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Zymurgy’s Best Beers In America 2012

Zymurgy Magazine, the official Journal of the American Homebrewer’s Association just published their results from the reader’s rankings.  For the 4th year in a row, Russian River’s Pliny The Elder  takes 1st place. Bell’s Two Hearted and Dogfish Head 90 Minute aren’t Continue Reading →

Maui & Dogfish Head Create Liquid Breadfruit

Beer celebrity and Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione recently traveled to Hawaii (that must have sucked) to collaborate with Maui Brewing Co. The result? Liquid Breadfruit.  Brewed with toasted papaya seeds, and breadfruit.  Breadfruit comes from a flowering tree in Continue Reading →

Dogfish Head’s Positive Contact In Comic Form

Dogfish Head’s newest musical collaboration Positive Contact officially streets today.  The beer is brewed with Dan The Automator.  Brewed with apples, Farro, and Cayenne.  Check out the story broken down all comic book style.

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Zymurgy’s Best Beers In America 2012

Zymurgy Magazine, the official Journal of the American Homebrewer’s Association just published their results from the reader’s rankings.  For the 4th year in a row, Russian River’s Pliny The Elder  takes 1st place. Bell’s Two Hearted and Dogfish Head 90 Minute aren’t far behind for best IPA in the country.  Interestingly, the harder to find Pliny The Younger ranked at the other end of the list, at #48.

More than 16,000 votes were received in this years vote.  Check out the full story for brewery rankings. (T= Tied) [AHA]

 

1. Russian River Pliny the Elder
 2. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale
 3. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
 4. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
 5. Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale
 6. Bell’s Hopslam
7. Sierra Nevada Celebration
8. Stone Ruination IPA
 9. Sierra Nevada Torpedo
 10. North Coast Old Rasputin
 11. Firestone Walker Union Jack
 12. Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
 13. Bear Republic Racer 5
 14. Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale
 15. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
 16. Firestone Walker Double Jack
 T17. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
 T17. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
 19. Stone IPA
 20. New Belgium Fat Tire
 21. Deschutes Black Butte Porter
 22. Avery Maharaja
 23. Founders Breakfast Stout
 24. Left Hand Milk Stout
 T25. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
 T25. New Belgium Ranger
 T25. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale
 28. Deschutes The Abyss
 29. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
 30. Surly Furious
 T31. Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin
 T31. Rogue Dead Guy
 T31. Samuel Adams Boston Lager
34. Troegs Nugget Nectar
 T35. Lagunitas IPA
 T35. New Belgium La Folie
 T37. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron
 T37. Founders KBS
 T37. Russian River Blind Pig IPA
 41. Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
 42. Victory Prima Pils
43. Great Divide Yeti
 T44. Alaskan Smoked Porter
 T44. Anchor Steam
 T44. Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
 T44. Samuel Adams Noble Pils
 T48. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
 T48. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
 T48. Russian River Pliny the Younge
by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Stone Brewing Co., Victory Brewing Company, Videos

Dogfish Head/Victory/Stone Saison Du Buff [Video]

Enjoy the offical 2012 video for the Dogfish Head/Victory/Stone Saison Du Buff collaboration.  This year marks the second release of the beer, that has taken 10 years to be fullyl realized.

Back in 2003, three intrepid craft brewers formed Brewers United for Freedom of Flavor, or BUFF, to bring publicity to their crusade for artfully crafted, flavorful beers. To further the cause, Sam Calagione, Bill Covaleski, and Greg Koch got together in 2010 to brew an audacious collaboration beer enhanced with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Emboldened by the beer’s enthusiastic reception, the BUFF team reconvened in 2012 to brew an updated version with lemon thyme from Stone Farms. And the rest is history…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Dogfish Head, Maui Brewing Company

Maui & Dogfish Head Create Liquid Breadfruit

Beer celebrity and Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione recently traveled to Hawaii (that must have sucked) to collaborate with Maui Brewing Co. The result? Liquid Breadfruit.  Brewed with toasted papaya seeds, and breadfruit.  Breadfruit comes from a flowering tree in the mulberry family, so named for the texture of the cooked fruit.  The flavor is a bit like potatoes. It’s considered a staple fruit in tropical regions.  The yeast was found in a peach farm near Dogfish Head in the first state.  DFH went all scientific on it, and regrew it.

There is actually a good bit of dialogue on the back of the can between Maui’s Garrett Marrero and Sam.  Some highlights – “Millions of Delaware natives lusting fro tropic climes cannot be wrong” – Sam.  “Breadfruit has been a staple crop f0r 3000 years” – Garrett.   And the best –

” I love to cook and toasted papaya seed seemed like another great spice to balance the breadfruit and compliment the tropical flavors of calypso hops and the flavors lent by the philandering Delawareans. It was no small task to harvest all these seeds by hand… but it beats chewing purple corn for weeks on end….” – Garrret

Style: Fruit Beer (w/ papaya seeds, breadfruit)
Availability: 12 oz cans, Draft
Arrival: Purported to debut at GABF in October

8% ABV

note:  The label most assuredly will be in color! 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head

New Hampshire, Georgia: No Postive Contact Box Sets For You

Georgia and New Hampshire will NOT receive Dogfish Head’s newest collaboration Positive Contact.  The Delaware based brewery has stated that New Hampshire and Georgia will be unable to sell the box sets thanks to some legal entanglements.

Positive Contact is not able to be approved in New Hampshire. The box sets are also not able to be sold in Georgia. We are still waiting on (with crossed fingers) approvals from CT, IL, NC, and TX. We are hopeful those four states will come through with an approval and we are holding beer for wholesalers in those four markets. If approvals come through in the next month or so, we will send Positive Contact to those four states.

Don’t be upset with DFH.  Call your state legislature. Find out why their state’s piss poor excuse for beer laws are keeping you from having this beer.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Videos

Dogfish Head Quick Sips: Positive Contact [Video]

Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head chats Positive Contact, the newest musical collaboration to come out of the Delaware based brewery.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Dogfish Head

Dogfish Head’s Positive Contact In Comic Form

Dogfish Head’s newest musical collaboration Positive Contact officially streets today.  The beer is brewed with Dan The Automator.  Brewed with apples, Farro, and Cayenne.  Check out the story broken down all comic book style.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Videos

Dogfish Head Positive Contact: A Remix Video

Dogfish Head’s newest musical collaboration Positive Contact drops next week.  Founder and figurehead Sam Calagione breaks it down.

by Reid Ramsay