Okay, now the two-time winner of the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Award and the two-time winner of the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award. That's right. Promoting and advancing the crafted microbrew culture in Northeast Pennsylvania. Another edition of THE FRIDAY BEER BUZZ. AND THE FRIDAY Beer Buzz powered by Sabatinis and Exiter, one of the area's greatest selections of rare craft and imported beers. Growlers and Crowlers, a hand pump. Oh my. And 35 rotating drafts at Sabatini's Pizza and Sabatini's Bar and Bottle Shop, Wyoming Avenue exit. Here's Lindo Sabatini. Yay. Good morning, Lindo. It never gets old. I Oh my fantastic. Bill from mybeerbuzz.com. Happy Friday. I almost forgot it today. I know. A little delay, but that's There was a pregnant pause, but that was dramatic. Thinking about our guest and everything. Very excited for that. We have one tiny tidbit of news we have to break out there. It is big news. It involves two of our previous guests. Okay, from Cigar City. We had Wayne Wambles on. Cigar City got purchased and I know that's not the full technical term. There's a capital partner group involved in this, but thankfully they were purchased by another guest of ours on the show, Dale Ketchus from Oscar Blue. Oh, nice. Very good. So, very, very good news. We're excited about that. Excited to see what will come out of that collaboration. Perhaps it'll be a Texas style cage match. We can only hope. We have a guest joining us from Milton and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. From Dogfish Head, we have Sam Calagione. Y Sam.
Hey guys, how are you this morning?
Oh, pretty good. Thanks for being on our show, Sam. Sam,
I like to get the gushing portion of the show out of the way early. Uh, back in the mid-'90s, I was a brown ale kind of guy and so I enjoyed that sort of sweet caramelly kind of brown ales. And I discovered something called Dogfish Head India Brown Ale. And so I, good or bad, I blame you for my love of hops.
Well, I got you. I got you headed over to the hop side instead of the dark side. That's good.
Nice. And I've never come back. We're still over on the hoppy side. That's cool. You guys have done a bunch of interesting ventures. I know the Dogfish Head is one I'm excited to visit. But you just started something called the Chesapeake and Maine, a restaurant.
Yeah. Well, it's a sort of a geographically enamored restaurant. So, all of our seafood, 100% is sourced as direct as possible from fishermen in those two regions, either from Chesapeake or Maine. And it's also a platform for some of our more exotic beers. It's adjacent to our brew pub and uses the same R&D brewery and distillery. So, we're featuring things like smoked raw oysters that we smoke the oysters in a pen. They eat smoked salt, so they taste smoky even though they're raw, paired with stuff like our Sequench ale, which is a hybrid beer brewed sequentially. It's a Kölsch that's fermented with a Berliner Weisse made with lime, that's fermented with a gose made with seawater from the Chesapeake.
Wow. So, how do you stay? How do you not just spend every waking hour in there? I mean, like, you're killing me. I'm listening to you talk about that. I go, 'Oh, I'm getting in the car. I'm coming down.'
Yeah. No, no, it's a special place for sure. And so yeah, I love my job. I'll say that.
How about do you call that my work and go eat and drink those kinds of things?
Do you wake up in the middle of the night, Sam, and say, 'I'm going to start with a Kölsch yeast and then it's going to go through a sort of being a gose and then maybe I'll sour it a little bit more.' I mean, where do these ideas come from?
Yeah, that one for me was kind of like, how can I best give the middle finger to the Reinheitsgebot in the year of its 500th anniversary? Let's see. I think I'll take three traditional German beer styles and mash them up together and put some lime and salt in there.
It's funny how you find inspiration in places like that, huh? Happy birthday to you. So, Sam, you have a new book out and a dog.
My dog barking. Sorry about that.
Your dog needs to go out.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll move away from the dog.
