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This may be worth a watch - i've sky+'d it and will go and watch in a min

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn2zw

BBC Write-Up

Oz Clarke and James May travel through Britain and Ireland to discover the amazing array of drinks on offer for the delectation of a wine ponce and an incorrigible scruffbag. They start their journey on top of the magnificent and enigmatic White Cliffs and travel north to Yorkshire in a 1982 Rolls Royce Corniche.

Their first pint of the trip is in the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire, where James discovers, to his dismay, that Oz knows as much about British beer as he does about wine. Their journey then takes them to the centuries-old Fawcett Maltings in Castleford, and Thornbridge Brewery, a successful micro-brewery in Derbyshire, where they discover exactly what goes into a pint of beer.

Oz is unable to keep away from wine and tracks down the most northerly commercial vineyard in the country, where he discovers, to his surprise, that wine has been made in Yorkshire since Roman times.

For the final part of the first leg of their trip, Oz and James leave the car behind and take to the rails, enjoying the beers in a string of real ale pubs located on station platforms. Their tasting notes become as unreliable as the train timetable as the evening proceeds, but despite a spell of beer-fuelled bickering, the evening ends peacefully.

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Should be available on BBC iPlayer?
 
On my Sky+ too. Had atext from another ale fan and he said it was good. Looking forward to watching it
 
i'll be watching it on bbc iplayer in my lunchbreak tomorrow.. so i'm not reading anything on it till i've seen it! :lol:
 
Well I thought that it was bloody good fun that episode. Don't expect an informative programe with in depth analysis of brewing and wine making - but do expect two good friends genuinely enjoying beer & wine and trying to get their heads around how it's produced.

It was good to see them go to Fawcetts :cool:

Looking forward to the next episode :grin:

Anyone who missed Epsiode 1 can watch it on BBC iPlayer - link below:

Oz & James Drink to Britain Episode 1
 
hey that last pub they were in was the one we went to for the NCBA meeting!!!

that was a great episode :thumb:
 
i missed the program but can catch it on iplayer

I heard them on Radio5 tho, they are a good double act, and it was great to hear them agreeing on stuff like 'after doing something strenous like playing tennis on a sunny day, a pint of crappy lager tastes wonderful'.

i watched some of the series they did travelling around the worlds making regions. I liked how they kept to one the aims of finding a great wine for under a tenner (or was it a fiver?)..
 
Shame they didn't spend more time in the maltings - no mention of kilning and how the different temperatures produce different type of malts. Agreed though, thoroughly enjoyable TV.
 
Just saw episode 1 on iplayer before watching episode 2 later.
I have to say I liked the idea of the Yorkshire train pub crawl :cheers:
 
Boys ..... Boys...... Im in love with a short dumpy woman...... Not for her looks , her money or her intelect but for her brewery........ Did you see what the Wigan Woman has done in her garage........ A commercial Micro brewery in her Garage............ It was BRewing porn..... then they went to Gateshead to the Nookie broon factory where they brew 8000,000 pints a day........ Well I had to reach for the tissues.........
 
did anyone note the stations for teh yorkshire traincrawl? would that make a good proposal fro a forum day out? Probalay too far away for me but you lads oop nawth could have a great time.
 
My sack of malt came from the Fawcett maltings... That malt they were plodding round in might be the very same stuff as what's in my boiler now!
 
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