Fordham & Dominion Brewing Company

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Fordham & Dominion Brewing Company
Fordham & Dominion Brewing Company Logo.png
Location Dover, Delaware
United States
Opened2007
Annual production volume27,000 US beer barrels (32,000  hL) (2006)
Active beers
NameType
Dominion Double D Imperial IPA
Dominion Candi Belgian Tripel
Dominion Oak Barrel Stout Stout
Dominion Hop Lips American IPA
Dominion Morning Glory Espresso Stout
Fordham Route 1 Session IPA
Fordham Gypsy Lager Lager
Fordham Copperhead Ale Red Ale
Fordham Rams Head IPA IPA
Seasonal beers
NameType
Dominion Octoberfest Marzen
Dominion Cherry Blossom Lager Fruit Beer, Blonde Ale
Dominion GPA Grapefruit Pale Ale
Dominion Gigi's Farmhouse Ale Saison
Dominion Millennium Barleywine
Dominion Black IPL India Pale Lager
Fordham Wisteria Wheat Hefeweizen
Fordham Spiced Harvest Ale Spiced Ale
Fordham Rosie Parks Oyster Stout
Fordham Doppelbock Doppelbock

Fordham & Dominion Brewing Company, founded in 2007 in Dover, Delaware, is a brewery that produces a variety of craft beers and craft sodas. [1]

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The brewery produces two brands, the Fordham brand and the Dominion brand, under one operation. In the early 2007 the two breweries joined together as one business and by 2009 both brands were then produced together in Dover, Delaware. The brewery, as a whole, brews over 20 different styles of beer, both year-round and seasonal products. The brewery also makes specialty soda under the Dominion name, including Root Beer, Orange Cream, Black Cherry, and Ginger Ale.

History

From 1996 to 2006, Old Dominion hosted an annual beer festival that showcased small brewers from around the region, as well as some breweries from around the US and Europe. The festival featured more than 50 breweries and live music. The three-day event was held each year on the last full weekend of June; management and organization of the festival was given over to Vintage 50, which now hosts the event twice a year, in June and October.

Old Dominion has been fertile ground for producing high quality brewers, such as: John Mallet at Bell's Brewery, Ron Barchet at Victory Brewing Company, Matthew Hagerman at Lost Rhino Brewing Company, Favio Garcia at Lost Rhino Brewing and Dynasty Brewing, and Kenny Allen at True Respite Brewing Company.

Bailey put Old Dominion up for sale in the mid-2000s. No serious offers to purchase the company were made until 2007, when Fordham Brewing of Annapolis, Maryland offered to purchase the company, financed in part by Anheuser-Busch (AB) for a minority stake in the two breweries, to form Coastal Brewing Company. The majority of Coastal is owned by Fordham Brewing Company, owned by Bill Muhlhauser (owner of both Fordham and the Ram's Head Taverns of Maryland) and other partners. Anheuser-Busch's purchase stake gave them no control of either of the two breweries, nor any input or influence on brewery recipes, nor oversight of any day-to-day management. The brewery also owns its own distribution rights.

In May 2009 all brewing operations, combined with those of Fordham Brewing, were moved to a new facility in Dover, Delaware. The current core brands of the brewery continue to sell briskly in both the on-site and packaging ends, and can be found as the "house" brews at many locations throughout the DC Metro area, including the Great American Restaurant chain (except for the Sweetwater Tavern in Centreville, Virginia), Capital One Arena, and Nationals Park. Old Dominion continues to host various brew sampling and cask events throughout the DC-MD-VA-DE-NJ-PA metropolitan area, maintaining their status as a Mid-Atlantic regional brewer, and their Oak Barrel Stout and Pinup Series brands remain popular sellers in the packaging end of the line, available at several retail and grocery chains, bars and retailers in their regions.

As of January 2011, Jim Lutz (former VP of sales and marketing at Flying Dog Brewery of Frederick, MD), took over as the new President and CEO of Coastal Brewing.

Beer selection

Lagers

Ales

Specialty/seasonal

Seasonal beers include:

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References

  1. Russo, T.; Lutz, J. (2016). Delaware Beer: The Story of Brewing in the First State. American Palate. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. p. 65. ISBN   978-1-62585-687-6 . Retrieved June 18, 2022.