lager

No Corporate Beer Reviews: PB & Jams

August 11, 2023

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

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

Does Effin Awesome, brewed by Lithuania’s Rinkuškiai, live up to its name?

BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!

November 22, 2013

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

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

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…