Dark beer is a mainstay of the cooler times of the year and perennial craft beer favorite Dogfish Head Brewery is ready to serve up two delicious dark brews before the holiday season arrives.
First on the list is a return of the seasonal favorite, World Wide Stout. This rich, potent winter stout is often compared to a complex port wine and it has the alcoholic strength to back up the claim, weighing in at 15 to 20 percent alcohol by volume, with slight variations from year to year. World Wide Stout has been around since 1999 and as Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione points out, it’s the type of beer that gets better with age.
“Like Fort and 120 Minute IPA, World Wide Stout only gets better in its golden years. Allow it to mature in your beer cellar and you’ll find the heat of the booze fades into the background and the port notes and roastiness take over and merge harmoniously into a timeless aged ale”, said Calagione.
Beer for Breakfast is a newer beer, but actually not brand new. The beer has been brewed and served to Dogfish devotees in the past but only on draft. It now makes its bottled debut and it’s the type of beer certain to get your attention, if not for its flavor, but for its ingredients. It’s made using items appropriate for an early morning brew, including coffee, brown sugar, and maple syrup. But the surprise ingredient is Rapa Scrapple, which is a type of meat popular in certain parts of the country. This hodgepodge of animal- derived goodness is made from pork scraps, cornmeal, and assorted spices. Calagione says that Beer for Breakfast is an ode to the company’s original breakfast beer, Chicory Stout, which is now 21 years of age.
“The recipe for our original breakfast beer Chicory Stout just turned 21 this year- Legal drinking age. To mark this momentous occasion we have taken a couple decades experience brewing with culinary goodness and combined our favorite pure, all-natural breakfast ingredients into a beer that we will think you will agree is the most important meal of the day,” said Sam Calagione
Beer for Breakfast is milder than World Wide Stout, but still a hefty jolt for a breakfast beer. It clocks in at 7.4 percent alcohol by volume and contains 30 IBU of bitterness. Both beers will be available starting November 7, 2016 and will be sold on a limited basis throughout the brewery’s 30 state distribution footprint. Look for them on draft and in bottled form, and savor these two Dogfish Head classic winter brews while they last.
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