This week on Beer Sessions Radio™, host Jimmy Carbone bids farewell to a friend: We learned that Dennis Zentek of d.b.a. had passed away on Sunday. Our condolences go out to both his and the entire d.b.a. family. The craft beer world mourns with you.
This week’s episode (#206, listen here) was pre-recorded when Ron Pattison, author of The Home Brewer’s Guide to Vintage Beer and blogger of infamy, was in town on his book tour. He’s joined by Pretty Things owner/brewer Dann Paquette, who has brewed traditional beers with Ron since they met up in Amsterdam back in 2007. It’s a brewer’s (and historian’s) episode, as Ron delves into the history of brewing in 19th Century Britain (fact: the East India Porter was more popular and predates the better known IPA).
Later All About Beer editor John Holl joins the conversation, applauding Ron for “challenging us about what we think about beer.”
Is there an American future for cask ales? Ron claims, “The real beauty of cask beer is that it continues to develop.” However John thinks that until there’s brewer-led education, it will be hard to convince Americans that cask ale is anything but “flat and warm.”
Find out what are the UK’s best contributions to beer, plus the various styles of beers and how they changed between the mid-1800s and WWI. And you can geek out on a discussion that ranges from gravity to heavy hops and extinct beer styles.