Devils Backbone Brewing Company
Devils Backbone Brewing Company was established in 2008 by Steve and Heidi Crandall in Roseland, Virginia, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Nelson County. The brewery was inspired by the couple's experience of craft beer at a German Weisse brewpub during an Alpine ski trip, which sparked a desire to bring European-style craft brewing to rural Virginia. Its Basecamp Brewpub near Roseland became the flagship location, and in 2012 a second production facility and taproom called The Outpost was opened near Lexington. In 2016, Devils Backbone was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev, significantly expanding its distribution reach while maintaining its Virginia identity.
Beers by Devils Backbone Brewing Company
6 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Devils Backbone Brewing Company brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Vienna Lager
Their beers place in the Top 47% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Devils Backbone Brewing Company
Devils Backbone Brewing Company was established in 2008 by Steve and Heidi Crandall in Roseland, Virginia, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Nelson County. The brewery was inspired by the couple's experience of craft beer at a German Weisse brewpub during an Alpine ski trip, which sparked a desire to bring European-style craft brewing to rural Virginia. Its Basecamp Brewpub near Roseland became the flagship location, and in 2012 a second production facility and taproom called The Outpost was opened near Lexington. In 2016, Devils Backbone was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev, significantly expanding its distribution reach while maintaining its Virginia identity.
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