Brew doco on TV today - Neil Morrissey's Risky Business

[Feldon]

FYI

SBS 1 is repeating this three-part series starting today at 2:00pm (Melb time - check TV guides for other locations/times).

[SIZE=medium]Neil Morrissey's Risky Business[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]2:00pm - 3:00pm[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]ClassifiedG[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]Genreocumentary[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]Repeat[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]Actor Neil Morrissey and his best mate, chef Richard Fox, have a dream: to open up their own pub and microbrewery, produce their own beer and then get it into every supermarket in the country. There's just one problem: Neither of them has ever brewed a drop of ale in their lives. This three-part series follows these two likely lads over six months as they try to make their pipedream a reality. In the first episode, Neil and Richard try to find the perfect pub, brew up their first beer and put their home-brew to the test.[/SIZE]

 

[MartinOC]

NOT a good series if you expect to learn anything. They obviously don't know what they're doing & it's only because of their celebrity that they've got the cash to put-up & then get their feet in the door of a supermarket chain (to get their product on the shelves). It's more about the label than the contents of the bottles.

 

[brewologist]

I haven't seen this and heard mixed reviews also.

I'll watch it this arvo. Hope its good.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

thanks for the heads up, I just set it to record using my phone from 100km away from home. Technology hey?

 

[MartinOC]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4701383.Neil_Morrissey_and_TV_chef_Richard_Fox_call_time_on_Ye_Olde_Punchbowl_Inn_at_Marton_cum_Grafton/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1195424/Men-Behaving-Badly-star-Neil-Morrissey-sued-250-000-pub-hotel-firm-fails.html

http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/People/Neil-Morrissey-to-repay-2.5m-debt-after-pub-business-collapse


Clueless!

 

[Liam_snorkel]

haha!

 

[Toper]

It's watchable just for the cringe factor.They brewed 1 single batch of what they considered decent beer and believed they could become successful commercial brewers.Totally head in hands embarrassment,but worth a look.

 

[winkle]

It is painful to watch...

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Painful but I'm enjoying it more knowing that the venture was a complete failure.

 

[Econwatson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnC7Auqps-0


Here they are making their Christmas Ale.

My favourite part is where they are taking the OG. "That's it...That's 5.5%!"

 

[sinkas]

awful series, neil seems like a complete cnut

 

[winkle]

I thought his lap dog stole the show.

 

[Tim]

When this show went to air in 2008 in the UK, the number 1 Google hit the next day was for my blog saying how ordinary the beer was.
Here is the post: http://www.thebeerdiary.com/2008/11/morrissey-fox-blonde-ale.html