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Devils Backbone Brewing Company

🌍 United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

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.

6Beers
5Styles
6.1%Avg ABV
2008Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
17%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Devils Backbone Brewing Company

6 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 6 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 6 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
malty
5 of 6 beers
hoppy
5 of 6 beers
clean
4 of 6 beers
smooth
3 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad6 beers · 5 style families
Lager 2Wheat Beer 1Porter 1Belgian 1IPA 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesDevils Backbone Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
hoppy
in 5 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more hoppy than typical.

Across 6 beers in 5 style families, one trait still carries through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 74%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 6
beers above the median
#2066
best ranked beer
Eight Point IPA

Their beers place in the Top 74% 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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