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No Corporate Beer Reviews: PB & Jams
August 11, 2023 Nick Green
If peanut butter-flavored beers are your jam, Abita Brewing Company’s PB & Jams lager will hit your sweet spot.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Long Jawns
February 17, 2023 Nick Green
Metal & Beer Fest stalwarts Yards go dark via a sessionable winter lager with any extremely Philly name.
No Corporate Beer: Effin’ Awesome
October 3, 2018 Nick Green
Does Effin Awesome, brewed by Lithuania’s Rinkuškiai, live up to its name?
Strangeways Announce Beer Lineup for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
February 27, 2018 Emily Bellino
See what Strangeways has on tap for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest.
Brewtal Truth: This Motörhead Album With That Beer
February 7, 2018 Adem Tepedelen
The classic Motörhead lineup plays a bruising ZZ Top cover and we wash it down with the finest lager in Texas.
Brewtal Truth: This Album With That Beer
January 24, 2018 Adem Tepedelen
In which our intrepid beer hound pairs Seattle’s Holy Mountain with Seattle’s Skin Yard.
BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!
November 22, 2013 Adem Tepedelen
If there’s one thing that Germany seems to love it is adherence to tradition. Germans love their metal old-school and their beer made from just four ingredients: water, malt, yeast and hops. Which is the way its been brewed since the Reinheitsgebot (German Beer Purity Law) was established in 1516. So for nearly 500 years…
BREWTAL TRUTH: (Don’t) Drink This Now!
August 9, 2013 Adem Tepedelen
Given the opportunity to write about craft beer every month in Decibel has been eye-opening. The idea that our “Brewtal Truth” column would have lasted more than four years (and counting) and even spawn a book—The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers, out in November—is pretty amazing. Now it’s time to bring a little “Brewtal…
Island of Domination: Maui Brewing Company
May 1, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
There is no metal on Maui. We looked. The most metal thing we found was the lumbering, acrid smoke-belching Sugar Cane Train that Saxon will no doubt write a song about on their upcoming 57th album, which is going to be a concept record dedicated to various forms of transportation. (Also set for inclusion are…