This week on Beer Sessions Radio™, host Jimmy Carbone invites a lively group of young brewers (and frequent guest Sam Barbieri – not a young brewer – we love ya, Sam!) to discuss what makes a great beer and how it gets to the market. Two breweries are represented by Mike Mare and Matthew Mellina from Secret Engine, a new gypsy brewer from Brooklyn, and Mike Voigt of Rocky Point Brewing, a new brewery on Long Island. Together they have teamed up to make the former’s first self-distributed beer, Sticke Handwerker, a 6.7% English Mild Ale that is served on cask.
Along with the new brewers is a newly minted Good Beer Seal bar owner Ray Darmstadt of St. Gambrinus Beer Shoppe, who helped bring the beer to NYC with a recent beer launch. The panel discusses the merits of cask beers (great!) and the difficult challenges in presenting them properly, particularly in a very fickle beer environment. A wide variety of styles of beer are tried on this week’s episode (listen in until the tail end when one of our friends from England, Darren Becker, weighs in on his favorites), and listen to the lively discussion on brewing techniques and trends in the industry.
The full episode is available here.