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Tonight is the launch of Brew Masters, a series on Discovery. Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head, is the on-camera focus, who threads together the various themes of each episode.
Great story about the show in today's New York Times.
zane9 wrote:Tonight is the launch of Brew Masters, a series on Discovery. Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head, is the on-camera focus, who threads together the various themes of each episode.
Great story about the show in today's New York Times.
CHICHA
Premieres Sunday, Nov. 28 at 10 pm E/P
Sam heads to Peru to explore an ancient corn based brew called Chicha. Since he's always looking for authentic brews, Sam decides it's worth following the ancient recipe -- including chewing up the corn to naturally speed fermentation. So it's all hands on deck in Delaware when the Dogfish staff is enlisted to use their own saliva to brew their newest craft beer.
PUNKIN & PORTAMARILLO
Premieres Monday, Nov. 29 at 10 pm E/P
Sam travels to New Zealand to make an indigenous brew for Beervana, the annual craft-brewing competition. Meanwhile, at the Milton brewery, fears of dumping a significant amount of Punkin’ Ale loom when it ends up in the wrong type of glass bottles.
GRAIN TO GLASS
Premieres Monday, Dec. 6 at 10 pm E/P
When a company approaches Sam about making a beer out of cedar scraps salvaged from their hand-made surfboards, Dogfish jumps at the chance to create their first "cedar-fied" beer. But, the team faces a major setback when 9,000 gallons of their signature beer, 120 Minute IPA, gets flagged by Quality Control.
Watched the first episode last night. Obvious great exposure for DFH, Sam really is the rock star (rap star?) of the craft beer world.
Unfortunate that the show had to integrate "reality tv" elements to fake up the drama of the storyline. Hopefully that's not the case for future episodes.
Not sure I learned much more about beer, but certainly did about DFH.
For those keeping an eye for this on torrent sites - note that after running on Sunday nights for the first two episodes, the show was moved to Monday nights this week, and the third episode aired last night.
GregClow wrote:For those keeping an eye for this on torrent sites - note that after running on Sunday nights for the first two episodes, the show was moved to Monday nights this week, and the third episode aired last night.
And now, as of December 9th it's moving to Thursday...........is this a bad sign that this only the 4th episode and it's onto a 3rd different viewing night?
GregClow wrote:For those keeping an eye for this on torrent sites - note that after running on Sunday nights for the first two episodes, the show was moved to Monday nights this week, and the third episode aired last night.
And now, as of December 9th it's moving to Thursday...........is this a bad sign that this only the 4th episode and it's onto a 3rd different viewing night?
I think there are only 4 episodes, the last one is: "Grain To Glass" December 6, 2010
Dogfish Head Brewery is enlisted to create a beer made from cedar scraps from used hand-made surfboards. Problems arise, however, after the brewery's Quality Control flags over 9,000 gallons of their signature beer, 120 Minute IPA.
After watching the first few episodes, no wonder they delisted the 60Min IPA in Ontario, too much drama in the bottling area
