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First Aired - 12/04/2012 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy Carbone, Jen Schwertman, and Chris O'Leary are talking about contract brewing with a studio full of guests! Jeremy Cowan joins from Shmaltz to talk about his thirteen years of contract brewing experience, as well as some upcoming Hurricane Sandy relief events. Greg Doroski joins from Greenport Harbor to share his opinion on contract brewing as a brewer. What is the difference between contract and gypsy brewing? Dann Paquette calls in to talk about his experiences with gypsy brewing, and how it was the only viable option for him to brew beer. John Liegey also calls up Jimmy and the crew to talk about Greenport Harbor's expansion, and what it means in terms of expanding their beer portfolio. Jimmy wraps up the show by surveying everyone's favorite weekend beers! This episode has been brought to you by GreatBrewers.com.
"Sometimes, the more widely known beer out of the brewery is the gypsy beer and not the main beer that comes out of the brewery." [31:45] -- Chris O'Leary on Beer Sessions Radio
"In the 90s, there were a lot opportunities for contract brewing on the East Coast, but a lot of those breweries either got bought or sold for scrap." [32:30] -- Jeremy Cowan on Beer Sessions Radio
"I've never had to prove that I was the brewer because I was always in there making beer- even though I didn't own [the brewery]." [39:10] -- Dann Paquette on Beer Sessions Radio
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Hurricane Sandy Relief (17:55)
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Hurricane Sandy, Shmaltz, Jeremy Cowan, Drink for Good, New York City Brewer's Guild, Lagunitas, Dogfish Head, Red Hook, Coney Island, The Rockaways, Blind Tiger, Jen Schwertman, Chris O'Leary, Brew York, New York, contract brewing, Greg Doroski, gypsy brewing, Hebrew IPA, IBU, flavors, brewmaster, Antifreeze,Gypsy and Tenant Brewing (14:52)
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New York City Beer Week, Brewer's Choice, Good Beer Seal, San Francisco Beer Week, beer, Dann Paquette, Boston, brewery openings, Jack D'Or, Bill Russell, wine barrels, sour beers, tenant brewing, Bronx Brewing, Clown Shoes, Anchorage, Buzzard Bay Brewery,Weekend Beers (14:45)
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Pretty Things, John Liegey, owning a brewery, Sweet 16 Jubilation, craft brewing, food, beer styles, beer varieties, portfolio, sick cat, Our Finest Regards, malt, Stone, chocolate, Imperial Stout, VSK, Thyme Pail, Carton, boat beer, Allagash, Smutty Baltic Porter, Empire, elk, Meat Week, Craft Beer Day with Jimmy, Julie Barnard, volunteering,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/21/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy, Ray, and Sam sat down with Scott Vacarro of Captain Lawrence to talk about some of his new creations, including his Golden Delicious, which spends 7-8 months aging in apple brandy barrels. Home brewer Chuck Dufney describes a potential entry in a homebrewing contest, and blogger Cesa Kobe-Smith laments the lack of NYC brew pubs. Plus Andy Crouch of Whole Foods Market calls in to give the guys a sneak peak at what Whole Foods has planned for NYC Craft Beer Week. This episode was sponsored by GreatBrewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education & one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.
Photo 1: Scott Vacarro, Brewmaster of Captain Lawrence, Photo 2: Great American Craft Beer, written by Andy Crouch
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Scott Vaccaro of Captain Lawrence (14:40)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, GreatBrewers.com, take the Great Beer Test!, Good Beer Seal, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Samuel Merrit, Civilization of Beer, New York City Craft Beer Week, dinner at Jimmy's 43 featuring nano and nomad breweries, benefiting the Brooklyn Grange, Ben Flanner, Blind Bat Brewing Company, Centerport Long Island, green brewery, carbon footprint, Greenport Harbor, Pretty Things, micro brewery, Scott Vaccaro, Captain Lawrence, Westchester, Golden Delicious, American triple, hybrid style, wood aged beer, St Vincents Double, Scott learned how to make beer when he was 17, the business of brewing, GABF, Chuck Dufney, www.dieseldrafts.com,Andy Crouch, Author of "Great American Craft Beer", (16:12)
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Andy Crouch, Great American Craft Beer, guide to styles, Andy writes a column for Beer Advocate, what is craft beer?, there's a beer out there for everyone, if you split beers by country you miss out on a lot of things, people recognize flavor, what's the difference between a porter and a stout, history of style can be argued, what's most important is taste, mild beers, what's the difference between porter and stout, Guinness, Foreign Extra Stout, porter was the precursor to the stout, Great American Beer Festival, Russian River, email question from Eddie in Poughkeepsie, why do popular beers have a screw top while imports require an opener, Sierra Nevada, good industry example,Cesa Kobe-Smith & Whole Foods Market Call In (13:14)
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Cesa Kobe-Smith, American beer identity, Whole Foods Market, next week is craft beer week, Oskar Blues, growlers, Jacques Gautier of Palo Santo, Whole Foods has really been stepping it up with craft beer, Kelso home brew competition, Captain Lawrence is on tap at Whole Foods Market, there aren't enough brew pubs in New York City, real estate issues and licenses, producers retailers and distributors license, cask festival at d.b.a., New York City's Brewers Choice, first four listeners who call in can get free tickets,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/22/2010 06:00PM
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This week on Brooklyn Eats Rachel celebrates Craft Beer Week with Chris O'Leary of BrewYorkNewYork.com. Rachel and Chris break down Brooklyn's beer history in three acts: pre-Prohibition, Prohibition, and the modern era. Learn about the peak of Brooklyn as a beer production borough (48 breweries just in Brooklyn!) through their struggle to stay afloat during Prohibition (alcohol free beer and illegal shenanigans) all the way to the first modern-era brewery in 1996. Don't miss this info-packed and surprising crash course in our fair city's brewery heritage. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Fairway Market Commercial (1:13)
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Fairway Market, serious about food, Heritage Radio Network, finding happiness through food, Steve Jenkins,Pre-Prohibition (12:14)
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Rachael Wharton, Edible Brooklyn, Edible Manhattan, Chris O'Leary, BrewYorkNewYork.com, pre-prohibition, 1840s, ales, British style beers, room temperature, served warm, tea-toters, heavy beer, German immigrants, a taste of home, crisp, lagers, bottom-fermenting, require colder temperatures, fizzy yellow beer versus flat brownish beer, Brooklyn was producing more beer than the rest of the country, there were once 48 breweries in Brooklyn, over 3000 breweries in the country at the turn of the 20th century, high demand for beer from German Brooklynites, Brewer's Row, 12 block area with 11 breweries, owner's mansions, William Omer brewery, Schaeffer Brewery, Schaeffer moves to Brooklyn, The Volstead Act, Prohibition, one of the few that survived prohibition, the beer industry peaked in the 1890s, the advent of refrigeration, improved bottling technology, larger breweries buying up smaller breweries at the turn of the century, kegged and casked, Brooklyn producing 10-15% of the nation's beer, The Temperance Movement, Roosevelt defends the beer industry, massive hop harvests in upstate New York, close to 80% of the country's hops came from New York, mingling singles at the hops harvest, the mildew epidemic,Post-Prohibition (10:03)
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Prohibition, Falstaff, Miller, Pabst, post-prohibition, WWII, Beer, the 9 breweries that made it through, Shaeffer, Reingold, Piel, The Volstead Act, less than 0.5% alcohol, non-alcoholic beer, the fall of the Brooklyn brewery, home-brewing was illegal until 1978, Jimmy Carter, Billy Carter's Beer, canning started in the New York area, victims of consolidation, the number of breweries peaked in the 1950s, baby booms and beer, from 1000 American breweries to 83 by 1983, the Rolling Rock move, the Schaeffer family, ornate homes in Bushwick, dreaming of brewery parties, celebrating the hop harvest, Governor Al Smith had the first legal beer after prohibition, Budweiser brouhaha,Modern Times (8:31)
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Beer history in New York city, Schaeffer leaves Brooklyn in 1976, no breweries in Brooklyn until 1996, the birth of Brooklyn Brewery, the brewery aspect of Brooklyn is gone, everyone thinks of beer when they think of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee of the east coast, the craft beer movement in Brooklyn, Portland Oregon has 32 craft breweries, the most breweries per capita in the world, Brooklyn has three and a half breweries, nano-brewery, home brew, Brooklyn Brewery is the 17th largest craft brewery in the country, Six Point has only been around 6 years, running out of space in Brooklyn, brewing off location, lager demands, brew pub in Manhattan, the roof of Eataly, wanting more flavorful beers, quality versus quantity, 16000 breweries in the US, the rich brewing history of Brooklyn, the demand for local beer, the Locavore Movement, Craft Beer Week starts tomorrow, The Brooklyn Brewery Bike Tour, Levy's Unique New York, brewyorknewyork.com, Brewer's Row, biker's beer helmet,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
