Beer of the Week! 05/30/23

Dewey Swishy Pants

Regularly $15.99 / Now on Sale for $14.96
Double Dry-hopped New England Style IPA

So three guys walk into a beer. The first guy says to the others, “Hey, let’s start making this stuff.” It’s a tale we’ve heard before and, this time, it’s the beginning of Dewey Beer Company.

In the early 2000s, high school Physics teacher Mike Reilly was working on his homebrewing game. (By the way, what was up with their Chemistry teachers? Brewing and Chemistry teachers should go together.) Reilly was drinking with buddies Scott Kaufman and Brandon Smith, and the trio fell to talking about starting their own brewery with Reilly as the head brewer and Kaufman and Smith handling the business.

Though the trio is from the northern VA / DC area, the guys settled on a location in Dewey Beach, Delaware, on the coastal highway — just down the road from Rehoboth Beach and Dogfish Head Brewing and a block from the Atlantic Ocean. In 2013, they floated their plan for a brewpub past the town council, who wouldn’t approve it until 2014. The next year, they opened Dewey, focusing on making the kind of beers that they liked drinking — IPAs and sours.

The Swishy Pants is a tasty New England Style IPA brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy hops. Cool with just enough sweetness left in the malt to bring out the juiciness, this brew comes at you in three waves. First, there’s the bright tangerine and Mango notes, second there’s some hop bitterness, and third there’s citrus rounding off the finish.

So, three guys decide to make some tasty beer … and that’s no joke.

Bonus Beer of the Week (‘Cause once you have the first one at the beginning of the week, what’s going to tide you over until our beer tastings — which are back! — on Thursday, 5:30 - 6:30 PM?)

DuClaw Spruce Willis

Regularly $12.99 / Now on Sale for $11.96
Hazy Double IPA with Spruce Tips

There’s a long history of people brewing beer with bits and bristles from spruce trees. Hundreds of years ago, Scandinavians and Finns added spruce to their beers. Rocketing forward, colonial America saw a lot of spruce beer under the belief that it could prevent and cure scurvy. Even Benjamin Franklin had a recipe for spruce beer. (He kept it right next to his recipe for personal salvation through wealth.)

Rosedale, MD’s DuClaw Brewing Company turns to a more recent American icon who’s no less of an advocate for ingenuity and personal industry. Their Spruce Willis is a double IPA made with spruce tips. (“Yippee Ki-Yay Mother#^@%*&".”)

Like a surprise hostage situation party crasher who just happens to have excessive combat training, spruce is a welcome addition to the mango and grapefruit flavors from Spruce Willis’ hops. It’s like drinking an IPA while standing next to a Christmas tree that’s been decorated with those oranges you stick cloves in. For everyone who thinks that DuClaw is just their Nakatomi Plaza of a Peanut Butter Porter, Sweet Baby Jesus, DuClaw says, “Now we have a spruce IPA. Ho, ho, ho.”

Bonus Bonus Beer Madness

For a fun treat, blend the Swishy Pants with the Spruce Willis, two-thirds to one-third respectively! We call it “the Sprucey Pants.” You’ll be glad you did!

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