Beer for Breakfast, a winter seasonal stout from Dogfish Head with a Delaware breakfast favorite made its debut this week.
The beer features more than ten breakfast inspired ingredients including a hearty serving of scrapple. The name of the beer also reflects Dogfish founder Sam Calagione’s favorite band, The Replacements and a line from one of the group’s 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
Ingredients include Guatemalan Antigua cold press coffee, brown sugars, maple syrup harvested from Western Massachusetts and applewood smoked barley for a bacon-like touch. Next are Kiln coffee and carmel malt, flaked oats, roasted barley, molasses, milk sugars and roasted chicory.
The of Beer for Breakfast is surely Delaware-made Rapa Scrapple.
Rapa, the world’s largest producer of scrapple, was started by brothers Ralph and Paul Adams in Bridgeville, a few 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.”
For more information, visit dogfish.com.