Month: January 2015

We’re living it up like Kings (County residents), as host Jimmy Carbone welcomes not one, not two, but three (as in Threes!) new Brooklyn-based breweries to this week’s episode of Beer Sessions Radio™. In the studio are Marshall Thompson and Eric Feldman (co-founders/contract brewers of Braven Brewing in Bushwick who just launched their beer on January 4th), Greg Doroski (formerly of Greenport Harbor) and Andrew Unterberg of Threes Brewing in Gowanus (333 Douglas Street) and Travis Kauffman of Folksbier Brewery (nano-brewery in Carroll Gardens).

How did Greg go from consulting to head brewer at Threes? What does it mean to be a community-based brewer? What are the unique challenges of brewing in Brooklyn?

Listen to the full episode here, and learn all about these new breweries, what it takes to open something new in Brooklyn, and what these brewers hope to accomplish in the future!

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It’s another bonus session Beer Sessions Radio™, host Jimmy Carbone is taking the show on the road and hanging out with beer legends Tod Mott (legendary New England-based brewer who created the Harpoon IPA amongst other iconic brews) and Horst Dornbusch (an associate editor of the The Oxford Companion to Beer).

Tod is talking about his latest venture, Tributary Brewing, which recently opened in Kittery, Maine. Hear about what’s happening in the northeastern-most beer scene on this pre-recorded episode here.

Think that making beer is just about the water, malt, yeast and hops? Think again! On Beer Sessions Radio™’s  first episode of 2015, host Jimmy Carbone greets the new year with a panel focused on how technology factors into the craft beer world. Jimmy is joined by Ed Berestecki of Mugs Alehouse, Augie Carton of Carton Brewing, Greg Avola (co-founder, CTO and lead developer at Untappd), Regan and Eric Stephens of Beer Menus, and Mark Young of BeerBoard and Bev Manager.

The app and website developers are providing a direct-to-consumer conduit for brewers who are using technology as part of a greater strategy to give customers what they want.

Augie Carton, for example, was an early adopter of Untappd (he started using the beer check-in ap in early 2011, before Carton Brewing opened). He says that as a brewer/owner, he uses Untappd to track where his beers are being served and how well (or poorly) a new beer is being received. If he notices that one of his beers is getting particularly poor reviews (“stars”) at a certain bar, he knows to investigate. Maybe it’s something to do with the draft lines, how the beer is being served, or how it’s being handled.

Listen in on all the latest technology in beer news here.

And with a new year comes a new logo (plus our sponsor is now going by their nom de guerre: UnionBeerDist.com). Enjoy!