Hanover’s Aldus Brewing and Wege Pretzels team up on a 12-pack with Pretzel Wheat Ale and three sweet-and-salty pretzel beers, arriving in PA and western MD in November.
The Pearl oyster pilsner is back in Western North Carolina. Morganton’s Fonta Flora Brewery and Asheville’s Jettie Rae’s Oyster House are bringing back their collaborative oyster pilsner for a limited release beginning the week of Oct. 19, 2026, according to an announcement from One for the Books, an Asheville agency. Specimen card: The Pearl oyster…
A whale-sized signal has surfaced off the San Diego coast. Pure Project’s Baja Breach IPA, a 7% West Coast IPA brewed with conservation group WILDCOAST, leads a three-beer release at Pure Project taprooms on Thursday, Oct. 15, alongside an autumn Vienna-style lager and Murkeley, a murky double IPA with Fieldwork Brewing, per the brewery’s website….
Hop Suisse is a 6.9% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA from Carlsbad’s Burgeon Beer Co., brewed in collaboration with WhiteFrontier, a brewery in Martigny, Switzerland. It came out Friday, Oct. 9, in 4-packs and on draft, alongside a new hazy IPA called Freaky Tiki, according to Burgeon’s release post. A San Diego County brewery and…
A beer named like a mournful ballad, brewed with a brewery that dresses like a black metal record. The Ghost I Used To Be is a 7% West Coast IPA from Cellarmaker Brewing and Portland’s Brujos Brewing, released Oct. 9, 2026, at Cellarmaker’s Bay Area taprooms and through its online presale, according to JollyPint. Cellarmaker…
Bureau taste-sensor alert: a porter brewed with soup stock. Sketchbook Brewing’s Umami Porter, a smoked porter made with Japan’s Wakayama Brewery and its owner-brewer Tomoyuki Yoshida, tapped at noon Friday, Oct. 9, at both Sketchbook taprooms in Evanston and Skokie, Illinois, per JollyPint. Sketchbook’s own draft menus list it at 6.0% ABV. One naming wrinkle:…
Countdown check, Earthlings: the Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary celebration starts today, Friday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT), when the Sharpsburg brewery near Pittsburgh releases three anniversary beers. Saturday, Oct. 10, brings 10 collaboration beers, including one with Maine’s Bissell Brothers. Here’s the two-day flight plan. The Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary schedule…
Same grain, same hops, two breweries, two very different IPAs. That’s the pFriem x Fort George collaboration: pFriem’s Vacation Destination, a West Coast IPA, and Fort George’s Destination Vacation, a hazy IPA, both 7% ABV. They released Oct. 8 on draft and in 16 oz 4-packs at both breweries’ tasting rooms and roll out through…
The can reads like a field report: “Beginnings: 1870’s. Concrete structures: 1915-1954. Chrysalis: 1972 – Present. Rebirth: Future Imminent.” That’s Graffiti Mill West Coast IPA, a 7.0% ABV collaboration between Minneapolis’ Utepils Brewing and Graffiti Mill, and it officially releases today, Friday, Oct. 9, at the Utepils taproom. Earthlings, the lager specimen has gone West…
/// AUDIO-TO-HOPS CROSSOVER DETECTED ///Track two on Mastodon’s new album is called “Poisonous Weapons,” and in Memphis it’s also a beer. Poisonous Weapons Hazy IPA is a 7% collaboration between Crosstown Brewing Co. and Mastodon, named for that song and for the band’s current tour. It debuted on draft Sept. 4, 2026, so it isn’t…
Cognition Brewing are excited to announce a new collaboration with a great band. They’ve partnered up with Burial Oath, a Black Metal outfit from Ohio, for a liquid offering to accompany them into the next phase of their sonic journey. Cognition Brewing’s brewer has been following them for a few years, and in the spirit…
Ballast Point, Kilowatt Brewing & Friends Team up to Brew Black is Beautiful Chicory Stout Ballast Point, Kilowatt Brewing, Mujeres Beer House, San Diego Beer News and several of their friends in the San Diego craft beer community have joined forces to brew their version of the Black Is Beautiful collaboration brewing project organized by…
Local brewery FiftyFifty Brewing, a Truckee Craft Ventures (TCV) company, is teaming up with Chinese craft beer influencers Beijing Hey Pal for their first collaboration with an American brewery to produce four new styles during a week-long visit to Truckee, California. “Beer brings people together. As we’ve expanded our business across Europe, South Korea, Japan, and now China, we continue…
26 breweries across the state of Nebraska will brew a special beer, called Nebraska Strong Red Ale, with a mission to raise funds for those impacted by the recent flooding in Nebraska. 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of this unique beer will go to disaster relief efforts across the state. Each participating…
Oakland’s Ale Industries have teamed up with Bay Area heavy metal band Death Angel to create Caster of Shame IPA. The beer will be released at the brewery on November 24. It is not secret that a lot of music icons, specifically Heavy Metal bands, are getting their own signature beer brewed by well known…
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