BrewDogs the TV show

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  1. opwog

    opwog Initiate (0) Jun 16, 2008 Minnesota

  2. DinoFight

    DinoFight Initiate (0) Jan 23, 2013 Arizona

    Yep, it follows James and Martin from BrewDog Brewery(UK) as they travel to different US breweries.
     
  3. mborden

    mborden Zealot (653) Jan 28, 2009 New York

  4. Flibber

    Flibber Initiate (0) Jul 27, 2013 England

    Trouble with BrewDog is that they build themselves and their products up to be earth-shattering and revolutionary. Then you try them and... well, they just don't seem that special to me. Punk IPA wasn't bad, but I'm not desperate to have it again. I didn't like 5AM Saint at all.

    Their attitude to British beer as a whole is rather annoying as well. To be honest, I think many of the traditional breweries are better than they are.
     
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  5. Zimbo

    Zimbo Pooh-Bah (2,281) Aug 7, 2010 Scotland
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    I want to give James Watt a good shake. So many wasted opportunities at BrewDog. They can still surprise with some really impressive stuff but they've pished away so many opportunites so often on PR bullshit that they're barely on the serious beer geek's radar anymore here.
     
  6. QuakeAttack

    QuakeAttack Pooh-Bah (1,999) Mar 19, 2012 California
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    I plan to watch the show a couple of times...As long as they are entertaining and informative, I will keep watching. I don't really care about their other ventures (BrewDog)...
     
  7. Chrixsus

    Chrixsus Initiate (0) Dec 13, 2011 Illinois

    I read on BeerPulse.com that in addition to Oskar Blues and Victory there will also be episodes with Stone, Anchor, and Elysian; as well as stops in Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle.

    The Denver Post reported: "While in Colorado, Watt and Dickey are scheduled to make solar powered beer, boiling a beer at 14,260 feet atop Mt. Evans without electricity but with the help of a Colorado State University solar expert. They will visit the Oskar Blues Brewing Co. and owner Dale Katechis in Longmont, who will assist in creating a cactus-infused meat beer (:astonished:) . Then they’ll match that brew to rattlesnake, yak, elk and whatnot at the Buckhorn Exchange."

    [​IMG] You can read Colin Joliat's (guyism.com) skepticism of the proposed brews being concocted on the show here.
    • San Diego — James and Martin set out to make a quintessential Southern California brew by using ingredients they harvest themselves, including kelp and the world’s hottest chili — brewed while traveling 70mph on a train up the Pacific coast.
    • San Francisco — The BREW DOGS get “foggy” in San Fran by making the world’s first vaporized beer. You don’t drink this beer, you inhale it!
    • Seattle — James and Martin brew the world’s most-caffeinated beer — a big, bold, chocolate-coffee imperial stout — on the top deck of the Bainbridge Island Ferry.
    • Denver — The guys brew the ultimate Western beer — a solar-powered, cactus-infused, meat pale ale — at 14,000 feet, using only the sun’s rays to boil the brew.
    • Philadelphia — James and Martin make The Most American Beer Ever Brewed. It’s brewed on a float during a Fourth of July parade — and the final ingredient is added as fireworks light up the Philadelphia sky. The beer is also DNA digitally encoded with 328 million copies of the Declaration of Independence. (No, we’re not kidding.)
    • Portland — The BREW DOGS create a uniquely Oregonian beer — a fresh-hopped, blackberry-infused Berlinerweisse — while floating on a beer-keg raft down the Willamette River.
    • Boston – Along with Sam Adams’ proprietor and legendary craft beer entrepreneur Jim Koch, Martin and James brew a Boston Clambake beer, infused with lobsters and clams and brewed on a tall ship sailing through Boston Harbor.
     
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  8. pixieskid

    pixieskid Initiate (0) Jun 4, 2009 Germany

    I'm curious to know what opportunities you think they've missed out on while they were doing their stunts?
    Its pretty obvious that their main market is not the serious beer geek. Sure they've got the Abstrakt series and once in a while they're is a great beer-geek beer, Paradox Jura was the last one to make me go "wow, that is damn good".

    If anything their market is young UK folk that don't know or care about the traditional beer and are drinking something "cool" at one of their bars and foreign markets that are starved for anything decent, they seem to send a good amount of beer to Southeast Asia for example.

    There's never been anything serious about Brewdog to begin with though; look at the stops in the US and the beers they are brewing, it's one stunt after another for the hell of it, that's their thing, let them have fun. They've been doing their little stunts since the beginning and continue to do them regardless of what people on the internet say.

    It's clearly not just about the beer to these guys, they seem to have more fun growing their business and doing stunts than worrying about their beers, but I'll be damned if fresh Punk and Dead Pony Club cans aren't delicious little hop bombs and occasionally they release something that still surprises us after all these years despite their polarizing publicity antics.
     
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  9. DelMontiac

    DelMontiac Initiate (0) Oct 22, 2010 Oklahoma

    I'll check it out, but come on...could it possibly be better than Airplane Repo? I think not.
     
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  10. Jason

    Jason Founder (0) Aug 23, 1996 Massachusetts

    From what I see below ... they will loose most of their viewers for being to far out there. They and the network are trying too hard IMO, none of this look desirable to watch.

    The show should be about beer ... not a circus show. But hey, that is BrewDog in some essence. Making a mockery of craft beer yet again ... inhaling alcohol, they are seriously promoting this?

     
  11. WelshBrewer

    WelshBrewer Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2013 Oregon

    My problem with brewdog is they dont answer emails or tweets, just a simple question, no matter what their beer taste like, im calling foul, and doushe's
     
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  12. shand

    shand Pooh-Bah (2,166) Jul 13, 2010 Florida
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    I think it sounds awesome. There's plenty of people doing by the book brewery tours and interviews on Youtube - why not do something crazy with a broadcast TV spot and an actual budget?
     
  13. Knapp85

    Knapp85 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,688) Dec 25, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    I enjoyed the show that Dogfish Head did and I will more than likely enjoy this one as well. There isn't much TV that I watch because I think most of it is garbage right now. However, this show will interest me because it's about beer. I don't believe that it's a mockery or a bad promotion of any kind. I believe that the guys at BrewDog are doing something they believe in and to me that is what's important here. I'll be tuning in for sure, I'll make my judgements on what I think after it airs.
     
  14. QuakeAttack

    QuakeAttack Pooh-Bah (1,999) Mar 19, 2012 California
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    Well. I just went from "scheduling this on my DVR" to "not going to watch this". I just want a show about craft beer. History. Process of making beer. Trivia.

    I don't need to see a show about beer infused out of someone's ass...
     
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  15. Hdredfern

    Hdredfern Initiate (0) Feb 16, 2012 Texas

    Can't watch video clips here at work but is this going to be like "Oz and James drink to " for beer? (I know season 3 of "Oz and James drink" was about beer but still.
     
  16. Chrixsus

    Chrixsus Initiate (0) Dec 13, 2011 Illinois

    I dunno...I'm kind of curious to see how some of these turn out. The Seattle and Portland brews sound plausible. My only hope is that they're honest with us; that if the beer sucks (thinking of the lobster/clam infusion w/ Sam Adams or vapor beer with Anchor) they let us know it sucked instead of telling us how it great it is as they try not to spew chunks.

    I think the craft community should be open to any and all positive attention, because positive attention draws new converts who wish to broaden their horizons in a land that knows no bounds. Dually, it draws another blow to the Big Beer Empire of MillerCoors/Anheuser-Busch and shows people the way out of their tunnel of poo. James and Martin plan to pop the cherry of 1,000,000 craft beer virgins and bring them back to the light side of the Force. The brewing stunts they put on may be outlandish, but it sounds fun and entertaining; and all the while they're creating awareness and helping build the craft beer tsunami to even greater heights.
     
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  17. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    A quintessential Southern California beer, the ultimate Western beer, a uniquely Oregonian beer, The Most American Beer Ever Brewed...from two swollen-headed Scots.
     
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  18. Zimbo

    Zimbo Pooh-Bah (2,281) Aug 7, 2010 Scotland
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    James Watt has replied to most of the tweets I've ever sent him. Say what you will, but I can't fault him for that. And he once gave me a lead on where I could scoop some Ten Fidy. And their customer service in the online shop has been exemplary. Can't complain... and I usually do.
     
  19. Zimbo

    Zimbo Pooh-Bah (2,281) Aug 7, 2010 Scotland
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    The big problem is that as 'new wave' beer geekery grows in the UK BrewDog is losing ground especially among the true beer groupies. Considering that BrewDog use to be in pole position, their beers are now so much off the radar compared to all the other new beers being pumped out across this island. I happen to really like a few in their normal range, such as Dead Pony Club and Alice Porter but they are now very far from being the brewing innovators they once were. Instead its playing it safe as they rely on the image to shift huge volumes.
     
  20. WelshBrewer

    WelshBrewer Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2013 Oregon

    Ya I suppose, but I did try several times, oh well. And I have been able to get Ten Fidy by the gross at Total Wine and More in Washington state.
     
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