Copacetic amber-coppered off-dry medium body welcomes spice-hopped grain roast with persistent pale malt sweetness. Earthen peat trench backs latent fructose tang. Sweetly soured grapefruit, apricot and apple nuances barely reach fruition.

Light mocha aroma, sweet chocolate palate, and strong roasted hop finish saturate affable medium body. Never too rich, heavy, and strong to scare away amateurs.

Wild berries invade Band-Aid-nosed pine forest linger and bitter orange peel discretion at smoky dry-hopped front end of medium-bodied translucent amber. Dried tobacco stint, vegetal carrot-beet splint, and slim mint hint conquer floral hop spicing contrasting surging caramel malt sweetness. An enthusiastic amber ale with deeply embedded IPA characteristics on the bitter end.

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.

Aromatic fruited malts introduce meekly grained, generously hopped, fluffy-headed moderate body. A mere cut above processed macrobrews, if that’s progress. Brewery defunct: circa 2007.

Sans traditional wheat, barley, and lactose ingredients, surprisingly sufficing tawny-hued gluten-free Belgian ale retains chewy caramel malt richness and sharp herbal-spiced hop resonation. Inviting whiskey-barleywine waft enhances sour prune, tart grape, plum wine, and cider illusions. Sorghum, millet, and rice never tasted so well together.

Moderate-bodied sweet-scented amber links hop-fueled grain aspect to watery texture, softening refreshingly mild barley-wheat finish. Brewery defunct: 2005.

Sour-fruited Vienna-styled mocha malts layer toasted wheat bottom to sweet candy finish as hefty trails of Brussels lace coat the glass. Hidden beneath overt carbonation lies smoked resin India Pale Ale-like bittering and chocolate-raisin reticence.

Prickly hop top booms above calm barley roastedness and slick crystal-pale malt sweetness for light-to-medium-bodied ambiance. Subtle nut-grain timidity decorates backdrop.

Subtle nut swell, mild mocha flutter, and muffled barley roast offer fragile frontage further debunked by murkily hopped phenol astringency.

Quaffed at sunny West Indies Mexican-Italian joint, Hey Jose’s Caribbean Cantina, then Geckos Restaurant, May ’04. Sweet crystal malt nose drifts into sharp spiced hop fruitiness (berry-melon-orange) as peppery snippet tingles soft wheat base.

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.