applescrap
Be the ball!
One thing all reality shows have in common is drama, created or otherwise.
Deadliest Catch: Are they going to get their quota in time? Will people die?
Counting Cars: Can we finish the build on time? Will the customer like it?
Alaska Bush People: Will we solve the problem in time? Get stocked up in time for winter? Build the house before the snow flies?
Bar Rescue: can we fix this, given the terribly inept owners and sometimes employees? We only have a few days!
American Pickers: Will this pick work out? Will we break even? Is the item we bought worth a lot or nothing?
Pawn Stars: Is the item real? Will the expert validate it? How will negotiations go?
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I'm sure you know this, so the question is, how will you create drama? New recipes that we don't know will work out correctly? Brewing on a deadline? Equipment breakdowns? The competition part is useful, but in the end, you need to build drama.
Maybe in each episode you follow 3 brewers: A newbie, an experienced craft brewer w/ a tap room from which they sell, and a brewer creating brews for competition.
Newbie: will he forget to amend his/her water? Forget to sanitize something? Boil too short a time? Screw up the mash? Will friends like the resulting brew? Bottling or kegging?
Experienced w/ Taproom: Can he develop a new recipe that will make money? is he keeping fermenters full? What about mistakes?
Competition brewer: What's he brewing and why? What mistakes has he made in the past he's trying to correct now? How is he tweaking a recipe to get him past the hump to a win?
In each case, you have an outcome to address whether the brewer succeeded or not, and plenty of possible mistakes (OMG, I dropped my unsanitized yeast packet into the chilled wort!).
Think of the infections you could show!
This is good stuff, I agree. The question, why invest our time? Great ideas so far.....drama, competition (like brewers getting ready for big comps, and 3 vs 3 like chopped), educational, brew masters, etc. Kind of like a podcast but more engaging with video.
Ill create some drama for you with my brew philosophies . Best of luck I'll watch.