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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.

As an ESB, Adroit Theory pretty much nailed it with DOOM, another standout of the Virginia brewery’s growing heavy metal genre tribute series.

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.

New York craft beer legends Ommegang give us yet another celebrate with their 25th Anniversary Ale.

Bock, Bock til you drop with OEC Brewing’s Solstice.

Victory’s DDH DirtWolf is double the pleasure, double the fun, and definitely double the trouble for anyone wedded to a lower gravity experience.

We don’t generally advocate pumpkin beer at NCB, but get ready to meet your fave: Cigar City’s Good Gourd.

3 Floyds’ High Speed Steel collab with Decibel faves Municipal Waste will electrify what’s left of your brain

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!

Tynt Meadow is absolutely unique for a Trappist beer, but it’s so much more than a novelty.

Sparklepuff, Galaxy Starfighter Defender of the Universe is Flying Monkeys’ Triple IPA that will send you into orbit.

Get full of beer via the wonderfully crushable Wake x Full of Hell collaboration Italian Pils.

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.

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.