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First Aired - 03/30/2010 05:00PM
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Joshua Bernstein & Jen Ward join as guests and Samuel Meritt co-hosts. The crew talks nano brewing, contract brewing and answers a live call-in question!
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Beer Sessions Introduction (16:25)
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Beer Sessions, The Good Beer Seal, Heritage Radio Network, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, www.jimmysno43.com, Samuel Merritt, Civilization of Beer, Cicerone, www.cicerone.org, Joshua Bernstein, Jen Ward, Brooklyn Beer Gal, Firestone, wine vs beer, He Said Beer She Said Wine, beers that taste like wine, beer is making a comeback, Union Beer, Mega Portfolio Tasting, The Porterhouse, Oyster Stout, Dublin Ireland, Guinness, Founder's Dry Hop Pale Ale, Joe Mama Stout, Keegan's Irish Pub, Six Point, Grand Crew, Sam Adams, Boston, Jim Koch, passion for beer, The Asheville Breweries, southern beers, Highland Brew, Craggy Brewing, North Carolina, moonshine, www.imbibemagazine.com, Imbibe Magazine, Blue Ridge Mountains, locally centered breweries, regional breweries, sustainability, local hops farmers, local honey, Craft Brewers Conference, Chicago, Goose Island, beer education, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Oregon Brewers Festival,Josh Bernstein of Imbibe Magazine & A Live Call In Question! (17:05)
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Josh Bernstein, Norway, Nogne O, world class beers, mostly for export, Blind Tiger, live call in question!, most fancy beers are expensive, go to tastings, Budweiser, good beers for a starter, Duvel, www.beeradvocate.com, stronger alcohol content, www.greatbeer.com, @BrooklynBeerGal, beersessions@gmail.com, nano breweries, going pro can cost upwards of $100,000, Alex Hall, Chris Post, Wandering Star, English sensability, Cask Ale, warmer beer has more flavor, Foster's, think local or regional, start with Brooklyn Lager, cream ale style, drinking to get drunk, beer is a drink of moderation, health benefits of the grains, naturally made beer, wild yeast, barrel aging, nomad brewery, there are many ways to get into the beer business, ale with chardonnay grapes aged in oak barrels, making beer like wine, May 25th at d.b.a. in Brooklyn, start with Victory Brownmaster Pilsner, Budweiser used to be a better beer,Sam Adams, Contract Brewing & The Idea of "Craft" Breweries (13:05)
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Union Beer, Italian beer, it's hard to find good beer, people in Boston swear by Sam Adams, is Sam Adams craft beer?, Beer Wars, Anat Baron, craft brewing, just because a beer is available everywhere doesn't mean it's bad, education, regional breweries, Boston, contract brewing, Jim Koch tastes the beers every day to test for consistency, beer and food, pairings, Dateline NBC slammed Jim Koch for contract brewing, Brooklyn Brewery contracts to upstate, Julia Child, Sixpoint, it's a big investment to brew beer especially in a city, Blue Smoke, Blue Smoke Original Ale, Garrett Oliver, The Dive Bar, house beer, Danny Meyer, stouts with chocolate finish,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/16/2010 05:00PM
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sponsored by The Good Beer Seal - Chuck Duffney & B.R. Rolya talk about new craft beer from France & Italy and give some NYC St. Patrick's Day bar suggestions.
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Beer Sessions Introduction (15:55)
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Jimmy Carbone, Samuel Merritt, Beer Sessions, Heritage Radio Network, The Good Beer Seal, www.thegoodbeerseal.com, Chuck Duffney, B.R. Rolya, St. Patricks Day, strong beer is the milk of the old, beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. hangovers are proof that we are not yet in heaven, those who drink beer will think beer, www.dieseldrafts.com, Jimmy's No. 43, Saint Patrick, Ireland, he drove snakes off the island, UK Beer Night, Ireland isn't noted for having great beer, cask is an old way to serve beer, the beer isn't finished when it leaves the brewery, fermentation, Camra, campaign for real ale, www.camra.org.uk/, Guinness, low carbonation, beer engine, creamy feel and light body, nitrogen pores, England, Shelton Brothers Imports, www.sheltonbrothers.com/, English traditional ale, Chelsey Ale's, Gingerman, Flying Tiger, local beer, some beers are not built for travel, ale yeast, guidelines for keeping beer, Cicerone Certification Program, March 29th and April 5th there are seats available in the class, www.cicerone.org/, beer is as vulnerable than milk and eggs, craft beer bars, draft beer setups, Dan Shelton, traditional spring beer, Mars Brewery, Bamberg Germany, bock beer, wheat yeast, cloves, bananas, keller bier, smoked beers,French Craft Beers, Beer Agriculture & St. Patrick's Day Bars (16:39)
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lower alcohol session strength beers with a lot of flavor, North France, French craft beer, malt forward, there isn't much brewing history in France, Bière de Garde, French craft beer movement, French Craft Brewers Association, The French Revolution of Beer, industrial lagers, chestnut flour, locally grown barely and hops, Yakima valley, hops are sourced in bulk and cheaply, barely tends to be grown mostly for other purposes, it takes three years to turn a field of hops, New York state hops, hops blight, Cornell University, skunking is a chemical reaction between light and hops compounds, Jimmy's No 43, Blind Tiger, The Gingerman, The Spring Lounge, The Ear Inn, Puck Fair, Lucky Jack's,B.R. Rolya's Early Beer Discovery & A Discussion on Belgian Beer (16:18)
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Belgium, NATO, Brussels, B.R. first tasted beer at age 5, kid sized beer mugs, milk stout, Guinness is more of a dry stout, lactose is a non fermentable sugar, adds body to the mouth feel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother's Milk, range and variety of flavors, monastery brews, small breweries, import market to the US, old fashioned beers, American style brew pubs, contract brewing, Scandinavian breweries, beer based on season and time of the day, Brooklyn IPA, home brews, Shelton Brothers beer tasting, Bink Blond, Christoffel Blond, Taras Boulba, Farmhouse Ales, Phil Markowski, $10 beer tastings at Jimmy's No 43 on Tuesday's, McKellars event at Blind Tiger, Thurday March 18th vintage beer night at Barcade,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/17/2010 12:00PM
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Sam & Jimmy come by to talk beer, scandals and everything between. Also on the show, chef Nate Appleman.
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The Main Course Introduction (11:40)
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Patrick Martins, The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, Salumi, Sam Edwards, Jimmy's 43, www.jimmysno43.com, Hearst Ranch, Brian Kenny, zebra meat, horse meat, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Elliot Spitzer, Leaping Waters Farm, Jefferson Davis Highway, Benedict Arnold,Hot 80 Year Old Women, Human Waste & Steamed Beer (26:40)
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politics, Republicans, Democrats, George W. Bush, Haiti, Jimmy's 43, beer certification class, Samuel Merritt, Civilization of Beer, www.civilizationofbeer.com, walk in refrigerator, burp castle, cookoffs, Julia Child, melted gelatin, Nick Solares, Theo Peck, Betty Fussell, the hottest 80 year olds, night soil, human waste, what can brown do for you?, UPS, yeast, living beer, unfiltered, steam beer, Frederick Louis Maytag III, Fritz Maytag,Whole Animal Cooking, Pizza Trends & Beer Pairings (20:00)
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Salumi, Nate Appleman, butchering, whole animal cooking, boxed meats, beer pairings, strip steak, porterhouse, short ribs, Heritage Foods USA, sustainability, slaughterhouse, slaughtering, whole hog, Brooklyn Brewery Local 1, wood fired ovens, manipulate a fire to do what you want it to do, Neapolitan pizza needs 750-800 degrees, I wanna make a pizza that anyone can enjoy, Sal & Carmines, Ray's Pizza, Joe's Pizza at Bleeker St., South Street Seaport, II Brigante, chuck roll, National Cattleman's Beef Association, off cuts, difficult cuts, braising, frying, sauteing, new cuts, Freeman's, www.freemansrestaurant.com, wood is abundant in California, almond wood, Asian Longhorned Beetle, Newman Farm Pork Products, www.newmanfarm.com, Berkshire pigs, Ancient White Park, ground beef, local farm raised meats, Carlo Petrini, Slow Food, gastronomic quality, local sausage week, Union Square Market, green market, maple smoked kielbasa, lamb sausage, Flying Pigs Farm, www.flyingpigsfarm.com, there are not enough slaughterhouses in the Northeast, regionality, Virginia, North Carolina,Scandals of the Noughts & Changes in Our Food System (26:40)
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scandals, Jimmy's 43, Heather Mills, Mia Farrow, Mary Kay Letourneau, abstinence only education, liberal run media, Elliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, Jim McGreevey, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Robert Johnson, the rise of craft peer, public awareness of food systems, Patio Dining, Sarah Jenkins, green market, homemade pasta, Michael Pollan, the 100 mile dinner, regional approach, Snail of Approval, Medieval food history, the word Tavern has been hijacked, peco.peco.com, Hiroshima pancake, miso oden, Christian Slater, Martha Stewart, Tom Brady,Show Wrap Up: Cicerone Certification Program & The Civilization Of Beer (30:00)
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Armandino Batali, www.salumicuredmeats.com/, Riverside Drive, what was New York like 100 years ago, transition of this city over 100 years, children factory workers, return to artisinal food production, home wine making, DIY movement, The Good Beer Seal, in 1978 Jimmy Carter passed a law allowing home brewing of beer, Jack McAuliffe, consolidation of the brewing industry, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Cicerone Certification Program, The Great American Beer Festival, www.cicerone.org, online test to become a certified beer server, beverage industry, Slow Food Nation, Carlo Petrini, education, if you know it you have a duty to teach it, gastronomes, Islam is taking over Christianity, birth control, the Vatican, women were the first brewers, monks, Jeerleaders, Dogfish 90 Minute IPA, Brooklyn IPA,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
