Beware the power of ad dollars: word is that Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione\’s Discovery Channel show Brew Masters has been canceled, and that \”Big Beer\” is responsible. And who do we have to thank for this information? Why,Anthony Bourdain, of course.
Before Bourdain started aggravating the entire internet with his thoughts on food journalism earlier this week, he let slip a couple tweets responding to an Atlantic story about beer legislation. The No Reservations host tweeted: \”See what happened to Dogfish/Discovery deal. Big beer threatened to pull ads\” and \”Big story there. Brewmasters goes–or our ads do.\” What?
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