Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale recipe started in Alabama bathtub
Update: Just realized this was originally posted in November, 2011. Interesting regardless…
So the success of Dale’s Pale Ale (the New York Times called it the Top American Pale Ale) comes as little surprise— the recipe was perfected in the bathtub of a trailer off Wire Road. “I got a homebrew kit for Christmas and started making small batches of it while I was in college,” says 1992 Auburn graduate (and former off-Wire Road trailer renter) Dale Katechis, founder and owner of Oskar Blues, a Colorado brewery for which Dale’s Pale Ale serves as flagship. “I just remained an avid home brewer during my five years at Auburn.”
Homebrewing remains illegal in Alabama and Mississippi despite being legal in the rest of the U.S.. President, Jimmy Carter, legalized homebrewing on October 14, 1978, at a federal level though states still have the power to regulate alcohol within their borders.
via The War Eagle Reader.
Breweries: Oskar Blues Brewery
Beers: Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale
Not surprising.
Tastes like dirty bathtub to me.
You might want to look at
http://www.dalespaleale.com/
for a different take on the origin of the recipe.
Additional confirmation of origins of Dale’s Pale Ale with rough guideline to homebrew recipe.
http://www.brewboard.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=59974&view=findpost&p=958322