If, for some reason, at some point, you wish there was a rather long, well-written article about extreme brewing with a rather overt focus on Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewing, I would send you here. It's 10 Internet pages (or about 10,000) words long, but well worth it. Here's the opening to get you on your way:
Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The first time, they trampled four villagers; the second time they uprooted a pylon and electrocuted themselves.) Howler monkeys, too, have a taste for things fermented. In Panama, they’ve been seen consuming overripe palm fruit at the rate of ten stiff drinks in twenty minutes. Even flies have a nose for alcohol. They home in on its scent to lay their eggs in ripening fruit, insuring their larvae a pleasant buzz. Fruit-fly brains, much like ours, are wired for inebriation.It meanders through different subject matters, starting with the origination of Dogfish Head's Palo Santo Marron, then shifts to Calagione's general penchant for extreme brewing, then on to the state of beer in America, and so on. Go read it!
Thanks to Josh/Matt for the link.
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