Subject: Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales

• Cowboy Ciao and Digestif host wine, beer, and absinthe dinners

  September 4, 2008

• He Said Beer, She Said Wine at Four Peaks

  No, sommelier Marnie Old and Dogfish Head brewery founder Sam Calagione won't be in town this week to pimp their book He Said Beer, She Said Wine, but hey, who needs them? The folks at Changing Hands Bookstore are hosting a tasting party anyway, and it sounds like a good time. Like many of the store's food-centric events, this one will be held off-site, at Tempe's Four Peak Brewery, on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. And in the conversational spirit of the book (its subtitle is Impassioned Food P

  February 16, 2009

• Funky Brewster

  Wanna be a professional beer drinker when you grow up? Here’s how.

  April 30, 2009

• Dogfish Head Founder In Town This Week

  There are plenty of nameless, unsung brewmasters out there, and Sam Calagione is definitely not one of them. The founder and president of Delaware's cult hit Dogfish Head brewery is one of the best-known leaders of the extreme beer trend, and was profiled in entertaining detail in last fall's food issue of The New Yorker. But did you know Calagione's also an author? And a bocce ball fanatic? Yep, dude's a craft brew-fueled Renaissance man. He's in town this week for several different events, s

  April 28, 2009

• April 28 In Blogs: Swine Flu, Wolverine, Geisha A Go Go and More

  We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Scottsdale Community College Journalism Director Declares Victory in Student Newspaper Flap Swine Flu Arizona -- Nothing Yet Reported in State or Sonora, Mexico Feathered Bastard: Zack de la Rocha Talks 287(g); and a Desperate Letter from Inside Estrella Jail Sheriff

  April 28, 2009

• Dogfish Head Intergalactic Bocce Tournament Brings Brews and Balls to Scottsdale

  Jonathan McNamaraSee more beer shots in our Dogfish Head slide show. This weekend, Earth's mightiest heroes assembled to drink delicious beer and play bocce ball. At least that's what the scene seemed to be from a distance, but as I moved closer I realized that appearances truly are deceiving. The Flash was wearing a trench coat and had an extremely fake but extremely generous phallus stapled to his crotch. Seems he changed his name to the Flash-er. His team mate, Wonder Bush wore Wonder Woman'

  May 4, 2009

• First Friday, Zack de la Rocha, Back Ted N-Ted and Dogfish Head Beer Over the Weekend

  First Friday in Photos Local music was the focus of First Friday on May 1, 2009. Back Ted N-Ted hit up Roosevelt Row for an outside gig, while local favs What Laura Says, and Dry River Yacht Club battled it out for band supremacy at Phoenix Art Museum. See more shots in our First Friday slide show...see photos Zack de la Rocha Returns to Protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio Before today's successful march of thousands from the Wells Fargo building in downtown Phoenix to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's gulags, ma

  May 4, 2009

• May 4 In Blogs: Napolitano, Zack de la Rocha, Back Ted N-Ted and More

  In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard:Can Janet Napolitano Fail Upward to the Supreme Court? Valley Fever:Speed Camera Killing and Debate in NY Times Blog Swine Flu Arizona: Policy of Closing Maricopa County Schools is Lifted, But 10 Schools Closed in Nogales Up on the Sun:First Friday, Zack de la Rocha, Back Ted N-Ted

  May 4, 2009

• Draft Magazine Craft Brewing Festival

  June 18, 2009

• Brew Review: New Dogfish Head and Other Great Brews at The Draft Magazine Craft Brew Festival

  Jonathan McNamaraVolunteers pour Steamworks Brewing's delicious beers at the Draft Magazine Craft Brewing Festival Choosing the right horse requires a lot of luck and a certain willingness to watch your already mentally-spent earnings fail to materialize. That's why I took a different gamble at Turf Paradise Race Track this weekend and thought I'd try my luck with a bunch of micro brew enthusiasts instead of horse gamblers. Packed into Turf Paradise's club house on Saturday, June 20, 2009 were

  June 22, 2009

• Brew Review: Dogfish Head's Sah'tea

  A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Draft Magazine Microbrew Festival at Turf Paradise. It was a fairly great time marred by one great disappointment. I ran into Louis Dolgoff, Arizona's Dogfish Head sales manager who explained to me that he was in possession of Sah'tea, a new brew infused with chai tea and juniper berries. "Great!" I exclaimed. "Can I try some?" "I'm sorry but we're all out," was the heart-wrenching reply I received. Well my fellow drinkers, I've come

  July 17, 2009

• Home, Tweet Home: Jeff Moriarty Is Trying to Create a Cultural Identity for Phoenix, 140 Characters at a Time

  September 3, 2009

• Brew Review: Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale

  ​The Stone Brewing Co. is not the type of brewery to get involved in any marketing schemes; especially not with their Arrogant Bastard brand. As a matter of fact, they make several references to how pointless "multi-million dollar ad campaigns" are right on their bottles. It's a bit of a pisser though because they could have had one hell of an ad campaign had they partnered up with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. See where I'm going with this? Let's face it, the hallmark Taran

  September 11, 2009

• Brew Review: Dogfish Head's 90 Minute IPA and Texas Hold 'Em

  ​Poker is a strange beast. People behave differently when in addition to competing for glory there's a bit of money involved. They get almost religious about certain little customs and superstitious behaviors. You've got the guy who shuffles chips cause he believes it'll intimidate the competition. Then you've got the bloke who plays low cards all the time because he believes they hold a special power just for him. As for me, when I play a game of Texas Hold 'Em, I make sure that I dri

  October 9, 2009

• Your Meal Ticket To Fall Seasonal Beers

  ​There's nothing better than a crisp, clean beer on a cool fall night. Ok, maybe a hot toddy, but we're still all about fall seasonals like Dogfish Head's Pumpkin Ale and Four Peaks' Pumpkin Porter. In this week's Meal Ticket dining newsletter, find out which upcoming event will feature seasonal beers from around the country. Buy a ticket and get a taste -- or 8, or 15. We'll also have info on a new brewpub in Tempe, and another microbrewery that's on its way to the East Valley

  October 28, 2009

• Bryan's Black Mountain Barbecue Does Pulled Pork That's Worth the Drive to Cave Creek

  November 12, 2009

• "Provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers" from Chow.com

  ​If you like to geek out on culinary trend pieces as much as I do, then you'll love the baker's dozen of food culture somebodies and tastemakers that the website Chow.com has compiled for its first-annual Chow 13 Awards. From the dude who has Angelenos compulsively checking Twitter to get their Korean barbecue taco fix, to the brewery founder who's gotten beer geeks drinking ever stronger, ever more esoteric brews, the rundown is a fun read. Here's the quick rundown of who gets a nod thi

  November 12, 2009

• Draft Magazine's The Big Pour...Or At Least What We Remember From It

  Jonathan McNamaraDelicious Fat Tire. See more shots in our Big Pour slide show. ​What do you do when faced with multiple beers from multiple breweries? That's right, drink 'em all! That's precisely what we (attempted) to do at Draft Magazine's The Big Pour last weekend. The beer festival took place at The Waterfront in Scottsdale and attracted a crowd of folks ranging from Tempe riff-raff to Ed Hardy-clad Scottsdale denizens with such attractions as George Wendt of Cheers fame and Evercl

  November 16, 2009