Month: September 2015

Beer Sessions Radio™ host Jimmy Carbone has been celebrating the Summer of Gose, so what better way to wrap up the season than with a Sour Beer Show! It’s the official new season of Heritage Radio Network as Jimmy welcomes guest co-host Stephen Valand of Brooklyn Brew Shop.

Kerry McLean (events manager at Jolly Pumpkin/Northern United Brewing Co) is in the studio to help celebrate Sour Beer Month as one of the original American sour beer houses. Joining them are Crimson Krier-Glading and Steven Baird of Mission Dolores and The Owl Farm, B.R. Royla of Shelton Brothers Imports, and Robert Sherrill of Brewminaries (Prospect Park’s homebrew club) and Bitter & Esters.

The world of “wild and tart” has grown considerably in the NYC beer world as more brewers make this interesting style of beer. Jolly Pumpkin was one of the first sour beers to be made in the US, but hear from our panel how much the open fermentation scene has expanded.

They’re talking sour, imports and more on a jam-packed episode of the best beer podcast in the world!

Listen to the full episode here.

We’re back in the studio after our summer vacation and welcoming a new fall co-host, Stephen Valand of Brooklyn Brew Shop. On this episode of Beer Sessions Radio™ host Jimmy Carbone welcomes the people making their mark on Greenpoint, Brooklyn. In the studio are Chris Prout and Erik Olsen of Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. (a.k.a. Dirck the Norseman) and Patrick Allen of Keg & Lantern.

The brewing scene began at one of our great Good Beer Seal bars Brouwerij Lane, where the homebrew club, Brooklyn Brewsers, would meet up and occasionally brew. The manager, Erik, later moved on to Dirck. The brew pub in the 6,000 square foot space is working on a five-barrel system, making new beers for their restaurant and selling to the city at large.

Both at Greenpoint Beer & Ale and at Keg & Lantern, the goal is to make and appreciate a lot of different styles of beer. The scene is really for locals but has an international vibe to it.

Join in to hear all about brewing trends, neighborhood growth and cultural traditions. Full episode available here.

It’s the dog days of summer and we’re winding down with a great series of shows about cider! These pre-records of Beer Sessions Radio™ took place over a series of “breakfast cider” talks with host Jimmy Carbone at Jimmy’s No. 43.

First up, we’re visiting with two great cider makers, Louisa (Lulu) Spencer of Farnum Hill Ciders and Field Maloney, a second-generation cider maker at West County Cider. Back in April they were doing a special pairing with Murray’s Cheese and speaking out about “fine cider” or “orchard cider” as apple people. These cider makers were in town to spread the word about CiderDays (now in its 21st year and taking place in Franklin County, Massachusetts, on November 7th and 8th). Lulu along with her husband (and frequent Beer Sessions Radio™ guest) Steve Wood and Field (his parents founded the orchard and cidery) are key founding families of American Cider revival, establishing commercial winery/cideries and developing cider orchards in the late 1970’s-80’s. Field talks about the history, challenges and new awareness of making and enjoying this traditional American drink (Field claims John Quincy Adams drank two tankards of cider every morning for breakfast!). You can listen to the full episode here.

Next up was a May visit with The United States of Cider team of Gay Howard and Kay Michaels who co-host alongside Jimmy. They have brought both a west coast–Ellen Cavalli of Tilted Shed Ciderworks (Sonoma, CA)–and an east coast–Polly Giragosian from Aaron Burr Cidery (Wutsboro, NY)–to discuss terroir and the art and craft of small batch, homestead, orchard-based cider making. Listen to the full episode here.

Finally, Gay and Kay are once again sitting alongside Jimmy from a show recorded in spring at Edible’s Good Cider event. It’s a snapshot of the great world of NY State ciders with Cider Week NYC founder Sara Grady of Glynwood and Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr. Listen in here.

We’ll be back with live shows starting September 8th! Happy Labor Day and looking forward to the fall batches of cider.