sam's blog

Yesterday we brewed our second batch of Positive Contact. Our Cider-Beer hybrid that has a bit of farro, cayenne, and cilantro as well.

On Friday I hosted a tour of 40 Delaware homebrewers.As a holiday gift we gave each of them a 5 gallon batch size prop of our DNA yeast which our QC team lovingly tended to. Its A yeast that is unique to DE which we isolated on a peach farm near here.

Last night our new pub brewer Ben heated the water for todays brew while I attended the first ever meeting of Dogfish book club.Mike in sales put this together and lead a discussion on our first book,

I recently had a sweet male bonding experience taking my 12 year old son Sammy to his weekend soccer tournament in Lancaster, PA. While the Amish folk in horse-drawn carts were probably underwhelmed by

So lately we've been on a bit of a collaborative-tear. With companies large and small. We just bought a bunch of pears and peaches from Fifer Orchards here in lower Delaware for an extremely-local-centric

Our friends Janis and Gary Billings run Ripley Farm a maple house just down the hill from our familys farm in Montague, Massachusetts. Garys family has been running this maple house for three generations

Lead Cook JB debriefs our Rehoboth brewpub staff on today's yummy and local beer and food specials. A great combo today would be Life & Limb paired with the curry

Our friend Annemarie runs Salt Water Farm in Lincolville, Maine just outside of Camden; one of the prettiest harbor towns in mid-coast Maine with a vibrant art scene and half a dozen great new and used book stores.

Just got done with a great brew day with my buddy, Tod Mott, at Portsmouth Brewery. Last night we raised over $1,500 for the Krempels Center. Besides a great spiced wheat beer from Portsmouth Brewery and

Yesterday our friends and fellow craft beer evangalists Lee Williams (@hoptopia) and Stevie Caldarola (@basicallyred) rolled into Milton, Delaware at the same moment that an epic thunderstorm shut down all power at our brewery.