This week on Beer Sessions Radio (TM) Jimmy kicks off Craft Beer Week with Sam Barbieri of Waterfront Ale House, Kirk Struble of 4th Avenue Pub, John Holl of Beer Briefing, as well Beer Session's regular Dave Brodrick. Sam talks about being one of the first beer pubs in Brooklyn back in the 80s while Dave talks about his recent harvest. Tune in to hear about John's recent trip to Chile to moderate at the Copa Cervezas de America 2011, Latin America's most important beer competition and learn about new and emerging international beer scenes. This episode is sponsored by GreatBrewers.com.

Coverage of the Belgium Comes To Cooperstown festival returns this week on Beer Sessions Radio broadcasting from Ommegang Brewery. Jimmy is joined by Dave Broderick (Blind Tiger), Scott Ficaro (Capt. Lawrence), Sean Lawson (Lawson's Finest), and Garet Livermore, Vice President of the Farmer's Museum there. The show goes sweet for maple and Vermont beers and then delves into the history of hops. Did you know that hops in America came almost exclusively from central New York until its great hop blight? Tune if for this and more news on upcoming beer events on Beer Sessions Radio (TM). This episode is sponsored by GreatBrewers.com.

This week on Burning Down The House our vocabulary gets big with guests Caroline Bailey, playing vox populi, and Ariana Bain of the company Except, the visionary of the The Polydome, a "revolutionary high-yield sustainable agriculture system for greenhouses" . It's her hope that one day, by implementing the Polydome a city as big as New York could feed itself with minimal negative environmental impact. Curtis & Co. talk about symbiosis by design, integrated stability, quantitative tools for social network analysis, and break it down for you so you can come out more knowledgable about your food, how it's made, how it gets to you and a whole lot more. This episode is sponsored by Hearst Ranch.