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May 16, 2008

Dog beer 3: One more for the road

wetsnout.jpg OK, one more round of dog beer. Then I'm going to have to cut you off.

Doggie Brew -- not to be confused with Kwispelbier, born in Holland, or Bowser Beer, born in Baltimore, is made in New York by Brian Davis (that's his 7-year-old Maltese Shih-Tzu mis, "Isabel" on the label).

Doggie Brew was among the first dog beers to be introduced in the U.S., along with Happy Tail Ale in California, which is now, according to its website, "on hiatus."

Davis, of Syracuse, N.Y., says the idea came to him during a sleepless night when, to occupy his mind, he started coming up with names for dog beer.

Now he's the founder and CEO of Doggie Beverages Inc. He says he developed the vitamin-enriched beer to give back something to the dogs that have enriched his life. 

I ran into him today at H.H. Backer Spring Trade Show at Baltimore's Convention Center, which was filled with pet product vendors from around the country.

He provided me a bottle of all three flavors: Wet Snout Stout (beef), Doggie Lager (chicken) and the newest, Amber Bark (pork). Ace will be sampling them in days ahead.

Doggie Brew's website is www.doggiebrew.com, and it can be purchased at Dogma in Baltimore, as well as Bark Premium Natural Pet Food & Supplies in Clarksville.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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