Greenhorn Radio
LIVE 4 - 4:30pm EST
First Aired - 02/22/2011 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio (TM) Jimmy & Ray are joined by regulars Dave Brodrick & Jen Schwertman of Blind Tiger and special guest Bill Herlicka of White Birch Brewing. They discuss everything from spontaneous fermentation to bottle conditioned beer as they taste some of Bill's best beers on-air. Tune in for their weekly favorite beer lists and find out more about White Birch Brewing and the unique projects they have embarked on. This episode was sponsored by www.GreatBrewers.com - the # resource for beer online.
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Beer Sessions Radio Introduction: "Belgian Style" (15:15)
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Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Heritage Radio Network, Beer Sessions Radio, GreatBrewers.com, Beer Cloud mobile app, Dave Broderick, Jen Schwertman, Tomme Arthur, Port Breing, Lost Abbey, Great American Beer Festival, Ale Street News, Belgian style beer, is there a Belgian style?, people get stuck in styles, beers should be open to interpretation, proprietary yeast strains are important, singular yeast strains, Americans have trouble making lambics, spontaneous fermentation is tough to pull off, Cascade Creek, special collection at Blind Tiger, Cantillion lambic, Wadesda, XX Bitter, Bill Herlicka, White Birch,On-Air Tastings, Recipe Interpretation & Wild Beer (17:01)
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wild beer, takes time to perfect, Ray doesn't love barrel aged beers, De La Senne, The Wadesda #1, its rare that you see a force carbonated beer, 60 minute IPA, Sierra Nevada, some beers gain carbonation in the bottle, yeast in the bottle, Belgian quad, cross Belgian golden beer with Rye, 11.5% ABV, aged in a whiskey barrel, wild cultures, let it age for 10 months and then bottle, quad is more of an American term, bar owners make their living off craft beer, Ray is a purist, packaging beers, recipes from one size brewery to another, recipe interpretation, recipe translation, consumer palate, New Hampshire,Bill Herlicka of White Birch Brewing (18:54)
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email question, as a commercial brewer how do you feel about clone recipes, home brewers cloning beers and sharing recipes, the beauty of home brewing is that you can do whatever you want, commercial beer clones, what have been the biggest challenges in getting your brewery off the ground, stick to what's most important to you, contract brewing, wild aging, Indulgence, Chocolate malt, roasted barley to the color of chocolate, house Belgian yeast, Bill has a yeast farm, each yeast brings a different aspect to the beer, White Birch beers are unlike most others, not much beer coming out of New Hampshire, Duck Rabbit, Front Street, alcohol limits by state, Busch Gardens, Beer School, favorite beer from the weekend, Ray: bourbon, Bill: Night Falls, Dave: American Flatbread Maybach, Jen: Great Divide Espresso Yetti, Jimmy: White Birch Double,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
