Inoffensive dry-bodied lightweight skims butterscotch register across soft cereal-grained backbone. Wafting floral hop sprocket affords softest yellow fruit wisp. Reticent honey nut aspect stays distant.
TOPVAR DARK LAGER
Amiable chestnut-hued brew retains mild turbidity as affluent cascading brown bubbles surface at fleshy head. Unrefined grain nose, muted sugar malt assertiveness, tobacco-stained docility, and cocoa butter creaminess settle into ripe cherry-orange fruitiness before rich raisin finish adds thicker luster.
TOOHEYS NEW BOHEMIAN DRAUGHT LAGER
Run of the mill light lager forges lemony dryness atop peppery hops and smoky nuance ruined by slick cloy finish and despicable metallic/chemical aftertaste. Doubtlessly better in tapped version.
TONA PREMIUM LAGER
Drab aluminum-yellowed pale lager lets cloy rice-sugared sourdough buttering, thin mineral-grained spice hop zip and ginger-leafed maize husk get lost amongst musty corn-oiled backdrop. Musky dry-smoked beechwood soaping, bland cotton-candied nuance and pale-malted cardboard plainness depleted by ruinous chemical solvency and briny lemon-salted bittering of horrid Latino, further complicating matters.
TOMMYKNOCKER MAPLE NUT BROWN ALE
Tepid smoked malt initiation envelops scaled back maple essence, fizzy chocolate annoyance, and tobacco leaf tempt. A bit skimpy on relegated nuttiness, finishing watery and undetermined.
TOMMYKNOCKER IMPERIAL NUT BROWN ALE
Heavenly chocolate-vanilla-toffee creaminess lathers hop-roasted flaked oat backbone and terse cola-hazelnut stint. Twinkled anise spicing scurries through brown sugared caramel malting.
TOMMYKNOCKER JACK WHACKER WHEAT ALE
Despite loopy name and silly mule-kicked miner on label (inspired by its Rocky Mountain legacy), sunshine-clouded ale doesn’t retain enough flowery hops to interest serious ale consumers. Weak sweet wheat sustenance falters by salted butter finish as hints of banana and lemon-lime fade into fizzy haze.
TOMMYKNOCKER COCOA PORTER WINTER WARMER
Don’t expect noticeable wintry spicing or traditional porter traits from sullied flesh-headed brown-bodied deviant. Stilted sour prune waft burrows through acrid oaken grape astringency and styptic cocoa powder constriction. Charcoal-stained tobacco leaf, black tea, fig, and compost illusions spell dungy earthen bog.
TOMMYKNOCKER TUNDRA BEARY ALE
Polite sweet-tart raspberry effervescence and sour blueberry follow-up endorse fruity ale. But lackluster cereal grains impede tertiary white grape, peach, cranberry, and blackberry illusions.
TOMMYKNOCKER ALPINE GLACIER LAGER
Musty white wine-wafted clear-toned lightweight mired by watery blandness. Frugal tart lemon dryness turns cloy by pedestrian grassy-hopped finish. Softer and paler than paltry second-rate pilsners.
TOMOS WATKIN’S LOVELY ALE
Astringent dark amber English pale ale inconspicuously soft-bodied enough to be labeled ‘session bitter.’ Vegetal barnyard waft informs earthen nature as dry-hopped grassy wheat formality, husked barley aridity, and meager tangerine hint deplete toffee malting. Undesired diacetyl acridity ruins bland finish.
TOLLY COBBOLD SUFFOLK ALE
Hey, the New York Yankees won the World Series (again) the night we plowed these down! So in our state of euphoria, we concluded this fine bitter ale had lots of rich character and a fair amount of distinction (which it ultimately did). Brisk-hopped cereal malting provides sufficient bite. Strong, assertive, full-bodied, and well balanced with ancillary barley-oat freneticism that never overstays its welcome. Brewery defunct: 2002.