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 peel, orange rind, grapefruit, and currant mildly embitter 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.