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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello

Welcome to episode 242 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
Posted in Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Alcohol, Anchor, Apple, Author, Beer, Beyond The Vines, Book, Books, Brewed, Chat, Conversation, Craft Beer, Distributor, Educator, ep.242, Hospitality, Importer, Interview, Jules Van Costello, Kiwi, NZ, Podcast, Promo, Promoter, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 242, Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello, Sweetman Podcast: Jules Van Costello, Wine, Wine Industry, Writer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin

Welcome to episode 98 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Yvonne Lorkin, she’s a Hawke’s Bay-based wine-writer, taster, judge, critic and enthusiast. She’s also behind WineFriend, a subscription service that lets you present preferences allowing Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin to hand-select the […]
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October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay (Yeastie Boys)

Welcome to episode 85 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. And this one is a conversation with one of those sponsors – Stu McKinlay of Yeastie Boys. We talk about his life and the creation and development of the Yeastie Boys beer and brand. Based in the UK now, […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Beervana, Chat, Converastion, ep85, Food, Hospitality, Interview, Le Petite Chocolat, Music, Podcast, Politics, Simon Sweetman, Sponsor, Stu McKinlay, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay (Yeastie Boys), T Leaf T, UK, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys ·

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August 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs

Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Beer With Me, Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, Beer With MeBeer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, City Gallery, Concert, Drink, Drinking, Drinks, Drunk, Gigs, Music, Show, SJD, The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, Tuatara ·

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August 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 17 – (New and Old) Favourite Instrumentals

It’s been a big week of podcast-edits for me, and as well as layering in loads of music (often instrumentals) I’ve been listening to lots of instrumental music even when not editing. There are some new and old favourites here. Something for everyone, hopefully. Five things that I dig at any rate.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (New and Old) Favourite Instrumentals, Beer, Ben Frost, Chris Armour, Dark Light, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 17, Five Songs For Friday: 17 – (New and Old) Favourite Instrumentals, Five Songs For Friday: 17 – Instrumentals, Fri, Friday, Funderstruck, Guitar, Gunnamatta, Instrumental, Jazz, Jonathan Crayford, Paul Kelly, Podcast, Stu McKinlay, The Angelica Sanchez Trio, Threhold of Faith, Tyshawn Sorey, Weekend, What The Birds Tell Me, Yeastie Boys ·

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June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol

Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1970s, Alcohol, Art, Beer, Booze, Drink, Drinking, Drinks, Drunk, ep 167, Football, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hamilton, Jon Mcleary, Music, Piss, piss-up, Pissed, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories #167, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn, Whisky, Writing ·

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February 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 48 – James Robinson

Welcome to episode 48 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Kiwi-born, American-based writer James Robinson. He had a blog on Stuff.co.nz – which he turned into a book. The blog – and then the book – looked at life in America and perceptions of America; the way we, as […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged America, Author, Beer, Blog, Blogger, Brother-in-Law, Bruce Springsteen, Chat, Converastion, Donald Trump, Drive-By Truckers, Editor, Election, Family, Freelance Journalist, Geography, Interview, James Robinson, Journalism, Journalist, L'affare, Phantom Billstickers, Podcast, Politics, PR, Salient, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 48 – James Robinson, Travel, Voyages In America, Writer, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·

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May 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Beer Honesty

“Not a lot to hide”, he says, as he hides not a lot.                And then she turns to meet his eye and sees he’s not hiding a lot. Well after all at least he was honest, she thinks as she moves over and towards any- one else
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bar, Beer, Beer Honesty, Honest, Honesty, Poem, Poem: Beer Honesty ·

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March 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Setlist: The Third Eye – Tuatara Temple of Taste, The Story of Funk, Soul, Jazz, Blues and Groove, Friday, March 4, 2016, 6-9pm

My first time playing some records at the excellent Third Eye bar, the first time they’ve had a DJ I think. It was all about the comfort-food version of funk, soul, jazz and blues – a little bit of pop and hip-hop and electronica sneaking in there under the “groove” banner. I enjoyed it. Great […]
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