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notes: label: Description
content: This vibrating football game was used by brewer Sam Calagione at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, his brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, founded in 1995. In 1999, inspired by a TV chef who sprinkled pepper continually into his pot of soup, Calagione wondered if he could add pelletized hops to his beer in a similar, continual manner as it was brewing. Calagione purchased this football game at a nearby thrift store, angled it over his brew kettle, and used the vibrations from the game to gently and continually shake hops into his beer. This new "continual hopping" technique enabled Calagione to brew beers such as 60 Minute IPA, 90 Minute IPA, and 120 Minute IPA--beers that had been continually hopped for that amount of time--which thrilled beer drinkers with their intense, but not overly bitter, hop flavor.
label: Description
content: Calagione described himself as a "culinary brewer." In a 2019 oral history, Calagione explained, "We took it as a personal challenge or mission to prove that beer could deserve the same place at a white tablecloth meal as wine."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, through Sam Calgione
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0206.1
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0206.1
label: accession number
content: 2019.0206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electric football game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 67.5 cm x 39.5 cm x 23.5 cm; 26 9/16 in x 15 9/16 in x 9 1/4 in