Dogfish Head Brewery
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| Dogfish Head Craft Brewery | |
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| Location | Milton, Delaware United States |
| 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 and produces 39,000 barrels of beer annually.
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 2006, the Dogfish Head Brewery released a beer modeled after the Jiahu beverage called Chateau Jiahu[1].
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. 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 and Dogfish Head Spirits are distributed only in Delaware and in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
[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) Alchohol by Volume is also included.
- 120 Minute IPA (20% abv, Jan. May, Sept.)
- Burton Baton (10% abv, February)
- Red & White (10% abv, February)
- Aprihop (7% abv, March)
- Raison D’Extra (18+% abv, March)
- Black & Blue (10% abv, April)
- 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)
- Pangea (7% abv, October)
- World Wide Stout (18% abv, November)
- Old School Barleywine (15% abv, November)
- Chicory Stout (5.2%, December)
- Fort (~18% abv, December)
- Snowblower Ale (7% abv, December)
