason Award! Brad's been pub crawling with the Wicker Man! And we dig into the craft beer reports of the US and UK.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/flfxCqqesX4
Check out ElBurritomonster: https://www.instagram.com/elburritomonster
Check out the Perfectpour guy in Japan: https://www.instagram.com/perfect_beer_kitchen_nishiogi/
Check out the World Beer Cup results: https://www.worldbeercup.org/winners/current-winners/
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Friday 5pm – don't touchi the Tucci
This week we celebrate a response to our petition, release a video NOT about cask, and worry what will happen if Stanley Tucci comes to the Fortnum & Mason Awards next week.
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Thursday 5pm – bigger than Katie Perry in space
This week we've been all over the national media – ITV News, The Guardian, Times Radio... but we spend most of the podcast talking about THAT space trip, someone else's Youtube video, and a chef in a gimp suit. The usual stuff.
WATCH TWEEDY'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAR9u6zjtwg
LISTEN TO DIAMOND MINE: https://open.spotify.com/album/3gjscVqoJHTwhp6p2zZETj?si=2m4Rnk0oSJelKCNGQT8bkQ
WATCH THE GIMP CHEF: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EQK783tR5/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Friday 5pm – Francask Boozetsar
This week we relive the chaos of last night's live show, muse on stunts to get our petition to 100,000 signatures, and try to make a pub out of Francois Bourgeois.
SIGN THE PETITION HERE: tinyurl.com/save-cask
GET THE POSTERS & LETTER HERE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ek1L6GYVwd6lYEAzvl8oo2c353_QoLCD?usp=sharing
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Friday 5pm - sign our petition!
It's the end of Keep Cask Alive series but not the campaign! Join us as we discuss the next steps for getting cask ale UNESCO recognition, as well as some beer news and the fact that Jonny is brewing again!
SIGN THE PETITION: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cY_krjt0K1U
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Friday 5pm – bottle caps don't pop
This week we dig into the science of the sound of a beer opening, mourn the future of our species as Toronado is sold to a tech bro, and dig into the comments of what's being heralded as the Best Episode of Keep Cask Alive yet
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/PyD8TmmRScY
BUY THE T-SHIRT: https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/craft-beer-channel-keep-cask-alive-black-t-shirt/
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Friday 5pm – taking the hobbits to Isinglass
This week sees a bumper crop of news, some serious VIEWS on the comments section, and a massive ear worm.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1JQop7DMVec
DON'T WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY
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Friday 5pm – we're all human
This week we've been to Belgium to film the last few scenes of Keep Cask Alive, while wrestling with football broadcast rights and knee-height tables.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnogGqLTzX4
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Friday 5pm – pocketmoney pale
Brad's saved cask and we've been drinking and eating sausages at the world's most famous pub.
WATC THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/UIVi7YzXCR0
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Friday 5pm – slurp, sir?
This week the King's been slurping cask ale, Brad's got lost on Instagram again and Jonny claims that while the future has come, it sucks.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/goZsSZPVg_0
SIGN UP TO OUR MAILING LIST: tinyurl.com/keepcaskalive
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Friday 5pm – a flock of Neamenoids
This week Jonny is morning drinking, Brad is telling three-year-old news stories, and we talk about the launch of Keep Cask Alive!
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Friday 5pm – seagull hat man
This week we discuss beer and chocolate matching, aphrodisiacs, IBS, football and of course our new series of KEEP CASK ALIVE!
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: https://youtu.be/0BNKJVBkg50
READ THAT ARTICLE HERE: https://vinepair.com/articles/wa-beer-pros-most-overrated-beer-2025/
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Friday 5pm – low-alc meal deal
This week Brad nearly has a beer, Jonny doesn't even have one – but KEEP CASK ALIVE IS NEARLY HERE.
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Friday 5pm – Augustinfluencer
This week we fly into a Rage about Firestone's new release, and wonder if you really can spot a Tegz man a mile off.
Also, sorry Marina Hyde. You're amazing.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dqd6SGljF4
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