What You Missed On Beer Sessions Radio™ – Freaktoberfest 2012 (9/11/12)

They call it "The Mardi Gras of Beer Festivals." It's Freaktoberfest, and it's coming this Saturday, September 15th. Host Jimmy Carbone welcomes Freaktoberfest founder (and Smuttynose lover and field sales rep) Pat Fondiller, who reveals the origins of New York City's wildest beer festival. Also weiging in is Albert Antonucci, owner of Greenwood Park, the bar and beer garden that is hosting Freaktoberfest. One of the many breweries at Freaktoberfest (see below) is Founders, represented by Brand Manager Tim Traynor, the Brand Manager for Founders Brewery. He previews the Founders launch of their Breakfast Stout on September 21st. Finally, we hear from Matt Polacheck, the man behind all of Shmaltz Brewing's crazy designs.

Listen the whole episode here.

Beers that will be available during this year's Freaktoberfest:

** Shmaltz **: Freaktoberfest, Hop Manna, Coney Island Lager, Bittersweet Lenny's Ripa, Funky Jewbelation, Genesis 15:15, Jewbelation 15, Barrel-aged Blockhead,

Reunion collaboration with Terrapin Brewing Co.

** Smuttynose **: Strawberry Short Weiss, Homunculus, Pumpkin, Vunderbar Pils

** Brooklyn **: Fiat Lux, Oktoberfest

** Kelso **: Rye-aged Belgian Pale Ale, Sour Quad

** Empire **: Golden Dragon

** Ommegang:** BPA, Abbey Ale

** Greenport Harbor **: Harbor Pale Ale

** Bronx Brewery **: Bronx Pale Ale, Rye Pale Ale

** Wandering Star **: Zingari Witbier

** Sixpoint:** Spice of Life, Mad Scientist #11

** Sierra Nevada:** Red Wine Barrel-aged Ovila Dubbel

** Flying Dog:** Gose with Old Bay Seasoning

** Left Hand **: 400 Lb. Monkey

** Weyerbacher **: Imperial Pumpkin

** Two Brothers **: Testudo Bier De Mars

** Ballast Point **: Sculpin

** Lagunitas **: Lil' Sumpin Wild, IPA

** Allagash **: White, Confluence

** Elysian:** Ruin

** Victory **: Ranch DIPA (Chinook), Headwaters Pale Ale

** Peak Organic **: Hop Noir

** Southampton **: Abbott 12

** Dogfish Head **: Indian Brown Ale

** Stone:** IPA, Smoked Porter, 16th Anniversary

** Founders **: Breakfast Stout, Devil Dancer, Red's Rye, Frangelic Mountain Brown

** Speakeasy **: Vendetta IPA, Payback Porter, Prohibition Ale

** Harpoon **: Ginger Wheat, Harpoon Dark, Pumpkin Cider

** Nebraska **: Hop God

** Maine Brewing Company **: Zoe, Peeper

** The Bruery **: Saison Rue

** Green Flash **: Friendship Brew (Black Saison)

** Ithaca:** Country Pumpkin

** Captain Lawrence:** Pumpkin

** Stillwater Artisinal **: TBA

** Hill Farmstead **: TBA