Following the St Arnold penchant for amber beers, this IPA tastes more like a dark beer and lets the malt bring out the flavor of the hops, resulting in a musky aromatic spice that perfuses the otherwise gentle flavor of this beer.
2 CommentsFounders Brewing Company – All Day IPA
Brewers are not more competent now, per se, but they are much more attuned to the market, such that it is rare to have a truly horrible beer. This one is barely an IPA and tastes like tea but has a nice clean flavor.
3 CommentsTags: beer, founders brewing company, IPA
Big Country Brewing Company – Hazy IPA
Imagine a nice grapefruit-juice IPA but poured into a Pabst Blue Ribbon. There. That is the review. Oh fine, we will add more: it has a nice earthy flavor, good bitterness, excellent alcohol.
No CommentsTags: beer, big country brewing company, IPA
Wagner and the Revelation of Nature’s Truths in Art
Introduction
As the Romantic philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling emphasizes in the following passage, art is the most direct expression of nature’s truth, and philosophy can only artificially reconstruct the natural truths that art is able to access so intimately: “Art is paramount to the philosopher precisely because it opens to him, as it were, the holy of holies, where it burns in eternal and original unity, as if in a single flame, that which in nature and history is rent asunder and in life and action, no less than in thought, must forever fly apart. The view of nature which the philosopher frames artificially is for art the original and natural one.”[1]
11 CommentsStone Brewing – Stone IPA (2021)
This is one of those things that is not terrible, but also is not good enough that you would seek it out again, mainly because this IPA still tastes like a normal beer with some lemon juice added.
No CommentsTags: beer, india pale ale, mock heaven, stone brewing, stone IPA
Independence Brewing Company – Stash IPA (2026)
The website contains all sorts of hipster bullshit for anal cuckolds, but the beer is good: it is a slightly fruity but lemon-bitter IPA similar to Karbach Hoppadillo Juicy, but slightly gentler.
1 CommentTags: independence brewing company, india pale ale, stash IPA
Vintegral – Toward the Last Dawn (2026)
Postmodernity made people afraid of conflict, so even metalheads make music that dodges the inherent clash needed for change: droning melodic black metal where riffs follow each other not in a dialogue but in a passing conversation which resolves nothing after hours.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, melodic black metal, Melodic Death Metal, vintegral
Entropy and How to Fight It
Welcome to the week where you will not be able to get through a day without someone mentioning the new Darkthrone album, Pre-Historic Metal. The legacy of this band lives on through its ability to stir up chaos.
30 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone, Guinness, late hardcore, lesbian black metal
Aurora Borealis – Disillusioned by the Illusion (2026)
Over the last few years, death metal has been steadily invaded by speed metal and late hardcore just like black metal because these genres are easy to produce so everyone can participate, but Aurora Borealis pushes back against this trend with an album full of roaring old-school riffs and speed thrills.
5 CommentsTags: aurora borealis, death metal
Kaine – Extinction’s End (2026)
If you can imagine a crossover between Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Sodom but with its own zest for life and flair for the majestic, Kaine delivers NWOBHM-drenched speed metal at mid-pace with old school riff composition.
15 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, kaine, NWOBHM, Speed Metal
