Dogfish Head

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the original release of Bitches Brew, Miles Davis’ 1970 paradigm-shifting landmark fusion breakthrough, we’ve created our own Bitches Brew – a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer with gesho root, a gustatory analog to Miles’ masterpiece. Featuring the album’s iconic artwork, created by the late Mati Klarwein, on its label.

Try With: The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.

ABV: 9%
IBUs: 38

Theobroma

This beer is based on chemical analysis of pottery fragments found in Honduras which revealed the earliest known alcoholic chocolate drink used by early civilizations to toast special occasions. The discovery of this beverage pushed back the earliest use of cocoa for human consumption more than 500 years to 1200 BC. As per the analysis, Dogfish Head?s Theobroma (translated into ‘food of the gods’) is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from our friends at Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds). It’s light in color – not what you expect with your typical chocolate beer. Not that you’d be surpised that we’d do something unexpected with this beer!

This beer is part of our Ancient Ales series – along with Midas Touch, Chateau Jiahu, and other – step back in time and enjoy some Theobroma.

ABV: 9%

Since ‘Every Beer Has A Story,’ you’ll want to check out the Quick Sip Clip for Theobroma:

Squall IPA

An unfiltered, 100% bottle-conditioned, super-pungent imperial I.P.A. clocking in at 9% ABV and dry-hopped with Palisade, Amarillo, Simcoe, Cascade, CTZ, and Willamette hops.

As many of you know, Dogfish Head is named after a ‘head’ of land off of Boothbay Harbor, Maine where company founder Sam Calagione grew up. A few years ago we discovered and fell in love with a Portland, Maine company called Rogues Gallery that makes beautiful, unique clothing. Their rustic, quality-centric creative approach mirrors our off-centered obsession with inspired brewing. As Time Magazine put it Rogues Gallery is all about “Masculine-style with a nostalgic eastern seaboard feel”. Alex Carleton and the crew at Rogue’s Gallery were down with getting their chocolate in Dogfish Head’s peanut butter. We agreed to do a beer in keeping with their brand and a line of co-branded clothing in keeping with ours. The theme of the clothing line is superlative stuff to wear while drinking beer at a sunset beach bonfire and the clothes will be available by mid-summer 2009. The beer first came out in June of 2009 in a handful of eastern seaboard states, a second 2009 release started shipping to wholesalers in November 2009. A more wide-spread release of Squall IPA is planned for 2010.

Best With: With a bold emphasis on hop bitterness, India pale ales are the ultimate beverage pairing for spicy dishes. The sharp hop presence in most India pale ales can stand up to even the most devilish of spices in Cajun, Malaysian, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican cuisine.
Special Attributes: Big Beer (+8.0% ABV)
Special Attributes: Imperial Style Beer

ABV: 9%

Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu

Since the 7/17/2010 story on National Public Radio’s ‘All Things Considered,’ we’ve had lots of interest in Chateau Jiahu and all our Ancient Ales. Missed the story? Here it is! The next batch of Chateau Jiahu will begin shipping to our wholesale partners the third week of August. It should hit shelves in the weeks following. Enjoy and cheers.

Now, the rest of the story…
Let’s travel back in time again (Midas Touch was our first foray and Theobroma our most recent), this time 9000 years! Preserved pottery jars found in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province,Northern China, has revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced that long ago – right around the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beinginning tobe made in the Middle East!

Fast forward to 2005…. Molecular Archeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology calls on Dogfish Head to re-create their second ancient beverage and Chateau Jiahu is born.

In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers used pre-gelatinized rice flakes, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers. The rice and barley malt were added together to make the mash for starch conversion and degredation. The resulting sweet wort was then run into the kettle. The honey, grapes, Hawthorn fruit, andChrysanthemum flowers were then added. The entire mixture was boiled for 45 minutes, then cooled. The resulting sweet liquid was pitched with a fresh culture of Sake yeast and allowed to ferment a month before the transfer into a chilled secondary tank.

ABV: 8%
IBUs: 10

60 Minute IPA

An American IPA from Dogfish Head Brewing, Delaware. This beer is an IPA for IPA drinkers. It takes hops to another level. Just a whiff from a freshly opened bottle will tell you you’re not in Kansas anymore. I don’t know how they jammed this much flavor into one bottle, but the geniuses at Dogfish did it. Amazing aroma, nice sharp bitterness that immediately gets shored up by huge fresh hop flavors all the way through the beer. The aromas that arise after swallowing are nothing short of beautiful.

ABV 6%

90 Minute IPA

An American Double IPA from Dogfish Head Brewing, Delaware. This ‘Fish is maltier than the 60 Minute IPA, and this tends to obfuscate many of the full flavors you can get from the 60. They’re still there, but they’re hiding underneath the caramel-y malt body. More alcohol, more body, more hops. Well balanced.

ABV 9%

120 Minute IPA

Too extreme to be called beer? Brewed to a colossal 45-degree plato, boiled for a full 2 hours while being continuously hopped with high-alpha American hops, then dry-hopped daily in the fermenter for a month & aged for another month on whole-leaf hops!!!

Our 120 Minute I.P.A. is by far the biggest I.P.A. ever brewed! At 20% ABV and 120 IBUs you can see why we call this beer THE HOLY GRAIL for hopheads!

ABV: 20%

Limited Availibilty Only.

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Raison d'Etre

A deep, mahogany ale brewed with beet sugar, green raisins, and Belgian-style yeast to be savored year-round. A s complex as a fine, red win. Voted “American Beer of the Year” in January 2000 by Malt Advocate Magazine.

ABV 8%

Palo Santo Marron

An unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented brown ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. Palo Santo means “holy tree” and it’s wood has been used in South American wine-making communities.

Best With: Outstanding with rich, creamy desserts such as creme brulee, or on its own as a digestif.

ABV: 12%
IBUs: 50

Midas Touch

Vast in character, luscious & complex. Brewed with peat-smoked barley, Immort is brewed with organic juniper berries, vanilla & maple syrup. It’s aged on oak and fermented with a blend of English & Belgian yeasts.

ABV: 11%

Immort-Ale

Vast in character, luscious & complex.

We started brewing Immort Ale at our brewpub in 1995 and began bottling it in 1997. For this beer, we use maple syrup from Red Brook Farm – Sam’s family farm in Western Massachusetts, peat-smoked barley, juniper berries, and vanilla.

Immort is fermented with a blend of English & Belgian yeasts, thenaged in the big oak tanks at the brewery.

The sweet and earthy flavors meld magnificently in the Immort Ale. But, be warned the abv is 11%, so after 1 or 2 you may start feeling immortal (even though we promise you won’t be).

Immort Ale is released each and every spring (after the sap starts flowing).

ABV: 11%
IBUs: 50

For more on the Immort Ale (including a bit about the artist who did our 4-pack artwork), watch Sam’s Quick Sip Clip:

Indian Brown Ale

A refreshing flavored ale that pours as a dark ruby color with a good nutty brown head. The body (though it’s so dark you can barely see through it) is crystal clear. Lots of dark, roasted malts fragrance in this beer… It smells so rich, like a really really good cup of coffee. Brewed with Aromatic barley and caramelized brown sugar, contributes to a sweet smell, but mostly a roasted nutty smell. This beer is well-hopped and malty at the same time.

ABV 7.2%

Red & White

A big, belgian-style Wit brewed with coriander and orange peel and fermented with Pinot Noir juice. After fermentation a fraction of the batch is aged in Oregon Pinot Noir barrels, and another fraction is aged on oak staves. The beer is blended together before packaging.

This has been one of our most popular Limited Edition beers at both our Rehoboth Beach, DE brewpub and at festivals. It successfully marries the refreshing citrusy qualities of a Belgian-style white beer with the robust complexity of a bold red wine.

ABV: 10%

Aprihop

Brewed with luscious apricots, finished with whole-leaf hops. A “fruit beer for hop heads…” Ale Street News

Food Pairing Recommendations:
Salads, swordfish, Mexican dishes, barbeque, hummus

ABV: 7%

Punkin Ale

A full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar. Perfect to warm-up with, as the season cools.

Food Pairing Recommendations:
Turkey, roasted duck, lamb, stuffing, dessert dumplings

ABV: 7%

Burton-Baton

This is a blended beer that we’ve been brewing for the past several years and it’s recently been gaining in popularity.

For Burton Baton we first brew two ‘threads’ or batches of beer: an English-style Old Ale and an Imperial IPA. After fementating the separate beers in our stainless tanks, the two are transferred and blended together in one of our large oak tanks. Burton Baton sits on the wood for about a month.

When enjoying the Burton Baton, you’ll find an awesome blend of the citrus notes from Northwestern hops melding with woody, vanilla notes from the oak. The wood also tends to mellow the 10% of the beer – so tread cautiously!

Burton Baton is brewed and released three times per year.

ABV:10%
IBUs: 70

Here is Sam chatting about the Burton Baton in our Quick Sip Clip:

Fort

An ale brewed with a ridiculous amount of pureed raspberries (over a ton of em!).

Best With: Perfect with a rich slice of chocolate cheesecake.

ABV: 18%

Limited availibity.

Life & Limb

Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong beer that defies style characteristics-brewed with pure maple syrup from the Calagione family farm in Massachusetts and estate barley grown on the Grossman “farm” at the brewery in Chico. The beer is alive with yeast-a blend of both breweries’ house strains-bottle conditioned for added complexity and shelf life, and naturally carbonated with birch syrup fresh from Alaska; it is the first beer we know of ever to use birch syrup in the brew. If stored under good conditions, this rich, full-bodied beer should age well for years. Life & Limb will be available in 24-oz. bottles and limited draft starting November 2009.

ABV: 10%
IBUs: 50

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Limb & Life

Limb & Life is a companion to the big beer-an acorn off the larger tree. It is a 5% ABV small beer-a low-gravity beer made using the residual sugar as “second runnings” from the first larger brew, fortified with American hops. This is a session beer. Its big brother is a sipper. Limb & Life will be a limited draft-only product, a prelude to the bigger beer, available in select bars and restaurants in October 2009.

ABV: 5%
IBUs: 49

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