![]() ![]() The brewpub’s kitchen was full of ingredients, colors and aromas, but most of them were linked to the dishes headed out to diners rather than the sugary wort boiling in the kettle. The recipes were starting to feel a bit rote. Now he had to brew multiple batches a day, one after the other, each taking four to six hours on burners (followed by cooling, fermenting, and bottling), five days a week. Customers kept coming back for more, bringing their friends. He could afford to buy only a small set of brewing equipment: a 12-gallon system designed for homebrewers, not professionals.īut the beer he made was good. In 1995, when Calagione first opened his brewpub, space was tight and so was the budget. Supported by a gift from the Brewers Association, the museum is constructing this archive for the benefit of scholars, brewers and millions of Americans.įounder and Brewer Sam Calagione, of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, purchased this vintage vibrating football game at a thrift store, outfitted it with self-fabricated parts and angled it over his boil kettle to shake hops gently into the brew.ĭogfish Head’s story is exemplary and at the same time one of many. The Initiative is the first national-scale, scholarly research and collecting project to gather and preserve the artifacts, documents, and voices associated with the beer industry’s recent growth-a phenomenon known as the craft beer revolution. There have been more than a few destinations in between, from lagering caves in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a brewer’s off-the-grid cabin in Lincoln, Arkansas, to the breezy shores of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin. Since January 2017, my search for the histories of homebrewing and craft beer has led me to destinations as far away as 49th State Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, and as close to home as Denizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring, Maryland. Researching, collecting, preserving and sharing this history has been my charge as curator of the Initiative. Dogfish Head’s founding stainless steel boil kettle and vibrating football game joined the growing archive of homebrewing and craft beer history that is being built by the museum’s American Brewing History Initiative. ![]() With its arrival into the Smithsonian collections, Calagione’s longtime brewing equipment began a new life, beyond the brewery. The ends were quirky the means of achieving the ends even more so. The trick that packs a powerful-and, to many, tasty-bitterness became familiar to craft beer “hop heads” in the brewery’s 60 Minute IPA, named for its sixty minutes of continual hopping. This American institution is all about shaping the future by preserving our country’s heritage,” says Calagione. “My Dogfish Head co-workers and I are excited to have our brewery’s original boil kettle and continual-hopping invention now within the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. The innovative Calagione purchased the novelty toy at a nearby thrift store, added a few self-fabricated parts, angled it over his kettle, and used the vibrations to shake hops gently and continuously into his brew, inventing the technique of continual hopping. ![]() Sam Calagione’s boil kettle-discolored from heavy use and topped with a repurposed kitchen pot lid, looking a bit like a mismatched hat-didn’t arrive alone last week to the storage shelves at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.Ĭalagione, the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, formerly Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, also donated a vintage vibrating electric football game-yes, you read that correctly. ![]()
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