Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

July may have been the hottest month on record in the U.S. but that hasn’t stopped the traditionally cooler-weather crop of pumpkin beers from encroaching on the summer season. According to Phillipsburg, N.J.-based Hunterdon Distributors, pumpkin beer sales set a record last month.

Earlier this month, Dogfish Head’s VP of Sales Adam Lambert shared with Brewbound.com some news on mid-year progress for the company. This morning, in a letter to the brewery’s wholesale partners, Lambert shared some additional numbers. Below are a few of the more important takeaways.

Last week, the Brewers Association unveiled a new video promoting the “Support Your Local Brewery (SYLB)” network, a grassroots activist organization geared at passionate beer enthusiasts. The organization is currently comprised of 40,000 direct members from all 50 states but has the ability to reach 900,000 people through its brewery partnerships.

Earlier this month, Dogfish Head announced that the popular Indian Brown Ale would be going year-round in five new states — California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Colorado — marking the first time since the company pulled back distribution in 2011 that a year-round offering was released to new markets.

The West Coast is down with the Brown. Starting mid-July, Dogfish Head’s Indian Brown Ale will be sold year-round in California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Colorado. Clocking in at 7.2% ABV, this prototypical dark IPA blends the caramel notes of a Scotch Ale, the color of an American Brown and the hopping regimen of an… Read more »

Dogfish Head has partnered with Firefly Music Festival, a new East Coast event that brings over 40 indie, punk and electronic acts to the Dover International Speedway for three days of music in July. To commemorate the occasion, Dogfish Head has brewed up 100 barrels of Firefly Ale, and English-style pale ale brewed with Marris… Read more »

ESCONDIDO, CA – In 2010, the masterminds behind Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Victory Brewing Co., and Stone Brewing Co. came together to formulate a most glorious collaboration beer, taking some serious culinary (and musical?) inspiration with their inclusion of parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme in the boil. Now, after a two-year hiatus, this beer at… Read more »

Dogfish Head will release its newest music series beer, Positive Contact, on June 18th. The brew, a collaboration with Deltron 3030, is the latest in a series of musical releases that includes three other releases – Bitches Brew, Hellhound on My Ale and Faithfull Ale.

If you didn’t quite get your fill of ‘Beer Madness’ voting last month, you can now vote for America’s “Best Craft Brewery” in General Mills’ recently launched Munchies awards on taplespoon.com. The awards honor 20 categories of the most delicious food experiences America has to offer. Included in in the ‘Delicious Destination’ group are five… Read more »

MILTON, DE — Urkontinent is a social collaboration of worldwide proportions. The seed was planted when Dogfish Head Craft Brewery asked beer-loving tech types around the world to suggest ingredients for a new off-centered ale.

Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione and Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver are again finalists for a 2012 James Beard Award in the Outstanding Wine, Beer or Spirits Professional category. Both brewers were nominated last year when, interestingly enough, the category was named “Outstanding Wine & Spirits Professional.” The James Beard Foundation has since added “beer” to the… Read more »

Dogfish has announced it’s latest musical collaboration, a series that already features Miles Davis Bitches Brew, a shoutout to blues legend Robert Johnson with Hellhound On My Ale and the Pearl Jam collaboration, Faithfull Ale. The off-centered brewery has now partnered with Deltron 3030 to create Positive Contact, a hybrid cider/beer brewed with an array… Read more »

MILTON, DE – Clay is the perfect material for capturing time in a bottle. As molecular biologists have discovered by unearthing ancient tombs, organic residue trapped in porous chards of pottery reveals quite a bit about what our ancestors drank on the special occasions of burial feasts.

Hunterdon is excited to announce that Dogfish Head sales for the year 2011 have exceeded the 100,000 case equivalent mark. This year marks the first time in company history that Hunterdon has reached this tremendous goal with any of its suppliers.