Nick Green

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Colossal Claude

April 4, 2022

Old-school American craft envelope-pushers, Rogue return with the more traditionally balanced double IPA Colossal Claude.

No Corporate Beer Review: Forest Bänger

March 25, 2022

Forest Bänger is another stellar offering from a brewery that excels in the art of dark beers.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Phantom Scream

March 11, 2022

So drink to forget / And drown all your sorrow / Bury your dreams / And choose catharsis!

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Nocturna

March 4, 2022

America’s finest Belgian brewery, Allagash, master the dark arts of imperial stouts with the bold Nocturna.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Trooper IPA

February 25, 2022

Your body’s numb and your throat will be dry after sampling Robinsons Brewery‘s Trooper IPA.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: CHONK Peach Melba

February 18, 2022

Drekker’s CHONK Peach Melba is a flavor bomb, with hints of vanilla, marshmallow and coconut, and tons and tons of peach and raspberry flavor.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Blueberry Dreamboat

February 4, 2022

Blueberry Dreamboat bills itself as a “hoppy milkshake session mead,” which is three adjectives you don’t normally see applied to mead, but all of them are truly spot on.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Double Homestyle

January 21, 2022

Double Homestyle presents maximum hop flavor without any bitterness, similar to the effect achieved when using lupulin powder, but with zero bitterness

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Geisterzug

January 14, 2022

Despite its 600-year-old recipe, Freigeist Bierkultur’s Geisterzug tastes anything like a traditional gose.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: By Udder Means

January 7, 2022

Some of the best stouts out there are now aged in wine barrels, including To Øl’s tasty By Udder Means.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Christmas Morning

December 22, 2021

Santa’s not looking for cookies, so sweeten up his holiday with Hardywood’s killer Christmas Morning stout.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Birthday Zombie Annihilation

December 20, 2021

Metal & Beer Fest alumni KCBC (Kings County Brewers Collective) celebrate their fifth anniversary with a sour that just might get you, um, annihilated

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Tiny

December 10, 2021

Weyerbacher’s powerful Belgian-styled imperial stout Tiny is anything but small in stature.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Stjørdal

November 26, 2021

Stjørdal, a smoked farmhouse ale that encapsulates everything that the much revered HammerHeart Brewing is all about.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Stone 25th Anniversary Triple IPA

November 12, 2021

West Coast craft beer legends Stone continue their quarter-century celebration with an appropriately dank and bitter TIPA.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Mister Potato Dead

October 29, 2021

Abomination Brewing Company’s new Mr. Potato Dead artfully combines suds ‘n’ spuds for an all-year ’round Halloween celebration.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Spooky Tooth Imperial Pumpkin Ale

October 15, 2021

Pumpkin beer gets a desperately needed makeover from Ohio’s Fat Head’s Brewery via Spooky Tooth Imperial Pumpkin Ale.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Paradoxe

October 8, 2021

Grab a bottle of La Sirêne’s wonderful summery Paradoxe sour before all the leaves have fallen from the trees.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Junkyard God

September 24, 2021

The third 3 Floyds x Pig Destroyer collaboration beer, the Mexican-style lager Junkyard God, is a dramatic departure from the high gravity.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Death By Coconut

September 17, 2021

Get ready for cooler temps with this 6.5% ABV Irish-style porter that produces a warming effect in your throat.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Kyoto Bakushu Matcha IPA

September 10, 2021

Kizakura has achieved a fine balance here with a beer that’s like a Japanese version of an Arnold Palmer, with a 50/50 split between matcha tea and IPA.

No Corporate Beer Review: White

August 27, 2021

America’s only Trappist brewery, Spencer, has a new witbier with a long and storied history—albeit not a traditional Trappist brew.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Juxtapose

August 13, 2021

Finding balance with a Brett IPA is particularly difficult, but Four Winds Brewing’s Juxtapose hits all the right notes.

Album Review: Deafheaven – ‘Infinite Granite’

August 12, 2021

Maybe Deafheaven‘s shocking shoegaze departure on Infinite Granite isn’t all that shocking after all

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Gherkin

July 30, 2021

Lost Boy Cider’s Gherkin is like a screening of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo—you can find ways to enjoy this, but it means that you are totally dead inside.

Candiria – 300 Percent Density

July 28, 2021

We celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Hall of Fame induction of Candiria‘s 2001 game-changer 300 Percent Density.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: My Name is Fon

July 2, 2021

You’ll be saying the name of Asheville’s “other” craft brewery, DSSOLVR, when you try their hoppy ale My Name is Fon.