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Hop Profile
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Research Notes
2025 Demons Run Reserve is the reserve edition of Demons Run, a bourbon barrel-aged stout series from Urban Roots Brewing, a Sacramento brewery and smokehouse.
Award
Category
Medal
Entries
Brewery
Location
34, Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout
Gold (1st place)
65
Urban Roots Brewing
Sacramento, CA
Specs
Field
Value
Source
Style
Wood And Barrel Aged Stout (as entered at the 2026 World Beer Cup)
The brewery publishes no description of the Reserve; its awards page and bottle list give only names and categories.
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Ingredients
Nothing about the Reserve's ingredients is published. The brewery's September 2026 draught list sells the standard Demons Run in bottles as a BBA stout at 16.4%, alongside entries marked DTS 2025, NWF 2025 and Coconut 2025, but does not list a Reserve or explain those codes (Urban Roots: draught and to-go list).
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Brewing Details
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines have no standalone entry for a wood- and barrel-aged strong stout; their Other Strong Ale or Lager entry sets elevated alcohol at 8% ABV and up and notes that wood- and barrel-aged beers meeting that threshold are categorized separately. With no published ABV for the Reserve, fit cannot be checked directly.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout
Gold
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Brewery Context
Urban Roots Brewing is in Sacramento, CA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.
First pass: The brewery awards page lists 2025 Demons Run Reserve as 2026 World Beer Cup gold (Wood And Barrel Aged Stout) and 2026 Brewers Cup of California gold (Wood And Barrel Aged Strong Beer), plus State Fair medals for Demons Run and Demons Run Reserve.
First pass: The 16.4% figure belongs to the standard Demons Run bottle on the brewery list, not to the Reserve, so it is not used as this beer's ABV.
First pass: The brewery's site search also surfaced an older notice selling Demons Run 2019 and 2020 three-packs, confirming it is an annual series.
First pass: The online ordering page (Toast) returned HTTP 403. No 2026 GABF post was found on the blog, whose latest posts date to 2022.
First pass: Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Searches found no verified specifications for the 2025 Reserve. The Untappd listing is explicitly the 2024 Reserve at 15.8% ABV, so its strength and barrel details are not transferred to this vintage.
Field pass 2026-10-13: A new vintage-specific recipe search produced award records and the previously excluded 2024 Reserve, but no verified ABV, IBU, brewery beer page or hops for the 2025 Reserve.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery awards page lists the medals only.