The first beer we drank was Dogfish Head's Midas Touch, an ale made with Muscat grapes.

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When brewer Sam Calagione, president of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Lewes, Del.

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At Spiegelau a whole team of experts weighed in on this stem, including the brew masters at Dogfish and Sierra Nevada.

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Drinkers in San Diego can sip a Maine-brewed Allagash, and Dogfish Head, the pride of Delaware, can be bought in Seattle.

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Dogfish Accelerator is the newly formed development arm of Dogfish Pictures, an independent film production company founded by James Belfer in 2009.

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Speigelau, which is a subsidiary of Riedel, launched an IPA glass this past February with the blessing of producers such as Dogfish and Sierra Nevada.

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The evening's crescendo was the unveiling of a new beer, Rhizing Bines, described as an "East Coast-meets-West Coast" Imperial IPA made by Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head together.

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His attachment to the locality is so strong that he hopes eventually to open a bar in the tiny village, which is an impressively humble aspiration for someone who is also about to open a brewpub in New York in collaboration with Teo Musso (Baladin), Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head) and Vinnie Cilurzo (Russian River).

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