Dogfish Head Expands/Announces New Brews

Dogfish Head Brewery of Milton, Delaware has recently expanded. Now with more fermentation tanks (this means more beer), a state of the art HVAC/humidity control system, and completely re-vamped their tour program with a remodeled tasting room for regular sampling hours and more free tours throughout the week!

With these changes, the brewery is pleased to announce two exciting new brews soon to hit the U.S. market.

Theobroma

To be released in September '08 (750ml bottles in limited quantities), Theobroma is, according to the brewer "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." Theobroma (translated as 'food of the gods') is a 10% abv brew made with Aztecan cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds).

For more information on Dogfish Head's Theobroma click HERE
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Old Odense Ale

Dogfish Head owner/brewer Sam Calagione teamed up with Danish brewer Anders Kissmeyer of Nørrebro Bryghus in Copenhagen.
Sam and Anders' beer is a traditional Dane-style brew that they discovered on an obscure web page with a translation of a 15th Century gruit ale recipe from the town of Odense. The beer's ingredients include pale and dark barley malt, oats, fine syrup, smoked dark syrup, fir branches and fir bark, wood sage, hyssop, blackthorn berries, woodruff and star spice. The beer is said to be amazingly sour due to the potent 'herbal juice' hand squeezed into the kettles during the boil. The label will describe the beer as an "ale brewed with maple syrup and herbs.” It is said that the Odense style is somewhat like a Belgian Lambic beer, but defies all categories of commonly known beer. Shelton Bros. is importing limited cases of the beer to the U.S. (Chris save me one, bro!)

For more information on Old Odense click HERE