It started when a couple of Delaware surfers road-tripped up to Maine for a surf film fest we helped with in Rockland last spring. While visiting the shop, they spied a small trailer that was only half full – basically, the scrap we generated over the entire winter. Kyle and Mark turned out to be from Dogfish Head Brewery, famed for groundbreaking and unique heritage brews – often seasoned with wood.

Mark from Dogfish Head

They quickly decided that the wood left over from our board building would make a perfect accent for a new beer, called “GrainToGlass”, which has been released and can be sampled for a limited time at the Dogfish Head Brewpub in Rehobeth, Delaware. We’ll have a pile of boards up at what should be a great party hosted by Novare Res Bier Cafe in Portland Maine on Sunday, July 25th where we’ll be meeting up with Dogfish founder Sam Calagione and some folks from the brewery to sample a pile of hard-to-find Dogfish beers. If you can’t make it, you can still experience this whole story vicariously when the Discovery Channel program “Brewed” is aired later this year.

Thinking back, it must seem obvious that two unique companies like Grain and Dogfish Head would find each other and, more importantly, discover that they’re driven by the same values. After all, Dogfish Head Brewery is named after a point of land near Sam’s family home up in Boothbay Harbor Maine. Meant to be.