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Beer making tv shows

1 year ago | beerlover1983 (Member)

Why is there a lack of any on tv.

Ive had a search and there seems there was one on sky last year and another to air this year.

But there doesnt ever seem to be anything in the on the subject i think if done well could be a good thing.

The one in the U.S Brew your oonw beer looks great

http://www.ibabuzz.com/bottomsup/2011/04/23/brew-your-own-beer-tv-debuts-tonight/

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=220556004621187&oid=104971259579801&comments

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brew-Your-Own-Beer-TV/104971259579801

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Fermenting:Dandelion wine
Conditioning:Fullers pride extract Elderflower wine,Dandelion wine,Ribena wine,summer ale
Drinking: Turbo Cider/summer ale/way to amarillo/funked up wherry

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Monk:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

It's too niche. An amateur brewer may be transfixed by a 'c' list celeb' doing a tango, But I doubt many ballroom dancers want to watch some bearded git explaining the best way to sanitise a plastic bucket? That's why we congregate here, no?

beerlover1983:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

I know what you mean but if you look at the angle the u.s one went for where there are challenges each week like the above video where they quested to build a brew system from junk .Or i belive other weeks they have to replicate old recipes.

It really wouldnt be much different from master chef etc.

Or a show covering the subject and what people use to brew.We have varying degrees of setups here on this one forums from what we all use to brew a programme exploring this etc etc .I think i would find facinating.Mix in some beer history aswell.

Hopefully someone might read this and make one.

I mean look how popular some of the trash is on tv surely with home brewing being as popular as it is there is some call for a show.

Nath:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

I know what ya mean. Especially when you can literally put ANYTHING on tv and people will watch it, why beer does not make more positive appearances is beyond me.

Ice road truckers????? Surely a decent beer would be more watched than that! Especially if we got the producers from mentioned show to put all the heart stopping moments and disaster music in a beer program! WOO I can see it now....

"Watch out a Boilover!"
"Nooooooooooo"
- cue scary music -
- cue dodgy camera movements swingin' all over the shop
"Crisis averted buddy"
HIGH FIVES ALL ROUND.

Tense.

Drinkin' - nowt, it's all gone

Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!

nathbrew@gmail.com

beerlover1983:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Lol you have to have that american voice over before the add break beuilding up the drama.

But seriously though they make a tv show out of anything it just need to be exploited hope some budding film maker in the uk spots this thread and uses the idea.

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Hmmm History and brewing Time team meets the Micro Brewery maybe?

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5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

Nath:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

In a Gerdie accent:-

"Dea 49 and all is goooin' mental in the BIG BREWER haus"

Drinkin' - nowt, it's all gone

Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!

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peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

hehe love it Nath.

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Some time back about 7 years ago I do remember being involved in talks with I think it was Brains brewery on them funding a TV prog on archaeology and brewing. They were well up for it.

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

Varnish:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Why is there a lack of any on tv.

Because it'd be Hugh fernly whatshisface and his dodgy pikey mates wadnering around the country side picking stinging nettles, crab apples, elderflower and dandelions out of the hedge rows, knocking up some hooch in their sheds.
Then talking about how sustainable it all is and how it goes so well with an organic wild bore flank steak and star fruit panini sandwich.

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Well er no er it was going to be me and some mates.

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

Monk:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Now you're selling it to me(Varnish). I'm in!

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

going to sulk now What were were talking of doing was the history of the development of brewing from way back via the brew house and the start of pubs to large scale brewing and back to micro etc

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

Varnish:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

[:(] going to sulk now What were were talking of doing was the history of the development of brewing from way back via the brew house and the start of pubs to large scale brewing and back to micro etc

I wasn't having a go peter.
Just saying that the kind of people associated with homebrew that I have seen on the telly have been the hippy, trippy, organic green team and crew.

Which as a hardened petrol head isn't really my style.
But Ice road truckers....I do like that.

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

I know you were not Varnish And Yes too many sandles and socks mob and I am an old hippy hehe. But I do think if done right a TV prog on home brewing would run

hardened petrol head ? not my thing mind you the 180hp bit of kit parked outside Well you know we all have a weak spot

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

Hamish:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

You must have weak knees Peter, only 180bhp!. :lol:

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Fermenting: Marynka pseudo-lager
Maturing/Conditioning:
Drinking: Wheat beer, ESB, Vienna lager & shop bought stuff

peter:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

well it still has a bit to go at 160 mph or so I am told

5 gal geordie bitter
5 gal St Peters Golden Ale as per tin
Youngs Harvest Mild
all a bit moded

CiaranDavey:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

Hello, I am a first year student at Salford University. I recently stumbled across your discussion while doing a research project on home brewing. If anyone is still interested please let me know any more suggestions or ideas for a home brewing tv show, I will soon be getting my own camera and I would love to make a programme about home brewing

saracen:

Posted 3 months ago by Moderator

Hi Ciaran.
It's never going to happen. The process of brewing is basically boring. You start at 6.00 am by filling the boiler, 20 seconds, turn on the heat, 10 seconds, then go away until it boils an hour later. Then you do the mash, 15 minutes, and go away again for 90 minutes. Do you start to see what I mean? There's no car chase, no sex (well, not usually), it's not done by glamorous people and there's no big profit for a sponsor. Basically, to the uninitiated, beer's beer, and that the end of it. Who would have any interest in spending their evening watching someone explain how the 2 identical looking beers in front of him are dramatically different because he used different hops? I'd be interested to know how well this series went in the US, but I'm willing to bet it fell flat on it's face, or was made as a crackpot gameshow, portraying the participants and a bunch of retarded hillbillies.

Everything said above is relevant. The big problem with beer in this country is CAMRA; The Campaign for Real Ale. Landlords can't stand them. They turn up, park their 2CVs in the carpark, leave the Whale they just saved on the trailer, traipse in with jeans, original Woodstock T-shirts, beards and pipes, then proceed to 'sample' the beers, extolling the virtues and trying to tell the landlord how badly he's treating the beer and how to do his job. The Government can't stand Homebrew either, because they don't get a big tax rake-off, and it isn't something they can have meetings about, form committees over, have public enquiries about, appoint Kwangos for, regulate from Brussels, waste millions on and generally screw up for everyone.

Any TV involvment would be seen as condoning cheap booze, home-made super strong cider, under-age drinking and any other convenient hobby-horse the public likes to jump on as it passes.

Sorry if I disappoint you, but you really are flogging a dead horse, which you'll have to stop or the RSPCA will be round.

If you're not living on the edge..... you're taking up too much space!!

Planning: - To get some more brews on now the weather's a bit cooler
Fermenting: - Ginger Beer experiment
Conditioning: - A normal bitter with Styrians
Drinking: - All of it!!

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Hamish:

Posted 3 months ago by Moderator

Mate, are you having a bad day?.

Mark:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

Fascinating reading that Saracen, nice to have an opinionated Moderator. Better to say it as it is rather than sit on the flipping fence

Planning-Connoiseur Johannisberg Riesling
Fermenting-Nowt
Conditioning-Proper Job Comp Beer,Kenridge White Merlot
Drinking-Raspberry/Lime cider,Grenache Blush Rose,Coopers modified lager
SG Chardonnay Wine

saracen:

Posted 3 months ago by Moderator

Not really, Hamish. Bit frustrated with no work around.
It's true, though. Maybe CAMRA aren't the only problem, but they really don't help the image. With the best will in the world, I really can't see that even Spielberg could put any interest into a show about Home Brewing.

How's your day?

AKMild:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

Hey! Why so negative chaps? We could have 'The Extract Factor' or 'Malty Towers', 'Brewing On Ice' or a feature length called 'Sparge Wars'.

Actually, you're dead right, Saracen. It would be difficult to fill a single episode let alone a series. The rubbish that's on TV these days relies on the production team carefully choreographing the participants into ego-based reactions, and there's rarely a show where a contestant doesn't end up supposedly crying. Although we could have 'Come Drink With Me' where we all go round to one another's houses and get mortalled on homebrew and end up being best mates. But it'd be chopped after a single episode..........

Planning: Best of British Ale, Another Tweaked Wherry
Fermenting: Woodforde's Nog
Conditioning: EDME Irish Stout, Highland Heavy Ale
Drinking: EDME Irish Stout, Highland Heavy Ale

seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

it's not done by glamorous people

Speak for yerself ugly!!! When Spielberg does get this project off the ground Brad Pitt's gonna have to play me...

And Kelly Brook is gonna mop my brow throughout...

It’s funny how women change. I never really noticed it until I set up my hidden webcam in Top Shop.

Drinking: Flasher the Dasher, St Peter's Ruby, Thunderbolt, Beam Reach, the last few bottles of Autumn Cider.
Fermenting: TTL and WTA.
Planning: A Proper Job extract clone !

Mark:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

:roll:

Technotrucker:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

There's no car chase, no sex (well, not usually)

shhhh don't tell the memsahib that, she thinks it part of it... :oops:

Better to say it as it is rather than sit on the flipping fence

Brad Pitt's gonna have to play me.

Nooo way I see Antonio Banderas for your part.

1st Corni...IPA 15-1-12
2nd Corni...M.T.waiting for this PJ clone
Planning.....Dunkel..EPA.
Conditioning..House Bitter nearly gone
Brewed...PJ..Malty Best bitter

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seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

He's not getting anywhere near my parts! ... far too swarthy lookin' for my taste... I don't much care for the cut of his jib!

There's no car chase, no sex (well, not usually)

shhhh don't tell the memsahib that, she thinks it part of it...

I s'pose you have to start the syphon somehow...

Mark:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

Brad Pitt's gonna have to play me

Nah Seamus more like Mickey Rooney :lol:

seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

At least it ain't Wayne....

Mark:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

Talking of Wayne i havn't seen anything of Londonfilmgeek for 5 days, maybe he can't take a joke like you and I?

seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

:mrgreen:

saracen:

Posted 3 months ago by Moderator

Well, that got you talking. I feel better now.
It's so true, though. If no-one stands to make a mint out of something, no-one's interested. You only have to look at Zimbabwe to realise that.

seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

S'pose we could punt an idea about making a reality show ... 'The Only Way is Homebrew' for instance... Mark would be in that obviously... being an Essex boy (and part-time xdresser), 'Made in my Brewshed' could be another... have to get a bunch of Toffs and Totty round to talk $hite all the way through it though... 'Desperate Scousebrews' could be another... could tie that in with a crimewatch spin off I s'pose... :mrgreen:

saracen:

Posted 3 months ago by Moderator

You may have a good idea there, Seamus. Seems to work for every other show on the TV.
'Masterbrewer', that might work. 'Big Brewer'?

I saw a good show the other day. It was one of those makeover shows. 2 guys go into a house and strip the place completely in an hour. It was called 'My Big Fat Gypsy Part-Time Job.'

seamus48:

Posted 3 months ago by Member

+1 LOL!!!

'Dey do brew dat do don't dey!' starring the 3 scousers from Harry Enfield wiv the big perm wigs (calm down, calm down, Loretta).

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