Has Craft Beer Finally Gone Too Far? Take Our 'Quiz'

Last week, Dogfish Head Brewery founder Sam Calagione went on Fox News to talk about America's burgeoning craft-beer business, which reportedly is up by 71 percent since 2006. Calagione has played no small part in this growing thirst for uncommon suds, having popularized elixirs made with African doum-palm fruit, water from Antarctica, and a recipe inspired by a 3,500-year-old birch-bark vessel "found in the tomb of a leather‐clad woman... probably an upper-class dancer or priestess."

Calagione's interview suggested that America is far from exhausted over these specialty beers, which often require intensive Googling to reveal their cornucopia of ingredients and mad-scientist alchemy. For instance, Dogfish's current hot seller is a beer-wine hybrid IPA made with Syrah grape must. "We can't make enough of it," the brewmaster said, "and we're trying to get more grapes from California to keep up."