Dogfish launches beer to save Lewes forest
Buy a beer, save a forest.
That’s the goal of Vild Banck, a new Dogfish Head brew that benefits the Greater Lewes Foundation’s Open Space Campaign for the Fourth Street Forest.
The name is an ode to the first settler in Lewes – Helmanus Wiltbank.
The first pint was poured at a Beer & Benevolence night event at Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats in Rehoboth Beach April 16. A portion of the proceeds from the night went to the open space campaign.
The beer is a hefeweizen, brewed with spruce “to remind you of the forest in Lewes,” as it says on the can.
The 2-year-old open space campaign has raised $6.4 million toward the $8 million needed to buy and save the 30-acre forest. The deadline is Monday, Sept. 15.
The parcel was the first deeded land in the State of Delaware in 1670.
For more information and to donate, go to osalewes.org.
Bill Shull has been covering Lewes for the Cape Gazette since 2023. He comes to the world of print journalism after 40 years in TV news. Bill has worked in his hometown of Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He came to Lewes in 2014 to help launch WRDE-TV. Bill served as WRDE’s news director for more than eight years, working in Lewes and Milton. He is a 1986 graduate of Penn State University. Bill is an avid aviation and wildlife photographer, and a big Penn State football, Phillies and PGA Tour golf fan. Bill, his wife Jill and their rescue cat, Lucky, live in Rehoboth Beach.
