Devils Backbone

This beer’s recipe was extrapolated from a 1949 book on the American beer industry. Straw gold in color, light to medium in body, with a subtle malt sweetness that fades to a crisp finish. Light, pale and quaffable. Beer the way it used to be.

Farmhouse style, dry and fruity esters. Tartness on the end to make an enjoyable and unique beer.

Superior Pilsen malt combined with honey malt, crystal-20 and flaked rye round out the malt bill while American Magnum and Cascade hops add to the happy hop profile. Prost!

The new ‘Adventure Pack’ cases, designed to recreate the sampler flights popular at the Tap Room, will feature two ‘core beers’ and two special styles. Adventure Pack contents will rotate every three months.

Scottish-style 60 shilling ale. Light brown in color, light to medium body with hints of toast and toffee in the finish.

The next beer from the family brew project is a Kolsch-style ale using American hops, with the two cities being Colgne in German and Lexington, VA where ourOutpost brewery is located. Enjoy this crisp golden ale.

This German-style brown ale is medium bodied with toasted malt notes and a snappy finish. German ale yeast is fermented cold, resulting in a beer that shares aspects of an ale and a lager. Inspired by the great altbiers of Dusseldorf!

Collaboration with Sun King Brewery. Double Dank Cream Ale a double dank cream-style ale. Pale in color and loaded with Simcoe and Columbus hops, this beer is an unlikely marriage of a cream ale and a double IPA.

This IPA was created exclusively with Southern Hemisphere hops consisting of Pacific Gem & Nelson Sauvin from New Zealand and Galaxy from Australia, thus imparting a subtle tropical fruit note complimented by a rich hop dankness.

An apricot infused twist on the Hefeweizen style

A collaborative beer brewed with Devils Backbone Brewing Co and designed to pair perfectly with oysters. Auster Brau is brewed with a touch of smoked wheat malt, Sorachi ace hops and fermented with a Kolsch yeast to yield an easy drinking beer with a touch of smoke and a clean lemon-pepper finish.

Belgian-style strong golden. This Belgian inspired ale is pure evil! The result of an easy drinkability despite being nearly 8% in alcohol. Gargamel, cast a spell of delicious deception. 31 IBU.

An Imperial Brown Ale which is hella hoppy and flavorful. Resin, citrus and pine hop flavors abound. Hopped and dry hopped with seven different hop varieties.

This dark ruby brown lager was recreated using a 1930’s recipe with beer historian Ron Pattinson & local beer blogger Alistair Reece. Slight hints of Caramel & toffee shine in this early English interpretation of a dark lager.

A German-style Dunkle (dark) lager. Deep brown in color, medium to full in body, with rich malty notes of toasted caramel. Finishing with malt complexity and lager smoothness.

Anti-Imperial Rye Lager brewed in collaboration with DC Brau and The Brewer’s Art to commemorate the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America March 26-29, 2013, Washington DC.

This Belgian-style wheat beer is light and effervescing, a classic refresher. Unmalted wheat, Belgian yeast strain and the use of corriander and orange peel combine to make a true style whitbier

Our first stab at using souring bacterial techniques at DB for this rare style of beer. Lactobacilli was added to this brew to provide a tart snappy sourness. Straw in color, light bodied with a tart finish.

Beta Max is orange-copper in color and medium bodied with a full frontal assault of hop flavor. The use of “old school” hop varieties, Chinook and Cascade, deliver this punch. Beta Max is like a mid-90s IPA on performance enhancing substances…but completely street legal!

Belgian-inspired Christmas Ale. Traditional mulling spices of cinnamon, allspice, cardamom, clove, and orange peel blend with fruity notes from a Belgian Trappist yeast strain in this ruby hued festive ale. Christmas in a glass.

We added a generous amount of milk sugar to this black beer to create mild sweetness and fuller body. Black, medium-full bodied with hints of malted-milk chocolate goodness!

This American Strong Pale Ale is hopped with 100% Virginia grown Cascade hops, 200 pounds of fresh picked wet hops to be exact. Deep hazy gold color, medium bodied with intense herbal notes. 5.8% abv, IBUs - Lots and lots of Hops!

8 Point IPA fermented with 100% Brettanomyces.

BrewHaHa is back! And the year five edition we made with our friends at Jack Brown’s is one big ’ole dank hop bomb! 5 malts and 5 hops were used to create this delicious beer

Dry. Tangerine. Effervescent. These words don’t really pop in your head when you think of beer, but then again, there’s nothing quite like Bright Tangerine Sparkling Ale. This brew is low calorie, gluten removed, with a dry and bubbly finish. The kicker is that it is loaded up with heaps of natural tangerine flavor, making it a little brighter than your average ale!

Porter with carob, sorghum and vanilla.

This Belgian-inspired IPA is a blend of Old World traditions. Brewed like a Belgian Ale but hopped like an IPA. Pine and citrus notes blend with flavors of apple and pear.

A Weizenbock with a twist. Notes of clove, banana, and bubblegum from a unique yeast strain layer with a delicate touch of flavor from Szechuan peppercorns that were used in the brewing process. This collaboration with our friends at Eat Restaurant Partners has a medium bodied mouthfeel, brown color, and is unfiltered giving it a hazy glow.

DB employee Brian Coe brewed a special batch for his wedding. Gold colored, light bodied, hopped with German Mandarina.

Devils Backbone collaborated on beers with Fat Head's Brewery, Ninkasi and Coronado Brewing Co. Included in the sampler: - Fat Head's/DBB - Fat Devil - A black India pale lager with 6% ABV by Fat Head’s Brewery and Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company of Roseland, Virginia. - Ninkasi/DBB - The Devil Went Down to Oregon - Imperial dark rye beer. Collaboration with Devils Backbone Brewing Co. - Coronado/DBB - Devils Tale - This is a tale of shared passion, mojo and simpatico that spells the impetus of this fine collaboratively birthed IPA. Picture it, Washington D.C., May 2014: Brewers hailing from both sides of the country find each other in a tightly packed room. They share beers, stories and laughs, forming a friendship that will stretch far beyond SAVOR, the two-day beer-and-food fete that’s brought them together. Skip ahead to fall of the same year and it’s plain to see, 2014 has been a good year for both factions, with Coronado Brewing Company being named Champion Mid-Sized Brewing Co. and Brewmaster at the World Beer Cup and Devils Backbone Brewing Company capturing Mid-Sized Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. Such feats are made to be celebrated and, in the brewing industry, beer is how that’s done. This is the first of two collaboration beers this dynamic duo will brew-an IPA collaboration with Virginia’s award winning Devils Backbone Brewing Company. This beer has bright citrus and tropical fruit character care of Centennial and Mosaic hops, plus a burst of woody rusticity from the Northern Brewer hops. Consider it Chapter One of an epic saga that’s only getting started.

Belgian Inspired IPA. A blend of old world traditions.. Brewed like an IPA, it blends pine, and citrus, hop flavors with hints of apple & pear from a secret Belgian yeast strain.

Aaron’s delivered a unique take on the classic Belgian ale! Chocolate wheat gives this beer is light black color. Spicy flavors of coriander, orange peel & pink peppercorns.

Brettanomyces fermented wort was blended with finished beer to create a unique aged beer. One of the rarest Devils Backbone beers. Look for interesting and funky brett notes in the flavor and aroma.

A Baltic Porter brewed with lager yeast. Black in color, rich and strong.

A Baltic Porter brewed with lager yeast. Black in color, rich and strong. Coffee variant.

Belgian mountain-style dubbel brewed with raw sugar, dextrose, and Appalachian sorghum syrup for extra sexiness. Fermented with two Belgian yeast strains and finished with red wine yeast for dryness. Among The Gooch’s picks for one of the top 100,000 beers ever brewed.

This is a tale of shared passion, mojo and simpatico that spells the impetus of this fine collaboratively birthed IPA. Picture it, Washington D.C., May 2014: Brewers hailing from both sides of the country find each other in a tightly packed room. They share beers, stories and laughs, forming a friendship that will stretch far beyond SAVOR, the two-day beer-and-food fete that’s brought them together. Skip ahead to fall of the same year and it’s plain to see, 2014 has been a good year for both factions, with Coronado Brewing Company being named Champion Mid-Sized Brewing Co. and Brewmaster at the World Beer Cup and Devils Backbone Brewing Company capturing Mid-Sized Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. Such feats are made to be celebrated and, in the brewing industry, beer is how that’s done. This is the first of two collaboration beers this dynamic duo will brew-an IPA collaboration with Virginia’s award winning Devils Backbone Brewing Company. This beer has bright citrus and tropical fruit character care of Centennial and Mosaic hops, plus a burst of woody rusticity from the Northern Brewer hops. Consider it Chapter One of an epic saga that’s only getting started.

This is a tale of shared passion, mojo and simpatico that spells the impetus of this fine collaboratively birthed IPA. Picture it, Washington D.C., May 2014: Brewers hailing from both sides of the country find each other in a tightly packed room. They share beers, stories and laughs, forming a friendship that will stretch far beyond SAVOR, the two-day beer-and-food fete that’s brought them together. Skip ahead to fall of the same year and it’s plain to see, 2014 has been a good year for both factions, with Coronado Brewing Company being named Champion Mid-Sized Brewing Co. and Brewmaster at the World Beer Cup and Devils Backbone Brewing Company capturing Mid-Sized Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. Such feats are made to be celebrated and, in the brewing industry, beer is how that’s done. This is the first of two collaboration beers this dynamic duo will brew-an IPA collaboration with Virginia’s award winning Devils Backbone Brewing Company. This beer has bright citrus and tropical fruit character care of Centennial and Mosaic hops, plus a burst of woody rusticity from the Northern Brewer hops. Consider it Chapter One of an epic saga that’s only getting started.

Hops, hops and more hops, from all over the world. This is a motley assortment of smells. Ripe peach and passion fruit are recognizable first. White grape must and lemon zest come after, working in some sort of sweet and tart tango. The flavor is plump and juicy like ripe tropical fruit, but not at the expense of the grape-like and citrus counterparts. Surprisingly, at 80 IBUs, this is not an overly bitter beer. It takes a hop artist to make a pale ale this gorgeous.

Australian inspired double pacific ale.

Hazy Double Pacific Lager

Collaboration with Green Flash.

A cornucopia of hop varieties imparts a floral-citrus aroma and a crisp bitterness to this medium-bodied ale. Concocted from Pilsen and a dash of Caramel malts, this burnished-golden brew has a sweet malt backbone for balance.

Kolsch is a golden German-style ale that blends crisp aspects of lager’s. One of Jason’s favorites to brew.

Our saison is gold in color with a fruity, spicy flavor that comes from the unique belgian ale yeast strain used. Five apostles is the perfect beer to contemplate changing seasons.

Jasmine Belgian-inspired blonde ale

Ginger infused lager

A pale, tart beer with mild fruity notes from muscat grape juice & Hallertau Blanc hops.

This gold lager is light to medium in body, with a crisp refreshing finish. This style of beer is the everyday beer of Bavaria.

Ambery orange in color, with a light-medium body, this lager beer has a crisp toasted malt character highlighted by subtle German hops. Herbst in German translates to Autumn, and this beer is designed to be enjoyed while watching the leaves change color.

Based on an award-winning homebrew from Robbie Stone of the Virginian Restaurant (Cville). Five types of malt and a bunch of hops combine in this strong aromatic hoppy red ale. Hop varieties of Magnum, Sorachi Ace, Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic and Falconers Flight give this beer its magical hop punch 8.1% abc, 75 IBUs

This Scottish-style wee heavy ale is deep ruby in color, full in body with a sweet, malty finish. A great beer for late Fall or early Winter. If it ain’t Scottish it’s...!

Our Scottish Wee-Heavy ale aged on wood used by Belmont Farm Distillery. Hints of whisky, oak and vanilla blend with the rich maltiness of this beer. Extremely limited.

A sour beer with a light body and a brown-cherry color. Cherries added during fermentation combine with a kettle souring technique and delicate wood aging to create the tart cherry flavors in this beer.

A traditional German-style spring beer. Light copper in color with hints of fresh bread and a smooth lager finish. Like its’ lusty namesake May, a seasonal transition brew.

Ambition Ale is a full flavored medium bodied red ale that upholds the philosophy of “checks and balances.” Caramel and toasted malt notes are balanced by subtle citrus and spicy hop characters from cluster hops, America’s oldest variety.

An Imperial Coffee Stout. This strong black beer blends the rich chocolaty malt goodness with roasted coffee. The result is an explosion of smooth mocha flavor. Perfect after dinner.

Belgian-inspired golden Saison-style ale hopped with New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops which lend a subtle white wine note to this lively ale. This recipe is from Warren Haskell, our Craft Adventure Coordinator and Cicerone (beer expert).

Golden lager hopped with Neo-Mexicanus hops, North America’s only commerically available native hop variety. Also known as Multihead hop, they impart subtle tropical and citrus fruit notes. For a new world take on an old world lager. Crisp, unique and refreshing.

Rich. Smooth. Malty.

An English style old ale. Deep mahogany in color with complex flavors of dried fruit and brown sugar. Old Glen is a blend of our Wee Heavy and Barley Wine ales. Limited.

Five styles of specialty malts and flaked corn create a smooth drinking deep brown lager. This was inspired by the pre-prohibition dark beers of this country and was brewed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the beer can which was first implemented in Richmond, VA.

126 pounds of pureed peaches were added for a refreshing fruity take on this Belgian style witbier. Hazy gold, light to medium bodied with lively fruity peach notes.

Now is the time for the glorious return of our Pear Lager! This light-bodied lager is a beautiful straw color and has a smooth finish… Delicious and thirst-quenching - an easy drinking beer perfect for anytime!

New Zealand hopped pilsner.

Pale hazy gold with mild smokey notes. Piwo Gwarski is DB Outpost brewer Matt Castro’s first DB recipe, it was inspired by his Polish ancestry.

The perfect pint to enjoy by itself or as an accompaniment to food. This English-style session ale is deep gold in color and light to medium in body. Subtle hop notes with great balance and a clean finish. Enjoy your session!!!

This frighteningly delicious ale is reddish amber in color with subtle pumpkin sweetness. Enjoy the warming flavor and aroma of pumpkin pie in a glass. You’ll lose your head over this one!

A true to form Irish-style dry stout, black in color, mediun in body with a finish that is full of roasted malt flavored. Poured off of nitrogen for a smooth creamy stout experience.

This Irish-American style ale has rich caramel malt flavors with subtle notes of American hops. Discover the GM’s obsession with red.

Inspired by a famous liqueur, this Barleywine was brewed with orange peel and aged on orange peel and toasted oak, then allowed to mature for over six months for smoothness.

18 different botanicals introduced at various stages in the brewing process, as well as aging on cherry, birch and oak wood, create an delicious herbal spiced beer. Brown in color and medium in body, this is not the root beer you used to drink!

A German-style black lager. Hints of caramel and coffee blend in this light to medium dark lager. Do not let the color fool you, this beer goes down very easy. May the schwartz be with you!

A bit of grapefruit notes to this crisp IPL give it a drinkability expected from a session.

Reddish hued and medium in body. The combination of rye malt & Sterling hops create a crisp snappiness. A complex & rewarding beer that shows great hops presence yet is very approachable.

With a coppery-amber color and a medium bodied mouthfeel, this English ale combines a utopia of ingredients to create a beer with a cracker-like malt character and subtle fruit Flavors.

Cascade and Centennial hops dominate the flavor of this American Pale Ale. Deep gold, medium in body with a citrus-like hop finish. This APA is hoppy yet quaffable, rewarding yet approachable.

First batch of our new Imperial IPA with twice the amount of hops as our Eight Point IPA! Light bronze in color with tons of citrus & piney hop notes. hopped withCentennial, Columbus & Simcoe hops. 9.1 abc, IBUs...lots and lots!

Black color & full bodied. Complex dark malt flavors blended with fruity & spicy weizen yeast notes. The name was born from a highly evolved literary conversation; then a beer was formulated "to do it justice. Prepare to be crushed by deliciousness!"

An aromatic amber lager with a slight hazy appearance. Caramel and smoke flavors come from the use of Beech wood smoked malt from Bamberg. You’ll enjoy savory flavors reminiscent of bacon.

DB Family Beer Project’s “Team Lucky Seven’s”, led by Brewer Chris Gregoria, created a Belgian-inspired Saison. A pale orange hued beer with a medium palate and delicate notes from the Belgian yeast strain, old & new world hops, local Virginia honey and rose hips.

Brewmaster Jason & Founder Steve spent a Sunday together brewing to his exacting standards for a light hoppy dark ale. Deep brown bordering on black, light to medium bodied, with a piney & citrus hop explosion of flavor. The Spider Bite is small yet has a great hop bite from Bravo, Simcoe, Citra & Mosaic hops boosted in intensity by an addition of some fresh cracked black pepper!

Deep gold, medium bodied, with subtle fruity notes. A blend of high temperature lager fermentation and Belgian brewing techniques provide this beer with both complex character and approachability.

This refreshing pale ale was created to be consumed while enjoying the bounty of the bay. Gold in color, light to medium in body, and a crisp finish with hints of citrusy American hop varieties.

Bright summer days call for a bright summer beer with a crisp, dry finish. Summer Lager is a traditional Czech pilsner that’s dry hopped with herbaceous and citrusy New Zealand hops.

Hopped exclusively with Galaxy hops.

Complex flavors from English ale yeast, specialty malts, and hops create a depth of synergy in this well matured strong beer. Barleywines are the cognacs of the brewing world.

Their flagship Vienna Lager with cocoa nibs, vanilla, and cinnamon added to the cask!

This abusive beer was hopped ten times during the boil, with ten different hops and dry hopped three different times for a pure hop fury that is neither subtle nor for the weak of heart. Caution... 7.8% ABV, ??? IBUs.

This is The Devil Went Down To Oregon and this Special Release Imperial Dark Rye Beer would even make Charlie Daniels proud. Steve Crandall and Jason Oliver joined forces with Jamie Floyd from Ninkasi to produce this “sort of West Coast, German-style Roggenbier” turned into an Imperial Dark Rye ale

Black and super hoppy. Hints of roasted malts combine with resinous hop excess in this black take on an IPA. Brewed with five different hops and five different malts.

A hazy, honey-colored multigrain Pale Ale created to celebrate the Bounty of The Mountains! Barley & wheat malt combine with flaked corn and toasted wheat to a form a beer perfect for an autumn weekend. Our way to thank the Stringdusters for inspiring The Festy!

A nose of pineapple and tropical fruits with a slight hop linger. Tastes clean and crisp with small amounts of banana Weissbier aroma coming through and finishing with a tropical fruit and pineapple hop kick. Brewed by: Josh (brewer), Cherice (hostess), Craig (warehouse operator), Lauren (Basecamp server), Danielle (Basecamp server), and John (Basecamp server)

A Czech-style Pilsner, hazy gold in color, light to medium in body with a subtle floral finish from Czech Saaz hops with a dry crisp charater.

A strong golden lager for the unsuspecting prey. Gold in color, medium in body, with a subtle malt character & a smooth finish you can really sink your teeth into!

"Delaware Style Schwarzbock." This black bock beer is full in body with rich chocolate & toasted malt flavors. Its smooth & mellow finish really sinks its teeth into you….

Inspired by the hoppy ales that the English city of Burton-on-Trent made famous in the 19th century. Hopped with East kent Goldings, northern brewer & Fuggle hops.

Devils Backbone Vienna Lager, 2012 Gold World Beer Cup and 2009 Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal winner, is a chestnut colored lager with a malty aroma and subtle toasty sweetness derived from a multi-stage mash. A pinch of noble hops gives this refreshing beer a clean finish.

Oud Bruin aged on Whiskey wood.

With a hazy dark honey color and a soft body, the White Stag is a wheat IPA that packs a lot of hop flavor. In addition to malted barley, this beer is made with 4 different types of wheat and utilizes 5 different hops.

This 2010 Great American Beer Festival Bronze medal winner is a traditional Bavarian-style wheat beer is hazy gold in color, with a lively fruity finish that has hints of clove and banana. This is the beer that started the odyssey that led to the creation of Devils Backbone Brewing Company. During a ski trip to the Alps, DBBC founder Steve Crandall discovered and fell in love with Hefeweizen. Now we bring Hefeweizen to the Blue Ridge.