About this season
James Watt and Martin Dickie, owners of the UK’s fastest-growing brewery, travel across America visiting different American beer towns, celebrating distinctive craft beers and creating their own locally-inspired drafts.
Episodes (7)
1. San Diego
Aired 24 September 2013 • 60 min
James 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.
2. San Francisco
Aired 1 October 2013 • 60 min
The Brew Dogs get “foggy” in San Fran by making the world’s first vaporized beer. You don’t drink this beer, you inhale it!
3. Philadelphia
Aired 8 October 2013 • 60 min
James and Martin make The Most American Beer Ever Brewed. It’s brewed on a float during a Fourth of July parade -- and the final ingredient is added as fireworks light up the Philadelphia sky.
4. Seattle
Aired 15 October 2013 • 60 min
James and Martin brew the world’s most-caffeinated beer -- a big, bold, chocolate-coffee imperial stout -- on the top deck of the Bainbridge Island Ferry.
5. Denver
Aired 22 October 2013 • 60 min
The guys brew the ultimate Western beer -- a solar-powered, cactus-infused, meat pale ale -- at 14,000 feet, using only the sun’s rays to boil the brew.
6. Portland
Aired 29 October 2013 • 60 min
The BREW DOGS create a uniquely Oregonian beer -- a fresh-hopped, blackberry-infused Berlinerweisse -- while floating on a beer-keg raft down the Willamette River.
7. Boston
Aired 5 November 2013 • 60 min
Along with Sam Adams’ proprietor and legendary craft beer entrepreneur Jim Koch, Martin and James brew a Boston Clambake beer, infused with lobsters and clams and brewed on a tall ship sailing through Boston Harbor.