Beer and New Hormones

While you are waiting for the next Thousand Beer Show, pour yourself a Boddington's and check out the story of the first indie record label, New Hormones.

Pop, politics and pintage festival

The next Thousand Beer Show will be online end June or early July and will be a summer special with reports and comments from various festivals. No Brian Rogers Connection though.

The Thousand Beer Show, vol. 2

The second episode of The Thousand Beer Show is now online. It features reviews of The Earlies and Merz at the Paradiso in Amsterdam; thoughts on Zatte beer from Amsterdam's artisanal brewery, Brouwerij 't IJ; pub talk from Antwerp on metal, Tuscany, Belgian beers and Frans Maes; Victor S's theories on metal as the new fertile ground for alternatice music; and on the folly of pursuing the centre ground in politics. For the Internet Archive link, click on this.

Three beer show

Three beer show
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The beers we sampled in episode one...

The Thousand Beer Show, vol1

The first edition of The Thousand Beer Show, recorded in Brussels, January 29, 2006. For full details and to download (rather than stream) the file, click here.

Pop, politics and pintage

The Thousand Beer Show blog will be home to a regular podcast of the same name on the themes of pop music (with an alternative slant), politics (from a leftish bent) and pintage (taste-testing Belgian (and other) beers). The hosts will be Justin T from the Different Day blog and Victor S from Apostate Windbag. Guests will include various other members of the Euro Correspondent network.