Posts Written ByDonavan Hall

Beer Podcast: “The Session” Southampton 10th Anniversary Old Ale

On today’s show… it’s The Session, hosted this month by Gastronomic Fight Club.  You all are familiar with "Wine Blogging Wednesday", well, the beer bloggers of the world decided that if the grape people had their coordinated blogging events that we malty types should have one too: enter The Session. The Session is the brain child of beer writer Stan Hieronymus, author of Brew Like a Monk (which I’ve written about on The Spirit World).  The first Session was in March and there’s been one on the first Friday of the month ever since.  Today is The Session #4. The…

Beer Podcast: Recap of Beer Dinner at Deks

On today’s show you’ll get a quick update about what’s happening in Long Island’s beer scene.  Check the calendar often if you don’t want to miss a beer event. Featured Beer: Our featured beer is the Southampton May Bock.  We taste that and give you our impressions. Beer/Food Pairing:  Then, Rich and I talk about the beer dinner at Deks in Rocky Point.  The story behind this beer dinner is this: Together with podcast regular, Mike, I encouraged the owners of Deks to stage a beer dinner.  Beer dinners are something that I know a lot about.  My wife Denise…

Beer Podcast: Blue Point Summer Ale and Barcade

Rich Thatcher and I are back again this week with another installment of our Long Island beer podcast.  As always we have Long Island beer news and a run down of all the upcoming events listed on the Long Island Beer Calendar.  You’ll get my report on the Southampton Beer Dinner last week and an update about what’s available at John Harvard’s in Lake Grove.  Rich joins me to talk about today’s featured beer, Blue Point‘s Summer Ale.  It’s one of those refreshing beach beers.  We round out the show with a trip to Barcade in Brooklyn where we play…

Beer Podcast – Southampton Biere de Garde

By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall On today’s show… I’m joined by my co-host Rich Thatcher.  We’ll be taking you to Spuyten Duyvil, a cool beer bar in Brooklyn.  Our featured beer of the day is Southampton’s Bière de Garde. I was hoping to get some coverage of last night beer dinner out at Southampton Publick House, but I didn’t get back from the dinner until after midnight.  Needless to say I had a good time.  I’ll tell you all about it soon. Southampton is putting on their beer dinner again, but this time in Huntington at Canterbury Ales.  This event…

Beer Podcasts: Sixpoint Craft Ales

By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall Rich and I are back together in front of the microphone today to tell you about Sixpoint Craft Ales in Redhook, Brooklyn.  We went out to Sixpoint for the tour and came back with some wheat beer that we drink on the show.  Rich also brought along a bottle of Sixpoint’s Russian Imperial Stout; it’s called Bolshoi, but I’ll be damned if I can read the label. As always we have a complete update of what’s going on in the world of Long Island beer.  Lots of beer dinners in the month of May.  I’ll…

Beer Podcast: Crop Circle Ale and More

By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall I hope you all enjoyed the last installment of the Long Island beer and malt podcast, The Daily Catch. This week I’m joined by Rich Thatcher, fellow beer and whiskey enthusiast and contributor to Catch & Release (my blog) where he writes about whiskey and Long Island restaurants. Rich and I talk with Dudley Cates, the man behind Crop Circle Ale.  We caught up with Dudley out in front of Shoreline Beverage in Huntington.  It’s not just a cool name for a beer, it’s brewed with malted barely from the fields in England where the…

A Long Island Beer Podcast: The Daily Catch

By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall A little more than two years ago, I started exploring the world of podcasts.  I forget the details, but I know Lenn planted the seed for the idea of doing a beer podcast. He sent me a link to a wine podcast and I started listening. Being a beer enthusiast I started searching for beer related podcasts. I found a few and started listening. It wasn’t long before I plugged a microphone into my laptop and started doing my own podcast. The Daily Catch (that’s the name of my podcast) went through a number of…