Metal and Beer
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Palate Jack
December 4, 2020 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Collab on Black Hearts Now Reign Beer, Proceeds to Benefit ACLU
October 16, 2020 Emily Bellino
Broken Goblet and Unearth collaborate to aid the ACLU.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: El Cuatro
October 9, 2020 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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: Pumpkin Blend
September 4, 2020 Nick Green
Downeast Cider House rules with Pumpkin Blend.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Through the Brambles
August 21, 2020 Nick Green
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: Tickle Monster
August 13, 2020 Nick Green
For an 8.2% ABV beer, Drekker Brewing Company‘s Tickle Monster IPA hits like a freight train.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Dark Truth Stout
July 31, 2020 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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: Ancient Berry Kombucha
July 10, 2020 Nick Green
No Corporate Kombucha from Flying Embers and their hard Ancient Berry Kombucha.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Jam Up the Mash
June 26, 2020 Nick Green
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: Crucifixion – Third Servile War
June 17, 2020 Nick Green
How did Nightmare Brewing Company do on their Imperial DIPA Crucifixion? They nailed it!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Chimay Dorée
June 5, 2020 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Albert Mudrian
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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: Mind Freeze
April 17, 2020 Nick Green
Oliver Brewing Co‘s Mind Freeze collab with Decibel faves Haunt is an instant DIPA classic.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Future You Hates You
April 6, 2020 Nick Green
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 Aaron Salsbury
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.