Beer Sessions

Hosted by: Jimmy Carbone, Sam Merritt, and Ray Deter

Produced by: Jack Inslee & Bree O'Connor

Engineered by: Nat Weiner

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Tuesdays at 5:00M EST

Take a swig of Beer Sessions every Tuesday, where Jimmy Carbone plays host to an audio ale salon alongside a rotating corps of co-hosts including Sam Merritt (founder of Civilization of Beer) and Ray Deter (owner of d.b.a.). Beer loving raconteurs will offer toasts, share craft beer news, and swap anecdotes about their lives on the front lines of the craft beer movement.

Beer Sessions is sponsored The Good Beer Seal, an association of independently owned and operated bars in New York City that serve, promote, and support good craft beer. Feel free to email questions, toasts and your personal beer lore to our hosts at BeerSessions@gmail.com.

Jimmy Carbone is a co-founder of The Good Beer Seal and owner of Jimmy’s No 43, a bar and restaurant in the East Village featuring handcrafted beers on draught and a seasonal, greenmarket menu.

Recent Episodes

Beer Sessions - Episode 27 - Live From Ommegang Part 2

Beer Sessions - Episode 26 - Live From Ommegang!

Beer Sessions - Episode 25 - Brian Strumke, Manuela Totah, Mike Henderson & The Shelton Brothers

Previous Episodes

Episodes:

Beer Sessions - Episode 27 - Live From Ommegang Part 2

First Aired - 08/31/2010 05:00PM

This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray continue their on-sight broadcast from the Ommegang Brewery's "Belgium Comes to Cooperstown" beer event. Hear from Ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart, Duvel president Simon Thorpe, and Larry Bennett of Ommegang on the past and future of the only small, private, family owned Belgian brewery in the United States. This episode was sponsored by GreatBrewers.com: the best resource on the internet for craft beer lovers.

Photos: Belgium Comes to Cooperstown 2010

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Beer Sessions Introduction: Live From Cooperstown! (15:00)

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Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Belgian Comes to Cooperstown, Ray Deter, Ommegang, Live from Cooperstown!, Dave Brodrick, Larry Bennett, camping, the best beer festival in America, GreatBrewers.com, Phil Leinhart, brewmaster at Ommegang, Simon Thorpe, President and CEO, inspired as a teenager, Michael Jackson's World Guide to Beer, Great American Beer Festival, Annheiser Bush's Beer School Tractor Trailer, Annheiser Bush Beer School is actually quite informative, beer geeks, Budweiser is not the most complex or serious beer but it's very high quality, it's not easy to make, 2004 was the first big festival, they sold 700 tickets the first year, now there are 400 VIP tickets and 1500 regular tickets, 200 brew reps and 400 volunteers, great selection of American brewers, VIP tickets sell out as fast as the computer can process them, tasting tickets are usually sold out the first day, different themes every year, this is the 4th year of themes at the festival, Planet of the Ales, Silence of the Lambics, BPA, Flemish Sour Brown,

Phil Leinhart and Simon Thorpe of Ommegang (15:00)

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how does Ommegang use the festival for beer development, all the brewers get involved at the festival, Belgian Farmhouse Breweries, the site is an old hop farm, Dave Broderick, Broderick was very persuasive to get the guys up to the festival, Phil is a brewMASTER, Ommegang just graduated from micro to regional, Ommegang is at a capacity of 22 thousand barrels, Sean does everything - he makes bottles and distributes the beer, Sean trains brewers, Sean makes sure the process is correct, the brewmaster has to make adjustments when needed, how to grow the brewery, Ommegang does engage in any contracting, its easy for craft brewers to dream of being very big, Ommegang will cap off growth if they ever begin to lose their top quality, Ommegang wants to always be fascinating to beer connesiers, BPA is a much more accessible beer, BPA is a gateway beer that allows people access to flavorful beers without being challenging, Duvel Green is another gateway beer, Duvel Green was slammed by the beer press for not being the same as Duvel in the bottle, Ray looked at Duvel Green as a really crisp pilsner, its tough to double ferment in kegs or they blow up, reducing barriers for people to try great beer and before you know it you've got someone who's a beer enthusiast, Ommegang is the only privately held family owned Belgian brewery in America, Ommegang's relationship with their parent and chief brewers in Belgium allows them hundreds of years of expertise and tradition, Duvel is a family company who want to grow a wonderful businessman in America, Belgian brewers can be a little closed minded,

What Makes the Ommegang Beer Festival So Special? (15:00)

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what makes the festival so special?, there's something magical upstate, incredible location, the magic finds its way to the beer, connection between Ommegang and Europe, Beer & Food Pairings, Ommegang pairs best with food, the guys taste some beers, after market yeast, yeast strains, blending process, refermented beer in the bottle, bottle conditioned, batch process, fermentable sugar and yeast in the tank, Duvel Green, unfermented, what's a warm cellar?, secondary fermentation, should you keep bottles cold?, cellar temperature, what are some of the oldest beers?, 2003 Three Philosophers, mellows out with age, vertical tasting of Three Philosophers, 2003-2010, Good Beer Seal,

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Beer Sessions - Episode 26 - Live From Ommegang!

First Aired - 08/24/2010 05:00PM

This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray broadcast live from Cooperstown at the Omegang brewery! Learn about Omegang, Hennepin, and the other Belgian-style, bottle conditioned pieces of art the guys create on a daily basis. Tune in for a discussion on gypsy beers and their impact on the craft brewing scene as well. 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.