Seems confirmed cancelled. I have about 4 episodes in my DVR at the moment but haven’t watched in weeks, if not months. The premise of the show was fantastic. The execution…not so much. The most common feedback I was reading yesterday or the day before was that people were expecting much more than an hour long promotion for DogFish Head, which is what the show basically turned into. Seems initial ratings were around 1.24 million viewers for the inaugural Bitches Brew episode and the numbers quickly plummeted after that.
Sam Calagione seems like a nice, charismatic guy and DFH is certainly at the cutting edge of craft brewing and tinkering but it seems that it wasn’t enough. Had the show focused on other people/breweries domestically and internationally, Discovery Channel may have had a hit on their hands.
We’ll never know.