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Craft Beer-Focused TV Show to Film During Fourth of July Parade

A Scottish craft beer company will visit Pottstown on July 4.

According to a report in the Pottstown Mercury, one of the parade floats in this year's parade will star in an episode of a beer-themed documentary show that's being filmed during Thursday's parade. 

BrewDog UK, a Scottish craft beer company, has developed a show called "BrewDogs" which will air on the Esquire Channel. BrewDog owners James Watt and Martin Dickie are traveling the United States filming six episodes of the show. 

They will be starting a beer while riding a float in the parade, and they plan to brew with a yeast that has “digitally encoded the preamble to the Declaration of Independence onto a large number of strands of DNA in the yeast that we will be using to make the beer,” executive producer Steve Stockman told the Mercury.

“As a result, the batch we brew will have approximately 328 million copies of the Declaration’s preamble in it — one for every man woman and child in the United States,” Stockman said.

For more on the story, visit the Pottstown Mercury.

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