Episode
Good Eats: Fermentation Nation
Overview
Most people think of beer and wine only as drinks, but host Alton Brown thinks outside the bottle as he uses them as key ingredients in several tasty dishes.
Details
- Series
- Good Eats
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2009-10-19
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Fermentation Nation is Episode 8 in Season 13 of Good Eats. It aired on 2009-10-19. The runtime is 21 min.
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