{"id":4841,"date":"2011-01-18T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:18:11","slug":"bicycling-com-one-crafty-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/bicycling-com-one-crafty-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling.com: One Crafty Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"

By T.R. Foley<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/em><\/p>\n

Sam Calagione, the owner of Dogfish Head Brewery and star of the new Discovery Channel show, Brew Masters, talks about blasting punk music on rides\u2014and why getting a tattoo with a date on it can be a bad, bad idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You live in Lewes, Delaware, the first town in the first state in the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lewes is the main ferry stop for cyclists headed to Cape May, New Jersey, so some mornings our town looks like the starting line for the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

Brewing is a fickle, time-consuming process. How often do you get out on the bike?<\/em><\/p>\n

I ride through Henlopen State Park every morning on a 55-minute loop. It’s incredible; I see osprey, dolphins, plenty of wildlife. I travel every other week for Brew Masters, so I like to spend the weekends with the family. We ride the Breakwater path from our home in Lewes to the brew pub in Rehoboth.<\/p>\n

Tell us about your bikes.<\/em><\/p>\n

I ride a Mudhoney ‘cross bike from Seven. I wanted a new bike as a gift to myself for quitting smoking. They printed “Off-Centered Trails for Off-Centered People” [a play on Dogfish’s tagline] on it. As a trade we brewed them a beer for their 10-year anniversary. I also have a Salsa Chili Con Crosso and a Specialized Rockhopper.<\/p>\n

Do you always barter with beer?<\/em><\/p>\n

That wasn’t about money. These guys inspired us to think about a new combination of flavors. Everything we create at Dogfish comes from some external inspiration, which means I want to be around entrepreneurs and artists like the guys at Seven.<\/p>\n

Speaking of artists, we hear you have a tattoo with a story.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had “For Sammy: 01-01-01” inked on my hip to commemorate my son’s birth and to signal my motivation for quitting smoking. The first attempt failed\u2026 I didn’t get the bike until I was smoke-free for one year, so now it reads “07.”<\/p>\n

What’s your riding style?<\/em><\/p>\n

I do almost everything wrong: I blast punk music like Pavement and the Replacements while hammering out of my saddle. Hard-core cyclists yell at me, but I love it. When I’m on the bike I’m dreaming up ideas for beers and thinking: Don’t tell me this can’t be done. What the @#$%? Let’s do this.<\/p>\n

Craft brewers seem to connect to cycling; almost every brewery has kits for sale. Why is that?<\/em><\/p>\n

Because we aren’t multinational corporations interested in selling you packaging instead of beer. We are creative and competitive, independent and hardworking. It’s just like die-hard cyclists: They tend to be the same kinds of thinkers and hands-on types. And yes, we sell jerseys.<\/p>\n

What about your competition?<\/em><\/p>\n

I was on a national morning show talking about craft beers and brought samples, including New Belgium’s Fat Tire Ale. The next week this box arrives with a New Belgium\u2013themed bike. Coors wouldn’t do that, but guys who have bike-in movies and the Tour de Fat? Always. I’m not afraid of competition; I embrace it. Craft-beer drinkers are promiscuous\u2014I drink plenty of other beers. We just want them to stop by and screw us once in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By T.R. Foley Sam Calagione, the owner of Dogfish Head Brewery and star of the new Discovery Channel show, Brew Masters, talks about blasting punk music on rides\u2014and why getting a tattoo with a date on it can be a bad, bad idea. You live in Lewes, Delaware, the first town in the first state … Continue reading “Bicycling.com: One Crafty Rider”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[52,5],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mudhoney","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10486,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/10486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}