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Dogfish Head’s Beer & Benevolence gives back with new initiatives

May 8, 2021

Since its inception, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s philanthropic Beer & Benevolence program has focused on giving back to the coastal Delaware community through creative collaborations with nonprofit organizations.

With its B&B program, Dogfish Head endeavors to foster community, nourish artistic advancement and cultivate environmental stewardship, and it partners with local nonprofits that share those same ideals. In 2020, the B&B program supported more than 70 nonprofits with monetary and product donations, contributing over $350,000 to the coastal Delaware community it calls home.

“Each year, we work to support our community in every way we can – through events benefitting local charities, like our Dogfish Dash that benefits The Nature Conservancy’s Delaware chapter; our ‘tour team tips,’ through which our tour and tasting room team graciously donates all its tips to local nonprofits; Benevolence Day, a day when we close our coastal Delaware properties and all co-workers engage in local volunteer opportunities; and community pledges, like our $50K pledge to the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Improvement Association’s Grove Park Dock project,” said Mariah Calagione, Dogfish Head co-founder and communitarian. “Obviously, 2020 was an unprecedented year, but I’m beyond proud of what our B&B program was able to accomplish, despite a global pandemic, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.”

This year, Dogfish Head’s B&B program takes its work to the next level with a series of beverage-centric initiatives, including a lineup of limited-edition beer releases benefitting local nonprofits, the introduction of a special Benevolence Tap, and the implementation of its Cocktail for a Cause program.

First, Dogfish Head will release a series of four limited-edition, benevolence beers from its Rehoboth brewpub, Brewings & Eats. Each launching in 4pk./16oz. cans, these beers will be conceptualized and brewed in partnership with a local nonprofit, with a portion of the beer’s proceeds benefitting that organization. Dogfish Head kicked off this project in March with Binoculager, an amber lager brewed with toasted sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and flax seeds. The perfect beer for birding enthusiasts, it was created in collaboration with the American Birding Association and Delmarva Birding Weekends, and its proceeds benefitted the ABA.

Brewings & Eats’ other benevolence beer releases will include the following off-centered ales:

Making its debut Saturday, May 15, Pontoon Lagoon is a gose-style ale with prickly pear, hand-harvested pickleweed and local Henlopen Sea Salt. Proceeds will benefit the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays.

Being created in collaboration with Revelation Craft Brewing Company, In Tandem is set to launch in mid-September and will benefit the Sussex County Land Trust. 

Lastly, Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats will partner with Delaware Wild Lands on a limited-edition beer slated for release later this fall. 

At Dogfish Head’s Tasting Room and Kitchen in Milton, the brewery will introduce a designated Benevolence Tap which will feature a different small-batch beer each month. From each pint sold, $1 will benefit that month’s nonprofit organization.

In May, the Benevolence Tap project goes live with More CowbeLLS, a hazy Double IPA benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Delaware chapter.

In June, the Benevolence Tap will transition to a lemon and blueberry sour brewed in celebration of Pride Month. Proceeds will benefit Delaware Pride.

Also in celebration of Pride Month, Dogfish Head’s Chesapeake & Maine, the brewery’s seafood and cocktail spot in Rehoboth, will launch a partnership with CAMP Rehoboth. The collaboration will center around the restaurant’s new Cocktails for a Cause program. In addition to hosting weekly happy hours throughout June with 10 percent of proceeds benefitting CAMP Rehoboth, Chesapeake & Maine will feature a keg-conditioned CAMP Cocktail on its menu. For every CAMP Cocktail sold, $1 will be donated to CAMP Rehoboth.

For more information on Dogfish Head’s Beer & Benevolence program and its initiatives, go to dogfish.com/beer-and-benevolence.

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