Metal and Beer

No Corporate Beer Reviews: PB & Jams

August 11, 2023

If peanut butter-flavored beers are your jam, Abita Brewing Company’s PB & Jams lager will hit your sweet spot.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Thiccolas Cage

May 19, 2023

Nepenthe’s Thiccolas Cage will make your eyes go wide and your hair stand on its head like Nic Cage in, well, every goddamn Nic Cage flick.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Bow Echo Hazy IPA

April 28, 2023

Wiseacre Brewing Company’s Bow Echo Hazy IPA is bright, like a warm hug, and can turn your day around instantly.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Secret Machine – Baked Alaska

April 7, 2023

Secret Machine beers are largely for fans of extremely fruit-forward kettle sours. Baked Alaska, aged on pistachio, chocolate, raspberry and vanilla, fits right in.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Framinghammer

March 24, 2023

If Jack’s Abby says this is a lager, we’re down with that, because Framinghammer has a sweeter swing than Jim Rice.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Long Jawns

February 17, 2023

Metal & Beer Fest stalwarts Yards go dark via a sessionable winter lager with any extremely Philly name.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Applocalypse

February 10, 2023

Even though the gose is really a summer style, The Brewing Projekt’s Applocalypse works beautifully year round.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Parabolita

January 18, 2023

As stouts go, Firestone Walker’s Parabolita is perfect. Aged in bourbon barrels with a mix of vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, and sea salt to create an enhanced stout experience.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST Philly Tickets ON SALE NOW!

January 13, 2023

Tickets are ON SALE NOW for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Satan, Night Demon, Haunt and Sonja on April 13 in Philly.

SATAN Headlines the Metal & Beer PRE-FEST 2023 With Support From NIGHT DEMON, HAUNT and SONJA!

January 9, 2023

Tickets are on sale Friday, January 13 at 10am ET for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer PRE-FEST featuring Satan, Night Demon, Haunt and Sonja on April 13.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: DOOM

January 6, 2023

As an ESB, Adroit Theory pretty much nailed it with DOOM, another standout of the Virginia brewery’s growing heavy metal genre tribute series.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Babylone

December 9, 2022

The idea behind the Brussels Beer Project’s “bread IPA” is up-cycling: At least 20% of the grain base of Babylone is from loaves of unsold bread, which have been dried out and pulverized into crumbs.

Set Times Announced for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2022!

November 29, 2022

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver kicks off THIS WEEK, which means you’ve been asking for set times for approximately five months now. Here you go.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: 25th Anniversary Ale

November 18, 2022

New York craft beer legends Ommegang give us yet another celebrate with their 25th Anniversary Ale.

Dreadnought, Vermin Womb & Cronos Compulsion Announced for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST Denver on Dec 1

November 9, 2022

Tickets are on sale Friday, November 11 at 10am MT for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Dreadnought, Vermin Womb and Cronos Compulsion at the Marquis in Denver on Dec 1.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: DDH DirtWolf

October 28, 2022

Victory’s DDH DirtWolf is double the pleasure, double the fun, and definitely double the trouble for anyone wedded to a lower gravity experience.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Good Gourd

October 21, 2022

We don’t generally advocate pumpkin beer at NCB, but get ready to meet your fave: Cigar City’s Good Gourd.

No Corporate Beer: High Speed Steel

October 7, 2022

3 Floyds’ High Speed Steel collab with Decibel faves Municipal Waste will electrify what’s left of your brain