No Corporate Beer
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Parabolita
January 18, 2023 Nick Green
As stouts go, Firestone Walker’s Parabolita is perfect. Aged in bourbon barrels with a mix of vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, and sea salt to create an enhanced stout experience.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: DOOM
January 6, 2023 Nick Green
As an ESB, Adroit Theory pretty much nailed it with DOOM, another standout of the Virginia brewery’s growing heavy metal genre tribute series.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Babylone
December 9, 2022 Nick Green
The idea behind the Brussels Beer Project’s “bread IPA” is up-cycling: At least 20% of the grain base of Babylone is from loaves of unsold bread, which have been dried out and pulverized into crumbs.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: 25th Anniversary Ale
November 18, 2022 Nick Green
New York craft beer legends Ommegang give us yet another celebrate with their 25th Anniversary Ale.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Solstice
November 4, 2022 Nick Green
Bock, Bock til you drop with OEC Brewing’s Solstice.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: DDH DirtWolf
October 28, 2022 Nick Green
Victory’s DDH DirtWolf is double the pleasure, double the fun, and definitely double the trouble for anyone wedded to a lower gravity experience.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Good Gourd
October 21, 2022 Nick Green
We don’t generally advocate pumpkin beer at NCB, but get ready to meet your fave: Cigar City’s Good Gourd.
No Corporate Beer: High Speed Steel
October 7, 2022 Nick Green
3 Floyds’ High Speed Steel collab with Decibel faves Municipal Waste will electrify what’s left of your brain
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Origin of Darkness Imperial Stout
September 16, 2022 Nick Green
This version of Origin of Darkness presents a rare opportunity to get a beer from Garage Project in North America. Stout hounds, look no further!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Tynt Meadow
September 2, 2022 Nick Green
Tynt Meadow is absolutely unique for a Trappist beer, but it’s so much more than a novelty.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Sparklepuff, Galaxy Starfighter Defender of the Universe
August 10, 2022 Nick Green
Sparklepuff, Galaxy Starfighter Defender of the Universe is Flying Monkeys’ Triple IPA that will send you into orbit.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Full of Hell
June 24, 2022 Nick Green
Get full of beer via the wonderfully crushable Wake x Full of Hell collaboration Italian Pils.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Ce N’est Pas La Fin du Monde
June 3, 2022 Nick Green
Ce N’est Pas La Fin du Monde presents a crafty spin on a beloved brew, with some subtle enhancements that transform the Belgian tripel base into more of a West Coast style IPA.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Top Tier Trifle
May 13, 2022 Nick Green
Top Tier Trifle—courtesy of the best sour purveyors south of the Mason-Dixon Line (Southern Grist) and one of America’s top meaderies (Garagiste Meadery)—certainly lives up to its name.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Pink Sabbath
May 6, 2022 Nick Green
A collab between Great Notion Brewing, the SteepleJack Brewing Co. and the Pink Boots Society produces the idea black IPA, Pink Sabbath.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Barrel Aged Behemoth
April 22, 2022 Nick Green
Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest OGs 3 Floyds deliver a barleywine with an ABV worthy of its Barrel Aged Behemoth name.
No Corporate Beer Review: Luchador en Fuego
April 8, 2022 Nick Green
Luchador en Fuego, the excellent barrel-aged Mexican chocolate stout from Clown Shoes, brings the heat.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Colossal Claude
April 4, 2022 Nick Green
Old-school American craft envelope-pushers, Rogue return with the more traditionally balanced double IPA Colossal Claude.
No Corporate Beer Review: Forest Bänger
March 25, 2022 Nick Green
Forest Bänger is another stellar offering from a brewery that excels in the art of dark beers.
No Corporate Beer Review: Motörhead Röad Crew
March 18, 2022 Nick Green
(We Are) Reviewing The Motörhead Röad Crew.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Phantom Scream
March 11, 2022 Nick Green
So drink to forget / And drown all your sorrow / Bury your dreams / And choose catharsis!
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Nocturna
March 4, 2022 Nick Green
America’s finest Belgian brewery, Allagash, master the dark arts of imperial stouts with the bold Nocturna.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Trooper IPA
February 25, 2022 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
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 Nick Green
Weyerbacher’s powerful Belgian-styled imperial stout Tiny is anything but small in stature.