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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.

A collab between Great Notion Brewing, the SteepleJack Brewing Co. and the Pink Boots Society produces the idea black IPA, Pink Sabbath.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest OGs 3 Floyds deliver a barleywine with an ABV worthy of its Barrel Aged Behemoth name.

Luchador en Fuego, the excellent barrel-aged Mexican chocolate stout from Clown Shoes, brings the heat.

Old-school American craft envelope-pushers, Rogue return with the more traditionally balanced double IPA Colossal Claude.

Forest Bänger is another stellar offering from a brewery that excels in the art of dark beers.

(We Are) Reviewing The Motörhead Röad Crew.

So drink to forget / And drown all your sorrow / Bury your dreams / And choose catharsis!

America’s finest Belgian brewery, Allagash, master the dark arts of imperial stouts with the bold Nocturna.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Surly Brewing Company’s Pentagram might just pack a bit too much sour power.

Burial Beer’s Skillet Donut Stout is low on donut flavor but high on coffee buzz.