Ever been left in dire need of a cooler for your just-purchased craft beer? Dogfish Head has got you covered. The Delaware brewery has released the Off-Center Your Summer Pack, an assortment of canned goodness all wrapped up in a variety 12-pack featuring cans of 60 Minute IPA, SeaQuench Ale, Lupu-Luau IPA and Namaste White. In addition to containing a broad selection of distinct beers, the Off-Center Your Summer Pack converts into a functional cooler with wet-strength paperboard that can hold ice and water for up to six hours — just pop it open and add ice. Each of these 12 packs includes a custom Dogfish Head “KOOZIE Can Kooler” and offers consumers the chance to win a trip to coastal Delaware for a once-in-a-lifetime Dogfish Head experience. Winners get to hang out at Dogfish Head’s harbor front hotel and Rehoboth brewpub, but they will also be lending a hand at the brewery and helping prepare the pure culinary ingredients that go into these four delicious beers. Peaks and Pints not only sells this beauties but features all four beers in today’s beer flight, Craft Beer Crosscut 7.2.18: A Flight of Off-Center Your Summer Pack.
Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale
4.9% ABV, 10 IBU
SeaQuench Ale is a session sour mash-up of a crisp Kolsch with lots of wheat and Munich malt, a salty gose with black limes, coriander and sea salt, and a citrusy-tart Berliner weiss made with lime juice and lime peel, blended together in the fermentation tank to create this German hybrid. Dogfish Head’s experimentation focuses on three thirst-quenching styles with German roots, but no single style quite hit the mark and mood the brewery was going for — so it blended them for a cloudy gold brew with a savory and citrusy smell. It has a fair amount of tart wheat and coriander character, but the salt and lime are extremely strong. There are many goses brewed in the same vein, but not many are this dry, bright and thirst quenching.
Dogfish Head Lupu-Luau IPA
7.3% ABV, 45 IBU
The newest India pale ale in founder Sam Calagione’s arsenal is Dogfish Head Lupu-Luau IPA, a coconut heavy offering. The tropical IPA is brewed with toasted coconut, experimental hops and dehydrated coconut water. That might sound weird. Dehydrated water? By removing the water content from coconut water, what are left behind are natural sugars, and electrolyte heavy, coconut-y compounds and flakes that further enhance this beer. On the nose expect moderate tropical, coconut and malt aroma. Lupu-Luau sports a medium complex sweet flavor with a slick body, wheat, coconut, citrus and light bitterness.
Dogfish Head Namaste
4.8% ABV, 20 IBU
Namaste is a refreshing Belgian witbier, brewed with coriander and peppercorn, perfect for quenching your thirst after a night of overindulgence. It smells like a bowl of fresh cut lemons and oranges, with some slight spiciness from the coriander and just a touch of malt. This is a very light and smooth beer with quite a bit of carbonation, but packed with character. Upfront it is very much lemongrass with a touch of orange, followed by some spiciness and grains.
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
6% ABV, 60 IBU
No stranger to IPA fans, Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute IPA is continuously hopped with more than 60 hop additions over the entire boil to create a powerful yet balanced East Coast blend with a ton of citrusy hop character. Inspired by a cooking segment he saw in the late ’90s where a chef added little increments of pepper over an extended period to enhance flavor, Calagione turned to a vibrating magnetic football game to create a system that would continuously add hop pellets during the entire time a beer boiled. The 60 minutes of continuous “A Northwest Hop” contributes to sweet aroma of apricot and pear — similar to a Riesling. The beer doesn’t taste as sweet as it smells and instead we get notes pungent grapefruit pith with a slight bitterness.
And a bonus Dogfish Head beer …
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
9% ABV, 90 IBU
The 90 Minute IPA, which debuted in 2001, is the first beer that Dogfish Head continuously hops, adding hops for 90 minutes during the boil for bitterness, and then dry-hop in the fermentation casks to achieve high aroma and flavor. Despite the massive amounts of hops, a clean, grainy malt character ekes through — maple and golden raisin — balancing some of the bitterness and grassy flavors.
