Frankfurtvr4
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I am interested in what online sales are going to look like over the 90 days. Any vendors want to share?
I enjoyed the show. I like his old truck and the tree house outside the brewery.
I want to try a bottle of the *****'s Brew, but I doubt it got to this area.
I cant believe how many people disliked this show, I thought it was well done for what they profiled the show as. Following Sam Calagione in his brewery and his adventure of making "off centered ales for off centered people" It wasn't a going to be a how to brew series. It was about his adventure.
I agree, I liked the show, except for the rap, of course.
I don't think any show will make everyone on here happy. Like I said originally I'm glad it wasn't totally dumbed down. But realistically It's NOT going to be a show that will teach US anything, expect maybe how to think out of the box with our recipe creation, and how to go about finding and working odd ingredients into our recipes. But it's not going to teach homebrewers how to brew, or how to brew better. At the most it's going to teach people who know very little about beer and brewing, what goes into it.
He did a pretty simplified, yet clear job of explaining the mashing process. But we're not going to be learning how to do a step mash or a decoction mash.
We have to face it here, YES most of us find nothing wrong with watching a live stream of someone brewing, or watching you tube videos bubbling carboys, but we're obsessed beer geeks. In order for a tv show (even on cable) to even get to the production phase, it really has to be mainstream, and appeal to the greatest number of folks possible. And a show that would please we hardcore folks is going to be plain boring and/or over the heads of most folks.
I think this show was a good compromise.
A lot of bashing on successful brewers here. It cracks me up.
People used to be all about Sam Adams, then they got big and people started bashing them and their products. Same thing here, a guy who probably started out the same way we did makes it big and now he's got a TV show and some of you think he's some sort of pompous dick.
A lot of bashing on successful brewers here. It cracks me up.
People used to be all about Sam Adams, then they got big and people started bashing them and their products. Same thing here, a guy who probably started out the same way we did makes it big and now he's got a TV show and some of you think he's some sort of pompous dick.
I don't understand what you were expecting. This is the Discovery channel and it feels very much like Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, American Chopper, etc.
I suppose expectations would have been met if the show was called A day in the life of Sam but it wouldn't have the same mass appeal. This is the type of show that will get thousands of non brewers just a bit more interested in craft beer and the brewing process and that's a great thing. They actually talked about mash temperature's role in "the type of enzyme that does the starch to sugar conversion". That's pretty damned technical for a pilot show. Did you expect discussion about beta vs alpha amylase? You can always go check out basicbrewing video podcasts.
maybe you guys hit the nail on the head.. is it just simple jealousy?
what I dont get was the level of animosity in a few posts... like people were angry. "Well this sucks, and that sucks, what a bunch of crap."
I think the fact that DFH is so extreme is what makes it perfect for an interesting show. I just really enjoy anything to do with beer at this point.
I DVR'd this, and when I went to play it yesterday, it was DIRTY JOBS. I couldn't believe it. Fast forwarded through the whole thing, never came on.
DirecTV is getting a nasty letter.
I don't think any show will make everyone on here happy. Like I said originally I'm glad it wasn't totally dumbed down. But realistically It's NOT going to be a show that will teach US anything, expect maybe how to think out of the box with our recipe creation, and how to go about finding and working odd ingredients into our recipes. But it's not going to teach homebrewers how to brew, or how to brew better. At the most it's going to teach people who know very little about beer and brewing, what goes into it.
Interesting, Jim Koch made a video to answer my question on facebook and at least one person has to come on and piss in the swimming pool.
...(although the rap gave me the ******-chills....
The one thing I noted about the show was what a happy-go-lucky guy SC is. The guy literally did not stop smiling the entire show. I guess if I were him I'd be smiling too, but I have a real admiration for people that do what they truly love.
I found the show interesting. But like has been said this show isnt going to teach you guys much (except for maybe tighten down your bottling spicket). Its geared for guys like me who dont brew (yet) but like beer. Same thing happening here happened on the BBQ forums when Pitmasters (a show about competitive BBQn) was introduced. Good show that got decent ratings but it just got blasted by competitive cookers who thought they may learn something or get some secrets or thought their methods were stupid or
These shows are made to appeal to the masses not the small group of hardcore viewers who already know everything.
That is what I would have liked to see. The actual recipe formulation process. We learned nothing about out of the box recipe creation.
(although the rap gave me the ******-chills, but I'd guess that was part of the intent).
Great term. Love it. When I saw it I first thing I thought of was;
I find some of the responses in this thread at least as interesting as the first episode of "Beermasters," which I watched on the DVR, it having obligingly taped the program while we were in Japan.
What I found interesting:
1. People who were surprised at all the rap, etc. Get real: the whole deal with Sam & Co. producing this custom brew was as a PR thing for a Sony re-release of a Columbia album. DFH is just the tail of a bigger dog here, and ain't gonna wag it.
2. That there was actually anybody who thought that any part of this program was just going to be a high-end discussion of brewing techniques, maybe a jumped up version of the club's last group brew in somebody's driveway.
3. People who thought that their views of DFH and its beers had anything to do with the content / quality of "Beermasters."
As for me, given the quality of television generally these days, I was quite gratified to see that they actually included a few of the nuts and bolts:
"This is GRAIN. We grind it up. This beer has more SPECIALTY GRAINS."
"This is the MASH. This is where little animated barley kernels go to die, so that WORT may live."
"This is a FERMENTATION tank. YEAST, the magical mystery microbes that make all this possible, live here."
"We are REALLY, REALLY WORRIED that our bottling line will break and so we won't get this beer shipped."
(No, really. Despite my evident sarcasm, I am always pleased when TV allows an actual fact or two through without distortion or "spin.")
His narration is just... off. It sounds too much like he's reading straight from a scrip, ...
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