PUBS PINTS PEOPLE PODCAST – from the Great British Beer Festival 2025
The team present the podcast live from the UK’s largest beer and cider festival. We are welcoming beer and cider fans to the NEC in Birmingham for the first time, Alison Clare and Simon report on the highlights of trade day with book launches, beer competitions and more.
GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL 2025: https://greatbritishbeerfestival.co.uk/
Interviews include:
-Ash Corbett-Collins CAMRA Chairman about supporting local pubs.
-Jonny Garett about the petition to have cask ale recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Sign it here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
-Laura Hadland about her new book “Beer Festivals, a Great British Tradition : https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/beer-festivals-a-great-british-tradition/
-Reporting from the judging table and the live results of the Champion Beer of Britain:
https://camra.org.uk/awards/champion-beer-of-britain
-Ben Gibbs about low and no alcohol beers @sober_boozers_club on Instagram.
-And various volunteers running GBBF
This episode is dedicated to the Volunteers that make the festival possible
Pubs Pints People Team:
Authors & Hosts:
Clare Philips: Long-Serving Pubs Pints People Host Clare is a radio presenter, writer and broadcast journalist
Alison Taffs: Drinks Educator. Cider Pomellier, Founder of The London Cider Club and Landlady of The Hop Inn Hornchurch. Instagram: alison_taffs https://www.hopinnhornchurch.com/
Simon Webster: An exiled Scot, never too far from his next sublime stout/porter. Instagram: bees_bhoy
Producer & Editor:
David King: Ex College Lecturer, BBC & Hospital Radio. 30+ years of making the web accessible for all. Life CAMRA Member and Beer Judge Chair. Hosts the weekly show ‘Taste Wolverhampton’ on Wolverhampton’s community radio station 101.8 WCR FM. https://www.wcrfm.com/
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