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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 - 09/14/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy hosts a special on traditional cask ale. First he goes on the road to speak to Rob Hodson of Union Beer Distributors, who showed an early interest in cask ale and gave it a big boost in NYC. Next "cask ale guy" Alex Hall (of Gotham Imbiber et al.) discussed the finicky specifics of serving and storing cask ale along with Joel Shelton of Shelton Brothers Imports. Finally Patrick Donagher of Rattle n Hum discussed his upcoming Get Real NY event along w/Chris Cuzme of NYC Craft Beer Week. German gravity or English Traditional? What's a CamRA? Tune in for this meeting of the minds to learn about this complex, storied ale. This episode was sponsored by GreatBrewers.com.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Rob Hodson of Union Beer (15:00)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, GreatBrewers.com, Joel Shelton, Shelton Brothers Imports, Alex Hall, Rob Hodson, Union Beer, cask ales, d.b.a. was the first bar to pour cask ale in New York City, cask beer is the kind of thing that can help build brands, cask vs bottled or draft tasting, New York City's palate is changing, session beer, English tradition, cask ales pair well with food, German tradition of unfiltered beer, dry hopped, local concept of casks, temperature, weather and distance from the brewery, monitoring shipments, the importer handles that, heat is a huge enemy, is there room for more cask ales in New York City?, is there a demand?, gravity poured beer, the consumer in New York is maturing,Cask Ale with Alex Hall & Joel Shelton (15:00)
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Alex Hall, Gotham Imbiber, Joel Shelton, Shelton Brothers Imports, Williamsburg Cask Ale Festival, North 7th & Berry, cask ale is finicky, it needs to be regulated, conditioning needs to be right, cask breathers, device that, if used properly, will create a blanket of Co2 between the top level of the beer and the atmosphere, oxygen will make the beer stale, you can't set the PSI to more than 5, Camra was a movement in England in the 70's, Campaign for Real Ale, largest consumer movement of all time, casks only survived in the UK because of the efforts of Camra, http://www.camra.org.uk, Bridgeway, German gravity cask,Patrick Donagher of Rattle n Hum & Chris Cuzme of NYC Craft Beer Week (15:00)
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Patrick Donagher, Rattle n Hum, Chris Cuzme, NYC Craft Beer Week, how did Gotham Imbiber start?, www.gotham-imbiber.com, no longer in print, Alex used to work at The Evening Star, the list of cask beer in NYC has grown tremendously since Gotham Imbiber started, started at 5 and now its at 53, Patrick Donagher is one of the leading retailers of cask in NYC, moving people from craft beer to cask beer, Blind Tiger, Cherry Tree, Wandering Star Brewering Company, Chris Post, New York City Craft Beer week is coming up, September 24th-October 3rd, one of the top events is the Get Real NY event that Patrick is hosting, cask and food festival, www.getrealny.com, Stone Brewery, Dr. Bill Sysak, Luke's Lobster, Lucy's Whey, New York City Brewers Choice, Garrett Oliver, voyage of the IPA, boat trip,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/09/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions, Sam Merritt co-hosts with guests Toby Egan of Beerlord, Ben Wiley of Bar Great Harry & Brandon Moore and Jay Steinhauer of America Beer Distributing.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Sam Merritt & Toby Egan (15:44)
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Beer Sessions, Heritage Radio Network, The Good Beer Seal, craft beers, Jimmy's No 43, Sam Merritt, Civilization of Beer, Toby Egan, Beerlord, www.beerlord.com, The Best of New York Beer Culture, Ben Wiley, Bar Great Harry, Sam started off at Brooklyn Brewery, Sam used to be a swimmer in college, Craft Brewers Guild, Sierra Nevada, first wave of craft beer into New York, selling beer through educating people, www.beerlord.com is a one stop shop to find the good bars in New York that have good beer, finding good beer in New York, tastings, the bars on beerlord.com are a bit broader, historic New York bars, McSorley's Old Ale House, clean your draught lines!, whole hog cooking, Sam Barbieri, Waterfront Ale House, Belgian Beer, American beers are very creative, Green Flash, San Diego,Ben Wiley of Bar Great Harry (16:01)
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Ben Wiley, Bar Great Harry, Carroll Gardens, www.bargreatharry.com, Ben did not drink beer until he was 21 years old, tonight is The night of the oatmeal stouts, Stoudts Fat Dog, Wolaver's Organic Oatmeal, the oatmeal adds a silky sooth mouthfeel to the beer, planned tastings, Stella, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Brooklyn normals, rise in home brewing, George Keeley's, not many Irish bars on beerlord.com, the only good Irish beer is Guiness, B United, bringing a beer next month called The Powerhouse, Nitrogen Line Stout, from Ireland, cooker cutter Irish, bridge and tunnel tourist Irish bars, UK beers on St Patrick's Day at Jimmy's No 43, ICE, Institute of Culinary Education, largest recreational division in the country, Sam is teaching a class called Guinness is Good For You, Cicerone Certification Program,Brandon Moore & Jay Steinhauer of America Beer Distributing (14:18)
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Ben Wiley, Bar Great Harry, speakeasy event on March 23rd, Holy Grail Ale, Brandon Moore, Jay Steinhauer, special event tonight: screening of the documentary 'American Beer', made in 2002, Dogfish Head, Lake Front, growler's of McNeill's, Blind Tiger, Ray McNeill, started in music, the brewery was a jailhouse a town hall and a fire station, McNeill's brewery, you can get it at Jimmy's No 43, Pullman's Porter, Firehouse Amber, Warlord Imperial IPA, Jay is a sales rep in the Brooklyn area, The Beer Advocate Craft Beer Festival in Boston, Terrapin, 101 Bottles, in store samplings, Jay ran a record store, parallels between beer and music, smaller breweries are like underground artists, emerge once the product quality is improved, Captain Lawrence, Westchester, Blue Point, Victory, new craft beers, Ron Jeffries, Jolly Pumpkin, small run beer, Lakefront, Hair of the Dog, Portland, www.civilizationofbeer.com, Sam Merritt will be filming with Emeril next week, Martha Stewart, Garrett Oliver, if you're opening a bar you should know your neighborhood, everybody wants good beer,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
