Radio 4 Food Programme

Radio 4's Food Programme quite often covers the subject of alcohol and all their programmes from the last couple of years are available as 13MB MP3 podcasts.

List of Food Programme podcasts

Notable editions that you can download and listen to (in chronological order):

• Craft Brewing ("Wild Beer") (30 Mar 2014)
• Food & the future of Pubs (19 Jan 2014)
• Cider (21 Oct 2013)
• The Great British Hop (13 Oct 2013)
• The Cocktail (31 Dec 2012)
• Wine Trends (4 Jun 2012)
• The Fermentation Revival (16 Apr 2012)
• Gin and Botanicals (19 Dec 2011)
• Yeast (1 Aug 2011)
• Natural Wine (28 Mar 2011)
• Malt (28 Feb 2011)

Caught a few of these-there was also somewhere a Food Programme about artisan breads where a guy was top cropping yeast from a fermenting beer to make a sort of sourdough called Barm-which was our traditional method of breadmaking until either the Romans or Normans turned up-can't remember which. Worth seeking out.