Metal and Beer

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Palate Jack

December 4, 2020

Solera’s Palate Jack is a hazy IPA that will win the over-hopped hearts of beer drinkers looking for a respite from bitterness.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Seven Doors

November 18, 2020

Denver’s premier metal brewery sticks to the truest of brews with the grisette style Seven Doors.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Péché Mortel

November 12, 2020

Hands down, Brasserie Dieu du Ciel’s Péché Mortel (“Mortal Sin”) is one of the best coffee stouts you will ever taste.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Tropic Punch Ale

October 30, 2020

Tropic Punch Ale is proof that there’s more to the world of mid-range ABV sours than just the salty Leipizig gose style, and it blows pretty much every other fruit beer out of the water.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout

October 23, 2020

Peanut butter flavored stouts and porters are becoming ubiquitous, but Lost Coast’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout are there great tastes that that taste pretty fricken good together.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: El Cuatro

October 9, 2020

El Cuatro is sweet but not cloying, and sour but not bracing—sugar and spice and everything nice in one bottle.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Saison 13

October 2, 2020

The latest collab between Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine and craft beer legends Unibroue is the pair’s weightiest saison yet.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Trappistes Rochefort 10

September 25, 2020

This quad is a gold medal winner at the World Beer Championships and currently sports perfect “100” scores on the Beer Advocate and RateBeer websites, so, yeah, it’s pretty good!

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Mind Haze

September 18, 2020

It might sound like a band that would tour with Psychofunkapus, but Firestone Walker’s Mind Haze is heavy on hops and light on bass slaps.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Cold Brew Coffee Pumking

September 10, 2020

If pumpkin beers become a year-round thing, Southern Tier Brewing Company‘s Cold Brew Coffee Pumking is a great place to start.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Through the Brambles

August 21, 2020

Through the Brambles – the inaugural release from SweetWater’s the Woodlands Project—is a stunning blackberry sour aged in oak barrels for 12 years.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Dark Truth Stout

July 31, 2020

You can’t handle the truth. You want answers?! Reach for a bottle of Boulevard Brewing Co‘s Dark Truth Stout

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Belgian National Day Ale

July 21, 2020

You needn’t partake in SUNN0))) cosplay to celebrate Belgian National Day. Just grab a Belgian National Day Ale from Cooperstown’s always excellent Brewery Ommegang.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Jam Up the Mash

June 26, 2020

Canadians Collective Arts Brewing have a distinct visual aesthetic that is the perfect foil to their crisp sour Jam Up the Mash.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Chimay Dorée

June 5, 2020

You can get your day drinking on with the Dad Beer, uh, we mean, the Patersbier from Bières de Chimay.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Barrel-Aged Narwhal

May 29, 2020

Do not sleep on the Barrel-Aged Narwhal, which Sierra Nevada is offering in limited release in a four-pack of pounder cans—it is one of the legendary California brewery’s greatest beers ever.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Hilma

May 22, 2020

Hilma is an imperial IPA brewed with vanilla burger buns, french fries, and lactose. Or, in other words, all members of Aqua Teen Hunger Force represented in a pounder can.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Special Hoperations (2020)

May 15, 2020

What the world needs now is an extra supply of toilet paper, not another West Coast IPA. But we will make an exception for the Special Hoperations collab from Fat Head and 3 Floyds.

Rescheduled Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly Dates Announced!

May 12, 2020

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly has been officially rescheduled for April 9-10, 2021 at Fillmore Philly! Tickets for the original 2020 festival dates will automatically be valid for the new dates.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Kindred

May 6, 2020

Upland Brewing Company and Paradox Beer Company collaborate on what might be the world’s most complex brown ale

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Black Horsemen

May 1, 2020

The birth of Black Horsemen would soon be realized. The second coming of the Euro dark lager in disguise.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Wild Tripelle

April 24, 2020

La Sirêne Brewing’s Wild Tripelle took a little while to make it across the Pacific Ocean. By the time this hit shelves last year, it was already aging.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Future You Hates You

April 6, 2020

Future You Hates You – a collaboration between Adroit Theory and Cushwa – is a 13.5% ABV Imperial Stout designed for slow-sipping and maximum impact

The Decibel DIY Guide to Metal & Beer Fest: Home Edition

March 31, 2020

Your official resource for home-delivery and curbside pickup options from the breweries, and the streaming options for the bands, labels and radio stations of the postponed Metal & Beer Fest: Philly.