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First Aired - 11/23/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray sit down with some new players in the wide world of Beer Media. First Will Stephens, creator of the blog Wandering Foodie and writer at Huffington Post, discusses his new ideas for a beer website and how he got in the blogosphere. Next Hagan Blount, creator of Beer Menu.com (an interactive list of beer menus and draught lists that has taken off in popularity as of late) discusses the inspiration and impetus for his new site. Bartender Jen Schwertman weighs in on NYC bar tipping habits, and Kelly Taylor & Sonya Giaccobe of Kelso Brewing Company talk about local beer and the evolution of the craft beer scene. Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.
Kelly & Sonya of Kelso
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Beer Sessions: Will Stephens, Hagan Blount, Jen Schwertman, Kelly Taylor & Sonya Giaccobe (14:37)
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Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Ray Deter, Beer Sessions, Good Beer Seal, Great Brewers, Liquids of Interest, new beer media, Will Stephens, Hagan Blount, Beer Menu.com:, bartenders maintaining beer selections on a website, search for venues by what they have on tap, 8,000 beers are on the market, audience of drinkers that update lists, Jen Schwertman, Blind Tiger, Kelly Taylor & Sonya Giaccobe, Kelso Brewery, Germany Purity Law, the events page on Beer Menu gets a lot of hits, the idea of a Beer Menu didn't exist when d.b.a. opened, high end restaurants have beer menus now, Battle of the Belgians, d.b.a., GreatBrewers.com, www.BeerMenu.com, www.itasteyourbeer.com, @itasteyourbeer, Wandering Foodie,History of Kelso Brewery (20:28)
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Hector Humbolt Hemp, Kelso started in 2006, you don't want overpowering beers with food, they focused at lagers that are layered and complex and at their finest when locally made, Kelly started brewing in 1989, he got a job at Heartland Brewery, home brewing in NYC, www.probrewer.com, timing the brewery right with the local craft beer movement, Jen first tasted the Nut Brown from Kelso, Chocolate lager, sessionable beers, most of the Kelso beers have layers and complexity, East Coast is more patient, award winning pilsner focused breiwng in Philadelphia, foodie debate between East and West Coast, how important are food pairings to the craft beer movement, beer and food epiphanys, meat grown on grain, served with the same beer from the same grain, beer started with civilization, has been on our table as long as bread has, it's part of our genetic makeup, malt is the holdup in 100% local beer, malts are an untapped local market,Email Question: Tipping When the Beer is Free & Thanksgiving Pairing (16:06)
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email question, tipping bartender when beer is free at a house party, you ALWAYS tip the bartender, host of the party should cover the cost of a bartender, TIPS: To 'I'nsure Prompt Service, service industry, bartenders need tips, feast or famine, $6 beer - what should you tip?, $1, kiss of death is when you say 'Don't worry I'll take care of you', Jen doesn't size people up, some bartenders stereotype and predict how much people will tip, Lucky Bastard, Stone Brewing Company, Kelly's knee jerk reaction when tasting beer is to look for defects, tasting notes, don't generalize!, esters, email questions to beersessions@gmail.com, Thanksgiving question:, pairing beers for Thanksgiving dinner, Flemish Red Ale, Nut Brown Lager, Chocolate Lager, home made pumpkin pie made with duck lard, Ray's Thanksgiving beer: bitter lagers & wine, Jen: approachable beers for parties, Baladin Nora, Veritcal Epic 07, Saison triple hybrid with Belgian spice, Will: saison go well with Thanksgiving spice, he goes for a big IPA, Green Flash West Coast IPA, Jimmy: Mikkeller Czech Style Pilsner, Jimmy is getting a heritage turkey from Heritage Foods USA,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/20/2010 05:00PM
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Michael Lovullo & Sean McCain join as guests as the guys talk session beers, hop varietals and Pennsylvania beer culture.
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Beer Sessions Introduction (15:37)
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Heritage Radio Network, Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Samuel Merritt, Good Beer Seal, JImmy's No. 43, Civilization of Beer, Cicerone Certification Program, Beer Dudes, Michael Lovullo, Sam is curating the beer at Bonnaroo, Sierra Nevada, Magic Hat, Brooklyn Brewery, Victory Brewery, Sam was Seans gateway into craft beer, Happy Hour Guys, essay contest, Sean won the essay contest, Union Beer Wholesalers, B United, showcasing different hops varieties with one style of beer, Craft Beer Conference, chicago, Belgian Pale Ale, even bittering process, Braumesiter Series, unfiltired pislner with a single hop varital, Pursuit Pale, citri-hop, English Malt, Union Beer, www.greatbrewers, one of the best distributors, no other brewery highlights a single hop year round, Mikkeller, Pretty Things, gypsy brewers, West Coast hop, English hop, German hop, terroir for hops is very important, terroir, Hersbrucker hop variety,The Guys List Their Top 5 Session Beers (15:28)
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how would you define a session beer?, up to 6% or 6.5%, cool refreshing beer to drink whenever, lunch beer, Top 5 Session Beers, Sam's personal non-professional list:, Brooklyn Lager, Allagash White Ale, Blue Point Toasted Lager, Victory Prima Pils, Lagunitas IPA, Mike's list, Victory All Malt Lager, Sixpoint Brownstone, North Coast Red Seal Ale, Saison DuPont, Seans list:, Victory Braumeister Pils, Sixpoint Sweet Action, Troegs Hopback, Ommegang Widows, Jimmy's list:, Coniston Bluebird Bitter, Reissdorf Kolsch, Stoudt's Kolsch, Troeg's Dreamweaver, Cisco Sankaty Lighthouse Lager, Victory Baltic Thunder, 8.5% Baltic Porter, hops used for acidity for preservation, strong beers, stale ale added to beer to referment and add a rustic taste, Heavyweight Brewing Co., went out of existence in the summer of 2006, barley wine essence, tasting notes, Ocean County New Jersey, Earth Bread Brewery, www.earthbreadbrewery.com, Terra Fume, American Wheat Ale, Philadelphia, happy 420!, it's more about the people than the brand names, grilled cheese and beer pairings,Pennsylvania Beers & Victory Brewing Co (15:26)
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Pennsylvania beers and breweries, there are many breweries in the area, Philadelphia is a brewtopia, Carol Stoudt, Rugged Trail, Brown Ale, Sly Fox, Troges, Iron City, Pittsburgh, the oldest operating brewery in the country is from Pennsylvania, German and Czech immigrants, drinking culture, www.victorybeer.com, Victory Brewing Co, Victory did just under 50,000 barrels of beer, one of the most high tech breweries in the US, microbreweries make under 15,000 barrels, carbon footprint, Victory gets a lot of hops from Germany and Czech Republic, whole flour hops, American style beers have hops from the pacific northwest, getting as local as possible, ingredients as a selling point, Victory Harvest Pils, fresh hop beer, hops from the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Great Divide, Sierra Nevada, the nose of a harvest beer, dry hopping vs wet hopping, Belgian beers, IBU, International Bitterness Units, Amarillo Hops, aroma hop, Victory Helios, Saison Athene, Saint Somewhere Brewing, bar events: Liquids of Interest every Monday at d.b.a. Brooklyn, cheese & kimchee tasting with Anne Saxelby at Jimmy's, British Invasion at Bar Great Harry, Smutty nose Event at Blind Tiger, Greenport Harbor night at Barcade, stinky cheese and stinky beer at Beer Table, Silence of the Lambics, Bree O'Conner, email beersessions@gmail.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/14/2013 05:00PM
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Jimmy Carbone is representing the Hudson Valley on this week's episode of Beer Sessions Radio. Jimmy invites Chris Basso and Paul Halayko of Newburgh Brewing Co. into the studio to share some of their new brews. Tune in to hear Chris talk about his past work at Brooklyn Brewery under Garrett Oliver, and why he believes that the farm-to-table movement should encompass both food and beverages. Kevin Garry of the Epicurean Restaurant Group is in the house talking about his time at Gramercy Tavern, and how he assembled the vintage beer list at that NYC institution. How has beer evolved in restaurants since Kevin began in the industry? Ed Berestecki of Mugs Alehouse joins Jimmy again to talk about the draft system at Mugs, and the importance of storing kegs at proper temperatures. Hear about some of Newburgh's wild beers, and why they try to keep their brews sessionable. This program has been sponsored by GreatBrewers.com. Thanks to Pamela Royal for her tracks, "Quit'n Time" & "Favorite Flower".
"I think it would be ingenuous to spout, 'Drink local!' and then have a Sysco truck pull up to the taproom." [25:50] -- Chris Basso on Beer Sessions Radio
"Eight to ten years ago, people weren't eager for vintage beers, so it was a lot easier to get them." [39:00] -- Kevin Garry on Beer Sessions Radio
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Small Business Beer (14:59)
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Ed Berestecki, Mugs Ale House, Hudson Valley, New York City's Brewers Choice, Newburgh Brewing Company, Epicurean, L'Apicio, L'Artusi, homebrewing, Garrett Oliver, Gramercy Tavern, Dell'Anima, barley wine, spent grain, kegging, Brooklyn Brewery, Chris Basso, Phoenix, craft beer, beer distribution, Washingtonville, Paul Halayko, start-up, tech startups, The Audacity of Hops, Tom Acitelli, nanobrewery, small business, Barrier Brewery, Kevin Garry,Farm to Table (15:23)
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Cream Ale, flaked oats, barley, wheat, Crossroads, coffee sour, Cafe Sour, Ethiopia, stout, light beer, sourdough, sour mash, teff, Gesho leaf, draft beer, keg room, Burp Castle, draft system, Split Thy Skull, Peekskill, Russian Duck, Clearwater, Yonkers, Beacon, Restaurant North, farm to table, Captain Lawrence, taproom, sausage, bacon, pork rinds, Albany, dishwasher, bar back, restaurant industry, hospitality, Kevin Mahan, vintage beer list, aging beer,Vintage Beers (17:49)
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pork collar, ramps, toffee, toasted grain, session beers, Anchor Liberty, Brooklyn Brown Ale, Dark Matter, bottle conditioning, Sorachi Ace, unfiltered, lager, Blood Brothers, polka, Ale Street News, Wine Spectator, Thomas Hardy's, B. United, George Gale's, holiday ales, British stock ale, brettanomyces, Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson, Steve Hindy, Biercraft,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
