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First Aired - 07/19/2011 05:00PM
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This week Beer Sessions Radio is loaded with great guests and discussion. On the first part of the show Jimmy is joined by Jen Shwertman of Blind Tiger, Jay Steinhauer of American Beer Distributing, and Sean McCain of Victory Brewing Co who discuss both Green Flash beer and the green flash phenomena. Later on Matt Lawrence, philosophy teacher and writer of Philosphy On Tap calls in to talk about his book and the age-old human pastime of drinking and musing. This episode is sponsored by GreatBrewers.com.
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Episode 73: Jen Shwertman, Jay Steinhauer, Sean McCain (18:22)
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Beer Sessions Radio TM, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No. 43, Blind Tiger, Victory, Great Brewers.com, Good Beer Seal, July Good Beer Month, Brooklyn Brewery, microbrewers, Jay Steinhauer, Ray Deter, dba Brooklyn, Jen Schwertman, Green Flash, Green Flash beer, Sugar Smack beer, Fizzy Yellow beer, malt extract, Belgian candied-sugar beer, Chuck Silva, Belgian-style beers, green flash phenomena, American Beer Distributing, craft breweries, cottrell beer, Connecticut Beer, Blonde Bombshell, McNeill's Brewing, Vermont beer, Victory brewing,Matt Lawrence & Philosophy On Tap (13:38)
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Matt Lawrence, Philosophy on Tap, Brea O'Connor, The Matrix philosphy, The Stone brewery, Good Beer Seal, beer pairings, Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout, Mill's Drunkard, swine objection, philosophy and drinking,Hopdevils! (21:03)
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Victory Hopdevil IPA, High Times Cellars, Time's Conundrum, La Trappe Quadrupel, why do bad beers exist?, Hopdevil, beer and evil, Nietzsche, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ithaca Beer Fest, BCTC, Belgium Comes to Cooperstown, Buffalo Brewfest, Beachwood BBQ and Brewing, Christmas in July, Barrier Brewing, winter beers, Pretty Things Brewery, Food Bank NYC, Great Hotdog Cookoff, Edible Manhattan,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/10/2010 05:00PM
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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, Great Brewers.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,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/03/2010 05:00PM
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This week, Jimmy and Ray are joined by Bierkraft's Ben Granger and HRN's own Carmen Devito & Alice Kreig (We Dig Plants). The topic: HOPS! Learn about hops' role in the American Revolution, their many non-beer uses, what they actually do for beer flavor, and how they once made New York State the beer capital of the world. Also, witness the beginnings of Jimmy's New York fresh hop revolution. Brought to you by GreatBrewers.com, the best beer site on the internet.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: The Hops Show (15:25)
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Jimmy Carbone, Beer Sessions, Ommegang on the road shows will air later this month!, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Jimmy's No. 43, Good Beer Seal, GreatBrewers.com, camping upstate at Ommegang, craft beers on the camp site, camp sites with draft beer, Cooperstown, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, We Dig Plants, The Hops Show, Ben Granger, Bierkraft, hops are a flower, harvested at a very specific time, time influences taste variations, Cooperstown was the hops capital of New York State, hops is subject to downy mildew, Ray has been telling everybody that there was a hop blight, that is not true, Ben tends his own hops, a lot of people are starting to grow hops in New York, Carmen and Alice use hops ornamentally in garden design, hops are a pretty forgiving plant, hope can grow 6 to 8 inches in a day, the smell drastically changes quickly, hops look papery when ready, they flower like small green pine cones, they look like grapes, there are a thousand varieties of hops, macro breweries use hops to make 500 barrel batches,Fun Hops Facts & Fresh Hop Beers (15:09)
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Great Brewers.com, email us with questions!, fun hops facts:, Japanese varieties, most commonly used as an ornamental hop, hops in sake?, sake ferments very dry. there aren't many complex sugars left behind, fun uses for hops other than beer:, used in traditional kitchen gardens for the American colonists, chutes can be used in salads, wax can be used for vegetable dye, fibers of the plant can be substitute for flax, stalks can be used to make baskets, if you eat a cone that oil won't go away for a while, beer is an agricultural product, why can't we use local hops?, New York state used to be the number 1 export of hops, the first architectural barn design had hops in mind, The New York Times, fresh hop beers, Jimmy's 43, Sierra Nevada Harvest, breweries using fresh hops, wet hop beers, wet hops are fresh and dry hops are cured, what's Ben favorite beer at Bierkraft?, Kelso IPA, Oskar Blues,Email Question & More Hops Fun Facts (15:34)
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Great Brewers.com, best beer website!, Great Brewers 100 Test, email question from Brian P, can beer be made without hops, yes, is it good? maybe not, next week Garrett Oliver will be on!, The Good Beer Book, until 800 years ago nobody used hops in beer, what did people make beer with before hops?, random stuff, single hop beers, Ben spends a lot of time drinking beer, more fun facts:, you have to think of hops as an agricultural product, new varieties are always being developed, hops was a money making commodity, Hopf, nuns, how did beer making get taken from women?, witches were called witches because they knew how to brew beer, politics of beer, Boston Hop Party, Boston Beer Party, rise of home brewing, it's being encouraged, come to d.b.a. tonight!, Saison beer and cheese tasting, Martin Johnson from the Bedford Cheese Shop, east coast IPA tasting at Jimmy's No 43, fundraiser at Blind Tiger on Sunday for gulf coast fishermen,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
