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Why You Should Celebrate Easter at Dogfish

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Looks like the Easter bunny has taken a liking towards Dogfish Alehouse. This weekend, April 4 and 5, we are packing in the family fun for 2 days. Perhaps you didn’t have time to arrange your own egg hunt or maybe you just want to go to more than one. Your reason doesn’t matter; we want to see you and the whole family there. Looking for good reasons to join in? We have 4!

1. Easter Egg Hunts

Let us fill and hide the eggs. You just bring your little ones and watch them scour the grounds for treat filled colorful eggs. Each kid will have a basket to put all of their goodies in. And just to make sure y to make sure you don’t have to miss out, we are hosting 2 egg hunts! Just show up April 4 or 5 and the hunts start at 5:30pm.

2. Face Painting

Following each egg hunt, we will have face painting starting at 6pm. Our awesome face painter is one of our very own. The very talented Wren, the chalkboard artist, will be dipping her brushes to create cute characters. Do you want to be a bunny? Just bring your own pair of ears and let us paint the rest.

3. Family Time to Dine

Of course, after your little one has searched eagerly for their eggs, they are bound to have worked up an appetite. Indulge in a burger with beach fries or an Alfredo Cajun Pizza. Grownups, don’t forget to pair your favorite entree with a cold draft like Aprihop or a Black n Blue.

4. Bacon Beer Lunch

Are you looking for more adult time? This Easter event is for the 21 and up crowd. Reserve your spot for our Bacon Beer Lunch happening April 5 at 3pm. We are 3 courses prepared with 3 perfect pairings. Enjoy Noble Rot, 120 Minute IPA, and Palo Santo Maron for just $45 a person including tax.

The Glory of Wood Burning Grilling

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Burgers filled with flavor and grilled to deliciousness. These are the highlights that people rave about when they take that first bite.

It would be hard not rave about but the real magic behind our menu items is burning. We don’t mean charred (unless you like it that way). We mean a large wood burning grill with space for burgers, veggies, and more. Over 80% of our menu, including the asparagus is wood grilled over oak and hickory. So we turn up the heat to continue to deliver tasty, flavorful Dogfish favorites every day.


Wood burning is an art or so we like to think. To deliver the right flavors and cooked perfection, the grill requires skills when manned. Too much flame will burn the outside of the food without properly cooking the inside. Placing food on the grill before it is ready will not give that wood grilled taste.

Whether it is our Alehouse BBQ burger grilled to perfection and basted with BBQ or the Burger of the Week delivering a world of new burger satisfaction, our wood grill burgers pair best with made from scratch beach fries. We dare you to give our beefy goodness and toasted buns a try.

Inside the Bottle: What Determines the Alcohol Content of Beer?

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You’ve seen the different alcohol by volume (ABV) percentages listed on your favorite beers. But what exactly do these numbers mean? How does ABV vary from beer to beer? What affects the alcohol content of a beer?

Alcohol by Volume (ABV)

ABV is the most common measurement of alcohol content in beer; it simply indicates how much of the total volume of liquid in a beer is made up of alcohol.

So what makes a beer have a higher ABV than another beer? The simplest approach to make a higher alcohol beer is to add more sugar during fermentation.

During beer’s fermentation process, yeast eats the sugar made from malted grain and then converts it into alcohol and CO2. If there is more available sugar, the yeast has more food to eat, which produces more alcohol. Sometimes brewers opt to add different types of sugar – for example, brown sugar, dextrose, honey or palm sugar – to increase the alcohol content and change the flavor of a beer.

How ABV is Measured

In the beginning of the brewing process, brewers boil mashed grain and water, which produces a thick, sweet liquid called wort. Brewers measure the original gravity of the wort to determine how much sugar is present before adding yeast to it. When they add yeast to the wort, fermentation begins.

After the yeast has eaten its fill of sugar, brewers will take another measurement to determine the final gravity of the beer. By comparing how much sugar was originally present to how much has been converted into alcohol by the yeast, brewers can calculate the ABV.

Beers Across the ABV Spectrum

Don’t know if you prefer beers with low or high ABV? Sample different types of beer across the spectrum and find your favorites. ABV is just one of many factors that affect a beer’s flavor and drinkability. Here are a few Dogfish Head favorites to start with:

• Namaste: 4.5% ABV
• 60 Minute IPA: 6% ABV
• Black & Blue: 10% ABV

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Beer

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How much do you know about your favorite beverage? Test your beer knowledge with these fun facts.

1. Beer is thousands of years old.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when beer was invented, but the first fermented drinks were probably created around the time cereal agriculture started – about 12,000 years ago

2. Drinking beer can help protect against high cholesterol.

Research shows that consuming alcohol, including beer, in moderation raises high-density lipoprotein or HDL (good cholesterol). It may also be helpful in preventing blood clots,   clogged arteries and Type 2 diabetes.

3. The average American adult drinks 27.6 gallons of beer a year.

But North Dakota residents are the country’s most enthusiastic beer drinkers, consuming 43.3 gallons per drinking age adult. New Hampshire, Montana, South Dakota and Vermont follow closely behind.

4. You can bathe in beer for healthier skin.

Why stop at drinking beer when you can immerse yourself in it? Beer spas in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic offer the chance to soak in your favorite malty beverage (and maybe drink a pint while you’re relaxing).

5. Beer contains the same antioxidant content as wine.

Both beverages have the same amount of antioxidants, though the types present are different.

6. Beer gives you brain power.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that women who drank moderately (beer, wine or spirits) had better cognitive function than non-drinkers.

7. Zythology is the study of beer.

What oenology is to wine, zythology is to beer. It focuses on the entire beer brewing process.

8. Prohibition in the U.S. lasted 13 years.

The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors and went into effect in 1920. In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and ended Prohibition.

9. The White House has its own craft beer.

President Obama is the first U.S. president to bring home brewing to the White House. The recipes for the White House Honey Ale and Honey Porter are available to the public.

10. A cicerone is a certified beer expert.

A Chicago brewer started the Cicerone Certification Program several years ago to train and validate beer experts similar to wine sommeliers.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Dogfish

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Green beer has become a tradition for St. Patrick’s Day celebration seekers. It is common to venture to the Irish pub to take part in the once a year festival of green. However, if you are looking for something more off-centered, we have a few St. Patty’s Day specials up our sleeve.

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Specialty Drinks

You will not find green beer here! How about a baby Black-n-Tan to kick off the night served in a shot glass you can take home to remember the occasion. For those looking for a bit of green, the Angry Leprechaun Cocktail is a sweet cocktail served with rock candy. Of course, if shots and cocktails are not your preference, we will be pouring your favorite year-round drafts all day.

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Need another reason to stop in? Our menu has a few guest entrees. Pair your draft with a traditional Shepard’s pie with lamb or Corn Beef and Cabbage to go with your Angry Leprechaun. Even the Irish Beef Stew is making an appearance. Tender pieces of beef in a delicious broth will make you wish it was on the menu every day. If you are feeling less adventurous, we still have your favorite burgers and appetizers.

 

Craft Beer 101: Belgian-Style Ale

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What is a Belgian-Style Beer?

Belgium has a very long history of brewing well-renowned beers. The Romans may have brought brewing to that part of Europe thousands of years ago, and many Belgian breweries can trace their roots back to the Middle Ages. So it’s no surprise that Belgian-style beers are still popular with beer lovers around the world.

It’s difficult to define a Belgian beer according to narrow characteristics because Belgium’s brewers are famous for their individuality and creativity within different styles.

But there are some common flavors and aromas you can look for in Belgian-style beers. Many Belgian beers will have a distinct spicy, herbal or fruity taste – light on hops but high in flavor.

What is a Belgian-Style Ale?

Belgian beers are primarily ales – not lagers. Ales are made with top-fermenting yeasts that ferment at warmer temperatures. Lagers are made with bottom-fermenting yeasts that ferment at cooler temperatures and require a longer time to mature.

Belgian-style ales come in many different variations, but some popular styles include:

  • Belgian white beers (witbier): Light, cloudy beers with a creamy, fruity flavor – often with strong coriander and orange notes
  • Dubbels: Different varieties of brown ales, often with caramel, spicy and malty flavors
  • Tripels: Bold, dense beers with a bit more bitterness, a golden color and hints of fruit, sweetness and spice
  • Lambics: Spontaneously fermented beers made from unmalted wheat, malted barley and aged hops, featuring a wide variety of flavors, from fruity to sour

Dogfish Head Belgian-Style Ales to Try

Raison d’Etre

This Belgian-style brown ale is complex and rich, brewed with beet sugar, raisins and Belgian-style yeast. It contains 8% alcohol by volume.

Namaste

Our Belgian-style white ale is bright, refreshing and impossible not to like. We made it as a tribute to our friends at 3 Fonteinen Brewery in Belgium, and it highlights flavors of orange, lemongrass and coriander.