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SILVER CITY RIDGETOP REDAmiable 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.

Rating: 2.5

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SCUTTLEBUTT AMBER ALEWavering 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.

Rating: 3

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ROGUE CAPTAIN SIG'SIndecisive 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.

Rating: 4

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ROGUE RED FOX ALEAlcohol-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.

Rating: 3

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

Rating: 3

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Corkscrew setup for meringue-foamed alcohol-heavy amber ale (a.k.a. La Montagnarde). Rich malt sweetness, spicy fruitiness, and subordinate barleywine illusions form bock-like setting. Sinewy yeast firmly fills out buttery bottom while apple-grape adjuncts inform non-specific laid-back finish.

Rating: 2.5

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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.

Rating: 5

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Smooth berry-scented amber with crisp mineral water, zesty carbolic fruiting, and mocha nip initially captivating the senses. Sweet caramel malts frame burnt barley, sharp oats, and candied mint stint at busily-hopped midst.

Rating: 3

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Wood burnt malt sweetness parlays light-bodied grain-hopped ale to above average status. Ester-y alcohol-laden sourness simmers beneath Scotch-soaked mouthfeel.

Rating: 2.5

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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.

Rating: 2

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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.

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As refreshing and cleansing as the Jersey Shore wave depicted on the label, Avalon remains a solid-bodied ale perfect with dinner. Roasted barleymalts thicken steadfast bitter hop aftertaste. Mighty fine brew manages to be both lean and filling.

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