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First Aired - 01/25/2011 05:00PM
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Today on Beer Sessions Jimmy sits down with Dave Brodrick, Jen Schwertman, and experimental home brewer Brett Thompson to discuss the tastes, fads, and possibilities of infused beers. Home brewer Brett Thompson plays with bourbon barrels, hops, and vanilla flavors to bring his beers to the next level. The team discusses the ins and outs of such methods and their geographical movements of such techniques from the west coast to the east.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Jen's Trip to San Francisco (18:37)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Ray Deter, Jimmy's No 43., d.b.a., Good Beer Seal, Great Brewers, Heritage Radio Network, Dave Brodrick, Jen Schwertman, Blind Tiger, Brett Thompson, English Ale, Fullers ESB, St Peters IPA, well balanced ale, St Peters Brewery, london breweries, family run breweries, Jen's Blue Moon experience, Toronado Pub, gritty old school beer bar, San Francisco, male dominated beer industry, David Keene, The Farmouse, Three Penny Taproom, Montpelier, Vermont, living off the land, there aren't many beers in Vermont right now, local Vermont beers, Hill Farmstead Edwards IPA, nano breweries, shipping to NYC, Russian River Salvation, Green Flash Beer, Allagash, drink what you can't get, Damn Nation, Blind Pig, Moonlight Toast, winter beer, Bombay by Boat, Vinnie Cilurzo, Craft Brewers Conference, March 23rd-26th, toast to Russian River!, are hops terroir driven?, water has a huge effect on beer, Sierra Nevada Estate Harvest,Bourbon Barrel Beer (13:40)
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Homebrewalley.com, Brett Thompson, NYC home brewers guild, home brew ally, Home brewers competition in Chelsea Piers 30th of January, Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter, measure gravity of the beer, American Yeast, White Labs 00, Used Bourbon Barrel, I think bourbon barrel beers are a passing fad, Home Brew group, Burp Castle on 7th and 2nd in the east village, what do you taste for in a home brewed beer?, cup beer in hands to warm up, When making bourbon stout should one make bourbon barrels or use bourbon extract?, Bourbon is distilled beer, Barrel aged beer, Oak chips vs Wine barrels?, Cigar City, Tampa Florida, Humidor series IPA, Spanish cedar, you don't necessary need to have a barrel to pull off a flavorful beer, Wooden barrel resuscitates the beer, Wine barrels as oposed to spiral and oak chips are looking to age a beer, Wine barrels make a sour beer, a lot of sour ales are done in wine barrels, A lot of people soak oak chips in bourbon, Cascade Kriek, Sour beer,Hoppy Beers (11:22)
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Greatbrewers.com, Cascade Kriek, Portland Oregon, Barrel Aged Beers, this beer is really really tart and sour, Jolly Pumpkins, Russian Rivers, It's a hard ale, Barrel aging has mellowed it out, Cherry tend to be a tarter flavor, This is a whole new beer for us, They've been making sour beer in Belgium for so long, West Coast breweres have come in for sours, Cantillon beer, All beer used to be sour, No pitching of yeast, you didn't have refrigeration and sanitation like we do now with beers, Beer used to be an accident, Fermentation, Alchemy, Sixpoint beer, New York Harbor Beer Company, How do I test different hops, The explosion of hops last for years, There are different characteristics of hops, There are floral hops, keep drinking and take notes, Organized Drinking, Founders Beers, Double Trouble, Red's Rye, Founders Porter, research beer online, BeerAdvocate.com, d.b.a, Blind Tiger, Jimmy's No. 43, Brown Ale, Dry Hop, add hop after brewing, American style ales, CO2 volume higher than Porter, how do you regulate home brewed beers?, Add cane sugar into bottle to control yeast and hop, force carbonation, Red Ale, Home Brew Alley Competition this Sunday, February 26th Brooklyn Wart.com, Pony Bar East coast vs West Coast, Circus Sideshow,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/28/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Ray and Jimmy (plus the multi-talented Dave Broderick of Blind Tiger) sit down with an all-star cast of beer aficionados and creators. David Geary, the "dean of American craft beer", comes through the studio to talk about brewing in Scottish castles and accessing the most secretive spots of the craft beer universe. Dann Paquette and Martha Paquette talk about being "nomad" brewers: borrowing other brewer's facilities late in the eve to mash and brew...plus they discuss their heavily-researched historical reproduction beers and what beer making was like in the 19th century.
Photo 1: The famous Geary London Porter, Photo 2: Dann Paquette and Martha Paquette of Pretty Things
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Beer Sessions Introduction: David Geary (18:40)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy's No 43, Jimmy Carbone, Heritage Radio Network, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Dave Brodrick, GreatBrewers.com, David Geary, London Porter, D.L. Geary Brewing, cask ale, The Old Toad, Portland Maine, Peter Maxwell Stewart, Samuel Smith, Scottish Breweries, Scotland, Bass, David Bruce, high gravity beer, Ringwood, Alan Pugsley, Newman's, Albany, New York, Microbrewers Conference in 1987, fewer than 30 micro-brewers in the country at that point, predictions for the future of beer, the business of beer is vibrant, Pabst Blue Ribbon, craft brewing, business is diluted, 1800 craft breweries right now, there were 16 craft breweries in 1983, exponential growth, 25-28% of the beer in Portland Maine are craft beer, Luke's Lobster, Spuyten Duyvil, do the number of taps matter in a bar?,Cellaring Beer & Pretty Things Brewery (19:39)
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Email Question, cellaring beer, David says don't do it!, only bottle conditioned beer with yeast, Hampshire Special Ale, fresher is better, high gravity with yeast present is a different story, it continues to mature and condition, Sherry like flavor from beer means its been oxidized, Pretty Things Brewery, Dann Paquette, Martha Paquette, gypsy brewery, it's NYC Craft Beer Week, Martha and Dann draw the labels, Jack D'or, malted wheat, Yorkshire oats, Martha was a scientist at MIT, Fluffy White Rabbit, Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, historical series of beers, people don't give English brewing enough credit these days,The History of Porters & Calculator Brewing (21:52)
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Porter is a uniquely London style beer, originated in the late 18th century in the Shoreditch region of London, Porterhouses, mild brown beer, very low in alcohol, school children drank it, the malt was unrefined, pot roast, 4 years ago the New York Times blind tasted 30 porters, Geary's was considered the best Porter in New York, London Porter, distinctly late 18th century London style, what's the difference between a stout and a porter?, roasted barley instead of malted barley, the water sucked a hundred years ago, the beer today tastes better than it did then (probably), high concentrations of hops, some recipes go upwards of nine lbs per barrel of hops, Ron Pattinson, carmelization, old-fashioned flavors, long ago they could not measure alpha acids in hops, we have careful control over ingredients these days, chemical studies, David hated his own Imperial IPA, Blind Tiger Event tomorrow, NYC Brewer's Choice Thursday night, Good Beer Seal, home brew pairing,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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
