From Esquire Magazine:
A few years ago, Sam Calagione, founder of Delaware’s boundary-pushing Dogfish Head Brewery, turned to spirulina when some local bars asked him to send over a green St. Patrick’s Day beer. The protein-rich blue-green algae is usually found in health shakes; Calagione used it to turn a German lager green. He says the beer had a vibrant color and a rich, earthy vegetable smell he likens to “pond scum, but a good kind.” He reasons, “We do beers with raisins and maple syrup, so why not algae?” Alas, the beer didn’t quite take off. Calagione hasn’t been able to make it since, because Dogfish’s production capacity is maxed out. But he says a brewery expansion this summer should allow him to have the green stuff back on tap next year.
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