Dogfish Head
Dogfish Head American Beauty Art Updated for Dead’s 50th
Dogfish Head American Beauty, the brewery’s tribute, and inspired by, The Grateful Dead, is getting an artwork overhaul in honor of the band’s 50th anniversary.
The imperial pale ale combines American hops and an ingredient not seen in beer often – granola. Dead fan (and beer fan) Thomas Butler shared his favorite concert story that lead to the granola choice.
Inside this bottle. Your miracle ticket awaits. We called Americas Beauty, an imperial Pale Ale inspired by the Grateful Dead. The best way to capture 30 years, 100 albums, 1,500 shows? Let the loyal fans drive the recipe. Among thousands of suggestions, granola was top. It was the main course in millions of parking lot meals and is newsstand toasty complement to the all-American hops and barley. There was something different about a Dead show. Whether you saw one or 103, you felt it but you knew it wouldn’t last forever. If only you could have bottled it …
Dogfish Head American Beauty is slated to make a seasonal appearance again in May, 2015.
Style: IPA (w/ Granola)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Return:
9% ABV
The previous label…
Return of Dogfish Head Black & Blue, with Refreshed Label
Dogfish Head’s Black & Blue returns to 750 mL bottles with an updated label.
Dogfish Head Black & Blue is a Belgian-style golden ale fermented with black raspberries and blueberries with an intense berry flavor and aroma.
The pureed berries are added as the beer leaves the brewhouse. In fermentation, the yeast — the same one we use in Red & White and Pangaea — feeds on sugars from the barley and the berries, giving Black & Blue a unique complexity.
Dogfish Black & Blue was first brewed in 2007.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries, Blueberries)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Seasonal release.
Return: March, 2015
10% ABV
Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione Nominated for Sixth James Beard Award
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s founder Sam Calagione has been nominated for his sixth James Beard award semifinalist for Outstanding Wine, Beer, or Spirits Professional. That’s his sixth in as many years.
For those unfamilar, the James Beard Awards the the Academy Awards of the food and drink world.
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education.
Five finalists will be named in March, with the awards in May in Chicago, Illinois.
Dogfish Head Aprihop Gets Artistic Update
Dogfish Head’s spring seasonal, Aprihop, will feature new label art from Pittsburgh illustrator Rich Kelly. All 12oz bottles will feature the fresh artwork.
Kelly has created posters for big name musical acts like Phish, Primus, Dave Matthews Band, The Black Keys, and movie and tv’s Django Unchained, Breaking Bad.
When I started out, I recorded all of the information I could regarding the different ingredients, the geography of their origins and the process of brewing. Then it was a matter of creating visuals to accompany that information and then combining those visuals into one cohesive image…
Dogfish Head Aprihop is the brewery’s spring seasonal, brewed with apricot juice. It makes a seasonal return in March, 2015. Rich describes the creative process on Dogfish Head’s website.
Style: IPA (w/ Apricots)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Distribution: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA
7% ABV
Dogfish Head Scrapple Beer Returns
Dogfish Head’s Beer For Breakfast, aka Scrapple Beer, made a return to the Dogfish Head brewpub today. The meat infused beer made news when it was first released in December of last year.
Being from Delaware, I feel like I have to tell you everything else about Dogfish Head’s Brewpub Exclusive, Beer for Breakfast, before mentioning scrapple so you stick with me.
The brewery has re-released a breakfast themed beer (in the realm of Chicory Stout, brewed with Mexican coffee, licorice root and chicory) but this time they are going all in. Well, as far as ingredients are concerned. The ingredients rundown looks like this:
- Scrapple Beer contains maple syrup from the trees at Northfield Mount Hermon High School (Sam Calagione met his wife there)
- Barley smoked over applewood from Delaware’s Fifer Orchards (Bacon anyone?)
- Lactose (Milk. or milk sugar in this case)
- Coffee from The Bean Factory in St. Paul, Minnesota, added post fermentation.
- and 25 pounds of Scrapple from Rapa’s Scrapple.
Don’t know what scrapple is? As the name suggests, it’s pork scraps with spices and corn meal. It’s crazy good, don’t knock it until you try it.
Dogfish Head Beer for Breakfast (a nod to The Replacements song, Beer For Breakfast) first debuted onDecember 5th, 2014 at a special Happy Hour. And well, again today.
Style: Milk Stout (w/ Coffee, Lactose, Maple Syrup, Scrapple)
Availability: Draft Only, Brewpub
Return: 2/2/15
10% ABV
Dogfish Head Wasn’t Legal At One Point [VIDEO]
As Dogfish Head crosses the 20 year mark, brewery founder Sam Calagione recalls the day he found out starting a brewery might be illegal in their home state of Delaware.
Dogfish Head 20th Anniversary Beer Coming Next Fall
Dogfish Head (Milton, DE) will cross the 20 year mark in 2015. The brewery has added a 20th Anniversary beer release, slated for September. The style of the beer has yet to released.
Dogfish Head opened its doors in June, 1995 with Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats based in Rehoboth Beach. At the time it was Delaware’s first brewpub. The first batch was Shelter Pale Ale.
In 2002, the brewery expanded to the production facility in Milton, Delaware. Additionally, the brewery built a distillery on the second floor of the original brewpub.
Growth has been steady ever since.
