BrewDogs the TV show

OH SNAP.

Now you've gone and hurt his feelings. No more Enjoy By, IRS or Anniversary beers for you!

Greg - you can send all his Stone beers to me in NY!

 

Man, we got some serious critics in here. It's a show about BEER! What else do you need?! I thought it was entertaining and thought everyone in the show was a person I'd like to sit down and share a pint with. All seemed very down to earth and passionate. Not what I was expecting after hearing some of the blabber in this thread.

 

I'm not referring to the brewery. I'm referring to the advertisers and producers the show answers to. They are the ones that are out to make as much money as possible and could care less about what the show is about as long as they can milk it.

 

ISO: Pruno IPA with Seaweed

 

theyve shouldve paired it with prison mofongo

 

To be more constructive considering the presence of show participants in this thread, I'd say that I wish they didn't have jump-cut edits, literally every three seconds, and focused instead on visits to breweries as mentioned by others.

Take the show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as an example.

While Guy Fieri is hardly someone I enjoy as a TV personality, I'm still drawn to the show, by the places he visits, the food he sees, and the chefs he talks to.

Brew Dogs had elements of those things, but they were buried beneath a sea of gimmickry.

In short, there were too many moments where I looked over at my friend while watching with the whole is-this-really happening?-omg-wtf-look? on our faces.

The virgin talk was really cringe-worthy stuff. Convert away, a joy we share as purveyors of fine brau, but the unnecessary innuendo, was just that, unnecessary....

PS: No mention of the proliferation of the IPA-as-a-perservative-during-long-ship-voyages myth? Or is this now considered fact again? Considering that's what the show started with, it was kind of a palette wrecker.

 

I caught this too, and I thought 'Well I'd bet a bunch of BAs just turned this show off.' I thought it was a bad sign of things to come, but they didn't seem to continue with misinformation after that.

 

dvr'd it, watched it. liked it. wtf, its about beer. would you prefer another x-factor, America's got talent, American idol, type show.

tough crowd.

 

hey, they can be passionate about beer and make this show, i can be passionate about beer and not like, simple as that.

i wont accept that it's either American Idol or this though, there's certainly a middle ground to be had.

all the shows you mentioned are network televsion, we're talking about an obscure cable channel here, i'm sure they had carte-blanche

 

At the beginning of the show, James and Martin made mention that hops are a natural preservative and consequently by heavily hopping a pale ale you help the beer ‘stay good’ for a long trip to India.

In the IPA book written by Mitch Steele he states: “It was common knowledge that hopping had to be increased for beers destined for export and it seems likely that the hopping rates in Hodgson’s beer increased as time went on. We do know that his beer in the early 1800s was exceptionally bitter, as tasting has been documented.”

Hodgson’s Pale Ale was the first IPA (but it wasn’t specifically called IPA circa 1800).

Cheers!

 

I liked the show. Some of it was tailored for more of a broad audience, but as it should be to succeed for an hour long show about beer. Some gimmicks, but Brew Dog is known for that, so why would that not continue on a show they are a part of and hosting.

For me, what impressed me most was their actual beer choices in the pairings, the bars, and the breweries mentioned. Mostly well rated, obtainable beers. I've seen far far worse in "top" lists in publications over the years, as well as some that were very, lets say, pedestrian. Would their top 5 list be the same as mine, no. But, did I disagree with all of them, no. Have I been to all of those establishments, drank all of those beers at one point in time, and in the case of some of them, for example Board Meeting, buy it regularly... Hell Yes!

Compared to other shows about craft beer over the years, they sure were alot closer to a craft beer drinkers choice of quality over quantity, imho, and for me personally, as well as many respected fellow BA's that I know. So, for that, I'm glad this show is on the air, and I wish it a long and successful run.

 

my favorite parts were:
--when they got to the number 1 IPA in San Diego, I happened to be drinking one (a very recent phenomenon in Colorado, they just started distributing here) (It WAS Alesmith IPA, right? that's the way I'm remembering it...)

--when the clamp failed and the hose blew off, shorting out the pump and the electric heating element. My wife said, It's just like you, there's always some moment of drama/failure, followed by triumph, in every batch!

--those chiles made that beer really fucking hot, too hot in fact-- you could see it in everybody's faces as they tried it

 

I liked some aspects of it, but also hated the gimmicky portions of the show (brewing beer on a train..really?). Brew Dog has always been a gimmick brewery to me and it seems like that quality has transferred over to the TV show. I appreciated some of the finer points of craft beer they hit on and the information they provided, but overall I found it kind of hard to watch at times. I'll probably tune in next week just to see how it is again.

 

I watched it on Bravo. I was surprised when I was going through the on screen channel information to get to AMC for the BB marathon, when I passed Bravo and saw The Getaway followed by Brew Dogs. It might be a promotional pilot crossover thing or maybe they are also airing on Bravo. I have no idea.

 

Watched it and thought it was pretty good for a first episode. There were some gimmicks but probably a necessary sacrifice to keep the cheat seats watching. It made the San Diego craft beer scene seem pretty inclusive, touching on a lot of classic beers. Anyone getting worked up about the editing style hasn't watched a cable "reality show" in awhile. It's a TV show about good beer. What's not to enjoy?

 

Alton Brown did a beer episode on Good Eats. I would watch an Alton Brown beer series, but I wonder if he is really into craft beer.

 

I will say that I think I prefer DFH's Brew Masters but in my opinion that kind of catered to a much different audience, foodies and people that already drink craft beer. Also, that series was more about DFH in general and their journey to make unique beers. I might be a bit biased since they got me into craft beer, but I still like BrewDog, despite the fact that I have yet to have one of their beers, even though I have Dog A. I agree with a lot that has been said so far in that the Beer Virgin segments can be cringe-worthy, the food pairings segment was cool, and the info segments were short but done well. The listings thing is subjective and possibly subject to corporate stuff, but still interesting and will be useful if I ever travel to the areas. Yes, the beers they are brewing are weird and gimmicky, but that is what they do and it is a television show. Also, they are super small batches for special events, so who cares (besides it possibly turning people off to craft beer, but it seems like the people drinking it were already into craft beer). I will say that the segment where they had beer with the people on the train was good and done a lot better than the Beer Virgin parts. I for one will keep watching to see where they go and how it progresses. Finally, they are on a network that I think people have to pay for or opt-in to, so it probably won't see as many people as we think it will. Also, the people that will know about the show already drink good beer or know about BrewDog already. It looks like they will be getting more episodes (at least 7?) than Brew Masters (6).

tl;dr I wrote too much. I prefer DFH's Brew Masters. My opinion on the show with its pros/cons. Sorry. Maybe like it if you read the whole thing.

 

I got it in my first and only trade so far. I really want to get my hands on some of their Abstrakt and high ABV beers. There is a place around here that has TNP for $100 and another that has STB for $150 I think. I was wondering what they sold for initially.

 

Ya I dont know if he is. I just meant a science based, maybe even a geeky perspective with a focus on quality instead of an extreme perspective.