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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.

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

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.

Get in now on Trinity’s Bière de Garde-style Mad Ear while it’s still kvlt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complex fruited sour A Dashing Rogue is the latest boundary-destroyer from Norway’s Haandbryggeriet.

Black Narrows Brewing Co’s Salts states a pretty persuasive case for why sessionable wild ales might be the next big thing.

Toast the release of Zao’s new album, The Crimson Corridor, with Croatoan, the band’s incredible new beer collab with Grand Rapids’ Speciation Artisan Ales.

Winter might be over but Tröegs’ beastly double IPA Double Blizzard is here to stay.

Boldness is key to the appeal of 35K, which pours with minimal carbonation, virtually no head and a rich all-black black-as-your-soul color.

Coffee is for Closers is the Cadillac Eldorado of American porters, so give yourself a break from higher-octane beers and move Fullsteam ahead on this.

Unless you’re willing to wrestle with regret from your own life choices, Samichlaus Claus‘s 14% ABV doppelbock is best left split amongst friends and sipped like a cordial.

When it comes to balancing the scales of justice between “sweet” and “heat,” Jackie O’s nailed it with Oro Negro.