Nick Green
Lunachicks Vocalist Theo Kogan Talks New Band Biography ‘Fallopian Rhapsody,’ Sugar Farts
July 1, 2021 Nick Green
NYC punk heroes the Lunachicks talk new book co-authored by old-school Decibel contributor Jeanne Fury
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Leveler
June 25, 2021 Nick Green
The Elder Pine x August Burns Red collab Leveler is red ale conceived like a West Coast IPA, with bold pine-y notes from the hops and an appealing bitterness that clings a bit to your palette.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Mad Ear
June 15, 2021 Nick Green
Get in now on Trinity’s Bière de Garde-style Mad Ear while it’s still kvlt.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Loral Roberts
June 11, 2021 Nick Green
Tulsa brewery American Solera manages to make German Kŏlsch Loral Roberts shine despite being limited to strictly American ingredients.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Black Miso
June 4, 2021 Nick Green
Japas Cervejaria’s Black Miso is a high-octane Russian Imperial Stout that incorporates a totally different type of fermentation: red miso paste.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Puff Puff Fish (Venom Series)
May 28, 2021 Nick Green
Tripping Animals Brewing Co‘s Puff Puff Fish is light, airy and refreshing—a mid-range ABV sour that drinks like a session beer.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Morticia
May 21, 2021 Nick Green
Barrier Brewing’s Russian Imperial Stout Morticia won’t clear cobwebs — it’ll create ’em.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Hitachnio Nest Anbai Ale
May 12, 2021 Nick Green
Kiuchi Brewery’s Hitachnio Nest Anbai Ale pays homage to the ancient German brewing tradition while championing ingredients that are distinctly Japanese.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: iStout Unchained
April 30, 2021 Nick Green
When does a stout nearly become a wine? When New Zealand’s 8 Wired takes three years to age the incredible iStout Unchained!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: A Dashing Rogue
April 23, 2021 Nick Green
Complex fruited sour A Dashing Rogue is the latest boundary-destroyer from Norway’s Haandbryggeriet.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Salts
April 14, 2021 Nick Green
Black Narrows Brewing Co’s Salts states a pretty persuasive case for why sessionable wild ales might be the next big thing.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Croatoan
April 9, 2021 Nick Green
Toast the release of Zao’s new album, The Crimson Corridor, with Croatoan, the band’s incredible new beer collab with Grand Rapids’ Speciation Artisan Ales.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Double Blizzard
April 2, 2021 Nick Green
Winter might be over but Tröegs’ beastly double IPA Double Blizzard is here to stay.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: 35K
March 26, 2021 Nick Green
Boldness is key to the appeal of 35K, which pours with minimal carbonation, virtually no head and a rich all-black black-as-your-soul color.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Coffee Is for Closers
March 18, 2021 Nick Green
Coffee is for Closers is the Cadillac Eldorado of American porters, so give yourself a break from higher-octane beers and move Fullsteam ahead on this.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Samichlaus Classic
March 12, 2021 Nick Green
Unless you’re willing to wrestle with regret from your own life choices, Samichlaus Claus‘s 14% ABV doppelbock is best left split amongst friends and sipped like a cordial.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Oro Negro
February 26, 2021 Nick Green
When it comes to balancing the scales of justice between “sweet” and “heat,” Jackie O’s nailed it with Oro Negro.
Requiem Metal Podcast Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Neurosis’ ‘Through Silver in Blood’ With Four-Part Series
February 22, 2021 Nick Green
Veteran metal podcasters Jason Hundey and Mark Rudolph record a 10-hour, guest-filled deep dive into Neurosis‘ game-changing 1996 record Through Silver in Blood.
No Corporate Beer: Yellow Snow
February 19, 2021 Nick Green
Rogue’s Yellow Snow puts the “p” in pilsner.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Blood Amulet
February 12, 2021 Nick Green
B. Nektar Meadery’s Blood Amulet is a hard cider and, somehow, not the name of an occult rock band.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Tefnut Blackout
February 3, 2021 Nick Green
Tefnut is an ongoing collaboration series between Richmond’s The Veil and Swedish nomad brewing operation Omnipollo that offers radical reinterpretations of fruited gose. This one gose to 11… almost.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Mothman
January 28, 2021 Nick Green
Do you like Cascadian black… beer? Then Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company’s Mothman black IPA is worth a contemplative forest stroll.
Fudge Tunnel – Hate Songs in E Minor
January 26, 2021 Nick Green
Fudge Tunnel’s first movement celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and we commemorate it with an induction of Hate Songs in E Minor.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Hubert
January 22, 2021 Nick Green
Like the Devil, Melvin Brewing’s American Pale Ale appears in different forms. Hubert seems like an IPA at first, but it reveals itself to be a very hop-forward APA.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Coolship Red
January 15, 2021 Nick Green
Allagash Brewing Company’s Coolship Red lambic is a nectar made by mortals, fit for the gods.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Chocolate Cherry Yeti
January 4, 2021 Nick Green
No reason for division on Great Divide Brewing Company’s fantastic Yeti imperial stout style, but we wonder if Chocolate Cherry Yeti takes the cake on the variants.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Sweet Potato and Sage Saison
December 24, 2020 Nick Green
Let Ardent’s Sweet Potato and Sage Saison get you through your second, massive gluttonous holiday meal is less than a month.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Permanent Funeral
December 17, 2020 Nick Green
3 Floyds legendary DIPA collab with Pig Destroyer, Permanent Funeral, is back, baby!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Kriek – Zure van Tildonk
December 14, 2020 Nick Green
What’s your new favorite fruited sour from Hof ten Dormaal? Ist Kriek, of course.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Waffle Sauce – Maple Pecan Imperial Brown Ale
December 10, 2020 Nick Green
Brown ales are the original domestic lager alternative. Luckily, Rusty Rail give the style a welcome spin with the not-as-sweet-as-it-sounds Waffle Sauce.