Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 07/13/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio Jimmy and Ray spoke to Caitlin Robin from Against the Grain wine bar, Dave Broderick from Blind Tiger, plus Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Brewery. The gang recounted about the recent Meatopia event and Mayor Bloomberg's recent proclamation of July as "Good Beer Month". Craig from Sixpoint talked about their new beer, a collaboration with Jimmy and Ray called Sixpoint Signal: a delicious summer pale ale featuring subtle smoked, toasted notes and a sharp, citrusy, hoppy flavor. Tune in for a discussion on beer collaboration, plus an extra-helpful super-secret tip for all home brewers on how to best aerate your pitched liquid yeast using olive oil! This episode was sponsored by Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.
Jimmy & Co celebrating Mayor Bloomberg's Good Beer Month declaration!
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Good Beer Month! (15:54)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Dave Brodrick, Blind Tiger, it is officially July Good Beer Month!, Mayor Bloomberg, Ray's breakfast beer is usually an American beer, the cops remembered Jimmy & Ray from last year, The Good Beer Seal, Against the Grain, Caitlin Robin, Jimmy & Ray made beer with Sixpoint, Ray wore a jump suit, each Good Beer Seal bar will get a keg of Signal, Against the Grain feels like a wine bar even though its a beer bar, product driven and service based, private tasting events during the week, beer tasting dinners, Grape & Grain, Caitlin is a trial lawyer by day, paperwork can be intimidating, Meatopia was this weekend, Jonathan Waxman, next big event coming up: Good Beer & BAM, July 28th, 15 beers and 15 restaurants serving food, Beer Sessions on the road in Cooperstown New York, Brewery Ommegang, the Woodstock of craft beer, everybody camps, everybody who makes a Belgian style ale in the US will be there,Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Craft Ales (15:30)
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Jeff Gorlechen, Craig Frymark, Craig has been with Sixpoint for three and a half years, Signal, celebrating the summer, BBQ weather, a touch of smoke malt, Simcoe Hops, the guys explain how they made Signal, second batch will have more smoke flavor, bamberg malt, John from Pacific Standard calls in!, long after the food ran out at Meatopia there was still beer!, email question about Signal: how did this beer come together, more minds always produce a better end product, all ideas are welcome, part of this beer was influenced by a home brew competition, the beer came together naturally, homebrewing secret:, you have to use liquid yeast. take a pindrop of olive oil and put it into the yeast. let it sit while you brew and when you're done with the boil pitch the yeast, olive oil is like steroids for yeast, makes cell membrane wall thick, Guerrilla Warfare, coffee beer, caffeine has interesting behavior with yeast, violent fermentation,How Craig Started Brewing & The Future of Sixpoint Craft Ales (18:39)
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The Great Brewers Test, take the test!, if you get a 95 or above you can come on Beer Sessions radio, Bree O'Connor picks the music for the show, how do you get started brewing beer?, Craig: developed his love of beer while studying abroad in London, there is a low ABV in London, drinking for flavor not the alcohol, Great British Beer Festival, How to Brew - By John Palmer, Craig met Shane in Boston at the 2nd Extreme Beer Festival, Righteous Rye, it takes a lot of dirty work to succeed at Sixpoint, Sixpoint is in Red Hook Brooklyn, Cathy Erway makes lunches for the guys sometimes, www.lunchatsixpoint.com, home cooked food fresh vegetables, what's next for Sixpoint, new beers coming out this fall!, The Tippy Dump, what is the lowest alcohol beer Sixpoint has brewed?, probably the Sweet Action, 5.0%, session ales, what is the future of local breweries?, Dave brought down a beer from Vermont made by Shaun Hill, dry hopping, hop farming, hop blight, mildew resistant hops, local hop growing, nugget hops, what's your favorite Sixpoint beer of all time, Ray: Righteous Rye, Caitlin: Hop Obama, Dave: Guerrilla Warfare, Jimmy: East Coast Amber, Jimmy opened a beer bar because of Sixpoint,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/14/2010 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave addresses the growing concern over Nastassia's lack of on-air time and Nastassia responds with...well, a little bit more on-air time than usual! Dave finished last week's question on egg substitutes, and also ponders what pigs milk might taste like. He also explores rice cooking techniques, coffee extraction and nixtamalization. Tune in and find out why in the world Dave wants to become a Mexican grandmother one day! This episode was sponsored by Tekserve & The Lower East Side Ecology Center's "E-Waste Events". Find out everything you need to know about recycling your old electronics by clicking here!
An 1836 lithograph of tortilla production in rural Mexico.
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Cooking Issues Introduction (14:57)
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Dave Arnold, Cooking Issues, Nastassia Lopez, Tekserve, E-Waste Event, Dave will be preparing and eating only raw food for a week, a fan email suggests Dave should go raw vegan, Dave accepts the challenge, Dave would rather eat nothing than eat separately from his family, question about egg substitutes, xanthan gum, eggs contain a good bit of fat, makes it taste better in baking, lecithin, you CAN buy soy lecithin, you will get back a lot of the same properties you would get in an egg, modified cellulose product, can you drink alcohol on a raw food diet?, Pure Food, biodynamic wine, people into organics never do blind taste tests,Pigs Milk & Rice Cooking Technique (14:59)
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email question:, why not pigs milk?, there is cheese from all other types of milk, when a pig gives birth you use that milk to feed the piglets, the pig then stops lactacting, pigs unlike other animals are meat machines, they are not multi use animals, pigs don't produce nearly the amount of milk that other animals do, basmati rice, rink soak and drain rice before cooking, other recipes tell you never to do this, every culture has their own style of rice and rice cooking techniques, enriched rice sometimes has nutrients dusted on, rinsing would remove nutrients,Aerobie Coffee Machines, Meausing Coffee Extraction & Nixtamalization (17:43)
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what defines an espresso?, Espresso: The Chemistry of Coffee, Aerobie coffee machine, what is extracted at varying temperatures?, brewing kinetics are extremely complicated, refractometer measuring coffee extraction, total dissolve solids meter, alkalinity, myard reactions, calcium hydroxide, nixtamalization is the reason people from America are not dead, nixtamalize corn, nixtamalizing, put calcium hydroxide in water with dry corn, heat it for a while and let it steep, makes it easier to mill and grind, tortilla production, Dave's life long goal is to become a Mexican grandmother,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/05/2010 12:00PM
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Jonathan Russo, publisher of the Organic Wine Journal, joins Patrick & Katy on a passionate and informative episode of The Main Course. The three enter a heated discussion about the intersection of food, budget and politics in our nation. They also discuss our growing obesity problem in America in detail, outlining what is causing us to get fat as a nation and what might possibly save us. Later on the show, Daniel Holzman of the famed Meatball Shop drops by to promote his slow-food gone fast-food late night eatery. Also on the show, bartender & mixologist Damon Boelte. This episode was generously sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. For more information visit www.surryfarms.com
Photo 1: Daniel Holzman (left) of The Meatball Shop, Photo 2: Mixologist Damon Boelte
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The Main Course Introduction (6:39)
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Jonathan Russo, Artists Agency, Organic Wine Journal, Daniel Holzman, The Meatball Shop, it's the anniversary of the repeal of prohibition, Tekserve, E Waste Event,Jonathan Russo on The Nexus of Politics, Budgets, Food & Health (21:35)
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Jonathan Russo, publishier of the Organic Wine Journal, Artists Agency, a founder of both Heritage Foods USA and Heritage Radio Network, decades of pioneering work in the food industry, organic wine, drinking age, savings earthworms from pesticides, www.organicwinejournal.com, organic biodynamic and natural wines, Napa Valley, Sonoma County Wineries, bragging rights to be green, Jonathan is an agent, he found Bob Vila, Michel Nischan, The Dressing Room, health cuisine at the W Hotel, Lapband, food politics, nexus of politics budgets food and health, it's all coming together, the hippies who introduced organics have seen their day in the sun, some restaurants were good, Inn of the Seventh Ray, Haymarket, early farmers markets, for ethnic people who wouldn't eat processed foods, at a federal level we can't afford to have an obese population that continues to eat like this, it's like the smoking revolution or Sputnik, JFK's plan for mandatory public eduction, Science Fairs, 1 million Americans have died from obesity from 9/11, who's the enemy?, paternalistic attitude, you can't make people change what they want to do, there should be an alternative offered, trucks in front of fast food restaurants, 1 billion dollars is spent on advertising per year for processed foods, inappropriate packaging, 8.5 billion dollar marketing budget to tell people to eat the wrong thing, if fast food has won, then slow food should be served fast, Chipotle, Bill Neiman, celebrity chefs drive real estate,Jonathan Russo on Obesity in America (22:11)
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what has changed?, why is Jonathan finally coming on the radio now?, is HRN too big for NPR?, some people are becoming patriotic in this country again in an odd way, making sure America is fit healthy and vibrant, 66% of Americans are overweight, obesity as the driver of social issues, Jonathan invented a test to show you what's going on, go back to a yearbook anytime before 1970, graduating classes were fit and in shape, hardly any obese kids, obesity is not tied to genetics, the media excuses people from being overweight, every week there is a new theory on why we are fat, the last thing the media would do is bite the hand that feeds them, smokescreens, where do politicians fit in?, slow growth economy, it's hard to fix things during a recession, somebody has to make decisions, childhood obesity, half the country will have diabetes in 10 years, nerve damage, amputations, blindness, Michael Pollan, health care reform bill, leveling out the playing field, creating a safety net for the public,Daniel Holzman of The Meatball Shop (22:34)
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Daniel Holzman, The Meatball Shop, takeout and dine in, Meatball shop opened on Febuary 9th, hit the ground running, fast food for our generation, The Meatball Shop has prices comparable to fast food, reinventing fast food, sticking by your principals, organic and local is great but it doesn't have to be more expensive, the word angus has been ruined, using trim, each meatball has a percentage formula, there is no meat you can't turn into a meatball, whole animal cooking, coastal phenomenon, 80% of the people live close to a coast, starting a franchise, there are no healthy choices for food late at night, drunk comfort food that's healthy, using scraps, meat grinding, texture, meatball special at Heritage Foods USA, it's fun to grind your own meat, homestead life, food born pathogens can hide in ground meat, commodity meat, roasted meatballs, there is no wrong way to cook a meatball, they go through 2,000 meatballs a day, www.themeatballshop.com,Damon Boelte, Bartender at Prime Meats (25:14)
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Damon Boelte, bartender of Prime Meats, Happy repeal day!, prohibition, William Anderson, Americans were heavy drinkers, prohibition had a good effect, moonshine, NASCAR, started by rum runners and moonshiners, history of the cocktail in this country, bread, corn syrup, Tiki drinks, origin of the cocktail, mixologists don't like vodka much, it's neutral, most flavor is phased out, snobby outlook towards cocktails with vodka, a vodka drink is only as good as what you mix it with, The Hard Shake, Angel's Share, formal bartending, The Vesper, shaking drinks bruises the alcohol, seasonality, freshness, best thing to do is ask a bartender what he likes, building trust between customer and bartender, The Varnish, speakeasy, Sazerac, the bar is equal to the kitchen in terms of creativity, what drink goes well with meatballs, www.frankspm.com, Cocktail Kingdom,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
