Ninkasi / Devils Backbone The Devil Went Down To Oregon
Vital Statistics
Type: Rye Beer (Imperial / Double)
ABV: 7.2%
Bitterness: 65 IBU
Original Gravity: 1.074 / 18° plato
First released: 2015
From the brewer
It might be a sin, but take the bet and you won’t regret this beer from start to end! In a collaboration spanning Oregon’s bountiful Willamette Valley to Virginia’s heartland, Steve Crandall and Jason Oliver of Devils Backbone Brewing took the bet and gave the Devil his due when our founding brewer, Jamie Floyd, came ‘a calling. What the trio first described as “a sort of West Coast, German-Style Roggenbier” turned into an Imperial Dark Rye, offering an elevated alcohol percentage and a crisp, lager-like finish from the Alt yeast fermentation. Give the Devil his due!
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Smells like a typical Euro dark lager and starts that way, but hits you with a big doppelbock-ish bready sweetness right away. Finishes with a spicy bite, which I assume is the rye, although I've never felt it burn quite like this. Very odd.