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gillhalfpint
07-05-2013, 21:34
On tomorrow at 9pm on BBC1. Aim is to make and sell a new brand - might be fun to watch.
bcfczuluarmy
07-05-2013, 21:42
After viewing the candidates tonight do you envisage it being a successful event? When will they select 16 people that you can instantly not see being fired as being muppets. Guess it makes good viewing for 12 weeks.
hondo
08-05-2013, 08:33
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018q60s

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Brewing-and-pubs-to-feature-in-BBC-series-The-Apprentice-tonight
aleandhearty
08-05-2013, 17:47
On tomorrow at 9pm on BBC1. Aim is to make and sell a new brand - might be fun to watch.

Thanks for the heads up, Gill. Will have to put aside my intense dislike of Alan Sugar, but will give it a peek.
bcfczuluarmy
08-05-2013, 20:33
Watching and the phrase "Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery springs to mind."
oldboots
08-05-2013, 21:09
Did he really say "you can smell the empty bottle" ? :muppet:
Strongers
08-05-2013, 22:40
Did he really say "you can smell the empty bottle" ? :muppet:

Sniff sniff!!! :lol:
NickDavies
09-05-2013, 08:45
Watching and the phrase "Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery springs to mind."

It sprang from Sugar's lips towards the end.
hondo
09-05-2013, 12:47
"A low quality, mass branded beer flavoured with daft adjuncts"
http://www.in-cumbria.com/home/the-apprentice-left-a-bitter-taste-for-cumbrian-brewer-1.1055055?referrerPath=news-archive
Quinno
09-05-2013, 13:30
"A low quality, mass branded beer flavoured with daft adjuncts"
http://www.in-cumbria.com/home/the-apprentice-left-a-bitter-taste-for-cumbrian-brewer-1.1055055?referrerPath=news-archive

he was doing well until he used the word 'metrosexual' :muppet:
oldboots
09-05-2013, 16:27
Word just in from St Albans Beer Festival,

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/10410334.Beer_festival_boss_on_Apprentice_sales___ The_beer_they_were_selling_was_really_terrible_/?ref=rss

who'd of thought it!
Aqualung
09-05-2013, 21:34
I can only assume that the beers they produced were keg Banks's Bitter with flavour concentrate added. Presumably brewing a real new beer from scratch would have blown the budget for the program.

The things that made me laugh were the total inability of the girl's team to calculate the flavour quantity from the test run and the fact they went hawking their product in a WINE bar in Richmond! For those that don't like this program it's fiascos like this that make it compulsory viewing.
london calling
09-05-2013, 21:58
I scooped the Rhubarb and Riches in the Craft beer co about 6 months ago. I was not told who brewed it but it was connected to a tv program. Brown boring rubbish with no flavour of rhubarb.Not surprised it was Banks.
Quinno
09-05-2013, 22:04
Did he really say "you can smell the empty bottle" ? :muppet:

He did! Amazing.

880
Aqualung
09-05-2013, 22:22
To go slightly off topic here I brew my own wine and have in the past made highly successful Rhubarb and Strawberry concoctions.

Maybe I should drop a line to Wolverhampton.

Incidentally, I've always found Spanish strawberries much superior to the English ones.
realalecouk
10-05-2013, 11:19
It was all good harmless fun at the end of the day. The "Apprentices" largely looked like they'd never seen the bottom of a pint glass before, let alone any decent real ale so it's no great surprise that the beer they produced was rubbish.

Pretty shocking that they thought they could turn up to a buyer without a beer sample though - even though they allowed them to sniff the bottle haha.