Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Sam and Mariah Calagione started dating in high school, and have been on a wild ride ever since. Their biggest, craziest adventure? Founding Dogfish Head Brewery and forever changing the landscape of American craft beer. From the moment Sam started home-brewing in his NYC apartment, he infused his beer with unusual ingredients like cherries, maple syrup, roasted chicory, and licorice. When he and Mariah officially launched Dogfish Head in 1995, it was the smallest brewery in America’s smallest state. 24 years (and countless pints) later, it was acquired by the Boston Beer Company for $300 million. Along the way, Sam and Mariah had one random experience after another: writing a bill to legalize their own brew-pub, winning best recipe at the Delaware Punkin Chunkin, and inviting Ricki Lake to their first tasting at Sam's apartment (spoiler alert: she showed up).

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:10.6	One of the cool moments was while I was trying to raise the money, Mariah and I went to this
0:15.6	regional festival called Pumpkin Chunkin.
0:19.0	Right.
0:20.0	I took my homebrew pumpkin beer there and kind of muscled the Koreanies and aunts out
0:24.3	of the way that had their cakes and pies in the competition and our dogfish had pumpkin
0:29.4	nail one the food competition.
0:32.3	Wait, you hijacked a baking competition of old women, grannies with your beer which
0:38.8	is not even a part of a baking competition and you won, that's amazing but that's not
0:43.9	fair.
0:44.9	It didn't say it wasn't for beer.
0:47.0	That's true.
0:48.0	Don't hate to play or hate the game.
0:56.6	Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists and the stories
1:02.5	behind the movements they built.
1:08.2	I'm Guy Ross and on the show today, how Sam and Mariah Kellijoni made some of the
1:12.6	weirdest beers in America and turned them into a beloved craft beer brand, dogfish head
1:18.5	brewery.
1:24.7	Last summer, I had one of those black and white to color moments, you know, like in the
1:33.2	Wizard of Oz when the black and white film switches to that vivid, technicaler when Dorothy
1:38.3	gets to Oz.
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