“I celebrate this award with my wife and business partner, Mariah, and our 200-plus co-workers who work hard to make our off-centered company tick,” Calagione said in an announcement at the time. Its founder is clean-shaven with a Beard.Īfter seven consecutive nominations for a James Beard Award, in 2017, Dogfish Head founder and president Sam Calagione was honored as the Outstanding Wine, Spirits or Beer Professional of the Year. Today, the motto has slight variations, but its message is unchanged. It translates, too, to events like the Dogfish Dash, an “off-centered road race” through Milton that benefits the Delaware chapter of the Nature Conservancy. That ethos has been a thread throughout the company’s history, evident in beers like Chocolate Lobster, brewed with live lobsters, more than six pounds of dark cocoa powder, and basil tea for good measure. When Dogfish Head launched in 1995, it pledged to make “off-centered ales for off-centered people.” Translation? Flavorful, food-focused beers that challenged the status quo. It was certainly better than naming it after the adjoining street Lobster Pound Craft Brewery doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. The suggestion came from founder and president Sam Calagione’s father, when the pair passed the sign during a leisurely jog. The brewery got its name from Dogfish Head Road, a street in Southport, Me., near the Calagione family’s summer home.

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