Beer Sessions Radio
LIVE 5 - 5:45pm EST
First Aired - 07/13/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Radio Jimmy and Ray spoke to Caitlin Robin from Against the Grain wine bar, Dave Broderick from Blind Tiger, plus Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Brewery. The gang recounted about the recent Meatopia event and Mayor Bloomberg's recent proclamation of July as "Good Beer Month". Craig from Sixpoint talked about their new beer, a collaboration with Jimmy and Ray called Sixpoint Signal: a delicious summer pale ale featuring subtle smoked, toasted notes and a sharp, citrusy, hoppy flavor. Tune in for a discussion on beer collaboration, plus an extra-helpful super-secret tip for all home brewers on how to best aerate your pitched liquid yeast using olive oil! 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.
Jimmy & Co celebrating Mayor Bloomberg's Good Beer Month declaration!
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Good Beer Month! (15:54)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Dave Brodrick, Blind Tiger, it is officially July Good Beer Month!, Mayor Bloomberg, Ray's breakfast beer is usually an American beer, the cops remembered Jimmy & Ray from last year, The Good Beer Seal, Against the Grain, Caitlin Robin, Jimmy & Ray made beer with Sixpoint, Ray wore a jump suit, each Good Beer Seal bar will get a keg of Signal, Against the Grain feels like a wine bar even though its a beer bar, product driven and service based, private tasting events during the week, beer tasting dinners, Grape & Grain, Caitlin is a trial lawyer by day, paperwork can be intimidating, Meatopia was this weekend, Jonathan Waxman, next big event coming up: Good Beer & BAM, July 28th, 15 beers and 15 restaurants serving food, Beer Sessions on the road in Cooperstown New York, Brewery Ommegang, the Woodstock of craft beer, everybody camps, everybody who makes a Belgian style ale in the US will be there,Jeff Gorlechen & Craig Frymark of Sixpoint Craft Ales (15:30)
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Jeff Gorlechen, Craig Frymark, Craig has been with Sixpoint for three and a half years, Signal, celebrating the summer, BBQ weather, a touch of smoke malt, Simcoe Hops, the guys explain how they made Signal, second batch will have more smoke flavor, bamberg malt, John from Pacific Standard calls in!, long after the food ran out at Meatopia there was still beer!, email question about Signal: how did this beer come together, more minds always produce a better end product, all ideas are welcome, part of this beer was influenced by a home brew competition, the beer came together naturally, homebrewing secret:, you have to use liquid yeast. take a pindrop of olive oil and put it into the yeast. let it sit while you brew and when you're done with the boil pitch the yeast, olive oil is like steroids for yeast, makes cell membrane wall thick, Guerrilla Warfare, coffee beer, caffeine has interesting behavior with yeast, violent fermentation,How Craig Started Brewing & The Future of Sixpoint Craft Ales (18:39)
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The Great Brewers Test, take the test!, if you get a 95 or above you can come on Beer Sessions radio, Bree O'Connor picks the music for the show, how do you get started brewing beer?, Craig: developed his love of beer while studying abroad in London, there is a low ABV in London, drinking for flavor not the alcohol, Great British Beer Festival, How to Brew - By John Palmer, Craig met Shane in Boston at the 2nd Extreme Beer Festival, Righteous Rye, it takes a lot of dirty work to succeed at Sixpoint, Sixpoint is in Red Hook Brooklyn, Cathy Erway makes lunches for the guys sometimes, www.lunchatsixpoint.com, home cooked food fresh vegetables, what's next for Sixpoint, new beers coming out this fall!, The Tippy Dump, what is the lowest alcohol beer Sixpoint has brewed?, probably the Sweet Action, 5.0%, session ales, what is the future of local breweries?, Dave brought down a beer from Vermont made by Shaun Hill, dry hopping, hop farming, hop blight, mildew resistant hops, local hop growing, nugget hops, what's your favorite Sixpoint beer of all time, Ray: Righteous Rye, Caitlin: Hop Obama, Dave: Guerrilla Warfare, Jimmy: East Coast Amber, Jimmy opened a beer bar because of Sixpoint,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/25/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray sat down with Rachel Wharton, Patrick Donagher, John Rauschenberg & Jonathan Stan. The gang spoke about the exciting new Good Beer Seal inductees and their induction party at d.b.a. Bar.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: Rachel Wharton & Patrick Donagher (14:35)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Heritage Radio Network, Good Beer Seal, tonight are the Good Beer Seal awards!, Great Brewers, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Rachel Wharton, Brooklyn Eats, it's hard to learn about beer without a beer in your hand, Tasting Table, Good Beer @ BAM, Rachel just won a James Beard award!, home brewing in Brooklyn, Patrick Donagher, there are 12 new bars that have been picked as Good Beer Seal Bars, Rattle N' Hum, Patrick is trying to introduce craft beer to more people, there's a great beer out there for everybody, Mikkeller, Josh Bernstein, Imbibe Magazine, keep your lines clean, beer should taste as the brewery intended it to, Patrick doesn't serve Guinness anymore, Six Point Otis, comparable to Guinness, O'Hara's Irish Stout, Porterhouse, if you want to be a better taster just taste it!,The Good Beer Seal Awards Party! (15:33)
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The Good Beer Seal Awards Party, Tchoup Shop Food, chicken wings, New Orleans, d.b.a., Ray Deter, one of the coolest guys in the beer world, Simon Glenn, the original d.b.a. is in the East Village, Dave Broderick, Ray was the first guy to have cask ale, Shelton Brothers Imports, having a BBQ is easier in Brooklyn than Manhattan, Lagunitas IPA, Russian River Temptation, Sierra Nevada, Russian River is not distributed in New York, Eataly, Vinny Cilurzo, Mario Batali, Dogfish Head, Speakeasy, San Francisco, John Rauschenberg, Jonathan Stan, Pacific Standard, West Coast microbreweries, laid back beer bar, wager book, sports betting, inter-personal bets, New York Stella culture, Swift, Waterfront Ale House, if you want to ruin your life but have a good time doin it, open a bar!,What Does It Take to Open A Bar? (17:57)
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bar ownership, blood sweat and tears, opening a bar is fun, you can't have a course teaching how to open a bar, such a course would not be pertinent in any way, Russian Rivers, The El Camino Unreal Ale, Union Jack IPA, Firestone Walker, 21st Amendment, Black Chocolate Stout, how much money do you need to open a bar?, Ray opened d.b.a. with credit card cash advances, you have to put everything on the line, Speakeasy Scarface Stout, Sixpoint Righteous Ale, Greenport Harbor, North Fork Long Island, Barcade, Robert Reeves, Shelton Brothers, Hungry Filmmakers, Lagunitas, Trevor Jankowski, NYC just chose NYC for the 2014 Super Bowl, Sunday night at 8:30 is trivia night at Pacific Standard, Rattle n Hum, June 1st Troegs event, June 8th IPA challange, east vs west coast, tonight at Jimmy's 43, Thursday May 27th at Standings, every Monday at d.b.a. Brooklyn Liquids of Interest, July is Good Beer Month, best site for beer in the world!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/08/2010 12:00PM
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This week on the Main Course Mike Edison and a telephonic Patrick Martins hosted "hambassador" Dan Purdy (of Purdy Foods), Jason Colluci (of Pulino's) and Matt Hamilton (of Belcourt) for a round table discussion on the golden-era of food television, if and when sustainability will become the norm, and the most popular food items in America. Do not miss this inside look at the trial and tribulations of chefs and the deliverymen that tirelessly serve them. Plus Steve Pope stops by with some tips on food for the hottest days of the year.
Photo 1: Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria, Lower East Side of Manhattan. Photo 2: Classic Dr. Seuss Bone-In Ham. Photo 3: Purdy Foods
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The Main Course Introduction: Hambassador Dan Purdy of Purdy Foods (12:48)
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The Main Course, Cherryholmes, Patrick Martins, Patrick is stuck in Great Barrington, Mike Edison, www.mikeedison.com, Jason Colucci, Pulino's, Matt Hamilton, Belcourt, Dan Purdy, Purdy Foods, Dan is a hambassador, ham all sourced from New York State, no nitrate curing, hickory smoked, cured for 8 to 10 days, smoked for 24 hours, ham on pizza, prosciutto and arugula style pizza, prosciutto cotto, pineapple and ham pizza, when does a pizza cease to be a pizza, what makes a ham bad?, people don't know the difference between hams, Mike likes Dr. Seuss hams,Seasonal Produce, Sourcing Locally & The Many Personalities of Food Distributors (19:37)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Scott Gold, The Shameless Carnivore, Scott is from New Orleans, gulf coast oil spill, po' boy, invented due to a labor dispute, transit union strike, contaminated seafood, we don't know how wide it will spread, BP doesn't seem to be trying particularly hard to clean it up, Susan Spicer, restaurants filing suits against BP, tar balls look solid but they leave an oily residue, testicle festival, LeRoy Knuckles, squirrel and dumplings, Americans have been eating squirrel for a long time, Bayona,Oysters, Food Myths & Cooking Temperature (21:23)
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don't eat oysters in months that don't have an R in them, don't eat braised cuts in winter months, which weird rules are true and which aren't, there is more bacteria in water when its warmer, oysters spawn when they reach a certain temperature, Americans used to deplete oyster beds when they were spawning, so it became a rule based on getting sick rather than depling oyster beds, oysters are soft and mushy when they spawn, the best months to eat oysters are when the water is below 58 degrees, overcooked meat is inedible, pork legally can be considered fully cooked to 160 degrees, Matt cooked a loin to 128, can chefs get in trouble for suggesting lower temperatures than the USDA recommends, commodity pork campaign: the other white meat, beef recall, trim from Australia and Ukraine, Jason has been eating local beef, nutrition aspect to freshness of meat, New York is finally catching up to the West Coast in terms of sourcing locally, the infrastructure is still in its infancy, Joseph Bastianich, in New York people understand that the customer is not always right, the demand needs to be there in order for the source to commit, there is a great demand in New York, educated consumers, Dan chargers 2.34 a pound for his burger, the burger sells for $5, Dan is a wholesaler, he's the only one doing what he does, he has a network in place, most people try to find the most economically way to feed their families, supermarkets are a totally different battle, restaurants are much easier, mass production was born out of supermarkets,TV Chefs & The Golden Age of Food Television (20:16)
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what makes a great bacon egg and cheese sandwich, Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse, Jeff Smith, Ultimate Cake Off, Rachel Ray, when was the golden age of food television, Mario's show was awesome, it wasn't dumbed down, it seemed like it was in real time, the audience asked informed questions, most of the people on the show worked in his restaurants, Julia Childs, James Beard, Michael Batterberry, Top Chef, it had it's time but TV caught up to it, what's the value of winning Top Chef?, if you're smart you can get a restaurant out of it, the most talked about show is Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Jamie Oliver, Iron Chef, professional wrestling meets food, Andrew Zimmern, Alton Brown, Gordan Ramsay, Guy Fieri, Food Network, tainted by what gets ratings now, why isn't there a show about slow food and sustainability, if a show doesn't get ratings it will get canceled,Show Wrap Up! (12:44)
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Roberta's, the AC is broke!, everybody's drinking beer to be cool, beer cocktails, Sixpoint Craft Ales, Budweiser is the only thing Mike Edison will drink in the shower, Budweiser is good for drinking when you're already drunk, at least you can say it's very consistent, beer on ice, Presidente is Dominican Corona, Mike Edison is not afraid of Pink wine, Rose, orange wine, Pulino's now delivers!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
