Tales from Ale Trail- Not Your Average
Beer Show This is not your average realty TV show. Tales from the Ale Trail combines wit and humor with beer. What’s better than that? We sat down with Tales hosts Nick Mirka, and Chris Treschak to find out more about the show, what inspired them to create it, and what hilarious undertakings have happened behind the scenes because, well, we know there’s lots. How did you come up with the concept for the show? Nick: We were thinking our love for craft beer was getting out of hand. (Everyone laughs) Chris: We’ve known each other for a long time. Nick and Mark own a video production company and we all love craft beer, so we
By Emma Cavanagh
thought why don’t we meld those things together and do a beer TV show. And we actually did our very first production meeting two years before we evergreen lit the show. Nick: We happened to have craft beer in our hands at the time, which was a necessary step. Chris: We sat down and fleshed out the creative thoughts of the show and Nick influenced that quite heavily. Where you would get those snooty documentary style shows, Nick really pushed being more creative than that. The initial thought that we had was a semi-scripted reality TV filmed in a documentary style: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives meets The Office. We did one episode out of pocket just as a pilot and Nick was able to find a way to get us into a pitch.” Nick: “Paul Gardner from Bell reached out to us. He said, ‘We do community programming. We want to showcase community
