For The Dive Bar it means rare beer, rare spirits, imaginative costumes and spectacular live music!

Join us for our annual Halloween Bash with Dogfish Head Brewery! We will have 22 Dogfish Head Drafts, Troy Gonyea, Duncan Arsenault, John Vaughn, Brooks Milgate, DJ Shame and a few special guests LIVE!!!! 1 Cask, an assortment of Dogfish Head Spirits to sample, the boys from Dogfish Head… and YOU!

We will be tapping every specialty beer Dogfish Head has made over the last two years and then some as we’ve been squirreling away these barrels since last October!

Some of the beers to be tapped…

75 min IPA (cask)
Black and Blue
Red and White
Olde School
Immort
Theobroma
Pangaea
Sahtea
120Min
World Wide Stout
Fort
Rasion D’Extra
Chataeu Jiahu
Burton Baton
Midas Touch
Palo Santo Marron
Shelter Pale Ale
Punkin
90min…..

You get the picture

A very special Hangover Brunch will take place @ Armsby Abbey the next morning from 11-4 with a DFH Bloody Mary bar and special cocktails using the DFH Spirits! More details to follow:)

Hope to see you there!!

Cheers!

THE BEER NUT: In breathless anticipation of 75 Minute IPA from Dogfish

When bar owner Alec Lopez tapped the firkin, the crowd cheered, and he and other bartenders rushed to fill the special Dogfish Head pint glasses and hand them out to the crowd.

Dogfish sent 75 pint glasses to each bar that participated in the “simulcask,” and the first 75 people to get a pint of 75 Minute IPA got to keep the glass. I snagged one. I was about the 30th person to be served. Now I have a new Dogfish Head pint glass to add to my small collection at home, so now I have two different pint glasses and a snifter.

The first firkin was kicked, or tapped out, within 18 minutes. The second lasted a little longer the last pint was drawn around 10 p.m.

I was lucky enough to get two pints.

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Johnny Cask has entered the building!  We’ve retrofitted a 15 barrel tank to perfectly produce a very special cask conditioned ale (so, we have a little time to play around during winters at the Delaware coast).  This beer, known as Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA is a blend of 60 and 90 Minute IPAs with a special whole leaf cascade dry-hopping session. Post-hopping the beer gest transferred into firkins and dosed with fresh yeast and maple syrup from the ole family homestead (actually the first batch will be re-fermented with maple syrup from the farm up the road from ours since ours won’t be ready until late March.  We plan to ramp up our maple house activities to get a lot more syrup for Immort Ale, 75 Minute and future beers in the coming months and years).

The debut of these 75 Minute IPA casks will take place during a live ‘Simul-cask’ event in NYC, Phily, Boston, WORCESTER! and our home base in Rehoboth Beach, DE on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 7:50pm (EST).

After the initial launch our 75 Minute casks will be available at select accounts in Philly, NYC, Boston (“first we take Manhattan, etc”, L. Cohen) and, of course, our original brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, DE. The next year we may roll them out into additional markets.

Here is the Simul-cask Skinny:

What: Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA Simul-cask
Where: Select accounts NYC, Philly & Boston, plus our own brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, DE
When 7:50pm (EST), Thursday 3/26/09
Why: Because it sounds like a great idea!
Plus: The first 75 customers at each Simul-cask event get a free curved pint glass (where legal and while supplies last)!

We also have a very special band for this event! The Hurricane Horns will be performing all night long. If you haven’t seen The Hurricane Horns yet, here’s what to expect. “… a world class New Orleans Jazz, Southern Funk and Soul, and Rhythm and Blues band.”

Product: 75 Minute IPA Cask
Date: 3/26/2009
Tapping Time: 7:50 PM

The Dive Bar
34 Green Street
Worcester Ma 01604

read more about the IPA Simul-Cask click right here!