Dogfish Head Brewery is a brewing
company based in Milton, Delaware founded by Sam Calagione. It opened in 1995. Dogfish Head has been a rapidly growing
brewery. The brewery was featured
prominently in the documentary Beer Wars and was the subject of the Discovery
Channel series Brew Masters. The brewery
takes its name from Dogfish Head, Maine, where Calagione spent summers as a
child. “Dogfish Head Alehouse” with
three locations in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Falls Church, Virginia and Fairfax,
Virginia. Beer-paired food and vintage
bottles of Dogfish Head’s seasonal beers are available at their alehouses, as
well as kegged offerings of their staple beers.
The company also has a restaurant called Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats
along with seafood restaurant called Chesapeake & Maine that only sources
seafood from the waters of Chesapeake Bay and Maine. Both are located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.