Senator Chris Coons recently visited Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware to discuss the Brewers Employment & Excise Relief Act. The Act seeks to stimulate small brewery business, and help them grow during a critical stage in development. Continue Reading →
Dogfish Head and Portsmouth Brewing have collaborated to create “Fru-it Gru-it.” A gruit medeval is a beer style that uses herbs and spices prior to the widespread use of hops. You know Dogfish is involved, so it’s going to Continue Reading →
Dogfish Head Brewing just created Tweason’ale, a gluten free sorghum based beer brewed with fresh strawberries from Fifer Orchards near Dover, Delaware. The process was labor intensive to say the least, but the result tasty. While Tweason’ale is only on Continue Reading →
Dogfish Head & Shorts Brewing are collaborating. Sam of DFH and Joe of Short’s have been friends for years. Yesterday Shorts announced via their blog, details of the collaboration. Here’s the quick rundown. The beer would have ingredients from each Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that Dogfish Head & Sierra Nevada are brewing up another batch of Life & Limb in 2011. The collaboration between the 2 breweries was created in May, 2009 and released in November of that year. About L&L:
Dogfish Head’s Punkin Ale is on the way. Another wildly popular pumpkin beer returns for a new season. First released in 1994.
A full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar. We brew our Punkin Ale with pumpkin meat, organic brown sugar and spices. This is the perfect beer to warm-up with, as the season cools.
The beer is named for the famous “Punkin Chunkin” that takes place on Thanksgiving night. Basically, it’s how far can you shoot a pumpkin. Engineering at it’s finest. Check the video below.
Dogfish Head, Delaware, & The Brewers Employment & Excise Relief
Senator Chris Coons recently visited Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware to discuss the Brewers Employment & Excise Relief Act. The Act seeks to stimulate small brewery business, and help them grow during a critical stage in development. Highlighting from the press release
The Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief Act redefines what it means to be a “small” brewery to one that produces up to 6 million barrels per year (up from 2 million barrels). It then recalibrates the federal excise tax on “small” brewers by:
Reducing the rate on the first 60,000 barrels each year from $7 per barrel to $3.50 per barrel
Reducing the rate on barrels 60,001 through 2 million from $18 per barrel to $16 per barrel
For Dogfish Head, which produces more than 125,000 barrels of its craft brews each year, this could mean savings of $340,000 a year that can be reinvested in new employees, production enhancements, and new products.
Full Press Release
MILTON, Del. – In a visit to the Dogfish Head Craft Brewing Co. on Monday, U.S. Senator Chris Coons reiterated his commitment to helping small businesses grow and getting more Delawareans back to work. Senator Coons underscored his support for S. 534, the Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief Act, which would help small breweries like Dogfish increase production, development and local hiring.
“Dogfish Head is one of Delaware’s great small business success stories,” Senator Coons said. “What Sam and his team have built here is a terrific example of what can be done when talent,creativity and hard work are combined with the tools and resources to succeed in this competitive market. Washington needs to be doing all it can to help get more Americans back to work, and that means helping small businesses like Dogfish grow. The Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief Act helps level the playing field for small breweries and makes it easier for them to grow at what is a critical stage in their development.”
“We are proud of our Delaware roots here at Dogfish Head and we are proud to have Senator Chris Coons as our senator,” said Dogfish president Sam Calagione. “Both he and Senator Carper understand that righting our country’s financial ship begins at home with small businesses and main street jobs. Senator Coons is a co-sponsor of S 534, legislation that will allow small American family-owned breweries to add thousands of jobs in every state across the nation. He has championed the importance of small business on many fronts many times. Our Dogfish Head production facility is on Chestnut Street in Milton and our pub is on Rehoboth Ave but our company is adding dozens of Main Street jobs this year and it is great to know we have the support and commitment of Senator Coons as we do our small part to move our local economy forward.”
The Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief Act redefines what it means to be a “small” brewery to one that produces up to 6 million barrels per year (up from 2 million barrels). It then recalibrates the federal excise tax on “small” brewers by:
Reducing the rate on the first 60,000 barrels each year from $7 per barrel to $3.50 per barrel
Reducing the rate on barrels 60,001 through 2 million from $18 per barrel to $16 per barrel
For Dogfish Head, which produces more than 125,000 barrels of its craft brews each year, this could mean savings of $340,000 a year that can be reinvested in new employees, production enhancements, and new products.
“Whenever I visit one of Delaware’s innovative manufacturing businesses, like Dogfish,” Senator Coons said, “I ask the same question: what can I do to help you grow? Sometimes it’s an introduction to another business or elected official. Sometimes it’s legislative. But the key is, we need to make sure Delaware’s businesses have the tools they need to grow.”
S. 534 was introduced earlier this year by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.). It is cosponsored by Senator Coons and a bipartisan array of 34 additional senators, including – locally – Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Stinging Nettles, Yarrow, Lavender, & Bog Myrtle. Oh yeah, and Peaches
Dogfish Head and Portsmouth Brewing have collaborated to create “Fru-it Gru-it.” A gruit medeval is a beer style that uses herbs and spices prior to the widespread use of hops. You know Dogfish is involved, so it’s going to contain some interesting ingredients. Both Delaware and New England ingredients (from the home of Portsmouth.) So what?
The base beer is an amber porter, with peaches from Fifer Farms in Delaware, Stinging Nettles, Yarrow, Lavender, and Bog Myrtle. Malts include North American 2-Row, European Pils, C-60, C-120, Carafa II DH, Chocolate Malt, Black Malt, Roasted Barley, Aromatic, Flaked Barley
…For this collaboration beer, Tod and Sam decided it was best to use some old ingredients and some new ingredients that would uniquely reflect the terroir of both New England and Delaware. The base beer for their ‘Fru-it Gru-it’ is an amber porter. During the boil, 30# of Delaware peaches from Fifer Farms near Dover will be introduced to the brew kettle. In addition to the stone fruit, an assortment of lavender, stinging nettles, yarrow and bog myrtle. The nettles came from Tods backyard in Maine while the rest of the herbs were sourced from either New Hampshire or Vermont. A further 30# of peaches will be added to the fermenter before the wort is mixed with brewers yeast.
Dogfish Head Brewing just created Tweason’ale, a gluten free sorghum based beer brewed with fresh strawberries from Fifer Orchards near Dover, Delaware. The process was labor intensive to say the least, but the result tasty. While Tweason’ale is only on tap the DFH brewpub, you can check out the brew day in a series of animated GIF files. Jamie and Kevin from Cinemagraphs.com documented the whole experience. Some pics below. The rest —> http://cinemagraphs.com/dogfish/
Dogfish Head & Shorts Brewing are collaborating. Sam of DFH and Joe of Short’s have been friends for years. Yesterday Shorts announced via their blog, details of the collaboration. Here’s the quick rundown. The beer would have ingredients from each of the brewery’s home states. You know Dogfish. The ingredient are to be “unusual” aka off-centered. The beer will be brewed in Bellaire, MI at Short’s.
Here’s what they came up with. A Baltic porter, featuring beach plums (Delaware), red popcorn (Indiana by way of Three Floyds Brewing), and horehound from Michigan. Horehound for you botanists is called Lamiaceae or Labiatae and is in the mint family. (Subsets= white horehound & black horehound.) Where Three Floyds got involved with the ingredients is a mystery to me.
The beer has yet to be named, but will have a tap debut at Shorts on July 4th. Around Michigan? Here are some deets: Short’s is releasing the test batch of this beer at its Pub on July 4th. Then, on Wednesday July 6th, Joe and Sam will host a public reception at the lobby of the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa from 5-6:30 p.m. That evening, Sam will dine with the Short’s crew at the Aerie Restaurant on the 16th floor of the tower. Special kegs of Short’s and Dogfish Head will be featured at Aerie that night (a tap takeover to remember!). Short’s Brew will also be featured at Jack’s Sports Bar, which is located near the hotel lobby.
Bottles will be available though Shorts distribution network.
It’s no secret that Dogfish Head & Sierra Nevada are brewing up another batch of Life & Limb in 2011. The collaboration between the 2 breweries was created in May, 2009 and released in November of that year. About L&L:
Life & Limb is a collaborative effort, the brainchild of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer that defies style characteristics- brewed with pure maple syrup from the Calagione family farm in Massachusetts and estate barley grown on the Grossman “farm” at the brewery in Chico, CA. The beer is alive with yeast-a blend of both breweries’ house strains-bottle conditioned for added complexity and shelf life, and naturally carbonated with birch syrup fresh from Alaska.
Life & Limb is dedicated to the family of beer drinkers and enthusiasts worldwide who continue to support the little guys, iconoclasts, entrepreneurs, and pioneers who risk life and limb to shape the vibrant craft-brewing community.
Style: American Strong Ale
Hops: Bravo (Bittering), Perle & Sterling (Finishing) Malts: 2 Row Pale, Chocolate, Carafa Yeast: Blend of yeasts from both breweries
Maple & Birch syrups
The 2011 edition might see a little different bottle size – 750ml. (Last release was 24oz.) L&L 2 will be distributed through Sierra Nevada’s channels.
