Sometimes, breweries collaborate with critically acclaimed artists who are well-respected in the music community, and other times, they collaborate with a guy from the String Cheese Incident and some dude who played guitar for Alice Cooper. Luckily, Kyle Hollingsworth and Keri Kelli’s brewing prowess outweighs their reputations among highbrow music fans. Collective Distortion is a double IPA brewed with elderberries and coriander, and it’s not nearly as aggressively bitter as Stone’s more archetypal West Coast hop bombs. I’m not really qualified to say if it tastes like Hollingsworth and Kelli’s music sounds, but it does suggest that beer geeks are democratic. Collective Distortion is a very good beer, and the relative anonymity of its musical collaborators doesn’t change that. Now I’m going to go listen to a String Cheese Incident song. Oh, no. Never mind.