Metal and Beer

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.

Winter might be over but Tröegs’ beastly double IPA Double Blizzard is here to stay.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to balancing the scales of justice between “sweet” and “heat,” Jackie O’s nailed it with Oro Negro.

Rogue’s Yellow Snow puts the “p” in pilsner.

B. Nektar Meadery’s Blood Amulet is a hard cider and, somehow, not the name of an occult rock band.

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.

Do you like Cascadian black… beer? Then Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company’s Mothman black IPA is worth a contemplative forest stroll.

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.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly has been officially rescheduled for September 25-26, 2021 at Fillmore Philly. Tickets for the original 2020 festival dates will automatically be valid for the new dates.

Allagash Brewing Company’s Coolship Red lambic is a nectar made by mortals, fit for the gods.

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.

Let Ardent’s Sweet Potato and Sage Saison get you through your second, massive gluttonous holiday meal is less than a month.

3 Floyds legendary DIPA collab with Pig Destroyer, Permanent Funeral, is back, baby!

What’s your new favorite fruited sour from Hof ten Dormaal? Ist Kriek, of course.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Broken Goblet and Unearth collaborate to aid the ACLU.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Downeast Cider House rules with Pumpkin Blend.