Devils Backbone Brewing Company

Slow growth isn’t always sexy, but it’s smart. That was the key takeaway during this month’s Brewbound Session, held on Dec. 3 in San Diego — and an idea that many of the day’s presenters honed in on as they shared advice and business lessons with nearly 250 beer industry professionals.

Devils Backbone Brewing Company is excited to announce that in January, it will debut its annual Adventure Pack Collaboration Sampler. For the 2016 pack, Devils Backbone reached out to five brewing friends to help them craft a collaboration adventure including: the hop-centric NoDa Brewing Company from Charlotte, NC; a leader in the craft cream ale category, Sun King Brewery from Indianapolis, IN; Surly Brewing Company from Minneapolis, MN, which Beer Advocate Magazine named “Best Brewery in America;” Thunder Road Brewing Company, making its northern hemisphere debut all the way from the land down under, Australia; and the brewing brothers of Wicked Weed from Asheville, NC.

Devils Backbone Brewing Company, is proud to announce that it brought home a Gold Medal for its Vienna Lager from the prestigious 2015 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) this past weekend in Denver, CO. This brings the brewery’s GABF total to 29 medals, including three national titles, over six consecutive years since first entering the competition.

On the heels of a $7 million brewery expansion, fast-growing Virginia craft brewery Devils Backbone today announced it would expand distribution to neighboring North Carolina, beginning in August. The company also plans to launch in Tennessee and West Virginia later this year, as part an effort to enter five new states over the next 12 months, according to Hayes Humphreys, chief operating officer.

More than 150 craft brewery owners and state brewers guild leaders descended on Capitol Hill last Thursday to meet with lawmakers and discuss legislative reform, most notably a bipartisan bill that aims to slash the federal excise tax rate imposed on every barrel of beer produced in the country.

As they prepare to expand from a 30-barrel brewhouse to a state-of-the-art 120 barrel brewhouse, Devils Backbone Brewing has elected to switch to MicroStar Logistics to meet their keg and related logistics needs. Devils Backbone chose to move to MicroStar from their owned float because the flexibility and efficiency of MicroStar’s industry leading pooled-keg model will accommodate their rapid growth.

Last month, a pair of craft-friendly bills in North Carolina that would have dramatically raised the self-distribution cap and legalized contract brewing in the state failed to make it out of committee. However, Creative Loafing Charlotte reports some of the less contentious language from one of those bills has reemerged as part of a broader alcohol regulation initiative that has been making headway.

Lexington, VA – Devils Backbone Brewing Company took home the titles for Mid-Size Brewing Company and Mid-Size Brewing Team of the year at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival, the largest brewing competition in the world. Devils Backbone has earned four national titles within five years. Steve Crandall, founder of Devils Backbone Brewing Company stated,… Read more »

A brewery selling 5,000 barrels of beer in its first year of production isn’t entirely unheard of, but it used to be inconceivable. Even craft beer Paterfamilias Jim Koch himself forecast it would take five years to reach the milestone, but Boston Beer Co. reached the figure within five months of its first delivery.

Looking to become a “significant regional player,” Virginia-based Devils Backbone Brewing Co. is setting its sights on the 100,000-barrel club. In the next 18 months, the company — which only began bottling and kegging its products for regional distribution in 2012 — will install a 120-barrel brewhouse by next sumer in an effort to accommodate… Read more »

In February, Brewbound traveled through Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia to host Brew Talks, a free educational and networking meetup series for craft brewers. During the weeklong trip — which made stops at SweetWater Brewing in Atlanta, Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, North Carolina and Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Lexington, Virginia – brewers and wholesalers… Read more »

Sam Crickenberger, the director of economic development for Virginia’s Rockbridge County, loves to “see dirt get turned over.” He wants companies, both from the U.S. and abroad, to plant their flags in that southern terrain and call it home. When a brewery like Devils Backbone does just that, well, that’s even better. That, Crickenberger said,… Read more »

As part of its week-long tour of the Southeast, Brewbound will travel to Devils Backbone Brewing in Lexington, Virginia on Thursday, February 27 to host Brew Talks, a free educational and networking meetup for beer industry professionals. During the event, Devils Backbone founder Steve Crandall and COO Hayes Humphreys will join Brewbound editor Chris Furnari in… Read more »

Brewbound today announced the official dates, times and venues for its upcoming Brew Talks Southeast Tour, sponsored by Crown Beverage Packaging and VicinityBrew. Brew Talks — a FREE, traveling educational meetup series that aims to provide craft brewers with access to valuable insight into the branding, marketing and distribution of craft beer — will make stops at three breweries during the week-long tour, which kicks off on Feb. 24.