Typically fine organic California microbrew retains modest fizz-hopped bitterness and grain-malt constraint overriding percolating well water crispness. Refreshing jasmine aroma consumes mocha-caramel efficiency and tangy citric zest.

Tart Finnish-styled brown ale with cascading fleshy bubbles atop viscous coppery body offers oaken cherry-soured prune-dried prominence, sedate white burgundy-yellow grape backing, and unripe green apple finish. White gobs of yeast sediment spot this squint-soured digestif.

Soft malt caress weaves through ester-y citric fizz, allowing nutty chocolate cadence and distant caraway spicing to imbibe non-traditional light-bodied brown ale. Juicy raspberry, blueberry, and apricot fruiting contained by polite black currant bittering, barely redeeming slim buttery finish. Slight enough to entice lightweight pilsner fans.

Dark coffee-hued ale has rich chocolate aroma and hearty mocha assertion reminiscent of mild porter. Lucid honeyed finish softens middleweight contender amateurs will appreciate more than discerning pros. Brewery defunct: 2002.

Fizzy hop frisk picks up faintest mocha-caramel insinuation as dry wheat contour builds to smooth nutty finish.

Pruned amber-hued ale counters cereal grain serenade with soft hop toasting and dry cocoa bitterness. Mid-palate, flattened smoked wood-tobacco snippet enlivens juicy red apple, black grape, raspberry, and tangerine ripeness.

Highly praised amongst aficionados, this dry brown ale combines roasted barley-oats and sweet cereal grains with up-front honey wafer allure. Peppery hop fizz counters mocha-teased powdered cocoa subtlety as chestnut and soda bread illusions inform mannerly backdrop.

Up-front, toasted barley and dry rye caress big wheat backbone of wood-charred sienna-auburn medium body. Butterscotch sweetness nips spicy citric hop bottom. But phenol astringency near chestnut-walnut finish hinders herbal tea sedation and dried tobacco pinch underscoring faded mocha tones.

Astringent copper body – less nutty chocolate-y than richer similarly styled English ales – burrows citric souring and coarse hazelnut acridity through sweet barley-oats. Dirty earthen wood ebb conceals strong-brewed unsweetened ice tea illusion, distant herbal notion, and fluctuant burgundy respite.

Tannic white grape pucker plus lemon rind-orange peel tartness juxtapose loud dried raisin piquancy of frothy sienna-bodied tan-laced bitter. Arid hop touch succinctly lowers citric sourness. Secondary bruised orange, white peach, and green grape adjuncts add depth.

Fine dark ale aged in oak cask never lets peculiar yeast-y fungi element disturb deeply penetrating dry cherry pucker, parched grape-fig tartness, or bruised orange souring. Smoothly satisfying and perfect as an approachable crossover for light ale drinkers.

Up-front hazelnut-walnut exertion and dry coffee bean theme elevate highly carbonated English-styled Brown Ale brewed in memorial to sales manager. Bitter wood tones build as minor berry sourness creeps through barley-roasted mocha-chocolate thicket. Dried fig-sour grape esters counter brown sugared finish, picking up muted caramel, vanilla, and molasses stickiness skirting Nut Brown and porter labeling.