Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione

One of the cool moments was while I was trying to raise the money, Mariah and I went to this regional festival called Pumpkin Chunkin'. Right. I took my homebrew pumpkin beer there and kinda muscled the the grannies and aunts out of the way that had their cakes and pies in the competition and and our dogfish had pumpkin ale won the the food competition. Wait, you hijacked a a baking competition of old women grannies? With your beer which is not even a part of a baking competition and you won, that

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They built. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Sam and Mariah Calligoni made some of the weirdest beers in America. Turn them into a beloved craft beer brand? Dogfish head brewery. Last summer I had one of those black and white to color moments, you know, like in The Wizard of Oz, when the black and white film switches to that vivid technicolor when Dorothy gets to Oz?

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