Dogfish Head Brewery

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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Location	Milton, Delaware United States http://www.dogfish.com
Year opened	1995
Annual production	39,000 barrels (4,577,000 liters)
Active beers
60 Minute IPA	India Pale Ale
90 Minute IPA	Double India Pale Ale
Indian Brown Ale	Brown ale
Midas Touch Golden Elixir	Spiced beer
Raison D’Être	Fruit beer
Shelter Pale Ale	Pale ale
Seasonal beers
120 Minute IPA	Double India Pale Ale
Burton Baton	English ale
Red & White	Belgian wit
ApriHop	Fruit beer
Raison D'Extra	Fruit beer
Black & Blue	Belgian ale
Immort Ale	Barley wine
Festina Peche	Fruit beer
Chateau Jiahu	Neolithic rice beer
Golden Era	Imperial Pilsner
Punkin' Ale	Vegetable beer
Pangea	Multi-grain
World Wide Stout	Imperial stout
Olde School Barleywine	Barley wine
Chicory Stout	Stout
Fort	Fruit Beer
Snowblower Ale	Golden Ale
On Hiatus beers
Au Courant	Fruit beer

Dogfish Head Brewery is a beer manufacturer based in Milton, Delaware. It opened in 1995^[1][2] and produces 39,000 barrels of beer annually.^{[citation needed]}

As a brewery, Dogfish Head's output tends toward experimental or "extreme" beers, such as their tongue-in-cheek "Liquor de Malt," a bottle-conditioned malt liquor which typically comes in its own brown paper bag. Their products often use non-standard ingredients, such as green raisins in their Raison D'Être. Some of their beers, including the WorldWide Stout, 120 Minute India Pale Ale, and the raspberry-flavored strong ale Fort, are highly alcoholic, reaching 18% to 20% alcohol by volume (typical beers have around 3% to 8% alcohol by volume).

One of Dogfish Head's more notable odd beers was a green beer called Verdi Verdi Good, produced in 2005 and sold only on draft. The beer was not colored green artificially; rather, the green color was derived from brewing a Dortmunder style beer that contained spirulina, or blue-green algae.

In July of 2007, the Dogfish Head Brewery released a beer modeled after the Jiahu beverage called Chateau Jiahu.^[3]

Dogfish Head's signature product is its line of India Pale Ales (IPAs), which are offered in three varieties: 60 Minute, 90 Minute, and 120 Minute IPA. Their names refer to the length of the boil time of the wort in which the hops are continuously added. The longer hops are boiled, the more hop isomerization takes place, and the more bitterness is imparted to the beer. The 60 Minute is described by the company as "A session IPA brewed with Warrior, Amarillo and Mystery Hop X. Bottle-conditioned 6-packs and draft available. 60 IBUs." To further enhance the hop flavor of their 90 Minute IPA and 120 Minute IPA, Dogfish Head introduced a device in 2003 jokingly called Randall the Enamel Animal, an "organoleptic hop transducer module" which "Randallizes" either Dogfish Head 90 Minute or Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA by passing the beer through a large plastic tube filled with raw Cascade hops. The alcohol in the beer lifts oils off the raw hops and imparts even more hop flavor to beers that were already hoppy to begin with.

Dogfish Head also operates a microdistillery at the Rehoboth Beach brewpub.^[4] Spirits are hand-distilled in a small pot still and often, like their beers, tend toward unique and non-traditional formulations. The distillery is very small; Dogfish Head spirits are distributed only in Delaware and in parts of Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. They can also be found at some stores in Tucson, Arizona, and in the spring of 2008 Dogfish Head started distribution in parts of Southern California. Dogfish Head also owns and operates an "alehouse" in Gaithersburg, Maryland and opened one in Falls Church, Virginia on September 26, 2007. Beer-paired food and vintage bottles of Dogfish's seasonal beers are available at their aleshouses, as well as kegged offerings of their staple beers.

The Dogfish Head Brewery's product line can be found in virtually every package store along the Delaware seashore and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

[edit] Limited Seasonal beers

Many of Dogfish Head's beers are categorized as Limited and/or Seasonal. These beers are only produced in certain months of the year. Given that many of the beers are strong enough to be legally considered spirits in some states (Alcohol laws by state) Alcohol by Volume is also included.

• 120 Minute IPA (21% abv, Jan. May, Sept.)
• Burton Baton (10% abv, February)
• Red & White (10% abv, February)
• Aprihop (7% abv, March)
• Raison D’Etre (8% abv, March), ale brewed with beet sugar, green raisins, and Belgian-style yeast.
• Raison D’Extra (18%+ abv, March)
• Black & Blue (10% abv, April), ale brewed with blackberries and blueberries
• Immort Ale (11% abv, May)
• Festina Peche (4.5%, June)
• Chateau Jiahu (8% abv, July)
• Golden Era (9% abv, August)
• Punkin Ale (7% abv, September), ale brewed with pumpkin and brown sugar
• Pangea (7% abv, October)
• World Wide Stout (20% abv (23% in 2002), November)
• Old School Barleywine (15% abv, November)
• Chicory Stout (5.2%, December), dark beer made with a touch of roasted chicory, organic Mexican coffee, St. John's Wort, and licorice root. Brewed with whole-leaf Cascade and Fuggles hops, the grains include pale, roasted barley & oatmeal.
• Fort (~18% abv, December), strong ale brewed with pureed raspberries
• Belle Proxiumus - A Belgian-inspired sour ale whose multiple yeast strains and brewing process will be a collaborative effort between Allagash, Avery, Dogfish Head, Russian River, and Pizza Port microbreweries. Little information is available outside of a cryptic poster in Dogfish's Rehoboth Beach brewpub, which alludes that the brew will be released in late 2007. (Information taken from drinkcraftbeer.com)

[edit] External links

• Company web site
• Randall The Enamel Animal

[edit] References