Dogfish Head awakens Beer for Breakfast

Beer for Breakfast, an off-centered, winter seasonal stout from Dogfish Head, will be flying like pigs to taps and retail shelves Monday, Nov. 7. Clocking in at 7.4 percent ABV and 30 IBUs, the beer features more than 10 breakfast-inspired ingredients, including a hearty serving of scrapple. The name of the beer is a shout out to Dogfish Head founder and President Sam Calagione’s favorite band, The Replacements, from a lyric from one of his favorite songs – “all I want to do is drink beer for breakfast.”

"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 Calagione.

A smorgasbord of thoughtfully sourced ingredients for the breakfast aficionado is to be savored in this flavorfully robust, cozy stout. Guatemalan Antigua cold press coffee, brown sugars, maple syrup harvested from Western Massachusetts and applewood smoked barley for yummy bacon-y aroma, provide a good morning foundation for this breakfast themed brew. Throw in a little Kiln coffee and carmel malt, flaked oats, roasted barley, molasses, milk sugars and roasted chicory and they have the ideal backbone for this ale that drinks like a meal.

But the star of Beer for Breakfast is surely Rapa Scrapple, a classic Mid-Atlantic complement to the most important meal of the day. Scrapple is affectionately described as an “everything but the kitchen sink“ type of meat, made from pork scraps, cornmeal and spices. Rapa, the world’s largest producer of scrapple, was started by brothers Ralph and Paul Adams in Bridgeville, just a few short miles from the brewery.

“Working with Sam and the brewers at Dogfish Head was an interesting experience,” says Rapa’s Donna Seefriend. “Sam’s vision of translating the distinctive taste of Rapa scrapple into a beer was a unique proposition. Both Dogfish Head and Rapa’s production team brainstormed more than a few ideas, and it was decided that a super-lean version of our original recipe would balance nicely with the other ingredients. The end result is a remarkable beer that manages to bring together all the flavors of the quintessential American breakfast.”

To toast the arrival of Beer for Breakfast, special brunches will be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, and Sunday, Nov. 6, at Chesapeake and Maine in downtown Rehoboth Beach.

For more information or to reserve a seat, call 302-226-3600 or go to www.dogfish.com.