The Ludlow Brewery has started its weekend of beers and fun as the Valentines Ales Massacre beer fest starts.
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00:00Ludlow Brewery Valentine's Massacre, sounds great!
00:03It's the beer fest, how you doing Cody?
00:05Yeah, very well, very well.
00:07So you're King Brewer?
00:09I am, I'm the head brewer here at Ludlow Brewery.
00:11How long have you been involved here?
00:13I've been here for about 8 years now.
00:15Oh wow, okay. So how old were you when you started?
00:17You still look like a youngster.
00:19I came here shortly after I graduated
00:21at university
00:23doing brewing and distilling.
00:25Oh okay.
00:27That was back in 2017, I would have been
00:3021, 22?
00:32Yeah.
00:34So what got you, you know, as a young man
00:36what was it that kind of you thought, right
00:38brewing course, that's what I want to do.
00:40Was your dad doing the home brew at home?
00:42No, it was a bit of an odd journey
00:44so I wasn't originally
00:46going to do it, I was into
00:48computer science, immunology
00:50a lot, but
00:52biology has always been my sort of strong point
00:54so I spoke
00:56to a few people and they said
00:59I met you for the job, brewing
01:01and that's how I got into it.
01:03Cool, like it. So it's an annual thing here
01:05isn't it? Yeah. And 13th year
01:07is that right?
01:09I think so. Or something like that,
01:11yeah something like that. How many different
01:13brews have you got kind of ongoing
01:15for people to sample?
01:17I think there's over 20
01:19here. Over 20? So it's the
01:21Beerfest Valentine's Day Massacre.
01:23You've bought your other half, so
01:25he's taking me out tonight
01:28to the comedy. To the comedy, yeah
01:30you asked in the poster for that, yeah it should be good fun.
01:32I've been to a comedy place before.
01:34So you're Ludlow folk? Yes.
01:36What do you think of this place then?
01:38Lovely. Yeah.
01:40It's great isn't it, it's full of character
01:42the beer's great.
01:44Events, staff as well.
01:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:48Is that the new Ludlow
01:50Lager? Yeah. Ah right, okay.
01:52Latitude 52.
01:54Is that your tipple then
01:56when you come here? Yes.
01:58Good stuff.
02:00And yours is a gold isn't it?
02:02It's that old adage, if it ain't
02:04broke don't fix it.
02:06Right, well enjoy yourself tonight guys.
02:08It's on the calendar now
02:10isn't it for the beer lovers, people know about it.
02:12So just talk us through some of
02:14the stuff here on Valentine's
02:16Day, it's on all weekend
02:18what's some of the stuff that's happening over the weekend
02:20in terms of entertainment and food and stuff?
02:22Yeah, so we've got a few bands
02:25playing, there's some
02:27comedy stuff going on,
02:29food trucks.
02:31Pizza girls, I've met them before,
02:33they're colourful characters
02:35with the pink hair.
02:37But yeah, loads of stuff to do all day.
02:39Wicked, and you're launching
02:41a new beer,
02:43Concordia. We have indeed.
02:45So it's a bit of a collab isn't it, talk us through
02:47about that then and how that came about.
02:49This was done with Nothingbound
02:51Brewery, they were not too far away
02:54they're just over Bewdley Way
02:56and they make some cracking beers.
02:58Right, so here we meet David
03:00at the bar, hello sir. Hello, how are you?
03:02I'm good thank you matey, so you live not too far
03:04from Ludlow? About 10 miles away.
03:06So is this, are you a regular
03:08here at the brewery? Far too regular.
03:10Far too regular.
03:12And what do you think of the events they put on like this
03:14beer fest? It's very good, very good indeed.
03:16Of all the ones you've sampled
03:18today, what's tickling you?
03:20The toffee and the
03:23home grown whisky bell.
03:25I had a sniff of that, it smells, if it tastes as good
03:27as it smells, it's delicious.
03:29And in terms of the Ludlow drinks
03:31any particular favourites?
03:33The gold isn't it generally? Stairway.
03:35Which one? Stairway. Oh right,
03:37Stairway, good stuff.
03:39Well we'll let you go and climb
03:41those stairs
03:43and see where you end up.
03:45Like with other breweries
03:47was this a first?
03:49We've done a couple small ones for
03:52Beer Axe, which is a big
03:54well it's the biggest beer
03:56exhibition in the UK.
03:58That was with
04:00some supplying
04:02companies, malt companies,
04:04hop companies.
04:06But this is the first one we've done
04:08with another brewer
04:10who just makes beer.
04:12And is this special for the festival or will this be kind of
04:14living on the bar for the year?
04:16It's a limited time thing
04:18so you can only get it probably just this weekend.
04:20So describe the taste
04:22then, it's a 6%er.
04:24So go on, how would you describe
04:26it then? I know it's not necessarily
04:28that, I know it's wet.
04:30On the stronger side, it's very
04:32fruity, very hoppy,
04:34just massive,
04:36massive aromas.
04:40Good, good stuff.
04:42Cool, well you do great
04:44stuff here at Ludlow Brewery
04:46and continue to do what you do boss.
04:48Thank you Cody. Thank you very much.