There another Dogfish Head beer on the horizon, with a September release date. Belonging to what we call the “archeological brews,” it is similar (in theory, not taste) to Midas Touch and Chateau Jiahu. Based on pottery fragments found in Honduras, the claims to be ”the oldest known chocolate drink.” The brew is 10.0% abv and will come in a Champagne bottle. “Theobroma (translated into ‘food of the gods’) is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from our friends at Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds).”Funky!

We like the way they address “manliness” on the website:

As Valentine’s Day rears its head, it seems appropriate to examine the unmanly topic of chocolate and beer. I say “unmanly” because of all the strange, new brews that are challenging our palates these days, it’s chocolate-flavored beer that seems to draw the most viscerally negative response from the mainstream lager crowd. Offer a taste to one of these guys, and it’s as if they’d been asked to wear pink underwear and sip their suds from Lennox teacups.

A new body of archeological and chemical research, however, provides a completely different image. Namely: Aztec warriors dragging their human sacrifice to the top of a pyramid, ripping his still-beating heart from his chest, then cooking up the beaten corpse for a festive orgy.

And what did they wash it all down with? Chocolate beer, of course.