ShareNear Lexington Rockbridge County, Virginia In under a year since construction began, Devils Backbone Outpost Brewery in Rockbridge County is now brewing beer! “We’ve neem brewing nonstop. Last night the brewers worked until 2:30am brewing batches of Vienna Lager and then started again Friday,” said Heidi Crandall, marketing director with the breweries. Heidi also tells [...]
ShareDenver, Colorado & Nelson County, Virginia Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton was awarded the Gold medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival in Denver Colorado. Their English-style summer ale category for their end-of-summer seasonal beer, Summer Lovin. The brewery also took the Silver medal in the highly coveted American-Belago-style ale category for their hop [...]
ShareRoseland Nelson County, Virginia Festy 2011 is in the history books, with a weekend of the most fantastic weather yet! NCL’s Mountain Photographer Paul Purpura spent Saturday down in the valley grabbing shots of the sights and sounds of the 3 day event. It was held on the grounds at Devils Backbone in Roseland. The [...]
ShareRoseland/Afton Nelson County, Virginia In spite of threatening skies lots of people still weathered the rain and took past in several of the events going on in Nelson County this past weekend. Devils Backbone held their Mountain Cross this past Saturday morning. It’s was a 66 mile race across the hills of Nelson County. Labor [...]
ShareRoseland Nelson County, Virginia Jacob Allen has long since headed west to California and John Howard has assembled his own new band here in Virginia, but that doesn’t stop the two very good buddies and former duo Hobojac from getting together when Jacob is back in Nelson. This past Saturday night Jacob and John were [...]
ShareRockbridge County, Virginia It’s not really official until the dirt flies from the golden shovels. That it did, Monday afternoon at groundbreaking ceremony for Devils Backbone’s production facility. “We’re glad to be a part of Rockbridge County. It’s great to see everyone here today and since we weren’t able to locate in Nelson, we so [...]
ShareNear Lexington Rockbridge County, Virginia Story By Jennie T. Williams Just two years and four months after opening the doors of Devils Backbone Brewing Company, Steve Crandall and DBCC are on yet another beer-making adventure. Rumors have been swirling for weeks, but the final approval came just last week. Steve, the owner of one of [...]
ShareRoseland / Beech Grove Nelson County, Virginia Last week we told you about a 24 hour marathon of jumping on a trampoline in freezing weather to raise money for The Nelson County Pantry. Bouncing For Hams was held by Devils Backbone Brewing in an effort to buy 300+ hams for families in the Nelson area [...]
ShareRoseland / Beech Grove Nelson County, Virginia The temperatures hovered around 20° Tuesday night with winds gusting as high as 34 MPH while the crew and other volunteers continued Bouncing For Hams outside of Devils Backbone Brewing. We first told you about the planned event a few days ago. The goal of the 24 hour [...]
ShareRoseland Nelson County, Virginia With the cold nights in the air, no doubt Christmas is on the way! Kids and adults had fun this past Tuesday night (12.7.10) decorating for Christmas at Devils Backbone Brewing in Roseland / Beech Grove. Lots more Christmas events are planned for this month at DBBC including Bouncing For Hams, [...]
