It’s a banner day over at Beer Sessions Radio™ on the Heritage Radio Network as we celebrate four years of podcasting and our 200th episode!And what a guest to have with us on an auspicious NYC beer day! We were lucky enough to meet Larry Bell of the eponymous Bell’s Brewery from Michigan. Larry is joined by beer writer Josh Bernstein (who is a huge fan of the Michigan beer scene), our favorite beer actor Jimmy Ludwig, and Good Beer Seal bar owner Paul Kermizian (Barcade Brooklyn and Jersey City, among other locations).
Host Jimmy Carbone discusses matters both silly (Playboy and vodka at the local barber!) and serious (the threat to our water from the Keystone Pipeline).
But mostly it’s a trip down memory lane for Larry, making his 10th visit to NYC (“NYC, Bell’s… Couldn’t be happier!”) but remembering his first visit as a child (he got to see Yankee Stadium).
We learn all about “soft peachy apricot fruitiness” (a description of Bell’s Amber Ale attributed to the late Michael Jackson) as we discover more about “the original nanobrewer” (Larry began as a homebrewer back in 1983).
It’s great to be 200! We invite you to open up a Hopslam and listen in here.