Metal and Beer
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.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Can-O-Bliss Double IPA
March 27, 2020 Nick Green
Oskar Blues might be on to something with this mid-coast IPA that marries the hoppy dankness of a West Coast IPA with the haziness and extreme drinkability of a New England IPA.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: El Chavo
March 17, 2020 Nick Green
Beers brewed with any sort of hot pepper can be a hard sell, but El Chavo is deceptively complex and surprisingly addictive.
Haunt + Oliver Brewing Beer Collaboration Announced for Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly
March 11, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Mind Freeze is a 9% ABV double IPA brewed especially for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly next month!
Idle Hands + Broken Goblet Brewing Beer Collaboration Announced for Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly
March 10, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Nightfall is a 11.1% ABV Russian Imperial Stout that brewed in conjunction with Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly next month!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Funky Prowler
March 6, 2020 Nick Green
If Metallica’s “The Thing That Should Not Be” described a beer, it would be Funky Prowler.
Night Demon + Goldhorn Brewing Beer Collaboration Announced for Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly
March 3, 2020 Albert Mudrian
The Darkness Remains is a 6.5% ABV Black IPA that will be poured Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly next month!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Synopsis Dark Cherry Sour
February 28, 2020 Nick Green
Synopsis Dark Sour Cherry is fantastic and fun to drink, with ample amounts of cherry flavor. It’s also somewhat hard to describe.
Beer Emptiness Despair? An Important Metal & Beer Fest Ticket Update!
February 28, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Two-day “Metal & Beer” tickets are SOLD-OUT. Don’t despair: We’ve released 50 more single-day “Metal & Beer” tickets. Click here for updates on other ticket options.
Magic Circle + Cosmic Eye Brewing Beer Collaboration Announced for Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly
February 25, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Hypnotized is a low-ABV, dry-hopped lager brewed exclusively for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Fudgie the Beer
February 21, 2020 Nick Green
You needn’t have been raised on Tom Carvel’s ice cream cakes to appreciate Fudgie the Beer, but it doesn’t hurt.