Positive Contact
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
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A positive combination of Fuji cider, slow-roasted farro, a bit of cayenne and fresh cilantro.
This beer part of our Music Series of beers... this one is an amalgamation of hip-hop, beer, cider and a DIY culinary experience! Sam and Dan the Automator of Deltron 3030 teamed up to create Positive Contact, based on Dan's favorite ingredients and Dogfish Head's innovative brewing practices.
Named after a key track on the first album, Positive Contact is a 9% ABV hybrid of beer and cider brewed with Fuji apples, roasted farro, a handful of cayenne peppers and a late dose of fresh cilantro. This sweet-and-sour Belgian-ish brew is a light straw color with fruity, cider-like notes. The cayenne and alcohol give it a warming finish.
For the inaugural release (2012), the beer was packaged in a dynamic box set of six 750-ml champagne bottles, with a 10-inch vinyl EP of four new Deltron 3030 remixes created exclusively for this project, and a list of Deltron 3030-inspired recipes from a small group of renowned chefs. Subsequent releases did not include the vinyl or recipes.
This beer part of our Music Series of beers... this one is an amalgamation of hip-hop, beer, cider and a DIY culinary experience! Sam and Dan the Automator of Deltron 3030 teamed up to create Positive Contact, based on Dan's favorite ingredients and Dogfish Head's innovative brewing practices.
Named after a key track on the first album, Positive Contact is a 9% ABV hybrid of beer and cider brewed with Fuji apples, roasted farro, a handful of cayenne peppers and a late dose of fresh cilantro. This sweet-and-sour Belgian-ish brew is a light straw color with fruity, cider-like notes. The cayenne and alcohol give it a warming finish.
For the inaugural release (2012), the beer was packaged in a dynamic box set of six 750-ml champagne bottles, with a 10-inch vinyl EP of four new Deltron 3030 remixes created exclusively for this project, and a list of Deltron 3030-inspired recipes from a small group of renowned chefs. Subsequent releases did not include the vinyl or recipes.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Slightly hazy gold. Strong apples. Some citrus. Kind of a half cider. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@PBF XII. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, spicy, some alcohol with mild nectar and some toffee tones. Flavour is fruity, nectary, some alcohol with mild spiciness as well as some apples and mild herbs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2023
at 13:34
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
This 750ml has been in my rack for quite some time. Was worried it would be a disaster...but its just presenting as an evolved form....no longer the bright cider and light straw color. Its now a light copper with barely any foam. I'd swear its a triple if I didnt know the original profile. Alcohol forward..mild malts and no sign of apples lol. A syrupy sweetness undertone and some straw mixed with hard to distinguish spices. The only thing still coming through very slightly is the cayenne in the form of a tiny bite in the finish. Not the best...not the worst.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2022
at 23:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Early rating from Beer Buddy
Tried
on 21 Nov 2019
at 01:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
750ml bottle thanks to Toby pours out hazy straw color topped with a white head. Nose is crisp fresh green apples pears some grass notes and a light cereal malt. Taste is more of the green apples cider like with pears some spice and a light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2018
at 15:19
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 750ml. @ [ (PBF XII Tasting.) by oh6gdx ] - Petalax, Finland. [ As Dogfish Head Positive Contact ].Light unclear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, sweet malt, oxidide malt, something apple - cider alike in th back. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, pale malt, sweet malt, oxidide, citrus, grapes, apple. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180707] 5-3-6-3-12
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2018
at 16:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 750ml in pbf xii. Vintage 2014. Amber colour, small white head. Pear, grass in the nose. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Honeyish, light herbal note. Mellow. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2018
at 14:16
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
75cl bottle@PBF XII. Poured golden color with a thin white head. Aroma mostly apple ham, syrup and mild spiciness. Flavor has apples, sweetness and light spiciness. Heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2018
at 14:13
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled at PBF XII. Almost clear deep golden, small head. Fruity nose with syrup and cider. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Syrupy with some cider. Low bitterness. Heavy and syrupy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2018
at 14:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle aged three years. Gold color and well carbonated. Aome apple juice. Characteristic Dogfish Head yeast. Sweet, more fruit in the flavor, and the beginning of oxidation.the cilatto is gone, but a little pepper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2017
at 21:29