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 – 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.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELJ6JCewQ4
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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
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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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Friday 5pm – Kid Rock's wrap-around sunglasses
Jonny's joined the illuminati, Brad's reliving his VJ days and our grip on reality has got just that little bit looser.
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Friday 5pm – Pompeii brothel trip
We're back! Brad's been to Naples and just about survived, Jonny's off to Davos, and the comments on this week's video got us thinking.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qkPmFytCA
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Friday 5pm – Soreen seems to be the hardest word
It's our 200th episode, and we are apparently marking it by talking about Brad's cowboy hats and how many calories are in a Soreen. In retrospect, it's probably the only way we know how.
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Friday 5pm – a cat-sized hole
This week Brad is building cat homes from coolers, Jonny is being on more podcasts, and we have been to Fuller's to film more Keep Cask Alive 2 footage.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/QzJjsw0i2wo?si=5c3LYWGI-Kjhc4cH
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Friday 5pm – Peter Pointer
This week Brad's measuring his fingers, Jonny's ranting about heritage again and we're planning our Christmas shoot.
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Friday 5pm – white jean zombie
Brad is back from the US West Coast. Jonny is back from... Reading.
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Friday 5pm – ghost town
Hey beer geeks! As promised this week Jonny has managed to corner Mark Dredge and quiz him about his amazing book, A Brief History of Lager, and talk about the amazing locations that appear in both that and The Meaning of Beer. Brad's back next week!
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtfEWnPsNng
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Friday 5pm – Drink Jonny Dry?
Hey folks! It's just little ol' me this week because Brad's in the USA and I didn't think quick enough to get a guest. We'll have one next week, so hang tight while I dig into this week's comments, expand a little on how crazy surgeons were in the 1800s, and outline a new live show format launching next week!
JONNY'S BOOK EVENTS:
14/11 – Beer Shop, Hitchin
19/11 – Garden City Brewing, Letchworth (email gardencitybrewing@gmail.com)
21/11 – Siren RG1, Reading
7/12 – Teller bar, Hitchin (TBC)
18/12 – Rabbit Hole, Brigg
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Friday 5pm – teeny tiny screens
It's been a busy week in the beer world and CBC – we have visited the oldest brewery in the UK, while the government have been confusing beer geeks, and A-list celebs have been buying C-list lager breweries in Wales.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4X_v9Y-QI7U
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Friday 5pm – the Madri conspiracy
It's Friday! It's 5pm! We won an award we forgot we entered! Also, we've been to Burton to learn all about Isinglass, and Madri continues to haunt us.
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Friday 5pm – trenchcoating
This week there's clearly something in the water/beer. Brad's inventing new forms of perversion, while Jonny's desperately trying to talk about our trip to the Tetley and our latest video about beer, death and religion.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO
SEE THE GABF RESULTS
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Friday 5pm – finish your beers, Brazil
This week is about as chaotic as it gets as we tackle important news such as a monkey drinking beer in Brazil, try to make sense of "genius steals" and relive Brad's birthday micropub crawl.
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Friday 5pm – beer butlers
This week Brad has a mad-cap scheme to introduce low-alcohol beer to schools, Jonny visits the new Kernel taproom, and we dig into this week's video all about new world hops.
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Friday 5pm – method horse
This week we relive Love & Beer 2024 and also its hangover, talk through Cambridge University's suggestion we stop serving beer in pints, and end up talking about GameBoy pirated games.
WATCH LAST WEEK'S VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/aMQfuLcqhFE
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Friday 5pm – a child's sandy sock
This week Jonny gets search for drugs and necks Madri like a true Tadcastrian at a festival. Brad wonders about the health benefit of green hopped beers, and enjoys a comment about Jonny's face from this week's video.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://youtu.be/xdl_Lzpp-qQ
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Friday 5pm – glow worm enthusiast
Brad's back and so is that sense of purposeful chaos her brings. Join us as we talk about what Jonny's been up while Brad's been away, why salted beer is digusting, and just how mad we really are about Madri.
WATCH THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgJmhPwKLyY
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Friday 5pm – safety crocs
This week we're joined by Rakey and Jim of The Malt Miller to talk about their collab with Track, our upcoming festival together, and Jonny's trips to Pastore, Two Flints and Pressure Drop!
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Friday 5pm – Top Gun drone pilot
This week we talk about our trips to York, Timothy Taylor's and Crisp Maltings – including a debauched night in a Grade II listed pub and a near drone collision with a combine. We also dig into the comments on our two Chimay videos.
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Friday 5pm – slappy socks
This week we've had a very boozy filming day, Adele's opened a British pub in Munich, and Brad thinks that Gary is either a drug or a future Buddha.
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Friday 5pm – future tour guide
This week we talk about how Jonny lost his voice at Manchester Craft Beer Festival, lament the loss of Good Beer Hunting and Marstons, consider a trip to Ohio, and dig into our first homebrew video in over a year.
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Friday 5pm – Moleman
This week Brad regales us with tales of his Stone 'Enge, Jonny races around Hertfordshire buying barley wine, and we discuss the impact that context has on our drinking experiences.
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Friday 5pm – dad vibes
This week we have a special guest star because Brad is at the Solstice getting woken up by Hare Krishnas – so welcome Chris Evans from Planet Beer TV for a chat about all things Beer Tube.
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Friday 5pm – I like the speedboat
This week topics range from Hulk Hogan, to Hulk Hogan's boat – oh and the fact our festival tickets are NOW ON SALE! We also dig deep into the comments on this week's clickbait – I mean video – around Hazy IPA.
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Friday 5pm – niche-onal treasure
We're back after our live show with Baron, but having to record on a Wednesday morning so enjoy this wafflecone of a podcast, topped with creamy nonsense. We talk Anchor, how much of the world is drunk at any one time, and of course, underrated breweries.
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