(MILTON, DE) – The world’s cheesiest beer collaboration (fairly actually), Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Cabot Creamery unveil The Good Pairing, a hazy pale ale scientifically-engineered to be ‘the proper pairing’ for sharp cheddar cheese, particularly Cabot Creamery’s Critically Sharp Cheddar cheese. Clocking in at 5.5% ABV, The Good Pairing is unfiltered and hop-forward with juicy, citrusy notes of grapefruit and pineapple. Lovely hazy-golden in coloration, it options whey from Cabot Creamery, which contributes each a compelling physique and delicate sweetness to the beer. Hitting cabinets from coast-to-coast this month, The Good Pairing will probably be obtainable solely in Dogfish Head’s NEW Selection 12pk/12oz cans, The Off-Centered Occasion Pack.
“The carbonation, mild bitterness and balanced fruity flavors of The Good Pairing put together and cleanse the palate in between bites of our creamy, tangy, daring Critically Sharp Cheddar cheese,” mentioned Maegan Olsen, R&D Meals Technologist at Cabot Creamery. “The Good Pairing shares among the identical DNA as Cabot’s Critically Sharp Cheddar, with using Cabot’s whey permeate as a novel ingredient to the recipe. The collaboration was a pure match (and intensely enjoyable!) as Dogfish + Cabot each take the time to lovingly craft their merchandise beginning with the magical means of fermentation.”
Dogfish Head’s Off-Centered Occasion Pack features a collection of 4 hop-centric beers to enhance any cooler-weather ingesting event. Along with The Good Pairing, the Off-Centered Occasion Pack comprises three, 12oz cans of every of the next beers. Really helpful cheese pairings for every of selection pack’s beers are additionally included, courtesy of Cabot Creamery.
- 90 Minute IPA (9.0% ABV): Impressed by a bowl of soup and a thrift retailer soccer recreation, 90 Minute IPA is the beer that invented Dogfish Head’s proprietary, continuous hopping course of. By including small quantities of hops at a constant price all through the beer’s 90-minute boil, Dogfish created a pungently hoppy but superbly balanced brew with wealthy pine and fruity citrus hop aromas and a robust malt spine.
Really helpful Cheese Pairing: Habanero Cheddar
- 60 Minute IPA (6.0% ABV): A best-selling Dogfish Head beer, 60 Minute IPA is regularly hopped for – you guessed it – 60 minutes with a boatload of intense Northwest hops for a daring, timeless taste. Chock filled with pungently, citrusy, grassy hop notes, with out being crushingly bitter, 60 Minute IPA is a surprisingly sessionable IPA for the craft fanatic.
Really helpful Cheese Pairing: Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar
- Blue Hen Pilsner (4.8% ABV): A crisp and refreshing pilsner, Blue Hen Pilsner is brewed with solely 4 components – water, hops, yeast and Delaware-grown and malted barley. Giving a loving nod to Dogfish Head’s slight but mighty dwelling state, the beer’s label art work options the Delaware state hen and a coloration palette just like the Delaware state flag.
Really helpful Cheese Pairing: Pepper Jack
“Many of us consider pairing cheese with wine, however beer and cheese pairings might be simply as advanced and scrumptious,” mentioned Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head Founder & Brewer. “We had a blast working alongside the oldsters at Cabot to create, from a sensory perspective, the proper beer to pair with sharp cheddar cheese. With The Good Pairing, and Dogfish Head’s total Off-Centered Occasion Pack, we wish to open drinkers’ minds and palates to the intricacies of beer and cheese and introduce them to the culinary magic that may be discovered if you artfully mix the 2.”
For extra about Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Cabot Creamery, go to www.dogfish.com and www.cabotcheese.coop, respectively. To trace down an Off-Centered Occasion Pack, that includes The Good Pairing, take a look at Dogfish Head’s Fish Finder.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery:
Dogfish Head has proudly targeted on brewing beers with culinary components exterior the Reinheitsgebot for the reason that day it opened as one of many smallest American craft breweries greater than 27 years in the past. Dogfish Head has grown right into a top-20 craft brewery and received quite a few awards all through the years, together with Wine Fanatic’s 2015 Brewery of the 12 months and the James Beard Basis Award for 2017 Excellent Wine, Spirits, or Beer Skilled. A Delaware-based model with Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats®, an off-centered brewpub and distillery, Chesapeake & Maine®, Dogfish Head’s seafood and cocktail spot, Dogfish Inn®, a beer-themed inn on the harbor, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery®, a manufacturing brewery and distillery that includes the Tasting Room & Kitchen and Dogfish Head Distilling Co.®, Dogfish Head is a supporter of the Unbiased Craft Brewing Seal, the definitive icon for American craft breweries to determine themselves to be independently-owned and carry the torch of transparency, brewing innovation and the liberty of selection initially solid by brewing group pioneers. Dogfish Head at present sells beer in all 50 states and Washington D.C. For extra, go to www.dogfish.com, Fb: @dogfishheadbeer, Twitter: @dogfishbeer, and Instagram: @dogfishhead.
Cabot Creamery:
For over a century, Cabot Creamery Co-operative has made the world’s best dairy merchandise utilizing solely the freshest components. Their award-winning cheeses, yogurts, bitter cream, cottage cheese, and butter stand aside due to Cabot farmers’ tireless dedication to high quality. From being named the “World’s Finest Cheddar,” to changing into the world’s first dairy co-operative to realize B-Corp standing, Cabot is owned by devoted farm households all through New England and upstate New York. Cabot employs greater than 1,000 folks and operates three cheese manufacturing services in Vermont and New York, plus a butter manufacturing facility in Massachusetts. For extra data, go to: htp://www.cabotcheese.coop, Fb: @cabot, Twitter: @cabotcheese, and Instagram: @cabotcheese.
