No Corporate Beer Reviews

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Trooper IPA

February 25, 2022

Your body’s numb and your throat will be dry after sampling Robinsons Brewery‘s Trooper IPA.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: CHONK Peach Melba

February 18, 2022

Drekker’s CHONK Peach Melba is a flavor bomb, with hints of vanilla, marshmallow and coconut, and tons and tons of peach and raspberry flavor.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Blueberry Dreamboat

February 4, 2022

Blueberry Dreamboat bills itself as a “hoppy milkshake session mead,” which is three adjectives you don’t normally see applied to mead, but all of them are truly spot on.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Double Homestyle

January 21, 2022

Double Homestyle presents maximum hop flavor without any bitterness, similar to the effect achieved when using lupulin powder, but with zero bitterness

No Corporate Beer Reviews: By Udder Means

January 7, 2022

Some of the best stouts out there are now aged in wine barrels, including To Øl’s tasty By Udder Means.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Christmas Morning

December 22, 2021

Santa’s not looking for cookies, so sweeten up his holiday with Hardywood’s killer Christmas Morning stout.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Birthday Zombie Annihilation

December 20, 2021

Metal & Beer Fest alumni KCBC (Kings County Brewers Collective) celebrate their fifth anniversary with a sour that just might get you, um, annihilated

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Tiny

December 10, 2021

Weyerbacher’s powerful Belgian-styled imperial stout Tiny is anything but small in stature.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Stjørdal

November 26, 2021

Stjørdal, a smoked farmhouse ale that encapsulates everything that the much revered HammerHeart Brewing is all about.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Stone 25th Anniversary Triple IPA

November 12, 2021

West Coast craft beer legends Stone continue their quarter-century celebration with an appropriately dank and bitter TIPA.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Mister Potato Dead

October 29, 2021

Abomination Brewing Company’s new Mr. Potato Dead artfully combines suds ‘n’ spuds for an all-year ’round Halloween celebration.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Spooky Tooth Imperial Pumpkin Ale

October 15, 2021

Pumpkin beer gets a desperately needed makeover from Ohio’s Fat Head’s Brewery via Spooky Tooth Imperial Pumpkin Ale.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Paradoxe

October 8, 2021

Grab a bottle of La Sirêne’s wonderful summery Paradoxe sour before all the leaves have fallen from the trees.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Junkyard God

September 24, 2021

The third 3 Floyds x Pig Destroyer collaboration beer, the Mexican-style lager Junkyard God, is a dramatic departure from the high gravity.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Death By Coconut

September 17, 2021

Get ready for cooler temps with this 6.5% ABV Irish-style porter that produces a warming effect in your throat.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Kyoto Bakushu Matcha IPA

September 10, 2021

Kizakura has achieved a fine balance here with a beer that’s like a Japanese version of an Arnold Palmer, with a 50/50 split between matcha tea and IPA.

No Corporate Beer Review: White

August 27, 2021

America’s only Trappist brewery, Spencer, has a new witbier with a long and storied history—albeit not a traditional Trappist brew.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Juxtapose

August 13, 2021

Finding balance with a Brett IPA is particularly difficult, but Four Winds Brewing’s Juxtapose hits all the right notes.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Gherkin

July 30, 2021

Lost Boy Cider’s Gherkin is like a screening of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo—you can find ways to enjoy this, but it means that you are totally dead inside.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: My Name is Fon

July 2, 2021

You’ll be saying the name of Asheville’s “other” craft brewery, DSSOLVR, when you try their hoppy ale My Name is Fon.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Leveler

June 25, 2021

The Elder Pine x August Burns Red collab Leveler is red ale conceived like a West Coast IPA, with bold pine-y notes from the hops and an appealing bitterness that clings a bit to your palette.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Loral Roberts

June 11, 2021

Tulsa brewery American Solera manages to make German Kŏlsch Loral Roberts shine despite being limited to strictly American ingredients.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Black Miso

June 4, 2021

Japas Cervejaria’s Black Miso is a high-octane Russian Imperial Stout that incorporates a totally different type of fermentation: red miso paste.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Puff Puff Fish (Venom Series)

May 28, 2021

Tripping Animals Brewing Co‘s Puff Puff Fish is light, airy and refreshing—a mid-range ABV sour that drinks like a session beer.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Morticia

May 21, 2021

Barrier Brewing’s Russian Imperial Stout Morticia won’t clear cobwebs — it’ll create ’em.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: Hitachnio Nest Anbai Ale

May 12, 2021

Kiuchi Brewery’s Hitachnio Nest Anbai Ale pays homage to the ancient German brewing tradition while championing ingredients that are distinctly Japanese.

No Corporate Beer Reviews: iStout Unchained

April 30, 2021

When does a stout nearly become a wine? When New Zealand’s 8 Wired takes three years to age the incredible iStout Unchained!