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  • Craft Beer, Crafting Flavor

    We know bold flavors require bold vision. Crowns and Hops is a Black-owned brewery in Inglewood, CA, whose mission is to create cultural equity in the craft beer space. In our second episode of Make Taste Happen, a new series bringing together a roster of cultural trailblazers to taste and explore new ways of looking at plant-based food and our world, chef and host Roy Choi and Crowns and Hops founders Beny Ashburn & Teo Hunter come together to serve up a plant-based take on the quintessential Jamaican oxtail stew with Field Roast sausage and their own Anomaly stout craft beer.

    Explore the recipe at fieldroast.com/recipe/urban-anomaly-brown-stewed-jamaican-sausage-with-rice-peas/

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  • The Grape Witches of Toronto

    Meg visits the Grape Witches, a group in Canada dedicated to converting wine drinkers to beer.

  • Canada (Preview)

    In Beerland’s first international episode, Meg tastes 4 different homebrews and learns how important homebrewing is in Toronto and Muskoka.

  • Los Angeles (Season Finale Preview)

    In the season finale, the winning home brewers travel to LA for the final decision. The grand prize recipient will win the opportunity to get their beer distributed by Golden Road.

  • Florida (Preview)

    Just outside of Orlando, two lifeguards do the unspeakable and turn ocean water into beer. Unexpected news of Hurricane Irma takes Meg’s trip off course.

  • Detroit (Preview)

    In Detroit, Meg encounters a father-and-son duo intent on turning the Motor City into the Beer City. Plus a team of coffee roasters turning coffee waste into sour beer.

    Do you home brew in Southern California, Tijuana, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Canada or Montana? Email beerlandcasting@vice.com.

  • Alabama (Preview)

    Meg heads to Alabama, one of the last states to legalize homebrewing. There, she finds brewers Willy Bob, Miki, and Clay who are making the most of the state’s new laws.

    Do you home brew in Southern California, Tijuana, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Canada or Montana? Emailย beerlandcasting@vice.com.

  • Portland (Preview)

    Meg travels to “Beervana” aka Portland, Oregon to check out the flourishing beer scene: an inspiring brewer with ALS and outdoorsy transplants that came for the beer.

    Do you home brew in Southern California, Tijuana, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Canada or Montana? Emailย beerlandcasting@vice.com.

  • BEERLAND (Season 2 Premieres December 7)

    Continuing her quest to find the next best craft beer, Meg Gil travels America to meet home brewers including a man with ALS, a father-son duo, a pair of lifeguard buddies and a self-proclaimed “renaissance hillbilly.”

    Do you home brew in Southern California, Tijuana, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Canada or Montana? Emailย beerlandcasting@vice.com.

  • BEERLAND (Season 2 Trailer)

    Continuing her quest to find the next best craft beer, Meg Gil travels America to meet home brewers including a man with ALS, a father-son duo, a pair of lifeguard buddies and a self-proclaimed “renaissance hillbilly.”

    Do you home brew in Southern California, Tijuana, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Canada or Montana? Emailย beerlandcasting@vice.com.

  • The Final Homebrew Taste Test

    This week in L.A., Meg weighs the pros and cons of all her contestants before deciding who will win the competition.

  • Beer Fitness: The New Workout Plan

    Meg meets with homebrewers Joe and Pono for some beer aerobics in Hawaii.

  • Lady Justice Brews

    Meg visits Lady Justice, an all women non-profit brewery in Colorado to see how women are using politically-charged beer to make a difference.

  • Northern California

    Meg travels to Northern California to meet with the local queer home brewing community, and two best friends who are bonded by the beer they brew in the mountains of Santa Cruz.

  • The Bay Area Activists Brewing Beers for a Cause

    Meg visits brewer and activist Rebecca, who runs a homebrew safespace for women and LGBTQ folk in the Bay Area.

  • New York

    Meg travels to NYC to meet Dailey, who brews with a log he found in the park, Ashley who has an Everything Bagel flavored beer, and Chuck & Pope, who brew for their hockey team.