Mike Malone's Books & Beer Podcast Mike Malone

Mike talks books & beer with Robert MacMillan, author of Haiku 61 Revisited: The Songs of Bob Dylan Interpreted as Haiku. We sample the Greenport Brewing Tidal Lager and the Two Roads Road 2 Ruin Double IPA at The Oath Craft Beer Sanctuary.

Mike talks books & beer with Greg Mitchell, media critic and author of a dozen books, including new one "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill." We sample the Kostritzer Schwarzbier and New Belgium's Ben and Jerry's Choc. Chip Cookie Dough ale.

Mike chats with Franz Nicolay, musician and author of "The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar", at The Oath Craft Beer Sanctuary. We sample the Kuhnhenn 2011 Dark Heathen triple bock as well as the Sixpoint 5 Beans imperial porter.

Host Mike Malone chats with Derek Dellinger, author of "The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution." We sample the Blue Point Prop Stopper IPA and the Peak Organic pale ale known as The Juice, and talk about Derek's day job making beer at Kent Falls Brewing.

Host Mike Malone interviews Irish poet Frank Ormsby, author of the poetry collections "Ghost Milk," "Fireflies" and "The Ghost Train," along with the illustrator Joseph Walden. We sample the Blue Point Oktoberfest from Long Island and Sixpoint Bengali IPA from Brooklyn.

Host Mike Malone interviews Ned Rust, author of the novel "Patrick Griffin's Last Breakfast on Earth," at The Oath Craft Beer Sanctuary in Tarrytown, NY. We sample Industrial Arts Brewing's Tools of the Trade Pale Ale and Moustache Brewing's Mojito Pale Ale.