Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
also referred to as: dogfish head
11 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2022 by Mariah Calagione · said 5 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, oldest first
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Strict work-life balance is impossible for married founders, says Mariah Calagione
“There isn't a work-life balance, because there's no, like, demarcation between work and not work, really. I mean, we go out to dinner at night where it's at an account. Like, we go to somewhere on the weekend, like, pretty much everywhere sells beer, right? So…”
Aug 1, 2022 neutral
Dogfish Head pulled out of several states to intentionally slow growth
“Well, we pulled, at one point, we pulled out of a number of states. We found, like, we couldn't supply as many states as we had opened up, so we retracted a bit. We didn't want to get too far out over our skis. That growth was great, but we didn't want to outg…”
Aug 1, 2022 neutral
Dogfish Head launched with $220,000 in personal loans to retain equity
“Yep, yep, it cost 220,000, yeah. And it was really, I did it, I structured it as personal loans out of the gate, so it wasn't that initially that, you know, they had equity in the company, so that also helped Mariah and I Keep control of the company as we're g…”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Dogfish Head drove early press via impromptu newsroom happy hours
“I would drop off two pallets at a distributor in New York or Philly, but then take a bucket of beers to Art Forum Magazine, or Interview, or Food & Wine, or, and, you know, usually people would let us in their door for, say, hey, we want to throw a, we want to…”
Aug 1, 2022
Sam Calagione drafted the bill to legalize commercial brewing in Delaware
“Massage the language, and literally a guy, within a month, we were on the floor getting a bill that we wrote, brought forward, and then Governor Carper, who's now, you know, signed that bill, and it actually turned into this just kismet moment, because all of …”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Dogfish Head differentiated its brand by strictly banning cover bands
“The Holy Trinity was original beer, original food, original music. We also refused to have any cover artists, which, you know, 93% of the bands that played back then were Jimmy Buffett cover bands. So we were, like, finding all these indie rock bands from acro…”
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Brewing 12-gallon batches allowed Dogfish Head to live-test with customers
“The fact that we couldn't afford a full-scale, you know, commercial brewing system, and Had to start with tiny little pots and pans, you know, making 12 gallons of beer in the corner of our restaurant. It was actually a blessing in disguise, because I would br…”
Aug 1, 2022
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Aug 1, 2022 positive
Continual hopping adds strong hop aroma without intense lingering bitterness
“By doing this little tiny continual hopping method, it made our beers really intensely, aromatically, beautifully hoppy without being crushingly bitter. Like if we added that same volume of hops all at once, the beers would have an unpalatable lingering bitter…”