Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

For a craft brewery to succeed today, it must produce high quality, consistent and well-differentiated beers, according to Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head, who gave the keynote address at today’s Brewbound Session in San Diego, CA.

As Dogfish Head’s supply catches up to demand, the Milton, Del.-based brewery continues to announce details on its re-entry into states that it had exited in March 2011. In a blog entry posted today on the brewery’s website, a Dogfish Head spokesperson writes that beer is on the way to wholesalers in Wisconsin and will… Read more »

Add Delaware’s Dogfish Head to the growing list of craft breweries adding lower-alcohol “session” beers to their year-round portfolios in 2014. Dogfish will transition Namaste, the company’s 4.8 percent, Belgian-style white beer — previously available only in 750 mL champagne-style bottles on a limited basis — into regularly available 12 oz. 6-packs, beginning in January.

Delaware – If you bellied up to a bar in 18th-century America on a winter’s eve, chances are the colonists on either side of you would be nursing a warm, spicy flip. The eggnog-type beer cocktail repeatedly appeared in the journals of the Founding Fathers and was a near constant on the expense accounts of… Read more »

Milton, DE – Have you ever heard a pear sing? Here at Dogfish Head, we’ve been playing around with off-centered hybrids since the mid-90s. We do beer-wine hybrids like Noble Rot and Sixty-One using grapes as fermentable sugars, and we do a beer-cider hybrid called Positive Contact using apples. For Piercing Pils, our new winter… Read more »

You can still find bronzing grandparents, golf courses and nightclubs in Florida, but after speaking with hordes of craft brewers at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver earlier this month, it seems that the Sunshine State also offers a growing range of craft beers.

MILTON, Del. — American Beauty, the counterculture collaboration between Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and the Grateful Dead, will be hitting taps and shelves over the next few weeks.

First it was brats, now its bedrooms. Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione just can’t seem to stay away from opportunities to extend the Dogfish brand beyond beer. The brewery today announced that it has taken over ownership of the property and plans to redesign the lodging facility with plenty of “Dogfish vibes.”

With the flurry of activity surrounding the craft beer industry these days, it can be difficult to stay abreast of the latest small brewery developments — at least without checking out your press clips. Here’s what the mainstream news media had to say about craft this week.

It’s hardly a representative sample size, but Consumer Reports recently conducted a blind taste test of 23 ‘craft’ beers, ranking their favorite ales and lagers based on flavor and aroma attributes.

More than two years after pulling its distribution from Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island due to capacity constraints, Dogfish Head today announced plans to re-enter all four markets before the end of the year. “It wasn’t our goal to upset Dogfish Head fans and distributors, but with demand so far in front of supply,… Read more »

Forget fights for shelf space. The latest craft beer territorial battle is actually taking place on your TV schedule. For years, most of the coverage of the industry has largely been through the business media, most of whom are interested in either craft’s growing share of the market or individual breweries’ willingness to sell to… Read more »

With the finite amount of retail space allocated to craft beer becoming more crowded, Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione wanted to create a non-traditional opportunity for his brand to catch the attention of retailers and earn secondary placements beyond the beer aisle. For Calagione, this meant line-extending beyond the beer category altogether.

These days, just about any craft brewery can pull off a beer and food pairing event, but now Dogfish Head is taking the umami experience to a whole new level. Last year’s test launch of a 60 Minute IPA-infused “hop-pickle” has evolved into a new line of beer-centric food items developed in collaboration with a… Read more »