A Deal With The Devil - Double Oaked 2024
Anchorage Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.47
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Double Oaked Barleywine aged 16 months in a blend of Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, Elijah 8 year bourbon, and Russell’s Reserve bourbon barrels.
If any can perfectly captures craft beer culture in 2020, it’s A Deal With The Devil From Anchorage Brewing in Anchorage, Alaska. This is a culture characterized by hype. Indulgence. Sloth. And that’s exactly what the label conveys.
In order to understand why the label is so effective, one needs to understand the beer. A Deal With The Devil is one of the highest-rated barleywine-style ales ever made ... The beer itself is a masterclass in excess.
To build on this theme, Anchorage founder Gabe Fletcher had the beer put into a historically maligned packaging format: the 16-ounce aluminum can. Then, in a big f-you to purists who only package their fine beverages in glass, Fletcher had the cans dipped in black wax. Upside down.
Only 4,272 of the 16-oz cans were made, all of which sold out in minutes. At $50 per can. There’s something gross about that, and also something beautiful.
No matter how you feel about A Deal With The Devil, the beer, packaging format, name, label, and embellishments come together to tell a perfect story. And that’s the essence of good design.
For that reason, we name A Deal With The Devil the best can design of 2020.
If any can perfectly captures craft beer culture in 2020, it’s A Deal With The Devil From Anchorage Brewing in Anchorage, Alaska. This is a culture characterized by hype. Indulgence. Sloth. And that’s exactly what the label conveys.
In order to understand why the label is so effective, one needs to understand the beer. A Deal With The Devil is one of the highest-rated barleywine-style ales ever made ... The beer itself is a masterclass in excess.
To build on this theme, Anchorage founder Gabe Fletcher had the beer put into a historically maligned packaging format: the 16-ounce aluminum can. Then, in a big f-you to purists who only package their fine beverages in glass, Fletcher had the cans dipped in black wax. Upside down.
Only 4,272 of the 16-oz cans were made, all of which sold out in minutes. At $50 per can. There’s something gross about that, and also something beautiful.
No matter how you feel about A Deal With The Devil, the beer, packaging format, name, label, and embellishments come together to tell a perfect story. And that’s the essence of good design.
For that reason, we name A Deal With The Devil the best can design of 2020.
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9.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Canned, 473 ml, shared with MiorB and Hrvoje. Almost black with almost no head. Lots of caramel, toffee, chocolate, vanilla, intensive sweetness, bourbon. Smooth and full bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Nov 2024
at 05:52
8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can thanks to Troy. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is vanilla, dark fruit, wood, booze. Slick body, dark fruit, vanilla, wood, boozy, enjoyed this.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2024
at 00:25