northern monk

  • Tanked Up – After Dark

    19/05/2018
    This week our heroes continued to record their nonsense after episode 118, they all just wanted one more beer. Ben and Aadil drink an ‘Illicium’ Imperial Milkshake IPA from Wander Beyond whilst Lucy has a ‘Green Eyed Monster’ Northern Monk Patrons 6.05 which is gluten free. We talk Willem...

  • Tanked Up 118 – Lot’s of beer, loads of games

    18/05/2018
    Ben, Aadil and Lucy start this episode half cut, Lucy’s been to a Siren craft beer tap takeover whilst Ben and Aadil have been drinking and playing the Nintendo Switch. They continue on their quest, through the episode, to drink as much as they can. There are plenty of...

  • Tanked Up 113 – The Year So Far

    13/04/2018
    We’ve a couple of smaller titles to talk about today. Ben’s played the mobile puzzle game ‘Umiro’ and Lucy’s playing something similar called ‘Sally’s Law’. We finish the episode with a discussion on our favourite games from the year so far. Lucy drinks two stouts to reflect her mood...

  • Tanked Up 108 – Brewdog Screws the Pooch

    09/03/2018
    Aadil returns to join Ben and Lucy in a full on roast of Brewdog, a chat about Tacoma, some extra thoughts on Zenge and a thorough discussion on violence and video games. Ben drinks the ‘Huddle’ Pale Ale from Verdent and ‘Glory’ Triple IPA from Northern Monk. Aadil has...

  • Tanked Up 103 – The Dark Side of Gaming

    29/01/2018
    This week features all three of us, huzzah! But we chat the darker side of gaming from Epic Games closing down Paragon after only 2 years to the arcade mode in Star Wars Battlefront 2 being tied to the mulitplayer for progression which has been designed around loot boxes...

  • Tanked Up 101 – What we’re looking forward to in 2018

    15/01/2018
    Aadil’s lost in the frozen north so Ben and Lucy get together to toast his memory. Actually they talk about what they’ve been playing and discuss the games they are looking forward to in 2018. They also discuss a 2017 article from Boak and Bailey on ‘The Seven Ages...

  • Tanked Up 94 – A Mobile Wolfenstein Odyssey

    13/11/2017
    This week Aadil does a mini-roundup of mobile games, courtesy of hours of travel. We chat “A Good Snowman is Hard to Build”, “Concrete Jungle”, “Dropsy” along with a couple smaller games like “Wolfenstein II” and “Super Mario Odyssey”. Lucy drinks the ‘Body Riddle’ pale ale from “Whiplash”. Aadil...

  • Tanked Up, Good Chemistry and Chance & Counters get smashed part 2

    30/10/2017
    Part 2 of the greatest collaboration of the year. We’ve another very beer filled two hours for you. Don’t worry it doesn’t affect our ability to be eloquent, concise and stay on topic at all.  But we drink more, more than we’ve ever drank before on the show. We...

  • Tanked Up 89 – Stolen Histories

    13/09/2017
    This week we start off with a geography lesson, and then straight on to burglary. Weddings and chauffeuring (along with the astonishing reveal about Ben and perogies). We wax intellectual, read: gripe, about time passing and being old and not recognising places we used to live/go to. We then...