Devil's Backbone
Kinnegar Brewing in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.56
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Devil’s Backbone is full bodied and full flavoured like a mellow autumnal day with a hint of chocolate thrown in.
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7.5/10
Interesting. Strange that it may be. But it reminds me of the toasted barley notes of a Korean green tea …
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2023
at 21:49
7/10
Tried
on 31 Jul 2022
at 15:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Appearance: Medium brown, red hue. Clear. Small, light tan head. Aroma: Pale malt, fruits, toasted. Earthy. Taste: Medium malt, toasted, some red fruits. Light caramel and slight bitterness. Bought: qoqa.ch, 440 ml can, CHF 4.83 Info: 16/7-2022, BB: 5/9-2022
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jul 2022
at 06:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can at home. Pours deep mahogany with a medium off white head. Nose is caramel, toast, floral and pine. Flavour is hoppier red ale, toast, caramel, pine hops.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2022
at 00:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can from Paus Craft Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a hazy orange amber colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, light toffee caramel. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a rich smooth, caramel malt, light yeasty biscuit dough, light floral hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
at
Paus Craft Beer Bar
on 11 Dec 2020
at 12:15
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[50cl bottle picked up in Donegal Town.] A bright golden amber pour with a loose white head; earthy aroma with some apple and caramel; similar taste with earthy malts, cider apples and cinder toffee; and a nutty bitterness to finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2019
at 18:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ Kaapse, Rotterdam Aroma has minerals, grainy malt and toffee. Flavour has minerals, grapefruity hops, some sweet malt and toffee. Too dry but not bad.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2019
at 14:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
American style amber ale made by one of these new generation Irish craft brewers, thanks Johan for sharing the – beautifully styled – can. Egg-white, thick and foamy, plastery lacing head over a clear, ruddy-orange amber coloured beer. Aroma of rusk, dry teabags, fried tomato peel, peanuts, old biscuit, dried flowers, orange zest. Clean fruitiness in the mouth, touch of apple peel and orange perhaps, fizzy carb, smooth and soft bread crust-, rusk- and peanut-like maltiness, sweet with a bitterish toasty edge blending with a rooty, zesty, bit powdery, spicy ‘classically American’ hop bitterness in the end. Typical U.S. style amber along the lines of New Belgium’s Fat Tire and the like, rather unassuming perhaps in that respect as this style seems to have become rather obsolete these days, but well-balanced and technically flawless.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2019
at 14:58
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2019
at 14:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - deep amber, toffee colour. Nice billowing suds. Nose - toffee, biscuits, honeycomb. Taste - ginger biscuits, ginger cake almost. Sweet with biscuity bitterness. Palate - medium bodied and crunchy and sweet through the middle. The finish is crunchy and dry. Overall - to me this falls into Bitter style, and as that, it's a great example.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2019
at 18:45