Meet the Team
Jimbo
Jimbo, is the founder presenter, editor and producer of of the Ale & Audio podcast. Former presenter on local radio station Penistone FM for over 10 years.
Location: Sheffield (he f*cking loves it)
Pub Shed info:
6ft by 8ft. Seating capacity 6, Shed-stension (covered Pergola seats an extra 6) pub shed is also the Ale & Audio studio. Features a projector, Pint365, Sub machine, Fizzics pump and swinging sign (made by Patriot Lockdown Bar).
Favourite Beer Style: NEIPA's
Least favourite Beer Style: Sours
Dick & Ed aka Andy & Dave (nobody will ever know who is Dick and who is Ed)
Andy & Dave have appeared on the podcast together since July 2021 and have been making listeners laugh their arses off ever since. They take part in the weekly quiz and other regular features and penned the phrase "Is it made of wood?!"
They regularly go live with their very own "Pub Shed TV Beer Tasting" on Friday nights where they pick up a box of beers from a brewery, taste them and rate their favourites while inviting the home bar and beer lover community to drink along and join in the conversation.
Andy (Dunn Inn)
Resident podcast sheddie Andy is the podcast beer connoisseur, he knows his stuff! Also if you are ever going anywhere and need to know where the best craft beer bars are, Andy will more often than not have a good suggestion!
Location: Stoke
Pub Shed info: Cabin style/summer house
Favourite Beer Style: Double Dry Hopped Pale
Least favourite Beer Style: Barley Wines
Dave (Hardy Arms)
Resident podcast sheddie Like Andy, Dave knows his stuff. Dave knows where to find a craft beer bargain and as well as picking up the latest beers and top deals from breweries and his local bottleshop's he also scours the supermarkets for the best deals too.
Location: Leicester
Pub Shed info: Cabin Style/Summer House
Favourite Beer Style: New England IPA's
Least favourite Beer Style: Stouts & Porters
John (Taylor Tavern)
Musical Director John is the podcast musical director. He can pick up his guitar and create us a parody song or a quirky jingle in no time at all. John has written and recorded many great pub shed parody songs including Shed World, Imagine (all the sheddies) and Pub Shed Escape (Craft Beer & Lager Song) a collaboration with Jimbo. You will also hear John appearing as podcast character "Liam Gluglager" pairing beers and albums in our "CD's Cassettes and Alcohol feature"
Location: Manchester
Pub Shed info: Rustic and Eclectic
Favourite Beer Style: Dry Hopped Pale, Low ABV
Least favourite Beer Style: Sours
Pablo (Pablo Disco Bar)
Creative Director Michael (aka Pablo) is the podcast creative director. He has come up with some excellent podcast features & games including "Guess the Fess", "Brew Do You Think You Are" and "Hip Hop or Sip Hop". He is also the creator and performer of the Shed Sheeran & Sheddie Mercury pub shed singer feature where listeners have to guess the song and artist. Pablo is also aways on hand to create us a nifty graphic to promote our show features. Look out for Pablo's own Instagram entertainment features including the Caskmaster series and Pablos Friday/Saturday Night Discos.
Location: Hartlepool
Pub Shed info: South American/Cuban
Favourite Beer Style: Double Dry Hopped IPA
Least favourite Beer Style: Stouts & Porters
Feature contributors
Joe (Brew Club Hull)
Curater of Desert Island Beers Joe contacts and communicates with beer lovers on Instagram to find out about their favourite, breweries, bars, music and beers! As part of this Joe creates them an incredible personalised introduction to let the listeners know all about the beer lover in question. Desert Island Beers has become a staple feature on the Ale & Audio podcast.
Location: Hull, East Yorkshire.
Pub Shed info: Wherever Joe lays his hat, thats his pub shed.
Favourite Beer Style: Pilsner
Least favourite Beer Style: Stouts
Jan (The Box & Hounds)
Whats in Jans Box One of the funniest and most entertaining features on the show. This feature came about when Jan brought her box to a pub shed meet up in Watford and started pulling numerous beers out of it. Now on the show Andy, Dave and other guests have to guess what random pub shed/garden item is in Jans Box, in just 20 guesses with only yes or no answers (and sometimes some dodgy unhelpful clues from Jimbo) Anything of any size could be in Jans Box!
Location: Havant, Hampshire.
Pub Shed info: 14 by 7 feet. Patriotic GB flags. Up-cycled materials
Favourite Beer Style: Double IPAs
Least favourite Beer Style: Sours
The Song Request Courtroom
In most episodes you will hear this popular feature. Each week we ask listeners on Instagram to send us songs that link to a particular theme. The songs are curated in a list and put onto a form which listeners acting as "the jury" can then give a score to out of 10. We play the songs each week during the show and for the final part of the episode we open "The Song Request Courtroom" where one (or sometimes more) of our judges give them their final rating out of 10 alongside the announcement of the jury score. Listeners who score a 10 enter the 10/10 club and some who score ten 10/10 scores will progress to the "Song Request House of Lords" alongside Judge Pat (the Patriot Lockdown Bar) who was the first to achieve such a feat.
Song Request Courtroom Sponsors
The Pig & The Quill - Seira Nevada, California.
The Pig & The Quill pub shed/home bar kindly offered to donate some money to the podcast to help us improve our recording equipment which included microphones for our regular contributers and song request judges, which has made a huge difference. The Pig & The Quill are big fans of the courtroom so to thank them for their donation we made them our song request courtroom sponsors.
The Judges
Judge John (Head Judge)
John is the Head Judge. He is our very own Len Goodman. He can be hard to please and very unpredictable in his music taste. John was Jimbo's radio sidekick on a local radio station, Penistone FM for nearly 10 years which is where the song request courtroom first began (as the ABC) Anything But Chart hour. John joined Jimbo on the podcast in Spring 2021 and the Song Request Courtroom was reborn and became even more popular than ever before. John is a hard working taxi driver and a proper Barnsley man. Despite his sometimes grumpy judge act, he is a loveable, likeable friendly chap, guaranteed to put a smile on your face and sometimes even a tear in your eye.
Judge Pat
(Patriot Lockdown Bar)
(Patriot Lockdown Bar)
Martyn of the Patriot Lockdown Bar joined the show as a Judge in late 2021 after listening and falling in love with the song request courtroom feature on the show, before that he was a regular song requester and had many 10/10 scores to his name already. Judge Pat is the king of innuendo and you can guarantee rude jokes and edgy comedy when its his turn in the courtroom. Pat has an eclectic taste in music and can enjoy most genres and artists however sometimes a song can rub him up the wrong way and you'll end up "sniffing his drip tray" with a low score.
Pat was the first person to achieve ten 10/10 scores as a listener and was therefore inducted into the "Song Request House of Lords". Now instead of choosing songs, if he isn't the judge he picks out his "Judge Pat Pick of the Week" from all of the listeners suggestions which isn't necessarily a 10/10 song but a song that is a particular favourite of Pats giving listeners another accolade to aim for each week!
Judge Pat now also has his own YouTube pop quiz with home bar owners/beer lovers going head to head in each episode. Find these on YouTube!
Location: Northampton
Pub Shed info: Patriotic, British Style
Favourite Beer Style: DDH/DIPA
Least favourite Beer Style: Sour
Judge Peggy
(The Ashmore Arms)
(The Ashmore Arms)
Sharon of the Ashmore Arms joined the show as a Judge for the Halloween episode in 2022. Sharon teased Jimbo, the judges and the listeners for months using the Song Request Courtroom Jury form, naming herself as head of the jury and leaving scores and cryptic messages about her identity under name of "Judge Peggy" (a reference to famous landlady Peggy Mitchell. There was a period of finger pointing and Instagram polls as people tried to work out who she was until eventually her identity was finally revealed on the Halloween show as our first female judge. Peggy is a fine representative for the women of the pub shed, home bar and beer lover community and also is a popular judge amongst listeners, many of who received their first 10/10 from Peggy after failing to do so with the other judges.
Location: Dukinfield (near Manchester)
Pub Shed info: 3.2m by 2.8m - capacity 15. Built from the ground up.
Favourite Beer Style: Sour
Least favourite Beer Style: Bitter