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I realise it's dumbed down for mass appeal, and for a subject I'm interested in I obviously would prefer more of it, but the balance just doesn't seem right.

The first two series, their wine adventures, were also half hour episodes, but didn't seem as abrupt.

Also, Stephen Fry was granted hour long episodes for his trip across America. Even this seemed too short, but he had the time to expand on each segment, and still come out with a not-at-all-high-brow entertainment program. He's also working on a BBC4 follow up. It would be nice for Oz and James to get the same opportunity. There's a really good show in there somewhere.

I know this is veering off-topic, but "beer-on-tv" aside, it is a big drop off in standard from the first two efforts.

I would concur. its all over the place as a show. a little more in depth analysis wouldn't hurt and turn the programme from fairly mind numbing to slightly educational. the brief for the show sounds great but they lost track after the first 5 mins of episode 1 when they left the cliffs of Dover with grand designs on how they were going to discover what and why the Brits drink. Its more about the lads being grumpy to each other and james having a puss on him pretty much the whole time. <!-- s:x --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_mad.gif" alt="" title="Mad" /><!-- s:x -->

An english man walked in here today and asked for a bottle of Centennial Ale. When i explained we didn't sell it, he replied "of course you do, it was on TV the other night".

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Thom that business plan is already written for you.

I've had a few requests for it, and the admin address got an e-mail from someone who wanted to know where he could buy the coffee stout.

Behold the power of Blarney.

what a f******g moron. I bet he was adamant about its existence too!!