Scrapple-Flavored Breakfast Beer Could Be Your New Morning Meal
The beer is made with scrapple, maple syrup, coffee and more.
— -- Beer may be most commonly thought of as an afternoon beverage, but Dogfish Head is here to change that misconception. The Delaware craft brewery has created what it calls a breakfast beer, intended to help you replace the most important meal of the day with beer.
The beer, which will be ready for consumption Dec. 5, was made with maple syrup for sweetness, barley smoked over applewood for a smoky, bacon-like flavor, lactose (milk sugar) for creamy mouthfeel, coffee for a caffeine jolt and 25 pounds of scrapple (pork patty made of pork scraps, cornmeal and spices) for obvious reasons.
“It’s just breakfast all wrapped into one,” PR coordinator Janelle Miley told ABC News. “You can just skip breakfast altogether because you have breakfast in your beer.”
All the components have connections to the brewery. The maple syrup was harvested from the trees at Northfield Mount Hermon, the high school in western Massachusetts where Dogfish Head founder and president Sam Calagione met his wife, Mariah.
The barley was smoked over applewood from nearby Delaware’s Fifer Orchards, the coffee is a special blend from The Bean Factory in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is a nod to one of Calagione’s all-time favorite bands, The Replacements, who hail from Minnesota. The beer is also named for The Replacements anthem “Beer for Breakfast.” Finally, the scrapple comes from Delaware-based Rapa Scrapple, which is just down the road from Dogfish Head and is the world’s largest producer of scrapple.
“It’s been wonderful to see dozens of breakfast-themed beers come to market since we first did ours,” Calagione said in a blog post announcing the beer. “I thought it would be a great time to flex our creative muscles and try to brew a beer that has the most diverse group of ingredients referencing the meal and its name. It’s sort of an ‘everything-but-the-breakfast-nook’ stout.”
The beer will be served on draft at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for a special happy hour that will feature other scrapple delights, like scrapple pizza and scrapple egg rolls. Confusingly, the happy hour is being held at night and not for breakfast.
