Dioses y Diablos Puts the Devils Half of Its Name in Spanish

A collaboration between 7 Devils and Eugene's Ninkasi Brewing, landing as a dark Mexican-style lager with toast and light caramel. The name translates to Gods and Devils, and one of those halves belongs to the host brewery.

• Style: Dark Mexican-Style Lager
• Release Date: 2026-10-01
• ABV: N/A
• 7 Devils Brewing Co. (Coos Bay, OR)

The name is the tell. Dioses y Diablos translates as Gods and Devils, and the second half of that pairing is the host brewery's own name in Spanish.

7 Devils Brewing Co. has brewed the beer with Ninkasi Brewing, the Eugene operation founded in 2006 and one of the better-known names in Oregon craft beer. The collaboration is a dark Mexican-style lager, shortened to DND by both parties. It gets a release party at 7 Devils on October 1.

The brewery describes notes of toast and light caramel with a smooth, crisp finish, and pitches it as a fall beer.

That description is a fair map of what the style is built to do. Dark Mexican lager sits some distance from the pale lagers that most North American drinkers associate with Mexican beer. The tradition runs on Vienna and Munich-style malts, which supply exactly the toast and light caramel character the brewery is pointing at, while the lager fermentation keeps the body lean and the finish dry. It is a darker beer that stays sessionable, which is a harder balance than it sounds and the reason the style survives as its own thing rather than collapsing into a brown ale.

The naming deserves one more beat. Ninkasi takes its own name from the ancient Sumerian goddess of fermentation, so a collaboration titled Gods and Devils is not reaching for a theme so much as stating the guest list. The abbreviation does land on territory already occupied by a tabletop role-playing game, which the brewery seems content to leave alone.

Dioses y Diablos is released October 1 at 7 Devils Brewing Co. in Coos Bay, with a 7 p.m. release party featuring Portland two-piece Whipsaw on stage.