Scottish “beer evangelists” James Watt and Martin Dickie travel across America with a vital mission: to prove that the drink of the masses doesn’t need to taste mass-produced. In each episode of the hour-long series, James and Martin, who own the UK’s fastest-growing brewery, visit a different American beer town, celebrate distinctive craft beers and create their own locally-inspired draft.
James and Martin split up in Los Angeles for the season finale, captaining two teams at Golden Road Brewing in a head-to-head competition judged by three local celebrities: craft brewer Meg Gill, chef Sang Yoon and beer journalist Sarah Bennett. Wednesday
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames and Martin use ingredients from Northern California brewers to concoct a collaborative beer; University of California professor Charlie Bamforth studies the science of brewing.
Watch Now:iTunesJames and Martin are in Germany, where they’re teaming up with old friend Greg Koch, who is poised to open Stone Berlin, the first ever American craft brewery to land in Europe. The three craft beer pioneers join together again to celebrate one of the world’s most renown beer cultures while rocking the establishment by brewing a beer that flies in the face of one of the country’s most archaic laws.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames and Martin head to Brooklyn, the craft beer epicenter of the East Coast, and team up with entrepreneurial home brewers Stephen Valand and Erica Shea of the Brooklyn Brew Shop as well as modernist chef Wylie Dufresne to create the ultimate Big Apple Beer.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames and Martin head to Grand Rapids, Michigan and take advantage of the icy, sub-zero temperatures to brew a potent, ice-concentrated Eisbock with craft beer giants Founders Brewing Company. And what better place to brew an Eisbock than 15 feet under a frozen lake.
Watch Now:iTunesWhen James and Martin head to the land of beer legend, Belgium, it's with a very special goal in mind: to become honorary Belgian brewers and assemble the greatest six pack on the planet. Armed with a mission and two tiny European vehicles, James and Martin split up to discover the best of Belgium's craft beer scene while helping to create some of the world's most distinctive beers.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames 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.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames and Martin head to Vancouver, British Columbia to craft the perfect apre`s-ski beer, a piping hot- chocolate beer brewed in Whistler. Partnering with Vancouver's Main Street Brewing Company, the guys take advantage of Whistler's many high-adrenaline activities, and take their brew on the ultimate winter sports adventure.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesJames and Martin head south of the border to experience the adventurous side of the Baja Peninsula. In the spirit of the Baja 1000, the wildest, most outrageous off-road race on the planet, the guys brew an equally outrageous beer, using sea urchin and peyote skins and serving it up Michelada style.
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