Dogfish Head Chica Explained

Interesting video here explaining the process of using enzymes from human saliva as a way to create the sugars for the new Dogfish Head beer, Chica.

Chicha beer is Peruvian in origin and typically uses purple maize, but can have many other ingredients like yucca or strawberries in Dogfish Head’s case.

I’m a big fan of the work Dogfish Head does, in fact their 60 minute is presently 50% of my kegerators supply right now (Great Lake’s Dortmunder Gold being the other 50%).

Here’s what the NYT had to say about Dogfish Head’s next experiment.