Dogfish Head Brewery opens beer-themed hotel in Delaware

 

Dogfish Head, the craft brewery best known for bold and bizarre experimentation, is inviting patrons to take their interest on the road. Specifically, to Lewes, Delaware, where the brewery has opened its own beer-themed hotel.

The Dogfish Inn is a sixteen-room boutique hotel on the shore of the Atlantic ocean. It’s approximately equidistant from Dogfish Head’s actual brewery, in Milton, and its pub and tasting room, in Rehoboth Beach. (The Inn’s web site notes that the pub is about a half-hour ride away on the bike trail.)

The view from the afternoon.

Don’t be fooled, though–the hotel does not actually sell beer. Nor is there a brewery on the premises. Instead, owner Sam Calagione wants the hotel to be an introduction to local culture, which includes a hearty amount of Dogfish Head beer already:

We thought having a hotel would allow us to extend the conversation beyond just the one hour brewery tour or two hours of dinner at our pub. That way, people have a really great idea about our company and hopefully, if they leave and love it, they become evangelists and help spread the word…It seems counter-intuitive to open a brewery-themed hotel that doesn’t serve beer but it is designed to get you out into nature and go find our beer and bring it back. I live three blocks away and my friends own all of the restaurants in town. They all serve Dogfish beer and I don’t want to compete with my friends.

 

Between the beer, the beach, and the possibilities for outdoor excursioning, the brewery and its new inn represent the best reason to visit Delaware since the invention of the blue screen.

 

  The hotel, which opened this summer, is happy to take your reservations.