In Praise of DFH

And I’m not talking about Atrios’ DFH (NTTAWWT).  The New Yorker takes a wonderful walk through the state of American beer from the perspective of (sorta) local brewer Dogfish Head.  In case any local readers don’t know, DFH operates a bar serving many of their less-available brews out at Seven Corners.  Of course, if you can bear the Bay Bridge, you can always check out the original brewpub in Rehoboth.  The article shares a little bit about the history of that location:

As it turned out, there was a reason that Delaware had no breweries like Calagione’s. Prohibition had been over for sixty years, but it was still illegal for a pub to bottle and distribute its own beer. Calagione found this out not long after he’d signed the lease. Luckily, Delaware was also very small and very friendly to business. “I literally drove to Dover, asked which one is the House and which is the Senate, and started knocking on doors,” he remembers. “They said, ‘You want to do what, son? Well, write up a bill!’ ” Six months later, the governor signed the bill into law. The only hitch had come when Calagione was applying for his liquor license, and one of the commissioners brought up his recent arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol. Calagione admitted to the incident—a few weeks earlier, on his way home from a restaurant, he’d run into a parked car and dislocated his shoulder—but added a small correction. The actual infraction was a P.U.I., he said: pedalling under the influence. “Commissioner, I was on a bicycle.”

I’m sure that *none* of you could identify with that.  At all.