We've got another packed house this week on Beer Sessions Radio. Host Jimmy Carbone is joined by frequent guests Dave Brodrick and Jen Schwertman from Blind Tiger. Also in the studio is David Yarrington, director of brewing operations from Smuttynose. The Shelton Bros. importers are represented by Joel Shelton and BR Royla, and Sebastian Sauer and Peter Essel are here from Germany for Freigeist. Finally, we've got Ted Kenny, owner of Top Hops bottle shop in the Lower East Side. Tune in to hear discussions about the state of German beer. Freigeist has been experimenting with all sorts of styles, from Belgian to American, creating something completely unique. David Yarrington talks about his start in the beer industry, as well as the upcoming move for Smuttynose's brewery. We've got call-in questions and inquiries from Twitter, so tune in! This episode has been brought to you by GreatBrewers.com.

"There's a lot of dying out of the breweries in Germany. Germany used to have a lot of breweries, and nowadays they all produce less than they did years ago. But they don't understand why they're losing so much. They see themselves as the victim." -- Sebastian Sauer on Beer Sessions Radio

"The brewers in Germany don't seem to get that people want something different, something that's not being offered to them. We were just talking about how the same thing happened here [in the U.S.]. It had boiled down to a few suppliers that were brewing basically the same beer." -- Ted Kenny on Beer Sessions Radio

"You can be creative and be unique and people will respond." -- David Yarrington on Beer Sessions Radio

Erin Fitzpatrick travels to Germany to bring us interviews with the country's leading winemakers, recorded around the Weinborse Fair, a German trade fair featuring two hundred leading VDP wine estates and their 2008 releases.

This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray strapped on their llederhosen for a special episode about Germany, Oktoberfest, and fall beers. The guys discuss the pumpkin beer gamut including the pie-like and the spice-less, the history of Oktoberfest, why Oktoberfest beer isn't REALLY Oktoberfest beer, and why American beer drinkers often abandon their Oktoberfest beers after one bottle. They also speak about Germany as a beer-producing country in general, and why the freshness of a German beer makes all the difference. This episode was brought to you by Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.