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Sam On Ta Henket

Dogfish Head has started shipping Ta Henket, a new addition to their Ancient Ales lineup.  Haven’t had it yet?  Here’s Sam Calagione telling you what to expect.

Dogfish Head Fort Shipping Soon

Dogfish Head Fort is about to start shipping.  What is Fort?  First off – it’s not in every DFH market, some because it’s pretty high octane.   To the tune of 18% ABV.    Take over 1 ton of raspberries, Continue Reading →

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Dogfish Tweason’ale, Namaste, Noble Rot, World Wide Ship This Month

Dogfish Head’s new gluten-free offering will start shipping next week, with Namaste, & Noble Rot shortly after…

Tweason’ale – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/16 and should be hitting retail between 1/23 and into early Feb (depending on when your local wholesaler takes delivery).
Namaste – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/30 and should be hitting retail between in early Feb.
Noble Rot – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/23 and should begin hitting retail the week of 1/30.
2011 World Wide Stout – will begin shipping to wholesale the week of 1/23 and will begin hitting retail the week of 1/30.  It will not be brewed in 2012.

As these beers hit retail, they will begin appearing on the Fish Finder at our website.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Cool Stuff, Dogfish Head

A Week In The Life Of Dogfish’s Lead Brewer

Ben Potts is Dogfish Head Brewing’s lead brewer.  He started at the brewery in late 2011.  The Food Informants, columnists for the Huffington Post, spent a week with Ben.   Those who thing being a brewer is all glamour and banana sandwiches.   Scut work, emails, and technical work abound.  Ben walks the Informants through the brewing of Low Rider (his first beer at the put) that just debuted on tap at the brewpub, and the BeerAdvocate brew – headed for the Extreme Beer Fest in Boston this year.

1:50pm: I finish cleaning the tap line that had been soaking and rinse it thoroughly. I taste the water coming out to check and see if any flavor from the previous beer carried over. Tastes fine. I switch the Tweason’ale over to that freshly cleaned line and get ready to tap and test the Low Rider. 
2:50pm: Finally the Low Rider is run through the tap. The beer cascades beautifully as it flows from the tap into the pint glass. My first brew is a success! Nice and malty, with a subtle herbal hoppiness and incredibly silky/creamy mouth feel due to the nitrogenization. I couldn’t be more excited! A real milestone, my first Dogfish beer!

T’weasonale is a gluten free beer arriving this month. [HuffPo]

by Reid Ramsay
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Sam On Ta Henket


Dogfish Head has started shipping Ta Henket, a new addition to their Ancient Ales lineup.  Haven’t had it yet?  Here’s Sam Calagione telling you what to expect.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head

Remember When Dogfish Had To Find A Spigot In A Haystack?

Remember the episode of Brewmasters on the Discovery Channel when Dogfish Head lost a bottling spigot in the beer?  The brewery had to search through pallets of packaged bottles to find the missing tip.

So what did the brewery take away from the incident? If they had what they have now, it probably never would have happened.   Asset Management software from Asset Point.

Asset management software allows maintenance crews to establish a maintenance schedule for manufacturing equipment using a variety of parameters, such as date, hours used, electricity consumed, or miles accumulated.

Knowing the state of your equipment is half the battle to efficiency.  It prevents downtime, and equipment failures, like the spigot incident.

“We used spreadsheets and whiteboards. We weren’t even scheduling,” he says. “[Asset management software has] allowed us to plan our work a week at a time, so we know what everyone’s doing. It also allows us to track our emergency type work, so we can see the machines causing us the most grief and make some modifications.” 

[CNBC]

by Reid Ramsay
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Dogfish’s New Ancient Ale Ta Henket Shipping

Dogfish Head Ta HenketThe newest Dogfish Head Ancient Ale to hit be bottled will be arriving quite soon.   Ta Henket ships this month.  The press release gives you the rundown. 

Ta Henket, the latest addition to Dogfish Head’s line of Ancient Ales, rolls out this month.  Inspired by a trip to the Great Pyramids, Dogfish Head Founder & President Sam Calagione created Ta Henket with ingredients and traditions outlined in Egyptian hieroglyphics. “It was like a Rosetta Stone visit,” he says. “That’s the first depiction of the brewing process, the birthplace of our vocation.” This earthy liquid time capsule is brewed with an ancient form of wheat and loaves of hearth-baked bread, and it’s flavored with chamomile and dom-palm fruit. The spiciness comes from zatar, a mixture of herbs found at a Cairo street market.

To ferment Ta Henket, Sam and friends traveled to a date grove near the pyramids, set out baited petri dishes and captured a native Egyptian yeast strain.  “It was the strangest picnic I’ve ever been on,” he said”
This 4.5% ABV Ancient Ale goes well with grilled fish, pork chops, roasted vegetables and feta cheese.  Ta Henket is available in 750ml bottles and on draft and will be distributed throughout Dogfish Head’s national network.

More on Ta Henket. You can grab the Ancient Ales episode of Brewmasters on Itunes for a mere $1.99

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head

Dogfish Alehouse Could Still Liable In Deadly Crash

JMGM Group LLC who runs Dogfish Ale House in Virginia,could still be held liable for a patron’s deadly crash.

In 2008, Michael D. Eaton who was 35 time, reportedly drank 17 beers and a couple of lemon drop shots, and drove home.  Eaton crashed into the back of another car on the road killing  a 10 year old.   He fled the scene and checked into a hotel for 12 hours prior to turning himself  in.  Eaton had priors for reckless driving, DUI, and weed possession.  He received 8 years in prison for the crash.

Why some states have laws against over serving patrons, Virginia does not.  However, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eric M. Johnson will decide for a second time whether to send this case to trial (and set a precedent.)  The civil suit against the alehouse is to the tune of $3.5 million dollars.  Also, looking over previous articles, Eaton reportedly drank 17 coronas, 2 lemon drop shots, a tequila shot, and an appetizer over a number of hours.  No Dogfish Head beer. [Gazette]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head

Dogfish Head Fort Shipping Soon

Dogfish Head Fort is about to start shipping.  What is Fort?  First off – it’s not in every DFH market, some because it’s pretty high octane.   To the tune of 18% ABV.    Take over 1 ton of raspberries, add them to a Belgian beer base.  Ferment. Boom! You have one boozy fruit beer.  First released in 2005.

Style: Fruit Beer
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft.

18% ABV 

pic via @beeradvocate

by Reid Ramsay