Best Rob Fierce Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 204 - Cloudwater Brew Co. - 2024 Update 1:39:37

4d ago1:39:37

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Join me for my third conversation with Paul Jones at Cloudwater, as they begin to contemplate their tenth birthday celebrations!

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Beth Gilstrap and Lee Potts (Of Desire, Film, and "the Dark Side of Longing for Community") 1:11:43

9d ago1:11:43

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Read: Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap's There is News Along the Ohio River (Cincinnati Review), and Lee Potts' "A Time of Splinters" (Moist Poetry Journal) Purchase: Deadheading & Other Stories (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Beth Gilstrap and We Will Miss the Stars in the Morningby Lee Potts Beth Gilstrap is the author of Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), W…

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Episode 203 - No Frills Joe Brewing Co. 40:32

25d ago40:32

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Join me as I chat with Jack from No frills Joe Brewing Co. based near Dartford in Kent.

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Jared Beloff and Mitchell Nobis (Of Dad Poetics, Care Work, and NAWP) 1:10:40

27d ago1:10:40

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Read: "I'd Rather Be" by Mitchell Nobis and "After the Last" by Jared Beloff, both published in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase: Who Will Cradle Your Head by Jared Beloff (and be on the lookout for Mitch Nobel's Beginning to Sense, forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025) Jared Beloff is the author of the Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023).…

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Episode 202 - Fierce Beer Co. 2024 Update 58:03

1M ago58:03

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I am delighted to welcome back to the Podcast, Dave Grant from Fierce Beer based in Aberdeen

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Erin Hoover (Of Fierce Narrative Poetry, Queer Community, and Writing Without a Map) 1:00:22

1M ago1:00:22

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Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun) Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her…

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Episode 201 - McCanns/Twisted Wheel 2024 Update 48:11

1M ago48:11

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Join me as I catch-up with Twisted Wheel's Ant and new Sales Manager Justin, on-location at their wonderful new home at McCanns Brewery and Taproom on a hop farm in Kent!

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rob mclennan: (of the fragment, linguistic collision, and world's end) 1:02:14

1M ago1:02:14

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Read: "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase: World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares…

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Episode 200 - Overtone Brewing Co. 58:35

2M ago58:35

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I am delighted to welcome back to the 200th Episode of This Week in Craft Beer The Podcast, Dan and James from Overtone Brewing based in Glasgow. Inspired by the culture of music, Overtone offers waves of flavour to choose from and only uses the highest quality ingredients. Brewing in Glasgow since 2018, Overtone aims to bring people together, inci…

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Episode 199 - Gravity Well Brewing Co. 54:42

2M ago54:42

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast Andy from Gravity Well Brewing Co. based in Tottenham in North London. Gravity Well was launched in 2018 and they have built a reputation for brewing some of the UK's best New England Pales and IPAs.

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Episode 198 - Dancing Man Brewery 58:06

2M ago58:06

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast Aidan from Dancing Man Brewery based in Southampton. Dancing Man was launched in 2015 by Aidan in the wonderful Grade-1 listed 14th Century Wool House on the banks of the River Itchen in Central Southampton.

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Episode 197 - The Hive Bottleshop and Taproom 1:00:05

2M ago1:00:05

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Alex from The Hive Craft Beer and Coffee Shop based in Crowthorne, Berkshire. Alex and Emma opened The Hive in 2020, and it quickly established a reputation as arguably the best-stocked and all-around nicest Bottleshop and Taproom in the Thames Valley.

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Episode 196 - Eight Arch Brewing Co. 1:00:55

2M ago1:00:55

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast Steve from Eight Arch Brewing Co based in Wimborne in Dorset. Eight Arch was formed to return brewing to Wimborne after a gap of almost 80 years, with a focus on hop-forward Pales and IPAs, and dark & roasty stouts.

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Episode 195 - Lacada Brewery 53:16

3M ago53:16

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast Stephen from Lacada Brewery based in Portrush on the North Coast of Ireland. Lacada is a community owned co-operative brewery launched in 2014, and has its origins in a love of beer and brewing, a love of place, and a love of people.

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Emilia Phillips: Of Queering Eve, Stanzaic Shape, and Intimate Community 48:12

3M ago48:12

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Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve" Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024) Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming February 2024) …

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The Line Break / Of Poetry Crossover with Chris Corlew and Bob Sykora and Han VanderHart 1:29:43

3M ago1:29:43

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Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on…

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Episode 194 - Northdown Brewery 49:25

3M ago49:25

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast Jonny from Northdown Brewery based in Margate. Northdown was launched in 2018, with a focus on big, hazy hop hitters, as well as classic ales for keg and cask.

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Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart (River River Books): Of Choosing Abundance, Creating a Small Press Community, and Weathering Manuscript Rejections 1:24:47

3M ago1:24:47

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Read: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly) Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-…

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Episode 193 - Neckstamper Brewery 48:45

3M ago48:45

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Adam and Jo from Neckstamper Brewing based in Leyton, Northeast London. Adam founded Neckstamper in 2016, after a varied early career encompassing both Formula One and Banking, whilst Jo brewed at Sambrooks, Hackney and Beavertown prior to joining Neckstamper in 2021.…

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Episode 192 - The Butchers Hook, Southampton 46:31

3M ago46:31

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Ant and Ant from The Butchers Hook Micropub based in Southampton. The Butchers Hook first started pouring draft Craft Beer in 2014, and I was thrilled to record in person with the guys, just an hour before they throw open the doors for their tenth birthday party celebration weekend!…

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Episode 191 - Modest Beer Co. 1:02:49

4M ago1:02:49

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Chris from Modest Beer based in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Chris started out as a homebrewer, and was inspired to launch Modest Beer in 2019, following the success of a Kolsch-style beer brewed for a friend's restaurant. Things have moved on at a pace since then, and Modest are building a great reputa…

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Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Elegiac Odes, Semicolons, and Witness) 58:29

4M ago58:29

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Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag Purchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024) Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press, 2…

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Episode 190 - Anspach & Hobday 2024 Update 1:02:21

4M ago1:02:21

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I am delighted to welcome back to the podcast Jack from Anspach & Hobday on the eve of their 10th Anniversary Celebrations, for the first time since we last spoke on Episode 101 back in March 2022.

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Episode 189 - Pipeline Brewing Co. 2024 Update 53:49

4M ago53:49

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I am delighted to welcome back to the podcast Jonny from Pipeline Brewing Co. based in St Agnes in Cornwall. We had a lot to catch up on, as we last spoke in Episode 60.

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Catherine Rockwood (Of Pirates, the Event of the Image, and Angelic Sex) 1:05:55

4M ago1:05:55

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Read: "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue Marble Purchase: And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023) Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for …

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Tom Snarsky (Of Minisons, Math, and More About Long Poems) 1:05:31

5M ago1:05:31

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Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetry Purchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the m…

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Episode 188 - The Escapist Brewpub 59:57

5M ago59:57

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Steve, Tom and Huw from The Escapist Brew Pub based in Chichester, West Sussex. Steve and Tom opened the Escapist as a Craft Beer Bar in 2020, in a desire to create the sort of venue for Chichester that they would like to drink in. In the summer of 2022. Huw joined the Team as Head Brewer, as the Escapist o…

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Episode 187 - Nothing Bound Brewery 2024 Update 50:40

5M ago50:40

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Join me as I catch up with Dave from Nothing Bound Brewery based in Bewdley, Worcestershire for an update 18 months on from our original conversation. Nothing Bound was launched by Dave in 2018, to produce beer for all to enjoy. Brewed with care and without compromise. For family, friends and beer lovers everywhere.…

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Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen's Alphabet, and Writing Disaster) 1:11:01

5M ago1:11:01

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Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020 Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appe…

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Episode 186 - Chain House Brewing Co. - 2024 Update 59:21

5M ago59:21

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Join me as I catch-up with Ryan for the first time in almost 3 years!

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Rachel Edelman (Of Memphis, Geology, and Water) 1:19:50

5M ago1:19:50

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Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.org Purchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023) Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis, their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepe…

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Episode 185 - Bang The Elephant Brewing Co. 55:35

6M ago55:35

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Nige and Shippo from Bang The Elephant Brewery based at Langley Mill in the East Midlands. Bang The Elephant was launched in 2017, with a mission of being different! They would hate to get bogged down brewing the same styles again and again, that's why their recipes will always be evolving and new beer rele…

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Episode 184 - The Rake 1:04:48

6M ago1:04:48

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Join me for a fun chat recorded at The Rake with owner Mike and Head Brewer (of Tap East) Terry.

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Erin Malone (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors) 1:00:19

6M ago1:00:19

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Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature. Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concr…

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Episode 183 - Firerock Brewing Co. 1:01:54

6M ago1:01:54

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Neil and Danny from Firerock Brewing based in Sutton-in-Ashfield in the East Midlands. Firerock was launched by Neil and Danny in 2017 to create modern, hop-forward beers and they are now based at their own Brewery and Taproom in Sutton.

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Steven Leyva (Of Anti-Confession, Zydeco, and Clarity) 1:09:07

6M ago1:09:07

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Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020). Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fe…

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Episode 182 - Bullhouse Brew Co. 2023 Update 1:05:10

6M ago1:05:10

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Join me for a catch-up with Will from Bullhouse to hear how successful Belfast's first Craft Beer Taproom is proving to be!

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Episode 181 - Pressure Drop Brewing 56:06

7M ago56:06

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Ben from Pressure Drop Brewing based in North London. Pressure Drop started life in 2012 in Hackney Garden Shed, and have been on a journey of Pale Fire, railway arches and daft forklift jokes, winding their way to their current home in Tottenham, which is where we are recording from today. Pressure Drop ha…

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Anna V.Q. Ross (Of Self-Portraits, Foxes, and Leaving For Good) 1:11:41

7M ago1:11:41

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Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn Quarterly Purchase: Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross (Red Hen Press, 2022) Anna V.Q. Ross's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press);…

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Episode 180 - Baron Brewing Co. 1:09:34

7M ago1:09:34

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I am delighted to welcome to the Podcast, Jack from Baron Brewing based in East Hertfordshire. Baron Brewing is a playground for beer, with an ever-changing range made for the fun and the love of the process. The next beer will be the best beer!

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Episode 179 - Delphic Brewing Co. 53:34

7M ago53:34

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Join me for a fun chat with Tom, recorded in-person in Central Newbury at what will soon be the new Delphic Brewery and Taproom!

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Lauren Camp (Of Mystery, Agnes Martin, and Silence as Bounty) 52:31

8M ago52:31

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Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry Daily Purchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) Lauren Mukamal Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2…