Devils Backbone Barclay’s London Dark Lager

Brewed by Devils Backbone Brewing Company
Style: Dunkel/Tmavý
Roseland, Virginia USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Tap at brewery. Pours clear amber with a faint off-white head, no retention or lacing. Aroma is caramel and light chocolate malt, light hops, dates, and a clean lager character. Flavor is caramel and melanoidin malt with mild bitterness, dates, and a lightly sweet finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear red brown coloured with a small off-white head. Fruity aroma of hay, caramel and hops. Sweeta nd fruity flavour of hay, caramel, grass and hops. Hoppy finish.

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours unclear amber with no head. Nose is caramel and toffee. Tobacco like and fruity flavor. Medium to thin body. Flat carbonation.

From the menu: "25 IBUs. This dark ruby brown lager was recreated using a 1930’s recipe with beer historian Ron Pattison & local beer blogger Alastair Reece. Slight hints of caramel & toffee shine in this early English interpretation of a dark lager." On tap at the brewpub last weekend. Pours a moderate brown color with a good off-white head and some nice lacing on the way down. The nose brings a bready base along with some light caramel and toffee. Faint hint of English hops in the background. The flavor is mostly bready with a touch of caramel. Light body and a light bitterness in the finish. Well made, but nothing that particularly stands out. Serving type: on-tap

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2011 Cask at GBBF London 2011. Clear red brown, small head. Fruity aroma with fudge and banana.

From cask. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is mild fruity, slight yeasty and light roasted caramel. Mild bitter, slight fruity and caramelish. Lasting sweet and light roasted malty finish.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Amber beer with almost no head. Roasted aroma, cocoa, some hops. Roasted cocoa flavor, bitter, dark chocolate. Quite nice bitter finish.