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Samuel Calagione

Founder, Brewer of Dogfish Head & Director, BOSTON BEER INC -CL A

Search every verified Samuel Calagione interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Samuel Calagione, co-founder of Dogfish Head Brewery, discussed the company's history and recent activities in several podcast appearances. On the Legendary Brewers podcast in August 2026, he described the brewery's early days, including delivering kegs in a pickup truck and an incident in which a keg fell out, rolled up a hill, and lost beer. He also discussed the state of the craft brewing industry, saying, "Good beer rises to the top," and announced that the brewery's seasonal beer, SeaQuench, would be paused over the fall and reintroduced as a summer seasonal in late June of the following year. On the How I Built This podcast, he discussed the company's acquisition by the Boston Beer Company for $300 million and noted that the industry definition of an independent craft brewery excludes breweries producing over 3 million barrels or those more than 25% owned by a brewery over that size. He also discussed Dogfish Head's history, including his early days transporting kegs with a pickup truck and the company's 31st anniversary in 2026. In podcast appearances, Calagione discussed the influence of punk rock and hip-hop on his approach to brewing, as well as his experience launching Dogfish Head in 1995 with unusual ingredients such as maple syrup, licorice, and chicory. He also said that he has an intentional morning routine of checking music news sites such as Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, The Quietus, and Rolling Stone before starting his daycars, and described the current craft beer market as challenging, while noting that "good beer rises to the top." Calagione also discussed the decision to pause production of the beer SeaQuench Ale and bring it back as a summer seasonal in 2027.Sam Calagione, co-founder of Dogfish Head Brewery, discussed the company's history and the craft beer industry in several recent podcast appearances. In an interview on the Bruis and Banter podcast, he recounted an early delivery incident involving a keg that fell from his pickup truck and rolled uphill, and discussed the current state of craft beer, saying, "Good beer rises to the top." Calagione also mentioned that

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“Craft beer is not growing in America. And we've dropped from the highest number of breweries in the country at 10,000 maybe two years ago down to like 900 9,500. So, it's definitely challenging times again, but good beer rises to the top and great breweries rise to the top.”

“I didn't even know I was so naive that it was illegal. It was illegal to open a brewery in the state of Delaware because it's a state-by-state basis after prohibition was lifted. Uh they let every state decide. They had to write their own legislation to make it legal again. So, I start building Dogfish Head in the building. I bought all the equipment and somebody's like, 'You can't open a brewery in the state.' So, I”

“I have so much heart for touring musicians or just musicians in in general right now, you know, and and then, you know, when you put the the economics of a world that's shifted to primarily streaming into that mix, it becomes even more challenging. So, if I love an album, you know, I'm very lucky that the brewy's been successful enough that I don't need to worry about um, you know, can I can I pay my electric bill at”

“I think on those two brands we're pleasantly getting some tailwinds in C-stores but for the bigger two brands especially when you're correlating the 30 foot walk from a gas pump at $5 a gallon to that C-store shelf there a lot of people are just feeling that right now. And I think you see that also with big box off-prem and there's a lot of talk about that we're out of balance, how bifurcated the price of a can of be”

“I do. And I see some really smart like my buddies at Yards and Two Roads like I see a lot of smart and sort of what I call some smart and humble craft on craft M&A where it's less and less likely that big PE or top 10 global craft players are coming in for a straight craft buy of a brand or a company. But those that are sitting on big fractions of dark capacity are talking to each other and saying, you know, let's co”

“I can name breweries within a 100 miles of where I'm sitting in coastal Delaware right now that I think it'll be a real challenge for them to make it if this goes away because you talked about the revenue per CE is really profitable for them and if that component goes away and they've frankly shifted a lot of their resources some of them away from trying to push on their craft beer brands and to just fill up their da”

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