The above are bottles of Positive Contact on the line at Dogfish Head in Milton, Delaware. The beer infusion is a collaboration between Deltron 3030′s Dan the Automator and Dogfish Head. Deltron 3030 is a hip-hop collaboration between Dan and Del the Funkee Homosapien.
Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing a series of musically-themed beers this year. Once a month, the beer wizards at Lost Abbey a new rock-related concoction never seen before. Track #5 “Shout At The Devil.” Don’t go looking for Continue Reading →
Dogfish Head’s newest musical collaboration features Deltron 3030′s Dan the Automator to create a beer dubbed Postive Contact. The beer is a fusion (much like the music) of apple cider & spice.
A positive combination of Fuji cider, slow-roasted farro, a bit of cayenne, Continue Reading →
The Lost Abbey releases Track #3 of their ongoing Ultimate Box Set this Saturday. The beer, shown briefly in this video, is a blend of two barrels of Mellow Yellow, and Phunky Duck (a base beer in the blend that becomes Duck Continue Reading →
I’m going to just straight up throw out the press release, and develop it further…
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Deltron 3030’s Dan the Automator have teamed up to create Positive Contact, a hybrid of beer and cider based on Dan’s favorite ingredients and Continue Reading →
As a Pearl Jam and Dogfish Head fan, I can’t be more excited to hold a bottle in my hand. Here are some more details on the availability of the upcoming release of Dogfish Head Faithfull Ale. Cheers!
Milton, DE) — Faithfull Ale is a celebration of Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary as a band and its extraordinary debut album, “Ten.” In recognition of these milestones, this Belgian-style golden ale is delicately hopped to 20 IBUs and fruit-forward from 10 incremental Continue Reading →
The above are bottles of Positive Contact on the line at Dogfish Head in Milton, Delaware. The beer infusion is a collaboration between Deltron 3030′s Dan the Automator and Dogfish Head. Deltron 3030 is a hip-hop collaboration between Dan and Del the Funkee Homosapien.
Positive Contact is a 9% ABV hybrid of beer and cider brewed with wood-pressed Fuji apples, roasted farro, a handful of cayenne peppers and fresh cilantro. Described as a “sweet-and-sour Belgian-ish brew”, light straw color with fruity, cider-like notes. Cayenne and alcohol give it a warming finish.
Positive Contact’s expected street date is 6/18/12
Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing a series of musically-themed beers this year. Once a month, the beer wizards at Lost Abbey a new rock-related concoction never seen before. Track #5 “Shout At The Devil.” Don’t go looking for this in stores, you can only buy this at the brewery. (And can only drink it there too.) #5 is a blend of Red Poppy & Framboise de Amorosa. Shout At The Devil is Mötley Crüe’s second album.
Track 5 is a blend of two of our best fruited sour beers. An equal blend of Red Poppy and Framboise de Amorosa. Once the beers were blended we added additional fruit and let them rest in another set of French Oak barrels. The aroma is an explosion of red wine and oak notes. A jammy fruit presence dominates the mid-palate of the beer before a bracing tannin-laced dryness pervades the finish.
All told an exceptionally complex marriage between fruit, oak, and red wine expressions.
Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged, w/ raspberries & cherries) Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Brewery release only. Arrival: 5/19/12
Sneaky Peeky: Dogfish Head/Dan The Automator Positive Contact
Dogfish Head’s newest musical collaboration features Deltron 3030′s Dan the Automator to create a beer dubbed Postive Contact. The beer is a fusion (much like the music) of apple cider & spice.
A positive combination of Fuji cider, slow-roasted farro, a bit of cayenne, and fresh cilantro.
Style: Herb/Spice Beer Availability: 750 ml bottles, Draft
The Lost Abbey releases Track #3 of their ongoing Ultimate Box Set this Saturday. The beer, shown briefly in this video, is a blend of two barrels of Mellow Yellow, and Phunky Duck (a base beer in the blend that becomes Duck Duck Gooze.
Liner Notes
The beer is a blend of some our favorite components. The clean lactic notes from Mellow Yellow combined with the heavier earthy twang we get from the Phunky Duck barrels. It’s a non fruited blond sour which if you take into account our successes with Isabelle, Cable Car and Duck Duck ought to be enough to have people lining up like it’s Black Friday in March.
The Album Art and Text
The majestic bell tower is all that remains of this Gothic cathedral. Somehow, it escaped the ravages of wars and continues to weather the centuries of neglect. Shrouded in a fog of mystical wonder, the Devil maintains it for his personal playground. At dusk, Lucifer emerges to dance between the shadows of a silvering moon as he returns to the bell tower launching a cadence for the newly departed. Gong… Gong… Gong echoes the bell in a Satanic trance as a chorus of bats take flight from the tower-like thunder consuming the silence. For centuries the nearby townspeople have tried to unravel the mysteries of the bell tower only being left to conclude it is haunted. For the wind, they cannot make a Bell Toll like that. But the Devil can and nightly he conducts a Requiem for the souls he has acquired. Shhh… Listen quietly! You can almost hear it now…
Style: American Wild Ale Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Sold for consumption on-premise only. $15 each. Release: 3/17/12
7.55% ABV
Some notes on the release day:
Red Poppy will also be released on March 17, so we are doing things a bit differently.PLEASE READ BELOW FOR MORE INFO.
Extended Tasting Room Hours: Because we are expecting larger than usual crowds (two releases and St Patrick’s Day), we will be opening our doors from 9am to 7pm. The MIHO Gastrotruck will be onsite with breakfast specials from 8am — 11am and a special lunch menu from 11am -7pm.
Beer Reservations: We know many will want both Track 3 and Red Poppy, so we will begin IDing and wristbanding people for the beers at 8am. If you arrive early (i.e., before 9am) to ensure you get bottles, please line up on the loading ramp leading into the tasting room. As with previous releases you will be able to pay in line and be issued a ticket/receipt that ensures your allotment.
Allotments and Restrictions:
Track 3 — As with all Box Set releases, the beers must be consumed on-site, same day. Bottles may not be carried out. The bottles are 375ml and are $15 each.
Red Poppy — As with past releases, Red Poppy is also 375ml bottles; $15 each with a six-bottle per patron limit.(Yes, you can take Red Poppy away with you).
Special Taps: Red Poppy will be on draft as 4-ounce tasters only. Tasters are $3 each.
New Dogfish Head Musical Collaboration: Postive Contact
I’m going to just straight up throw out the press release, and develop it further…
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Deltron 3030’s Dan the Automator have teamed up to create Positive Contact, a hybrid of beer and cider based on Dan’s favorite ingredients and Dogfish Head’s innovative brewing practices.
Deltron 3030 is an adventurous hip-hop collaboration between Dan and Del the Funkee Homosapien. Deltron’s self-titled debut album, released in 2000, was an instant classic and is included on many hip-hop best-of lists. It got an 8/10 rating on NME, which called it “a crazed sci-fi journey to Planet B.S. that takes myriad detours around the galaxy. The most purely enjoyable hip-hop album of 2000.”
Over a decade in the making, the new Deltron 3030 album is set to drop this spring, and Positive Contact was brewed to celebrate the release.
Named after a key track on the first album, Positive Contact is a 9% ABV hybrid of beer and cider brewed with wood-pressed Fuji apples, roasted farro, a handful of cayenne peppers and a late dose of fresh cilantro. This sweet-and-sour Belgian-ish brew is a light straw color with fruity, cider-like notes. The cayenne and alcohol give it a warming finish.
The beer will be released in a dynamic box set of six 750-ml champagne bottles, with a 10-inch vinyl EP of four new Deltron 3030 remixes created exclusively for this project, and a list of Deltron 3030-inspired recipes from a small group of renowned chefs (see below). Invite some friends over, rock the album, drink the beer and whip up a multi-course meal. It’s a house party in a box.
Positive Contact box sets will be released in May throughout Dogfish Head’s distribution network, in accordance with local and state laws. Stay tuned.
For more information on the beer Positive Contact, contact Sam Calagione at [email protected]. For more information on Deltron 3030, contact Toni Isabella at[email protected].
Participating chefs
Critically acclaimed chef, restaurateur, award-winning author and television personality Mario Batali is one of the most recognized and respected chefs working in America today. With business partner Joe Bastianich, Batali has created an uber-successful restaurant and culinary empire in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Singapore. www.mariobatali.com
Frdric Morin and David McMillan, the radical chefs behind Joe Beef, are passionate about French market food, and they serve it Quebec-style: loud and fast. Morin and McMillan seek out the best local ingredients and keep Joe Beef’s menu brief so they can change it on a whim.www.joebeef.ca
David Chang is the chef and owner of the Momofuku restaurants. He has been honored with awards from Food & Wine and Bon Appetit, named a Man of the Year by GQ, and called one of the “most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire. Chang also has taken home three James Beard Foundation awards. www.momofuku.com
Californian Sean Paxton, known as the Homebrew Chef, believes in beer. On his popular blog and web series, Paxton explores the complexity beer adds to food, whether paired with it or incorporated into the recipe. www.homebrewchef.com
Named a “Restaurant Empire Builder” in 2011 by Food & Wine, James Syhabout made his reputation at the Michelin-Starred Commis in Oakland, Calif. He flexes his casual culinary muscles at Hawker Fare, focusing on inexpensive dishes inspired by the street markets of Southeast Asia. www.commisrestaurant.com
As a Pearl Jam and Dogfish Head fan, I can’t be more excited to hold a bottle in my hand. Here are some more details on the availability of the upcoming release of Dogfish Head Faithfull Ale. Cheers!
As with many of our new beer releases, we’ve had a lot of interest in when and where folks will be able to grab & enjoy Faithfull Ale. Here’s what we can share at this point.
Ideally, we will sell this beer in all 27 U.S. states in which we currently do business — but that may not happen. We have applied for state approval in all 27 of those states (full list here). For a variety of reasons, some states may not approve this beer for sale. Some may only approve draft sales. That is all out of our hands. Since this is a brand-new release, we only recently applied to these states – but approvals have already begun rolling in.
Once we get approval from a state, Faithfull Ale will be added to the next outgoing order for each wholesaler. This means that the beer will be leaving our Milton, DE brewery in waves over the next few weeks. Once it travels to a wholesaler in a particular state, it will then need to travel to retailers throughout their sales territory. We cannot tell you exactly which day it will appear on the shelves in your area (assuming you are in one of the 27 U.S. states where we do business). We do not plan to export any of this beer outside of the U.S.
Beginning Wednesday, October 19th we will beging selling Faithfull Ale from our brewery Tasting Room in Milton, DE and our brewpub in downtown Rehoboth Beach, DE. Here’s how that will happen:
Sales from the Brewery Tasting Room in Milton, DE will begin at 11am on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Bottles of Faithfull Ale will retail for $12.50, and there is a 2-bottle-per-person limit.
Sales from our to-go kiosk at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eatsin Rehoboth Beach, DE will begin at noon on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Bottles of Faithfull Ale will retail for $12.50, and there is a 2-bottle-per-person limit.
We will not reserve, hold or maintain a list for this beer. Faithfull Ale will be available first-come, first-serve from our brewery & brewpub. We have no idea how long our supply will last.
Although we are keeping some of the batch to sell from our brewery & brewpub, the vast majority of this beer will be sold through our wholesale and retail partners. Once the beer begins hitting the retailers and as the wholesalers update their sales data with our database, Faithfull Ale will appear on our Fish Finder. Please note that the database shows where our beers have been delivered to retailers in the past 60 days. The Fish Finder cannot show if it is still in stock, so it is always best to call & confirm first before travelling any significant distance in search of a beer.
We’re tried to answer any and all questions here. There are probably some we haven’t addressed (we’ll add to this article if necessary). We’ve been getting lots and lots of calls, emails, posts and tweets about Faithfull Ale. If we’ve missed replying to yours, we’re sorry.
And in keeping with the music theme, we also recently announced we’ll be re-releasing batches of the Miles Davis-inspired Bitches Brew and Robert Johnson-inspired Hellhound On My Ale. Both of those beers will begin shipping to wholesalers beginning with orders next week. You’ll be able to find them in stores over the next few weeks as well.
Thanks for all your interest in our beers, we hope you enjoy ‘em. Cheers!
Milton, DE) — Faithfull Ale is a celebration of Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary as a band and its extraordinary debut album, “Ten.” In recognition of these milestones, this Belgian-style golden ale is delicately hopped to 20 IBUs and fruit-forward from 10 incremental additions of black currants over a one-hour boil. Faithfull will clock in at 7% ABV.
“To me, ‘Ten’ is the perfect example of a record-lover’s-record. The whole thing rocks,” says Dogfish Head President & Founder Sam Calagione. “As an off-centered brewery, we believe in celebrating the breadth of our whole portfolio and we feel an affinity for Pearl Jam a long-player band in a singles-obsessed world.”
Dogfish Head also finds inspiration in Pearl Jam’s ethics, community-building and commitment to putting music before commerce. In recognition of this refreshing approach, Dogfish is donating $20,000 to The Nature Conservancy to aide in its efforts to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth.
Dogfish Head is also rereleasing its previous collaborations with Sony Legacy: the Miles Davis-inspired Bitches Brew and the Robert Johnson shoutout Hellhound on My Ale. All three collaborations will be available this month in 750-ml bottles and on draft.
We plan to send Faithfull Ale to all states in which we currently do business, pending each state’s approval.
About PJ20
2011 is a yearlong celebration of Pearl Jam’s 20-year history. The band started off the year with the release of a new live compilation album, Live on Ten Legs, followed by the expanded reissues of Vs. and Vitalogy in March. In September, Pearl Jam and friends celebrated with the Alpine Valley Labor Day anniversary weekend concert, a 10-date Canadian tour, followed by the theatrical release of the Cameron Crowe film Pearl Jam Twenty, with an accompanying book and soundtrack album and subsequent PBS broadcast on Oct. 21, ending the year with the DVD of the film available in October. For the latest, visit www.pearljam.com and www.pj20.com.
The above are bottles of Positive Contact on the line at Dogfish Head in Milton, Delaware. The beer infusion is a collaboration between Deltron 3030′s Dan the Automator and Dogfish Head. Deltron 3030 is a hip-hop collaboration between Dan and Del the Funkee Homosapien.
