Sam Calagione has a great personality, and you can just feel it in this hilarious video. It was nearly 20 years ago to the day last week when Dogfish Head Brewery opened its excellent brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Del. (we still go there at least once a year). In this quick video, Calagione recounts the big day he went to the brewpub to take down the old sign of the last failed restaurant when some passerby (upon asking what he planned for the new business) informed him it was illegal to brew commercially in the State of Delaware. Calagione had no idea. In fact, in 1995, Calagione was weeks away from opening Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats when he found out, so he ended up creating a bill that eventually made brewing commercially legal in Delaware. Just watch the video above. Calagione tells it better.
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[…] Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione was well on his way to opening day when he discovered that operating a brewpub in the state of Delaware was not legal. No problem. He just worked to draft legislation and pass a bill to change the law. Really. See Sam tell the tale. […]
@CrowdBrewed @CraftBrewingBiz @dogfishbeer although it was Marty Haugh of Rockford Brewing that got the laws in line 4 microbreweries in DE
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