(Milton, DE) – Dogfish Head Craft Brewery joins forces with Atlas Obscura’s food and drinks vertical, Gastro Obscura, to launch a limited-edition, first-of-its-kind craft beer experiment: Fermentation Engastration. In contrast to something drinkers have ever tasted, Fermentation Engastration (10% ABV) attracts inspiration from a set of advanced fermented drinks – a rose-scented sake, a Mid-Atlantic honey and date mead, a bittersweet laborious cider, a fruity Muscat wine and a country farmhouse ale. The consequence? One eccentric, incomparable beverage that may solely be described because the “Turducken” of the beer world.
Fermentation Engastration is brewed with a boatload of off-centered culinary substances, together with barley, spelt, muscat grape juice focus, flaked rice, apple juice focus, honey rice syrup, date syrup, yeast, hops and rose petals. On the nostril, this brewing innovation is bursting with basic spicy phenols, whereas the tasting expertise packs an explosion of fruit character balanced by a slight sweetness. With only one,000 (500ml) bottles made, Fermentation Engastration can be accessible for buy at Dogfish Head’s Milton, Delaware, brewery, starting Friday, Could 6, in addition to in choose U.S. states* from coast to coast by way of GiveThemBeer.com, starting Friday, Could 13, at 9 a.m. EST, whereas provides final.
“Right here at Dogfish Head, we’ve by no means been afraid to go in opposition to the grain with experimenting with distinctive, prime quality culinary substances in our beers,” stated Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head Founder & Brewer. “As brewers and ‘mad scientists’ of types, it’s all the time been a fascination of ours to deconstruct, reimagine and reassemble how drinkers expertise every sip of a brand new beer. Our newest instance of that considering is Fermentation Engastration, form of just like the ‘turducken’ of beer, which artfully melds a complete myriad of advanced concepts and brewing ideas into one multi-layered consuming occasion.”
Initially brewed for Dogfish Head’s annual Weekend of Compelling Ales & Spirits, an off-centered meals and beverage pageant that includes Gastro Obscura as this yr’s featured visitor, Fermentation Engastration seamlessly aligns with each the brewery and Gastro Obscura’s missions. For Dogfish Head, Fermentation Engastration is a liquid illustration of the brewery’s off-centered ethos, giving a loving nod to its historical past of pushing the boundaries of craft beer. As one of many world’s first fashionable craft breweries to brew beers with culinary substances outdoors the Reinheitsgebot, the German purity regulation stating beer can solely be brewed with water, hops, barley and yeast, Dogfish Head prides itself on creating advanced, various and adventurous craft drinks for drinkers trying to problem the established order, one sip at a time.
Equally, Gastro Obscura encourages these with daring palettes to discover the world and its many wonders via the lens of food and drinks. By sharing tales, internet hosting experiences and main worldwide journeys, Gastro Obscura strives to open people’ minds (and stomachs) to new and thrilling culinary experiences by unlocking their internal senses of surprise and curiosity.
“The curious minds at Atlas Obscura and Dogfish Head share a typical obsession with trying to find the weird in food and drinks,” stated Warren Webster, Atlas Obscura CEO. “We knew that something might occur if we teamed up with Dogfish Head, and positive sufficient we discovered magic in Fermentation Engastration. Like our partnership itself, this beer is proof that bringing collectively surprising substances can yield great outcomes.”
For extra details about Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Gastro Obscura, please go to www.dogfish.com and www.atlasobscura.com/gastro, respectively. To snag a bottle of Fermentation Engastration, click on HERE.
*Obtainable for delivery to AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI and WY.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery:
Dogfish Head has proudly targeted on brewing beers with culinary substances outdoors the Reinheitsgebot because the day it opened because the smallest American craft brewery greater than 26 years in the past. Dogfish Head has grown right into a top-20 craft brewery and gained quite a few awards all through the years, together with Wine Fanatic’s 2015 Brewery of the Yr and the James Beard Basis Award for 2017 Excellent Wine, Spirits, or Beer Skilled. A Delaware-based model with Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, an off-centered brewpub, Chesapeake & Maine, Dogfish Head’s seafood and cocktail spot, Dogfish Inn, a beer-themed inn on the harbor, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a manufacturing brewery and distillery that includes the Tasting Room & Kitchen and Dogfish Head Distilling Co., Dogfish Head is a supporter of the Impartial Craft Brewing Seal, the definitive icon for American craft breweries to establish themselves to be independently-owned and carry the torch of transparency, brewing innovation and the liberty of alternative initially solid by brewing group pioneers. Dogfish Head sells beer in all 50 states and D.C. For extra, go to www.dogfish.com, Fb: @dogfishheadbeer, Twitter: @dogfishbeer, Instagram: @dogfishhead.
