is an American regional brewery located in Milton, Delaware. In 2009, Dogfish Head produced 113,362 hl (96,891 US bbl). The brewery is best known for brewing quirky and unique interpretations of international beer styles, often using exotic ingredients and unusual production techniques.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery grew out of Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, a brewpub located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, started by Sam Calagione in 1995. Dogfish Head was Delaware’s first brewpub and was, for a time, the smallest commercial brewery in America, producing all of its beer on a 45-l (12-gal) homebrewing system. In 2002, the company moved virtually all of its beer production to its current facility located in a 100,000-sq-ft converted cannery in Milton, Delaware. At the same time, the company installed a microdistillery at the Rehoboth Beach location to make small-batch gins, vodkas, and rums.

Most of the Dogfish Head beers that have made the brewery famous fall into the “extreme beer” category, including their 120-Minute India pale ale (IPA), an 18% alcohol by volume (ABV) IPA that is continuously dosed with hop pellets during its 2-h boil; Palo Santo Marron, a 12% ABV brown ale aged in a giant tun made of South American palo santo wood; and Sah’tea, a take on the Finnish sahti style of juniper-spice beer, made with black tea, cardamom, and ginger. In the early 2000s, the company’s World Wide stout held the unofficial title of world’s strongest beer, clocking in at over 20% ABV.

In addition to running the company, founder Sam Calagione is a well-known and unabashedly enthusiastic promoter of both Dogfish Head and craft beer in general. In 2010 Calagione became the subject of his own television show on the Discovery Channel.