Shows

Ale & Audio

(Home Bars, Craft Beers and Music) 

Show with music: The main event, new episodes available Friday mornings from 12:00am only on Mixcloud 

A radio show style episode. Beer talk, pub shed chat, great music and games. 

Also streamed on Ale & Radio from 8am every Friday.

Episodes without music will be available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, GooglePlay etc (from episide 195)


The Ale & Audio podcast began in November 2020 as an experiment for Jimbo who wanted to try out the new podcasts with music feature through Spotify but also as a place for him to talk about his new journey into the world of craft beer. Jimbo had created a new Instagram account (of the same name) for posting about his craft beers just a few months prior to this. 

Around this time, in the winter of 2021 (during a period of Covid-19 lockdowns), like many people, Jimbo began to create a space in a garden shed to work but then after seeing other peoples creations online, decided to turn it into a home bar (pub shed).

In the Spring of 2021 Jimbos former radio sidekick "Judge John" joined Jimbo to bring back a popular feature from their radio days, "the song request courtroom", where listeners choose songs and get scores from the Judge. 

By Summer 2021 the episodes were starting to feature and talk about pub sheds and home bars from across Instagram and Jimbo was joined by Dave Hardy of the Hardy Arms in Leicester and Andy Dunn of the Dunn Inn in Stoke, for weekly quizzes and features centred around home bars and craft beer.  The episodes began connect the Instagram communities of beer lovers and home bar owners together and grow. In relation to this, the podcast episode streams also grew rapidly. By Christmas 2021 the song request courtroom part of the show had also grown in popularity and listener and pub shed owner Martyn (of the Patriot Lockdown Bar) joined the Judging Panel as Judge Pat. Later in 2022 a third Judge, Judge Peggy (Sharon) of the Ashmore Arms also joined. As of August 2023, the podcast is getting upwards of 1000 streams per month and is in the top 5 most shared podcasts globally. 

New episodes of the the full Ale & Audio podcast with music is now only available on Mixcloud after Spotify axed their music + talk feature. Click here to find it

Spin off shows

The main Ale & Audio podcast is huge show made up of lots of different parts, so here you can find out seperate spin off podcasts to listen back to particular features.

Pub Shed & Home Bar Sessions

Jimbo's chats with other home bar and pub shed owners.

On most podcast platforms

Judge Pats
Pub Shed Pop Quiz
(YouTube)

Two home bar owners/beer lovers go head to head in a pop quiz battle. Jimbo hosts and Judge Pat is the quizmaster. 

Watch & play along on YouTube.


Desert Island Beers

Joe from The Brew Club Hull chats with Instagram beer lovers about their first drinks, favourite bars, breweries, music, and their desert island beer. Has even featured famous stars such as TV Chef Simon Rimmer, actor Adam Rickett and musician David Rotheray

On most podcast platforms