Behind the Deviant Libation taproom, Ogden’s got three 5BBL kettles inside a brewhouse with huge speakers hanging from the ceiling. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker

If you wished that beer festivals were more metal, well, Tim Ogden is your man.

The brewer had a hand in some of the best Bay area beers ever (read: Tocobaga red), and he’s spent the last year-or-so turning his Deviant Libation brewery and tasting room into a church of brew and community.

Hard-hitting metal outfits will take the stage for this no-cover festival while the taps get taken over by four equally monstrous Bay area breweries—Angry Chair, Magnanimous, Woven Water and Deviant—plus Bonita Springs’s Ceremony Brewing and phantom brew operation Mythk Brewing.

There’s no cover for Beer and Metal Mayhem happening at Deviant Libation in Tampa on Thursday, July 4.

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This article appears in Jun 27 – Jul 3, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...