04x07 - Firetruck Brewery

[bunniefuu]

- [Schwag] After 48 episodes of making cars go crazy,

we're finally doing something that makes sense.

- We're gonna make beer.

- [Schwag] Jesse James is going from

tube bender to bartender.

- Stoked.

- [Schwag] For the next hour,

"Monster Garage" will be your designated driver.

- It's my new helmet.

- [Schwag] Hey, anybody thirsty?

- [Announcer] Join us now

as Jesse and his g*ng of maverick mechanics

rip, grind, and burn,

transforming ordinary street vehicles into monster machines

in the Monster Garage.

[thunder crashing] [upbeat upbeat rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster [sign booming]

- [Announcer] This week's challenge,

turn this 1963 International firetruck

into a monster microbrewery.

The rules, the monster must appear to be stock.

The team will get 5,000 bucks for parts.

They'll have seven days and nights.

The first day, they design.

For the next five, they build.

And on the seventh day, they brew.

If successful, each builder gets a $4,000 box of Mac tools.

And the clock's crushed now.

[clock smashing]

Way Fast Firestarter takes his new wagon out for a spin.

- Look, a firetruck, man.

This is the first time I've ever driven a firetruck.

[upbeat rock music]

[sirens wailing]

- [Jesse] They're pulling over. [chuckles]

[sirens wailing]

- [Announcer] After sounding out the alarm,

Jesse introduces Big Red to the garage.

What once saved people will soon waste them.

[energetic rock music]

The design team's here

to plan the monster of all microbreweries.

Lee Chase is the brewmaster at Stone Brewing Company

in San Marcos, California.

Ron Krol customizes tanks

for microbreweries across the country.

Artist Ron Mendell is a designer for motion pictures.

And from the Colorado Rockies,

master brewer Dave Bright from the Coors Brewing Company.

- All right, so we're gonna make some beer.

- Sounds good. - Yeah. [chuckles]

- 'Cause nobody likes that, right? [chuckles]

There's no beer drinkers that watch "Monster Garage."

- Nah, I don't think so. [Jesse chuckles]

All right, I think, do you wanna...

One of you guys wants to run through?

I don't even have any idea what we're gonna do.

- I should just do the basic elements of brewing?

- [Jesse] Yeah, yeah.

- What we need basically are three ingredients, plus yeast.

We've got malt, we've got water, hops,

and then we'll need to have yeast do most of the work

once we've done what we need to do.

So we'll need a mash tun and lauter, that's one vessel.

That'd be about the simplest way.

You guys agree? - Right.

- So we'll separate the mash, the spent grains out,

pull the sugars out, put them in the brew kettle.

That'd be our second vessel.

And we'll need some serious heat to bring that to a boil.

And then the third and final vessel, we'll need to cool it,

inject a little oxygen, pour in the yeast,

and we'll run it into a fermentor.

And then we'll have to cool that fermentor

or at least control the temperature

within maybe, oh, I don't know, five to maybe eight degrees.

Control that and let it ferment out.

- Heat's gonna be easy, 'cause doing a, you know,

a burner and stuff and propane.

The refrigeration is gonna be the hardest part.

And we've done that before.

- [Ron] Yeah, I think the only other issues we're gonna have

are things like transferring it from tank to tank.

- You need to cool it while you're moving it.

- Yeah. - So we need a heat exchanger.

- Okay.

You guys know way more than I do about this,

so just tell me what to make and I'll make it.

[group chuckling] - Once we brew it,

We can probably have a party about two weeks later.

- I don't think you can rush good beer.

- No, you can't. You can't. - It won't...

It will not be drinkable Saturday under any...

There's no way to do it.

It has to ferment, so.

- I think everybody's patient.

We'll just wait two weeks.

- Yeah. - Get everything done

and get all our work done and wait it out.

Let's have a beer drinking contest. [laughs]

Everybody that can pound, like,



[group laughing]

All right.

[metal clinking] [dramatic music]

- [Announcer] To put the yeast in this beast,

the firetruck will be gutted,

making room for three vessels.

A kettle to heat water, a mash tun to soak malt,

and a fermentor to turn sugar into alcohol

and, 10 days later, water into beer.

Propane burners will heat the kettle

and a chiller will go in to cool the fermentor.

A pump will transfer the fluids from one vessel to another.

Got it?

[child burping]

[upbeat music]

[tires squealing]

Day two comes spinning into the garage.

The build team shows up ready for a beer run.

[upbeat rock music]

Climbing down from the Rocky Mountains is John Legnard,

master brewer for Coors.

From Queens, New York, master welder Otto Petersen.

From Marshall, Texas, firefighter and beefcake fabricator,

George Plumlee.

And staying on from the design

to help beat the L out of our monster,

brewer Lee Chase and tank expert Ron Krol.

[upbeat rock music]

- Yeah, this is kind of like "Monster Garage"

imitating life,

'cause usually you work really hard, then you have a beer.

Same thing.

We're gonna work really hard on this and have some beer.

I think the two things with this one,

it's just gotta be cool looking.

I mean, we can chrome all the wheels and diamond plate

and polish all those steps and all that stuff,

but making the whole brewery in the back,

like we talked about,

you know, like a microbrewery.

So it's... - Right.

- Is there any way to get a copper lid on any of those tanks

or any of those fun things?

I think that'd be- - Yeah,

that's what I told them.

I can make copper lids to whatever.

- We'll talk about that one. - Yeah.

- I don't think this one's so much a mad thrash

as it is, you know, to work clean.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Announcer] Now that Jesse is caught up

on the science of beer making,

the crew tears into the stocked firetruck.

No hose allowed in the Monster Brewery.

[upbeat rock music continues]

[hammer banging]

- Look what I found. - Free!

- That is a perfectly good pair of ice grips right there.

[mower engine rattling] [rock music]

- Yee, wee, boy!

- [Announcer] When fireman George Plumlee

isn't rescuing people, he's cutting it up in his shop.

- I'm a firefighter paramedic with Marshall, Texas.

On the side, I am a metal fabricator.

I wouldn't change jobs for the world.

I mean, it's something different every day.

You do get to help people, it's exciting.

You get to drive big red trucks with lights and sirens,

go and make people move outta your way.

[sirens wailing]

- He's doing just about everything, he wants to learn.

Asking me lots of questions.

I love that.

I love to flex my knowledge

by giving it to someone else, you know?

- This is one bad dude.

[upbeat rock music]

[metal clanging]

- You guys just tell me what to make, I'll make it.

- [John] Come on, you're gonna be making the beer!

- I'll just point and nod.

- [John] We're gonna make you assistant brewer.

- Beer goes here.

- [Announcer] Otto comes out of the gate early

as the team's workhorse.

- You're sweating too much. You're working too hard.

You need to take it down a notch.

- [Otto] It get me into the mood.

- This is "Monster Garage."

We wait 'til like the last two days, then we really...

- Hey, we need a hammer. - Yeah. [laughs]

- Is it wired in these boxes? - I don't know.

- [Announcer] And then there's Lee.

- I read in a vegan cookbook

that you can make your own beer

and I was like, "Yeah, you can make your own beer.

That's like making your own gas."

- [Announcer] Lee Chase has had an education

most guys would die for.

- I went to college and studied malting and brewing science

at UC Davis.

- [Announcer] When this dude's not brewing,

he's breezing on his custom bicycles.

[upbeat rock music]

- There we go. - Yeah.

- That looks pretty cool. [metal clanking]

[bluegrass music]

- You like that cutting torch, don't you?

[Jesse laughing]

- Well, let me cut.

I'm gonna just slice it straight down here.

[welder whooshing]

- [Announcer] Otto waits his turn for the plasma cutter.

- [Jesse] Where you from, Otto?

- I was born in Austria, you know?

But I came to United States in '62.

But I was in Australia.

I worked on construction. - What do you do?

- I was a welder. - What kind of stuff?

Like mig or stick?

- I'm a stick welder.

- [Announcer] New York City firefighters

have relied on Otto Petersen

to take good care of their trucks.

- I'm 73 years old.

For the last 25 years,

I work for the New York City Fire Department.

Fleet maintenance.

[angry rock music] [welder whooshing]

- [Announcer] The tear-out's tough going.

There's a lot of fight left in this old firefighter.

- That's a damn three-alarmer.

- They built like a brick whatever.

The previous generation.

[welder whooshing] [upbeat rock music]

[metal clanking]

- [Announcer] Sturdy compartments

that once stored tools for battling blazes

are slowly cut out, one by one.

[metal clanging]

- Dead! [metal clanking]

- We're gonna make beer, good beer.

[welder whooshing]

[metal clanging]

- [Jesse] Let's get this tank outta there.

- They don't need that anymore.

- [Announcer] Jesse discovers the 40-year-old firetruck

still has some juice left.

- Whoops. [laughs]

- [Announcer] To make room for its new beer tanks,

the firetruck has to lose its old 500-gallon water tank.

Otto goes low and cuts the pipe

running from the tank to the bump.

[upbeat rock music] [welder whooshing]

[sirens wailing]

[builders chattering] [engine sputtering]

- [Announcer] There's still a lot of water in the tank,

so they take the truck outside to drain it.

[angry rock music]

Once emptied, they chained the bulky tank to the forklift.

After tugging and pulling, 1,500 pounds of crust and rust

comes out like a bad tooth.

Now the team has the space they need to get the job done.

- This is perfect. It's gonna make a good brewery.

- All right, let's get it inside.

[upbeat rock music]

- We could make a nice floor,

like outta some two-inch square with some cross stringers

and use some expanded metal.

That way it's, you know.

- Oh, what I was looking at doing is

we've already got a nice base here.

Just clean this up and taking some square inch and a half,

to bring the same plane and just brace it out.

- Do a nice uniform. - Right, it's a nice floor.

- Flat. - Well, at least we know

this thing'll hold the water weight.

- Right. - Yeah.

- We still haven't gotten these doors off.

That one's cut completely free in front of you.

- Well, you guys measure, I'll start,

I'll cut on this and get it out.

- What do you think, Otto?

You cool? - Yeah.

You want me to do that? - Nah, I can do it.

- I know you can, you know.

Give me a chance.

- You can supervise. - Yeah.

- [Announcer] Jesse takes on the demolition

of the heavy duty doors.

[upbeat rock music]

[metal clanging]

- [Lee] Yeah, I'll take that one. Look at that.

- No wonder our natural resources are depleted.

[upbeat rock music continues] [welder whooshing]

- [Announcer] Even Jesse has a hard time

beating this truck into submission.

[welder whooshing]

After hours of cutting and pounding,

the back of the truck is finally gutted.

- Tomorrow, we can brew.

Well, almost.

- Maybe a couple days. - We're close.

We'll have a good floor up tomorrow.

- Beautiful job.

What is it? [group laughing]

- So we'll just continue like we are tomorrow.

Get the platform done.

Get everything fit and up there and ready.

You know, we still got the hard stuff,

is refrigeration and the burner and all that stuff, so.

- [Announcer] That's it for day two.

The James g*ng burned their way

through the stubborn firetruck.

Now all they need to do is persuade it to make beer.

"Monster Garage" factoid.

The ship's log from the Mayflower

states the pilgrims pulled over at Plymouth Rock

rather than continue onto Virginia

because they were running out of beer.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage [neon sign buzzing]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Announcer] Body Drop blows a hose and out pops day three.

The Firehouse g*ng shows up with a master plan

to make monster beer.

- And what we probably ought to do

is lay this out on the floor

and bring the tanks in and set it up.

- [Announcer] Otto gets right to cutting up the firetruck.

John and Ron start to draw and measure out a floor plan

for their brewery.

Jesse's here and he's not happy.

Otto's been torching and scorching up a storm.

- Hey, Otto. [welder whooshing]

Wait before you blow a hole.

- Did I blow a hole? - Yeah.

Wait, let me do it so we don't mess that up.

- I burn through over there. - Yeah, I can fix that side,

but let me do this one so we don't blow a hole.

Just wait a second. I'll do it.

[stern music]

- The old dude kind of messed up the side of that,

but I can fix it.

Yesterday, he was kind of going gung h*,

straight after everything.

You're just [imitates welder whooshing],

trying to cut everything off.

And I told him to, like, be mellow and...

- I burn through.

I got carried away a little bit, you know, so,

I should have been a little more careful.

I overestimated, right?

So next time I do a little underestimating.

- [Announcer] Body Drop is in the house

and he's got a new ride.

- Okay. [motor humming]

- Body Drop, he's a little fun guy.

He's like my little play friend at Monster Garage.

He's like a people, but only little and cool

and you can play with it and you can throw it and tackle it.

You can squish it up and it bounces back.

You see big cars all the time,

like Cadillacs, Lincolns, LTDs,

and you ever see a little Volkswagen Bug?

You're like, "Oh, look at that little bug."

- Yeah. [giggles] - Same thing.

It's like, hey, people, people, people, people.

Oh, look at the little, little guy.

Look at you. Get over here, you little [beep].

[laughs] Same thing.

- [Announcer] After Jesse psychoanalyzes

the little person fascination,

the main components of their brewery arrive,

courtesy of Ager Tanks.

First in, the fermentor,

where the beer will sit and brew for 10 days.

- It stinks.

[angry rock music]

- [Announcer] Team brewer John is tanked.

Next is the kettle for heating water,

and then the mash tun

where the malt will be soaked in hot water.

These old used tanks aren't too bad, they're just too big.

They'll need a lot of work

before they fit in the back of the firetruck.

- We're gonna cut this tank apart.

- It's pretty good here, but off on that one.

- [sighs] Well, we gotta get it on the fricking liner

or it ain't gonna fit. - Yeah.

- [Announcer] Ron Krol is a big name

in the microbrewery business.

- I own a metal fabrication shop in The Dallas, Oregon,

and we primarily build stainless steel tanks

for the wine and brewing industry.

Making beer is a great deal. It's a lot of fun.

It's very cool stuff.

Right, we need to be right on the fricking line, okay?

- [John] Oh boy, that's a sweet line?

- That's crap. - Oh, I ain't gonna get it.

- Well, we're trying to get a perfectly straight line,

so we're gonna take this, cut it,

and then go, [clicks tongue].

So we want it to be perfect.

- I'll show you how to do it. - Ah.

- A lesson from the master.

- [Announcer] Jesse makes a measuring device

that will scribe a perfectly straight line

along the curved steel.

- I can teach anybody anything, you know,

as long as they're willing to learn

and wanna step up and try.

Hold that flat against there.

And I still screw stuff up every single day,

but as long as I recognize that as a mistake

and try to better myself,

and, you know, do it better next time,

then, you know, I'll keep moving forward.

- [Announcer] Now that they've got a crisp, clean line,

they can finally cut out a good chunk of the mash tun.

[angry rock music] [welder whooshing]

- One, two, three, go.

[metal clanking]

[welder whooshing]

- Woohoo!

[metal clanking]

[angry rock music continues]

- We cut it all apart, now we're putting it back together.

[angry rock music continues]

[vehicle beeping]

- So I'm looking at,

there's a couple dudes that aren't really doing much,

but then they're the beer experts. [laughs]

So it dawned on me, hey, why isn't that guy doing anything?

Oh, wait, he makes beer for a living. [chuckles]

It's like, [imitates cap popping].

[Jesse slurping]

Good job. [chuckles]

That was a hard day's work.

Hey, Otto, you wanna help me? - Yeah.

- Let's make a piece for that back.

They're gonna get that sheet metal for over here,

but I think we should make a piece right here

and then we'll lay it on it.

- [Announcer] Jesse recruits Otto

to help him make a new gate for the back of the firetruck.

[welder crackling] [upbeat rock music]

[metal clanking]

- It looks factory.

Looks like it's stock, huh?

- Yeah, yeah.

Original.

- We're gonna make that so it bolts on,

so we can take it off and chrome it.

- [Announcer] George and John make the support and legs

for their resized malt soaker.

[angry rock music]

[saw whirring]

[welder crackling]

Before calling it quits,

Jesse meets with his builders to discuss tomorrow's plans.

- What are we lacking?

- We should be able to get the floor in that thing

pretty toot sweet.

That won't take long to just get the sheets cut in.

And it just depends on how we wanna weld it down,

go underneath and stitch it on a little bit.

- A good goal for tomorrow

is if we can get everything up there and mounted

and where it's gonna be, and then start...

Spend the whole day Friday plumbing

and dialing everything in and...

- Cool. - All right, guys.

- [Announcer] Jesse walks out

and finds a m*dget on a MiniMOTO looking for a race.

Who could resist that?

[engines roaring]

- And that ain't even close. - I know.

You're pretty close.

- [Announcer] Just another day

in the merry ol' land of "Monster Garage."

[upbeat rock music]

The build team made great progress

preparing the tanks for installation,

but now Jesse wants them mounted by the end of tomorrow.

They'll have to take a long hard pull on their beer maker

to make that happen.

[angry rock music]

Day four comes in like a backdraft

and the team comes in ready for a firefight.

Their first battle, the steel for their flooring.

[upbeat music]

Builder Ron cuts it into sections

and brewer John helps put it to bed.

- You know, I've learned a lot.

This is a lot more metal fabrication than I'm used to.

- [Announcer] John Legnard

is living his own field of dreams.

- I'm a brew master at Coors Brewery

and I run the SandLot Brewery

at Coors Field's small microbrewery.

As a brew master, I'm responsible

for all aspects of the brew from start to finish.

Everything from raw materials to maintenance,

and then, you know, the final taste test

before the beer goes to the public.

The best part about my job is everybody loves the beer guy.

- [Announcer] Otto's making the rear wheel wells.

He knows only one way to work, hard.

- Otto's cool. He's not afraid to work.

That's the best thing about him.

I like that he's an awesome welder, like way better than me,

and doesn't say anything about it.

[upbeat music] [tools whirring]

[welder crackling]

- [Announcer] Now the floor gets completely sealed

so not a single drop of beer will ever escape.

Lee comes back from a shopping trip with propane tanks.

- Stoked.

- We got a freebie!

- [Announcer] Body Drop rolls in

some industrial-sized burners

to complete the heating system.

- Burn, baby, burn. - Yeah, good, Lee.

- Uh-huh. - Put this thing to work.

- [Announcer] Otto welds on the exhaust pipe for the kettle,

and John and Lee test out their burners.

[upbeat rock music]

[siren wailing]

To get the builders fired up,

Flash Express floods the garage with some tunes.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ Movin' it around

♪ Movin' it, movin' it, movin' it ♪

♪ Movin' in the right direction ♪

♪ Movin' it, movin' it, movin' it ♪

♪ Oh

♪ Can't nobody tell you what's right from wrong ♪

♪ You got to find out for yourself ♪

♪ Move it one time on the left

♪ Move it one time on the right ♪

♪ Move it one right up down the middle now ♪

♪ You ain't got to be on time, all right ♪

♪ I said, movin' it, movin' it, movin' it, movin' it ♪

♪ Movin' in the right direction ♪

♪ Movin' it, movin' it, movin' it ♪

[group cheering]

- [Announcer] The refrigeration unit arrives,

and the Body Drop unit tells them how much it cost.

- Really, zip, zero, nada.

[upbeat rock music]

- Ron, this is cool.

- Huh, huh?

- [Announcer] To make their beer colder,

George welds up a cooling coil to go inside the fermentor.

[upbeat rock music continues]

- Cut a couple of holes in our door

and shove this thing like that.

Then we run the glycol through it

and that'll keep the beer cool during the fermentation.

- [Announcer] Glycol is the equivalent of antifreeze.

If any of it leaks into the beer, the hangover from hell.

They pressure test the coil very carefully.

[energetic rock music]

Ron makes a giant strainer for the mash tun

where the malt will be soaked in hot water.

Then nature will take over,

converting starch into fermentable sugar.

The strainer will separate

the spent grains from the sugar water,

which brewers call wort.

- Freebie!

- [Announcer] The heart of the brewery arrives.

The pump and the heat exchanger, courtesy of Coors.

- After we're done boiling the beer here,

we're gonna wanna bring it from boiling

down to about room temperature, 70 degrees.

- [Announcer] To do that,

the heat exchanger will run the hot wort

through one set of plates

while chilled water circulates through another set.

[welder crackling] [upbeat rock music]

- Hot.

- [Announcer] The team hustles

to get the tanks into the truck.

First the fermentor, then the mash tun.

And last, the kettle.

- Ron, you all right? - Yeah.

You have six inches?

[stern rock music]

- [Announcer] Day four's done for.

The team worked hard

to make their monster look like a brewery.

Now they have to make it work like one.

The melody for "The Star-Spangled Banner"

comes from an old English drinking song.

Francis Scott Key wrote his famous poem to that tune,

creating our National Anthem.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage [bubbles burbling]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Announcer] Dancing kegs bring in the new day.

The team has the tanks propped in place.

Today, they'll have to fit them in for real.

The kettle comes back out

so they can cram the mash tun in over the wheel wells.

Jesse barrels up, [tires squealing]

driving and looking like he stole it.

- [laughs] Where they at?

You're gonna do nothing.

It looks cool. - Yeah.

- [Announcer] He likes what he sees,

but their recycled tanks look beat up.

He's got a solution.

- I have a graining tool for stainless.

You know, it leaves all those grains on it.

It's like a portable belt sander.

And we could try to hit it with that.

- We could try it and give it a shot.

- [Announcer] The right tool for the right job.

Jesse starts putting the shine back into the old tank

with his graining tool.

[bluesy rock music] [tool whooshing]

- See, you get those perfect, those grains,

like, all perfect in a straight line.

[bluesy rock music continues] [tool whooshing]

- [Announcer] The vegetarian microbrewer

has yet to get dirty.

Lee must be short for leisurely.

- [Jesse] You wanna help me when you're done?

- Yeah, just a second. - All right.

- [Announcer] Jesse's on him.

- I haven't seen him do anything.

He's sitting there

acting like he's looking through catalogs a lot.

I mean, maybe he is ordering parts and stuff,

but no hands worky.

Horizontal, back and forth. - Right.

- You just gotta be really careful

and just go back and forth like this.

- Keep with the grain, yeah? - Yeah, deep.

Yeah, and don't go up and down and it'll give it, like,

if you look at it. - Something else?

Cool.

This is what it's like.

This is basically working in a brewery.

Good times.

At least I'm not looking at a book anymore, you know?

[rhythmic music]

- [Announcer] John and George put the chiller in its place.

They'll make the beer, the chiller will make it cold.

On the other side of the truck,

Otto threads the regulator from the propane,

so now they have their cooling and heating systems in place.

It's time to put their kettle to the metal.

[stern rock music] [welder crackling]

- Gimme my beer.

Make my beer now.

- Get off my ear.

- [Announcer] The cooling coil goes in the fermentor.

All three tanks and the valves and fittings

provided by Staco are ready to be water tested.

[angry rock music]

- [George] That's a leak, yeah.

And it wasn't something we welded.

It was something that came to us,

and it was a little tweaked to start with,

so not surprising.

- [Announcer] Dr. George stitches it right up.

Their tanks hold water, now they need to boil some.

The force known as Otto

quickly fabricates stands for the burners.

[energetic rock music] [welder crackling]

[upbeat rock music]

If the Monster makes beer, here's where they'll pour it.

Jesse makes a bracket to mount a tap.

[upbeat rock music continues]

[Jesse grunts]

- Bing.

[welder crackling]

[upbeat rock music continues]

- [Announcer] The build is right on track.

- As far as the mechanical part of this, we're really close.

It's gonna be up to the brewers, pretty much.

It's kinda like handing it off, you know?

- We should wait and see what happens

'cause it could be really bad.

It could be really good.

- [Announcer] Day five's just another dead soldier.

The ale men celebrate with a quick pole dance

for tomorrow's last day.

The power shifts from the builders to the brewers.

John and Lee need to step up

or there'll be tears instead of beers.

- [Schwag] It's a code three, Monsters.

[siren wailing]

Will Jesse answer the call?

- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - Oh.

- [Schwag] Will Monster beer stand people on their heads?

[attendee snarling]

These questions and more will soon be answered.

Stay tuned.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage [bubbles burbling]

- [Announcer] It's the last day

in the "Monster Garage" six pack.

It's time for brewers John and Lee to bring this build home.

The pressure's on for the beer making dudes.

Jesse's here early, pushing for a fast finish,

but he's not looking to drink.

He wants to drive.

- 'Cause I got a race, man, tonight, so.

Well, hopefully we'll be ready to brew

by the time I split the race, then.

- [Announcer] "Monster Garage" gives Jesse the opportunity

to satisfy his need for speed.

Tonight he's running his new Figure 8 car

out at Irwindale Speedway.

[engine roaring]

He'll also race in the NASCAR Super Late Model Twin 50s,

but work comes first.

- I guess I could make a little hat for that,

the top of that smokestack.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Announcer] The pump that will transfer water and beer

from one tank to the next gets mounted.

The kettle needs cleaning, and John dives right in.

Anybody got a match?

The propane is attached to the burners.

It's time to fire it up and hope it doesn't blow up.

The Monster minister offers a short prayer.

- Do you wanna give it the old

my head, chest, and both shoulders hurt? [chuckles]

- It's time to get cooking.

[upbeat rock music] - Woo!

- [Ron] Oh yeah.

- [Announcer] Now that they've got fire,

Jesse starts making the copper lid for the smokestack.

[energetic rock music]

- So just make a little mound, just put it like that.

That'd be good?

Is that cool?

- [Announcer] Jesse gets an update from the master brewer.

- Technically, we started brewing beer

'cause we're heating up water,

and that's the first step in the brew day.

- All right, well, let's get all cleaned up

and get everything buttoned up,

and then by that time I'll be done with that.

- [Announcer] A watched tank never boils,

so Jesse heads back to his lair at West Coast Choppers

to perform some copper-smithing magic.

- See, it's not scratching it though.

It's not digging in like the regular shrinking does.

[copper rattling]

It's just grabbing the metal and pushing it closer together.

- [Announcer] He's got the skills to pay all our bills.

[copper clanking] [grinder whooshing]

[Jesse whistles] [copper clanking]

[sander swishing]

- I think sometimes I forget

that I can make anything I want, you know?

Ta-da.

- [Announcer] Back at the garage, things are heating up.

[upbeat rock music]

- Looks nice.

- It's my new helmet. - Right on.

[upbeat rock music continues]

[stern rock music]

- [Announcer] The smokestack gets a new copper topper.

- It's not hot. - No?

- Hey, there's that thing I just made.

- [Lee] Nice.

[metal clanking] Oh.

This is like 900 degrees coming outta here though.

[Jesse groans] Got a limited amount of time

before my hands catch on fire.

- Just put it down, put it in.

It looks pretty, like, what-the-hell-looking, you know?

No one's gonna wanna rear-end that thing when it's on.

- [Announcer] The main ingredient arrives.

Sacks of malt, a custom blend provided by Coors.

It was milled down at Stone Brewery,

and now it's ready for the soaker.

But the kettle's having a hard time

getting the water up to cooking temperature.

- It's getting there.

- [Announcer] 180 degrees.

There's nothing Jesse can do but wait.

- Can you turn it up higher?

I don't think you can rush good beer.

- Pretty close right now. - All right.

All right then.

- You need patience when you're making beer.

- [Announcer] Patience,

for a man who calls himself Way Fast Whitey?

- The beer will be ready when the beer is ready.

- Hey, Otto. - Bring the tape measure down.

- [Jesse] Do you understand how all this works?

- No. - Me neither.

None of them guys could weld though.

- Yeah. - So we got 'em.

- Yeah, you know- - They can make beer,

but they can't make the thing that makes beer.

- Yeah.

- [Announcer] Finally, the water hits 180 degrees

and gets transferred into the mash tun.

It's time for the soak.

The malt goes in the hot water, which breaks it down,

releasing the sugar locked in the grain starch.

The end result is the sweet liquid called wort.

And that's beer making 101, worts and all.

- [John] Whoa!

- You know, tell me what to do, man.

I tell you guys what to do. [John laughing]

- [Announcer] Jesse's taking to this brewing thing

like a pro.

He enlists his favorite builder to join in.

- Come stir this, Otto.

We want our beer imported. [group laughing]

Only kidding.

See that, Otto?

We're making beer, man.

- [Lee] You wanna mix it right when he's dumping it in

so it keeps it from getting dry.

- [Jesse] Oh, now you're getting all bossy.

You don't do [beep] the whole week,

and then now you're the boss. [group laughing]

It's looking good, 152.

- [Announcer] The comradery of beer making

has Jesse all touchy-feely.

- This is boring.

This isn't doing a wheelie. - Slide this thing up.

- Hurry up and dump that [beep] in here

so we can get outta here.

I got some racing to do, man.

- [Announcer] This is what John and Lee

have been waiting for all week.



with 200 gallons of water.

- [John] We got the glasses.

We got glasses on.

- Oh wow. - Holy cow.

- Make it red. - Wow.

- Haha, crazy.

Getting crazy at the brewery. - Crazy at the brewery.

- I'm used to craziness. - Here dump that [beep] in.

Let's get outta here.

- It's getting fanned. - We gotta cue

some lumpety-lumps over here.

- [Lee] So this go in here.

- [John] You taste it.

- Tastes like Malt-O-Meal.

- [Announcer] The tanks hold water,

the boiler boils, the mash tun soaks,

and the fermentor is chilling.

All systems are go.

In 10 days, we'll have beer.

With the brew officially underway, Jesse calls it.

- [Jesse] Do you want some tools, Otto?

- Tools? - All right, cool.

- Great. - Way to go, Otto.

- Guess what we made today on "Monster Garage."

- Beer. - Beer.

- Cool, so we got Mac tools, "Monster Garage" CD.

We only have one thing left, though.

We never named it.

I think...

I think since, you know,

Otto's the most stately guy on the team,

we should call it the Otto Brew.

- [Otto] Thank you.

- That sounds good to me. - Is that cool?

- Yeah. - That's cool.

- [Jesse] You guys have no problem with that?

- All right, Otto. - Nice job.

- Yeah. - Good job, Otto.

- Cool. - Cool.

- [Announcer] John and Lee have another eight hours

before they'll add the yeast

and throw it into the fermentor.

That's their job, not Jesse's.

He's got a date with a Figure 8 and a race car.

He heads out to the speedway

and brings Otto, Ron, and George along for the ride.

[bluesy rock music]

If you're a brewer, this is work.

After the taste test, the wort is transferred

from the mash tun back into the kettle.

Out at Irwindale,

Jesse takes first place in the Figure 8 race.

[engine roaring]

Back in the garage,

a dash of cut hops goes in for some added flavor.

- [laughs] That doesn't look very good.

- Smells good though. - Smells awesome though, man.

I've never seen it packed that tight.

- [Announcer] The sweet aroma of boiling wort

means the brewers are approaching the finish line.

And so is Jesse, pushing hard for first place

in the NASCAR Super Late Model race.

[engines roaring]

But going into turn four, he hits the wall

at over 100 miles per hour.

[engines roaring]

He's knocked out for three minutes.

Paramedics rushed to pull him out of the burning car.

[suspenseful music]

He tries to stand up and collapses.

The impact left him with a broken foot, four broken ribs,

a cracked sternum, and a busted nose.

[stern music]

[siren wailing]

In the garage,

the race to the finish is a little less dramatic.

- The hot wort's gonna come through,

through one side of these plates.

We're gonna force some cold water through on the other side.

- [John] Oh yeah, it's going in.

- [Announcer] The final step.

The yeast is added to the liquid in the fermentor.

John makes the call.

They're making alcohol.

- We are actually fermenting beer.

- Yep, fermentation, yes. - Nice.

- Go, Lee. [laughs] - Nice.

- We made beer.

[stern music] [machinery whirring]

[upbeat rock music]

- [Announcer] Build cost tally.

Vehicle cost.

Freebie value.

Build cost.

Total costs.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage [bubbles burbling]

- [Schwag] Bottoms up, Monster chug-a-lug nuts.

We're rolling our new beer truck through the high Sierras

heading into the town of Mammoth Lakes

in Northern California.

[siren wailing]

What the hell are we doing here?

To participate in something called Bluesapalooza,

a blues and beer festival hosted by Mammoth Brewing Company.

What more could any stone cold beer drinker ask for?

- Yeah, we love the beer here, baby.

Yeah!

- [Schwag] Blues.

[upbeat blues music]

Brews.

- Yeah! - Yeah, the brew fest, baby!

- [Jesse] Yeah.

- [Schwag] And a bartender named Jesse James.

[upbeat rock music]

- Hey, you little girls want some beer?

[group laughing]

No?

- Can I have one?

- You just cut in front of all those people, man.

- Oh, I'm sorry. [group laughing]

- [Jesse] There you go.

Girls showing the guys what's up.

- Yeah! - I'll do it three times!

- Woo! - Yeah!

- [Schwag] Onboard the brewsmobile,

Coors man John Legnard from the build team.

He's here to help show off

the wonders of the best-tasting monster

to ever roll out of the garage.

- Took a firetruck and we built a brewery on it.

And that's the beer we brewed on it.

- Get outta here, man.

- [Announcer] A lot of microbrewers are here

to show off their beers.

How does the "Monster Garage" brew stand up?

- I like the taste, like the flavor.

- The beer is excellent.

I mean, I've never had a beer

off a fricking firetruck before.

That's outta control.

- I love the "Monster Garage" beer.

- [Schwag] Yeah!

- Nice carbonation, good texture.

On a day like today, pretty much a perfect beer.

- What kind of beer is this?

- Uh,

it's a special kind

from Long Beach.

- [Attendee] From Long Beach?

It's special? - Yeah, just drink it.

It's free.

- You got a pen?

Can you give me an autograph?

- I don't have one.

I got free beer though.

- I'll pay you for beer.

- Just take the beer and be happy.

Where'd you get that from?

- I got it from the store.

[group laughing]

- You gotta just take it all in stride

'cause it's off the hook.

- [Schwag] Jesse conducts an in-depth interview

with the local cable access station.

- So welcome to Mammoth Lakes.

And what do you think of Mammoth?

Have you been here before?

- Nope.

- Do you like it? - No.

- Do you ski? - No.

- Yeah, this is not your kind of place at all, is it?

- No. - Oh, well, Mammoth is-

- It's like a bunch of hippie backpackers, it looks like.

[upbeat music]

Smoke weed while snowboarding. - Oh, back in stock. [laughs]

Well, you know what? - Let's go.

[attendee snarling]

- [Schwag] After the interview,

he pours some beers for Scott Coors

and team brewer Lee Chase.

- Beer, Jesse? - Yeah.

- Beer, beer, beer. [group laughing]

- Beer, get it higher. - [laughs] Yeah.

- I don't think that was enough.

[Jesse laughing] - Woo!

- Beer, nice.

[group laughing]

- I've never actually been served beer

out of a T-shirt before the beer.

- [Schwag] The beer-soaked crowd gets to enjoy

the pedal-steel mastery of The Lee Boys.

[upbeat bluesy music]

♪ Let's celebrate, let's celebrate ♪

♪ We gonna have a good time

♪ Let's celebrate

♪ We gonna have a good time

- [Schwag] And another lesson is learned.

White people can't jump, and they can't dance either.

That's it.

Jesse sounds the alarm.

[siren wailing]

- [chuckles] I like how everybody moved away.

It's like people repellent.

- [Schwag] He's got better things to do

than sit around and talk to a bunch of drunks.

- Get the [beep] outta here.

- I don't wanna beat your a*s in front of these little kids.

- [Schwag] He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The next "Monster Garage" challenge is just around the bend.

[energetic rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Yeah

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Huh, huh

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Yeah

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Huh, huh

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Yeah

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Huh, huh

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Yeah

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Huh, huh

♪ Monster, Monster

[uplifting music]