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If peanut butter-flavored beers are your jam, Abita Brewing Company’s PB & Jams lager will hit your sweet spot.

von Trapp Brewing’s Maple Rauch is probably the definitive American rauchbier.

Nepenthe’s Thiccolas Cage will make your eyes go wide and your hair stand on its head like Nic Cage in, well, every goddamn Nic Cage flick.

Wiseacre Brewing Company’s Bow Echo Hazy IPA is bright, like a warm hug, and can turn your day around instantly.

Secret Machine beers are largely for fans of extremely fruit-forward kettle sours. Baked Alaska, aged on pistachio, chocolate, raspberry and vanilla, fits right in.

If Jack’s Abby says this is a lager, we’re down with that, because Framinghammer has a sweeter swing than Jim Rice.

Metal & Beer Fest stalwarts Yards go dark via a sessionable winter lager with any extremely Philly name.

Even though the gose is really a summer style, The Brewing Projekt’s Applocalypse works beautifully year round.

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.