

“We’ve already hired five great folks for North Carolina and we’re going to be very present day in, day out down there.” “We’ve been planning this for a year and we’re really excited to get rolling,” exclaims COO Hayes Humphreys. The brewery will be entering the new market staring with Greensboro on August 10 Raleigh-Durham on August 17 Charlotte and Asheville on September 8 and Wilmington on October 5. “We’ve set up a great network of wholesale partners throughout state and are thrilled to begin pouring our brews for the craft beer drinkers of North Carolina,” states Scott Baver, Devils Backbone’s New Sales Director. “North Carolina has played a big part in my family’s lives and now we have the wonderful privilege of proudly bringing our world class craft beer to the people and places we love in the state,” explains Founder Steve Crandall, in discussing why he’s excited for the new market.ĭevils Backbone has partnered with Greensboro-based RH Barringer Distributing Company Craft Central, a division of Charlotte-based Carolina Premium Beverage Raleigh-based Long Beverage Wilmington-based Coastal Beverage Company Hickory-based Best of Beers and Fayetteville-based Healy Wholesale. Devils Backbone favorites such as Vienna Lager, Eight Point IPA and Gold Leaf Lager throughout the state beginning in August. This marks the first new market expansion for the brewery in over two years.

Just a tad too aggressively bitter/drying, this was still really enjoyable.Devils Backbone Brewing Company has just announced six new distributor partnerships to bring its award-winning beer to North Carolina. Great vibrant hop flavors, with a solid malt backbone with minimal residual sweetness. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt flavors very smooth and easy to drink despite the increasingly bitter/drying finish. Medium carbonation and body with a very smooth, moderately sticky/resinous/rindy, and fairly bready/grainy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Moderate dryness from lingering bitterness, increasing through the glass. Devils Backbone Eight Point IPA 12oz Can 6 Pk click image to zoom Producer: Alesmith Brewing Company Website: Price: 12.99 SOLD OUT Country: United States Massively popular, beer is produced by over 2,800 recognized breweries in the United States. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt flavors with a nice malt bitterness balance slight lingering hop astringency, but not overwhelming. Moderate pine/citrus rind/grassy/spicy bitterness on the finish with lingering notes of grapefruit, pineapple, peach, mango, papaya, lemon/orange rind, pepper, pine, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, mango, papaya, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, light honey, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/tropical/pine hops and moderate bready malt notes with great strength. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, mango, papaya, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, light honey, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Dense soapy lacing clings around the glass. Pours crystal clear golden/amber color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Eight Point IPA from Devils Backbone Brewing Companyġ2 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on.
