Metal and Beer
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.
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.
UPDATE: Metal & Beer Fest: Philly Has Been Rescheduled
January 22, 2021 Decibel Magazine
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.
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.
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.