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Craft Brewery Finally Releases a Beer Dedicated to Comics Legend Hellboy

Rogue didn't even have to change its color scheme for this one.
Rogue didn’t even have to change its color scheme for this one. Photo: Rogue Ales

Dark Horse’s cult comic Hellboy is turning 21 this year, and so to celebrate the occasion Rogue Ales of Portland, Oregon, will brew a beer in the hellion’s honor. Right Hand of Doom Red Ale will undoubtedly delight fanboys: The beer features a spiffy original label by Hellboy creator and ex-Portlander Mike Mignola and is “dedicated to the B.P.R.D.” — the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense where Mignola’s Hellboy works as an agent.

It’s yet more evidence of Rogue’s apparent master plan — one that could easily be a real-life Portlandia plot — to win over every single niche interest group in the Northwest. They have a beer that commemorates the Portland airport’s famously ugly carpet, and others dedicated to the stoner doughnuts at Voodoo. Takeout-food junkies got Sriracha Hot Stout, and facial-hair fanatics even received the gift of beard-yeast beer. Comic Con-goers, meanwhile, can preorder their Hellboy keepsake bottles right now for shipment starting February 23.

[Rogue Ales, EW]

Craft Brewery Finally Releases a Beer Dedicated to Comics Legend Hellboy