Brewed at the foot of Mount Fuji, excellent citric-fruited medium body retains sharp grassy-hopped fizz, dark floral bouquet, and understated nuttiness to contrast creamy caramel malting. Graham cracker spine holds up tart orange-dried cherry-pied apple-jacked souring and sweet apricot-peach-strawberry nuance. Almond, praline, and cashew fill out busy backend.

Amiable light-to-medium-bodied softie provides easygoing drinkability. Plaintive caramel malt setting highlights spiced apple modesty, mild orange-grapefruit tang, and dinky chestnut-almond nicety. Peat-y tea-like earthiness settles below thin mocha-fruited finish. Well-rounded, though needing to push standard ingredients forward a bit more.

Wavering mocha-spiced sweetness fades into honeyed wheat spine. Nominal citric twang falters, leaving sugared date, dried fig, hazelnut, and tobacco illusions to wallow in the delicate caramel midst. Under-whelming and uninteresting.

Indecisive ruddy copper-toned amber ale could pass as pleasant ESB but lacks true thematic focus. Floral-spiced citric nicety receives sharp resin-hopped bittering, biscuit-y chocolate-roasted caramel malting, and coarse toasted nuttiness. At midst, faint apple-sugared sweetness cedes to juniper-currant acridity.

Alcohol-soaked amber retains superb head, bitterly hopped mineral grain authority, and firm full-bodied caramel finish. Cracked wheat, toasted barley, and cereal grain sweetness trumps sugared cocoa-butterscotch illusions. Definitely for strong ale lovers.

Barely benign ‘American-styled’ amber lacks punch. Piney lemon-peeled orange rind, grapefruit, and currant bittering mildly counters toasted barley-hop stead to alcohol-burnt finish, where earthen vegetal tinge sneaks in.

Corkscrew setup for meringue-foamed alcohol-heavy amber ale (a.k.a. La Montagnarde). Rich fruit-spiced malting sweetens subordinate barleywine linger to form yeast-sinewed bock-like setting. Ripe apple, grape, and cherry adjuncts firmly fill out buttery bottom of non-specific laid-back medium body.

Blasé stump-bottled amber ale with lamest Vienna lager lineage coats thinning caramel malting with skittish mineral-grained earthiness, wispy yellow-orange fruiting, and grassy dry-hopped fling. Watery finish kills off any remaining flavor.

Smoothly carbolic berry-scented amber with crisp mineral-watered citric zest. Zippy blueberry-blackberry snip and slipping mocha nip initially captivate the senses. Sweet caramel malting frames sharp-hopped barley-roasted wild oats and candied mint stint at busy midst.

Brown-sugared caramel malt sweetness parlays mineral-grained hop-smoked light-bodied ale to above average status. Vinous ester-y grape sourness simmers beneath metallic Scotch-soaked alcohol burn.

The King of Beers goes to New Hampshire to brew this reddish wintry amber? That’s right! A fine sweet yeast base and unassuming mineral grains provide easy flow. Good for novices, but too lackluster for pros.

Unbalanced, moldy, and metallic light-bodied red ale loses tea-like ambiguity to mild citric hop souring and green vegetable rot. Dry herbaceous floral tease pilfers sour apple and orange marmalade accents.