Name: Brew Masters
Released: 2010-11-21T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Sam Calagione

TV Show · Special Interest · Reality

It's cold, it's comforting, it's beer--but for Sam Calagione, founder of craft brewers Dogfish Head Brewery, beer is a passion and a business. BREW MASTERS follows Sam and his partners as they travel the country and the world searching for ingredients and techniques to brew beer of astounding originality.

2010 · 43m

Starring Sam Calagione

EPISODE 1

Bitches Brew

Sam Calagione and Dogfish Head Brewery collaborate with Sony Records to create a new fusion beer to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Miles Davis' album, "Bitches Brew." With a very tight deadline, they must formulate, produce and ship 50,000 bottles.

41m
EPISODE 2

Chicha

Sam heads to Peru to explore an ancient corn based brew called Chicha. Then, it's all hands on deck in Delaware when the Dogfish staff uses human saliva to brew their own Chicha.

43m
EPISODE 3

Punkin & Portamarillo

Sam travels to New Zealand to make an indigenous brew for Beervana, the annual craft-brewing competition. Meanwhile, at the Milton brewery, fears of dumping a significant amount of Punkin' Ale loom when it ends up in the wrong type of glass bottles.

43m
EPISODE 4

Grain to Glass

First "cedar-fied" beer is debuted and delays occur when 9,000 gals of 120 Minute IPA is flagged by authorities.

43m
EPISODE 5

Ancient Ale

Dogfish Head is about to brew a batch of "Chateau Jihau", a 9000 year-old recipe based on pottery jars recovered from a village in Northern China. Sam heads to Egypt in order to bring back to life beer from one of man's earliest civilizations.

43m

Sam Calagione

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Chris Collins

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Lydia Tenaglia

Producer
Tim Pastore

Producer

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