Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione (2022)

Hey everyone, it's Guy here. So this week we're taking a quick break so our team can bring you lots of new episodes of the show. So we're bringing you a great one from the vault, the story of Dogfish Head Brewery. The founders, high school sweethearts, Sam and Mariah Calligione, came on the show back in 2022 and they shared how they turned Dogfish Head from of this weird little brew pub in Delaware, into one of the biggest brands in craft beer. This year actually marks a pretty major milestone for the company. It's Dogfish Heads Thirtieth year in business. And as you'll hear, it's been a few Fun and crazy ride. Enjoy the show.

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 head pumpkin ale won the the food competition. Wait, you hijacked a a baking competition of old women Grammys with your beer which is not even a part of a baking competition and you won that That's amazing, but that's not fair. It didn't say it wasn't for beer.

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