How to pronounce“calagione”in English

Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head on the left.

Sam Calagione: Thank you.

Sam Calagione: Thank you, bud.

Sam Calagione: I'm gonna move around between the podium and this chair.

Sam Calagione: That one looks just right so thank you for thinking about that, Adam.

Sam Calagione: I was an English major, not geography major.

Sam Calagione: You'd be surprised which one we chose.

Sam Calagione: But that night, searching those ingredients, that was obviously the real challenge.

Sam Calagione: From Antarctica.

Sam Calagione: So we get the four, five gallon buckets every year of the Antarctic water and it has crystallized ginger from

Sam Calagione: for some of the things, every single idea, if I could read you that list it's like a free form poem of awesome ideas

Sam Calagione: Poisonous, right.

Sam Calagione: We try to, you know, sort of hallucinogens and things that kill you were pretty easy for us to knock off of that list.

Sam Calagione: because I was trying to get dates and the words were very similar.

Sam Calagione: Dom fruit which is a palm fruit and then I'm walking away and I'm like that's really neat, you know, we're gonna be able to use these dates and the one thing

Sam Calagione: And I guess that's what the deer penis does so, um Sam Calagione: that's a bad digression but let's get back to Urkontinent.

Sam Calagione: Okay, cool, so if you kind of, you get the idea of range, and then to the left is where people are saying, right, whether they like that idea and then we tallied

Sam Calagione: You know?

Sam Calagione: you're getting paid to do that.

Sam Calagione: That creative decision that we made to go in a different direction.

Sam Calagione: We called it an audible.

Sam Calagione: So it led to us working with a consortium of wattle seed raising type people.

Sam Calagione: And we had to over buy, we had to commit to a certain volume which led

Sam Calagione: You had wattle seed salad special, you had, we're tired of wattle seed on its own, we like it in Urkontinent though.

Sam Calagione: But there was some concern because, obviously, Dogfish Head was making the beer all ourselves as professional brewers and we understood the liability was there.

Sam Calagione: But, again, if we really believe in 'off centered ales for off centered people' as a concept then we need to practice what we preach.

Sam Calagione: Go ahead.

Sam Calagione: It's usually the one I'm drinking when I'm asked that question.

Sam Calagione: Um, I probably by volume drink mostly Indian Brown, 60 Minute, Hellhound, our IPA.

Sam Calagione: So I'll move on to Positive Contact and I guess in between them I'll talk about that approach to collaboration for us.

Sam Calagione: I was, and they were from Brooklyn Brine, a small company here and that led me to explore an opportunity to work with

Sam Calagione: I should lay down. But, you know Sam Calagione: I should sit in the chair.

Sam Calagione: Where it's like, ah, and I basically have to whine and cry, I don't cry but I whine and don't yell.

Sam Calagione: I whine and, like, I walk up and down the room and the cliché is that I rarely say I'm gonna put my president's

Sam Calagione: And Nick, our COO, is like, "I like him, too.

Sam Calagione: So that's an example of that process.

Sam Calagione: Shipping it overnight was not an idea I brought in front of the seven

Sam Calagione: I don't think it would have gone well.

Sam Calagione: Positive Contact on the duct tape.

Sam Calagione: through the seven of us.

Sam Calagione: And then all we could do, cause it would be price fixing if we called them up said you can't do that, you assholes,

Sam Calagione: But our commitment, we have other, we have 'off centered ale for off centered

Sam Calagione: I don't know from here how he's buying them in Kentucky but that's pretty cool.

Sam Calagione: It used to be me and then two years ago we hired our first graphic design guy and I loved that job and it was kinda like a, and I still, I painted the Urkontinent

Sam Calagione: Yep.

Sam Calagione: Yeah, we're, right now the vast majority of the commercial brewing equipment is stainless steel because it's sterile and, you know, easy to clean, very durable, but

Sam Calagione: Okay, um, yep.

Sam Calagione: Well, male #5: You seem the only non Italian company down there.

Sam Calagione: Yeah, well that basically, that relationship didn't start with like Mario Batali or what was happening here, it started with Salon De Gusto which is the bi annual