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First Aired - 07/30/2009 03:00PM

This week on Urban Foragers, Zak and Jori continue their conversation with Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver about the history and future of brewing beer in Brooklyn.

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Barack Obama's Beer Mishap (6:50)

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White House, Barack Obama, light beer, Robert Gates, American made beer, local brewery, Blue Moon, Budwesier, Molson Coors, Anheuser Busch, Obama Administration, nutritious food, Michelle Obama, light beer isn't real beer,

What Makes A Beer Great? Garrett Oliver Gives His Insight (4:57)

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malting, sugar, taste, enzymes, starch, photosynthesis, barley malt, kilm, caramelized, pilsner, American mass market beer, corn, corn syrup, bourbon,

At The Grist Of It (7:58)

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bran muffins, chickens, pork chops, pig eggs, wort, hops, hopheads, malt liquid, mash, grain, Cornell University, New York State, extracting bitterness for hops, yeast, seasonings, gruits, gruit ale, consumer protection law, Belgium, flavor vs. price, raw sugar, tobacco, rum, earth, rediscovering alternatives to hops, bittering, ginseng root,

A Continuation on Brewing (15:15)

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Brooklyn Brewery, the lighest beer availble is Guinness, refermentation, yeast, carbonation, protein, animal feed, branston pickle, nutritional yeast, brewers yeast, brewing is a precise art,

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First Aired - 07/23/2009 03:00PM

This week on Urban Foragers, Zak and Jori are joined by Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver to talk about the history and future of brewing beer in Brooklyn, and of course, a tasting.

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Introduction with Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery (6:00)

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Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery, Roberta's, the history of beer in Brooklyn, Brooklyn used to be a brewing capital, Bushwick, brewers mile, people used to drink more beer in the early 1900's, Boerum Hill, industrial heritage, Germany,

The History of Beer In Brooklyn (12:04)

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Wonder Bread, community garden, pigs, pork chops, circular systems, utilizing all of the product, Brooklyn Brewery uses a wind powered building, virtual nostalgia, slow food, Texas, California, home based production, Brooklyn Brewery started with one beer, German lager, dry hopping, hophead, hop is the nearest botanical relative to cannabis, radio, postwar, specialty brewing is a return to normality,

Zak and Jori Taste a Spiced Beer (12:05)

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chunky beer, Portuguese, spices, strong wheat beer infused with twelve spices, ginger, toasted coconut, Brewmasters Reserve, collaborative brewing, Schneider, Red Hook Brooklyn, Indian spice markets, wild yeast grain, refermentation, bourbon wood character, Dave Wondrich, Manhattan flavored beer, distribution, supermarket, oxidized wine,

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First Aired - 08/10/2010 05:00PM

This week on a very special episode of Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray sat down with Garret Oliver (brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery and general beer pairing genius) and Christian Pappanicholas & Bobby Hellen (of Resto restaurant) for an hour long, beer pairing special. Tune in for beer pairing tips and to hear the guys try food in-studio and pair them in real time with some of the best craft beers on (and not on) the market. 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.

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Beer Sessions Introduction: Christian Pappanicholas & Bobby Hellen of Resto (15:47)

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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, Good Beer Seal, www.goodbearseal.com, Great Brewers.com, www.greatbrerwers.com, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Christian Pappanicholas, Bobby Hellen, Resto, Brian Ewing, The Good Beer Book, Garrett Oliver, Local 2, beer and food pairings, Christian was a wine geek before becoming a beer nut, forced pairings, pairing by color, drink and eat what you want and find a way to make it work, the beer dinner is a form of performance, it's hard to explain how you came to a pairing, much like writing music, it's tough to justify some pairings, Brewmasters Table, beer is more versatile as a pairing drink, The Shazaam Effect, Ray knew Garrett Oliver from the Craft Brewers Guild,

Food & Beer Pairing on Air! (18:18)

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Robert Mundavi, convinced people American wines could be as good as French wines, Garrett plays that role for American beer, he is the leader of beer & food pairings, there is a beer culture now that didn't exist when Garrett started, first time having food on Beer Sessions, sausages, all beer goes with all sausages!, you heard it here first, saison style, Saison Dupont, keeping up with smaller breweries, unless you spend your time reading blogs at various points you will fall behind, there will also be new beers available that you don't know about, sometimes customers turn you on to stuff, everything the guys are tasting is on the menu at Resto, they have about 10 to 12 Charcuterie items on menu, blood sausage, blood pie, sour beer cuts through the fat content in the sausage, beer and oily fish, Mundavi has a team that figures out what foods to pair with their wines, their chef figured out that acid and salt made the wines taste could, you could make a white wine go with a steak if you squeezed lime juice on the steak, we have explored the intersections between food and beer more than the Belgians, the best beers are made in America right now, Michael Jackson loved American beer,

More Beer & Food with the Guys (24:10)

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Great Brewers.com, email question, hops are like spices, Kelso IPA, Lord Admiral Nelson, Roberta's sweetbreads, Brooklyn Local 2, brown ale, caramel color, usually high temperature caramel, 2AM bodega beers, Brooklyn Brewery, people don't go to a craft beer bar for hot babes, they come to drink good things, IBU, bitterness levels, food beers, classic pairings for a 5 course beer and food pairing, Garrett: start with a salad and wheat beer, a dish that shows off caramelized roasted character, cheese course: lots of latitude there, dessert with an imperial stout or fruit beer, PDT, beer cocktails, if you make beer cocktails get all the gas out of the beer, pour it back and forth more times than 8, large format bottled dinners, whole animal, Resto is on e 29th between park and lex, next week is Jimmy's birthday!, Resto, chicken fried goat necks, 11 Madison Park has one of the best beer lists for a restaurant in New York, German short haired pointer, Austin's Steak & Ale House, Kew Gardens, OTB inside the restaurant!, beer and jewelry pairings,

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