Dogfish Head Announces 2025 Release Calendar

From Dogfish Head:

It’s about that time ... time for our 2025 Beverage Calendar to hit the printers, er ... screens?? 2025 will bring with it our 30th year (!!!!) of Dogfish Head, so we couldn’t resist celebrating such a huge milestone with some classic throwback brews alongside the beers you know and love AND a few new beverages!

With innovation and experimentation at the core of who we are here at Dogfish Head, our 2025 release calendar features a mix of new and old. From beer to spirits, with cocktails in between, we’ve been busy crafting and we’ve got something for everyone. So, let’s get into it!

Throwback Beers:

A few weeks ago, we took to our social channels to find out what throwback beers our drinkers want to see resurrected in 2025. You all commented, voted and commented some more, and we continuously saw two beers bubble to the top: Raison D’Etre and Chicory Stout. After tallying all the votes and comments, and working with the brewers, we finally came to a brew-clusion ... (drumroll) ... We decided we couldn’t pick just one, so we’re bringing back BOTH Raison D’Etre AND Chicory Stout in 2025!!!

For our Fall Variety Pack in 2025, we’re making it a bit of a throwback pack, and it will have both Raison D’Etre and Chicory Stout in it, alongside Punkin Ale and 60 Minute IPA. But since we have to wait until the fall for that goodness, we decided to roll out a few more throwback brews in the meantime! Festina Pêche will be making another appearance this summer, and we’re bringing 75 Minute IPA back in our newly updated All IPA Variety Pack. But that’s not all! We’ll also be starting up a NEW small batch series that will feature Liquid Truth Serum and Pennsylvania Tuxedo!!

Season-Ales with Artwork by Drew Millward:

Celebrating the magic at the intersection of art and ales, our Season-Ales series (previously known as our Art Series) is back with a collection of four unique beers featuring label artwork by a collaborating artist. Our 2025 Season-Ales includes our iconic Punkin Ale, the return of Covered In Nuggs, our fan-favorite peach beer Festina Pêche, and a brand-new Imperial Pilsner, Super Doppio!

• Super Doppio: This brand-new, leveled-up Italian-style Pilsner is brewed with mailed spelt for crispness and dry hopped gusto, for a robustly hoppy and doubly smooth brew.
• Festina Pêche: This tart session-sour is a refreshing neo-Berliner Weisse with bright peach notes that’s perfect for summertime sippin’.
• Punkin Ale: A fall-favorite, full-bodied brown ale brewed with real pumpkin meat, brown sugar and spices.
• Covered In Nuggs: A classically dank, piney IPA judiciously hopped with heaps of Citra, Simcoe, Amarillo and Centennial hops.

For our 2025 Season-Ales, we asked our pal Drew Millward to flex his creative muscles and design the artwork for our four seasonals. Drew likes to draw ‘the old-fashioned way’, using pencils, pens and has a love of the craft of illustration. He has exhibited throughout the US, UK, Europe and beyond, as well as having the pleasure of creating work for an ever-growing international client base.

Caution … it’s the Caution Cap Series:

The Caution Caps ARE BACK! Made up of beers clocking in at 15.0% ABV or higher, the Caution Cap series is marked by distinct neon yellow and black caps, each adorned with a caution exclamation mark … er, shark. This signature cap is your reminder to pick up a 4-pack for enjoyment now and one for laying down to age.

• 120 Minute IPA: An unfiltered and abundantly hoppy Imperial IPA continuously hopped with a copious amount of high-alpha American hops throughout the boil and whirlpool, and then dry-hopped with a boatload of hops.
• NEW! Triple Decadence World Wide Stout: In honor of three decades of Dogfish Head, we’re crafting a Triple Decadence World Wide Stout that celebrates our history with three notable aging woods. This new brew will blend together three threads of barrel-aged World Wide Stouts – World Wide Stout aged in Palo Santo as a celebration of our innovative approach to producing beers; World Wide Stout aged in Let’s Get Lost Whiskey barrels as a nod to our award winning whiskey and years of distillation; and World Wide Stout aged in Utopias Barrels to salute our friends at Sam Adams and their incredibly intricate and unique Utopias.

Canned Cocktails:

Harnessing nearly 20 years of award-winning distilling experience, our spirits-based, ready-to-drink cocktails* feature two full proof shots combined with two real fruit juices for incredible flavor. In 2025, you’ll find go-to’s like Strawberry & Honeyberry Vodka Lemonade, as well as two new recipes featured exclusively in our brand-new mix packs!

• Blood Orange & Mango Vodka Crush: Light, refreshing and bursting with juicy flavor, this Canned Cocktail begins with Dogfish Head Distilling Co. vodka distilled with real blood oranges and mangos and blends it with “crushed” orange and mango juices, and a hint of citrus.
• Strawberry & Honeyberry Vodka Lemonade: Packing the well-balanced tartness of fresh-squeezed lemon combined with a sweet berry taste, this lovingly-crafted concoction begins with Dogfish Head Distilling Co. vodka distilled with honeyberries, macerated with strawberries and blended with lemonade.
• Grapefruit Pomegranate Vodka Crush: Dogfish Head Distilling Co. vodka distilled over grapefruit and pomegranates for a zippy and refreshing libation bursting with juicy flavor.
• Pineapple Orange Rum Mai Tai: We combined our rum with the sweetness of real pineapple juice and the citrusy tang of real orange juice to deliver balanced, bold and tropical flavor in every sip.
• Passion Fruit Citrus Vodka Mule: Our off-centered take on the classic vodka mule with real fruit juice from passion fruit and limes to create a zesty, fruit-forward concoction with a subtle ginger kick.
• Strawberry Lime Tequila Margarita: Authentic Tequila Blanco mixed with our own Triple Sec, and real fruit juice from succulent strawberries and citrusy limes for a zesty, fruity and refreshing drink.
• UPDATED! Vodka Cocktails Mix Pack: Our Vodka Mix Pack is getting an off-centered refresh, with Strawberry Honeyberry Vodka Lemonade, Blood Orange Mango Vodka Crush, Passion Fruit Citrus Vodka Mule and an all-new Blueberry Citrus Lemon Drop. Blueberry Citrus Lemon Drop is our take on a lemon drop martini with vodka, the tanginess of real lemon juice and the sweetness of real blueberry juice for a cocktail bursting with berry and citrus flavor.
• UPDATED! Tropical Cocktails Mix Pack: Head somewhere tropical with our upcoming, refreshed Tropical Cocktails Mix Pack! With Pineapple Orange Rum Mai Tai, Blood Orange Mango Crush, Strawberry Lime Tequila Margarita and an all-new Peach Mango Rum Punch. Peach Mango Rum Punch combines our rum, distilled from 100% sugar cane, with real fruit juice from mangos and peaches for the ultimate dose of tropical refreshment.

Year-Round Beer:

• Citrus Squall: The perfect storm of an imperial golden ale and a paloma cocktail brewed with blue agave nectar, lime peels and grapefruit juice.
• 60 Minute IPA: A continually hopped IPA brewed with a slew of intense Northwest hops to deliver a pungently, citrusy, grassy hop flavor without being crushingly bitter.
• 90 Minute Imperial IPA: One of the first continually hopped beers whose powerful malt backbone supports its extreme hopping rate for rich pine and fruity citrus hop aromas, and a pungent, but not overly bitter, hop flavor.
• SeaQuench Ale: A session sour mash-up of a crisp Kolsch, a salty Gose and a tart Beliner Weiss brewed in sequence with black limes, lime juice and sea salt.
• Slightly Mighty: A lo-cal IPA that is slight in calories and carbs with mighty hop character and has just 95 calories, 3.6g carbs, 1g protein and 0g fat per 12oz can.
• Blue Hen® Pilsner**: A crisp and refreshing pilsner brewed with only four ingredients: water, yeast, spicy noble Saaz hops, and Delaware-grown and malted barley.
• (NEW) Tropical Squall: Our newest innovation takes our squall series on a tropical adventure! This imperial golden ale is brewed with mango and pineapple for the perfect storm of unexpectedly bold and juicy flavor.

For those of you looking for a bit more variety, we’ll have four seasonal variety 12pk/12 oz. cans throughout 2024, each with four tasty brews, including one variety pack exclusive beer.

• NEW! All-IPA Variety Pack**: Hitting shelves in select markets in January, this new variety pack will contain four hoppy brews – 60 Minute IPA, 90 Minute IPA, Slightly Mighty AND, making a comeback this year, 75 Minute IPA!
• Spring Variety Pack: This variety pack features 60 Minute IPA, Blue Hen Pilsner, Slightly Mighty, and a NEW variety pack exclusive, Midnight Cascade! Midnight Cascade is a black IPA brewed with midnight wheat malt and heirloom black rye malt for a beer brimming with notes of dank pine and bright citrus, and just a hint of roasty flavor.
• Summer Variety Pack: You’ll find SeaQuench Ale and two other uber-refreshing summer brews alongside the fan-favorite Festina Peche, a tart and slightly sweet neo-Berliner Weisse brewed with peaches. Curious what the other two brews will be? Stay tuned ...
• Fall Variety Pack: This variety pack will feature not one, but TWO, throwback brews that you, our very own drinkers, chose! We’re bringing back Raison D’Etre, a Belgian-style brown ale brewed with beet sugar, raisins and a Belgian-style yeast to create a beer that’s as tasty and complex as a fine red wine, AND Chicory Stout, a dark beer made with roasted chicory, organic Mexican coffee and licorice root for the perfect food-pairing partner. This pack will also feature Punkin Ale and 60 Minute IPA.
• Winter Variety Pack: Get in the spirit of winter with our winter beers variety pack that will feature 60 Minute IPA, Blue Hen Pilsner, Covered In Nuggs, and another delicious off-centered brew. Stay tuned ...

**Available in select East Coast markets only.

Full Proof Spirits:

Want something a tad more spirited in nature? something a tad more spirited in nature? Check out this line up of award-winning full-proof spirits and liqueurs.

• (NEW! Alternate Takes Whiskey: We’re bringing you a brand-new Alternate Takes whiskey in 2025. More info coming, so stay tuned!
• Awe-Spray Vodka: A classic vodka that’s light-in-flight on the palate, yet ever-present when mixed with soda or in a wide wingspan of cocktails.
• Barrel Honey Rum: A complex and incredibly smooth rum distilled with sugar cane molasses and honey, and aged in American oak casks.
• Compelling Gin: A bright and citrusy gin distilled with juniper, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorn and a mix of orange, lemon and lime peels.
• Hull & Helm Whiskey: A delicately aged and reliably smooth American whiskey built on a custom blend of malted barley and aged in lightly charred oak barrels for a medium body and notes of butterscotch, cedar, walnut and raspberries.
• Let’s Get Lost Whiskey: Our award-winning American single malt whiskey distilled from a custom blend of malted barley and aged for more than three years in charred oak barrels.

And there you have it … the 2025 beverage calendar! Phew, it’s going to be a busy year.

Coastal Delaware Offerings:

Not seeing one of your favorites listed above? There's a good chance it might pop up as an exclusive at one of our coastal Delaware properties! With more than 100+ unique brews planned between Rehoboth and Milton, there's no shortage of opportunities to bring back some of our most beloved beers, as we follow our collective muse on an ever-evolving creative journey. Be sure to follow along with us at @visitdogfish and/or check-in to our ever-rotating tap lists at our Milton Brewery, Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach and Chesapeake & Maine.

REALLY missing one of your favorites? Let us know! Be sure to follow us on all the social medias (@dogfishhead on Instagram and @dogfishheadbeer on Facebook) for the latest and greatest updates and be sure to comment with what you’re longing for most so we can hear ... er, read what you want to see from us next year!

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