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[url]http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all[/url]

A lengthy but very enjoyable article about Sam Calagione at Dogfish breweries. I want to visit this brewery before I die - I think Sam is my long lost father. Seriously.

a few of my favorite bits:

"Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it."

“keep on drinking the good shit!”

“Beer racism!”

“I’m not afraid to pay compliments where compliments are due. Anheuser-Busch’s quality—if quality is consistency—is second to none. But I’m frustrated that that one beer has been hammered down people’s throats. I mean, banana cream pie may be your favorite fucking food. But if you ate banana cream pie every day you would hate it, too.”

“We tried to throw a keg once,” Calagione told me. “But it misfired and knocked down a street lamp.”

Re: Dogfish Breweries article

yes, great read. though i totally disagree with this line "Extreme brewers have helped turn American brewing into the most influential in the world." sorry...that title still goes to belgium.

[quote]Selders arrived about an hour after we did, driving a van filled with sacks of grain. He was wearing what looked like a gas-station attendant’s uniform, with his name stitched over one front pocket and the Dogfish logo over the other. His hair was gelled into a miniature Mohawk—more Tintin than Billy Idol—and his eyes, framed by thick black glasses, wore their usual look of ironic bewilderment. Selders, who is thirty-three, was a painter and ska guitarist before he became a brewer. [B]When he and Calagione aren’t making beer, they sometimes perform together at the pub as a beer-themed hip-hop duo called the Pain Relievaz (sample lyrics: “You’re the barley virgin that my malt mill will deflour”).[/B][/quote]

:roflmao:

Re: Dogfish Breweries article

mmm chicory stout. GG

Re: Dogfish Breweries article

Makes me want to head to Dogfish right now.