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First Aired - 02/15/2011 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio (TM), it's a packed house as Jimmy & Ray are joined by a room full of the most important people in beer! Brooklyn Home Brew, Sycamore, Valley Malt, Time Out New York, Sixpoint Craft Ales and Chelsea Brewing Company are all in the house to talk about beer trends, collaborations, local ingredients and malting. Tune in for a very special episode and hear every guest's beer pick of the week! This episode was sponsored by GreatBrewers.com. For more information visit www.greatbrewers.com.
Andrea and Christian Stanley of Valley Malt
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Sycamore & Brooklyn Homebrew (16:53)
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Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Beer Sessions Radio, Heritage Radio Network, Mast Brothers Chocolate, chocolate and beer pairings, vote for Chop Shop for best Southern comfort food on Time Out New York's website, GreatBrewers.com, Great Brewers, Good Beer Seal, The Brooklyn Wort, Justin Israelson, Gary Jonas, Sycamore, www.brooklynwort.com, bi-annual event, home brew contests, Brooklyn Homebrew, Danielle Cefaro, Benjamin Stutz, mobile brewing station, beer sculpture, Valley Malt Beer, you can be creative as a home brewer, Barack Obama served home brewed beer at the White House super bowl party, lambic brewing process, cantillion recipe, lambic beer by nature is mostly a wheat beer,Valley Malt & Local Brewing (13:27)
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Andrea Stanley, Christian Stanley, rock stars of the brewing world, Valley Malt, what goes into making a local beer?, BSA, Beer Supported Agriculture, grains need to be malted in order to make beer, germination, maltsters, promoting malting in the Nordic countries, malt houses, pneumatic malting, Wormtown Brewing, The People's Pint, pub/breweries, committed to local agriculture, the 100% local, everything brewed and malted within 20 miles, Empire Brewing, wheat wine, the building blocks of beer, people want to learn more about brewing,Time Out Porter & Chelsea Brewing Company (16:13)
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Chris Schonberger, Time Out NY, Jeff Gorlechen, Sixpoint Craft Ales, Time Out Porter, Sixpoint is trying to take down the alcohol content on some beers, session beers are a trend for Spring, porters, saisons, Time Out Porter will debut at many Good Beer Seal bars, d.b.a. and Jimmy's No 43 has a cask of it!, Monday Feb 28th - wintry food and beer pairings, bangers and mash, Stumptown coffee, New York is a beer town!, local malt, buying malt 6 tons at a time, Petersons Farms, contract brew pubs, real estate and rent can kill you in NYC, Mark Szmaida, Chelsea Brewing Company, Checker Cab Blonde Ale, 65% of sales are drafts to other bars, trending toward lower alcohol beers, nano breweries,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/06/2011 12:00PM
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On today's episode of The Main Course, Katy Keiffer holds down the fort alone as she explores the intertwined worlds of bonsai masters and Japanese cuisine. Join in and she has a very inspiring conversation with bonsai master Julian Velasco, who shares his knowledge on bonsai techniques, history and how the small trees can teach us more about life and ourselves. The conversation then shifts to Japanese cuisine and sake, as Phillip Gilmore of Momo Sushi Shack shares the inspiration behind his Bushwick restaurant and talks about his experience working alongside Juilan for the upcoming Graceful Perseverance exhibition at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The kickoff event is Feburary 11th - learn more at www.bbg.org. This episode was sponsored by S Wallace Edwards & Sons. For more information visit www.surryfarms.com
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The Main Course Introduction (1:57)
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The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, Heritage Radio Network,Julian Velasco, Bonsai Master (30:53)
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Julian Velasco, Bonsai, Graceful Perseverance, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, runs until May 1st, kickoff event this Friday - Feburary 11th, Julian wanted to be a photographer when he was young, any tree can be converted to bonsai, root structure is changed, feeder roots, specific bonsai techniques, dense canopy, dense root system, tricking the tree into thinking it's much taller, growth habits change when its mature, every tree has a hidden story, bonsai master, bringing out the essence of the tree, each viewer has a different experience with bonsai, how did bonsai start?, started in China, trapped root system, dwarfed and stunted trees, some trees at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are over 300 years old, Phillip Gilmour, Momo Sushi Shack, diced up scallop, the roots turn to bark as years go on, trees that look like they are cascading, trees that replicate different environments, live wood combined with deadwood, connection with environment, bonsais hold to the history of their caretakers,Phillip Gilmore of Momo Sushi Shack (27:20)
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Anita Jacobs, Director of Public Programs at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Phillip Gilmour, Momo Sushi Shack, 43 Bogart St, minimalist decor, hidden entrance, open air in summer, sake, tapas, sake tasting, translating food experiences, mixing formal with fun, Phillip and Julian are kindred spirits, Victorian style greenhouse, Japanese folk dance, celebrating nature in winter, miniature food, mostly vegan dishes, there are infinite vegetarian options in Japanese cuisine, tofu, noodles, rice, Slow Food, specifically American, every other culture practices Slow Food anyways, braised dishes, preserved foods, rice cooking techniques, overlap between the way Japanese food looks and their approach to aesthetic in every day life, Phil worked at Bozu for 3 years, food and sake pairings, minute details in sake, shaved lotus root, dashi, pickled vegetables, Brooklyn DIY culture, Friday February 11th, starts at 6:30, www.bbg.org, or buy tickets at Momo Sushi Shack, rice cake dance,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/21/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie spoke to Mike Hamburg, docent at the Natural History Museum and Bernie's resident astronomy expert, about some popular misconceptions people hold about the Earth and the universe.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Misconceptions of Seasons (18:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, Fairway Market, Heritage Radio Network, today is the summer solstice, during the solstice the Earth is the furthest from the sun, if the Earth wasn't on an angle we wouldn't have seasons the way we do, the angle is probably because the Earth was hit by something a long time ago, the Earth is not a perfect sphere, misconceptions about seasons, balancing an egg on the vernal equinox, sunlight is made up of many colors, nature of the movement of the universe, shifting colors, predicting earthquakes by looking at clouds?,The Coriolis Effect & Other Misconceptions (17:59)
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Coriolis effect, the coriolis force is a real force, when you witness water spinning down the drain it goes down the drain counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, the opposite is believed to be true for the southern hemisphere, it's a trick, constellations on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal, in 1957 the United States displayed a red stone missile in that room, there was a Gibbous Moon last night, some people think the phases of the moon are caused by the Earths shadow, that is not true, lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, The Dark Side of the Moon doesn't exist, the unseen side of the moon, why do we only see one side from Earth?,Moon Myths & Tide Trends (13:00)
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moon coloring, blue moon, due to various particles in the Earths atmosphere, only the sun creates its own light, tides, anybody who lives near the shoreline is familiar with tides, caused by the moons gravity affecting the Earth, the world lunatic comes from lunar, the so called moon illusion, Natural History Museum Events, Night at the Museum, they build a new museum for that movie, great new exhibits, Race to the End of the Earth,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
