Golden red bock nearly as colorful as its snazzy label. Soured raisin persistence impels sweet cedar influence, bruised cherry tang, red grape tartness, and grassy hay smidgen. Almond nuttiness brackets meager rye sentiment. Brewery defunct: 2005.

Easygoing amber-bodied bock closer to mild cream ale. Perfumed citrus entry picks up honeyed caramel malting to seize surfacing prune-raisin dryness, finishing crisp, clean and mellow.

Quaffed bottle 1,417 of 2,400 before X-mas ’04 expecting seasonal illusions (nutmeg-cinnamon) to ultimately develop due to label’s wreathe insignia. But indistinct reddish auburn dry bock also lacked advertised ‘rich, creamy’ character. Instead, distant barley roast and sedate gourd, tobacco, chestnut, and almond illusions drop off to deficient maple finish.

Amiable yellow-hazed white-headed medium body brings softly creamy marshmallow malting and banana-clove-bubblegum sweetness to sinister bruised lemon souring. Delicate herbal restraint placates subsidiary coriander-cinnamon-allspice illusions.

Early woodsy cedar chip illusion fails to supplement oncoming toffee-like vanilla-backed theme of ruby-cola-hued springtime ’07 release. Barren prune-fig segue and astringent pecan-walnut toasting coarsen tannic red grape wisp, negating baker’s chocolate, powdered cocoa souring, and anise trace.

Funky smellin’ spiced malts affect compressed chaffed wheat palate of buttery tan-headed seasonal bock. Less subdued than same brewer’s Big Ass Beer, finishing with fresh hay-parched dried orange pucker. Interestingly dry-bodied tributary to former Dodgers baseball great Duke Snyder.

Well integrated rye-toasted pumpernickel theme extends through dirty earthen graining, torrid vegetal souring, and dried cherry dirge. Though cumbersome phenol fizz gets in the way and sour mash waft may be off-putting, its chocolate-cocoa malting adds abstruse depth.

2006 version (a.k.a. Mountain Holidays in Vermont) lightly embitters roasted chocolate-caramel malt dehydration with spicy dry-hopped raisin-fig parch and skittish cashew-chestnut-pecan chafe. But seasonal nutmeg seepage lost amongst tertiary tobacco trickle.

Claret-hued dark double bock (with cascading bubbles quickly rising to tan-headed surface) gains dry prune prominence as strong cereal-grained barleycorn influence beckons. Cocoa, coffee, and raisin notes scattered.

Houston Bud factory promotes this coppery amber bock disappointment. Phenol hop nose, lurking malt souring, and cardboard texture displace off-dry nuttiness and muted prune decline.

Blah bock goes adrift. Bland sugared corn malts and toasted rye scant reach harsh off-dry vegetal spoiling. Some earthiness spotted amongst fuzzy stewed prune whim.

Unassuming amber-cleared white-headed blonde lacks expressive ‘bock’ character as pungent grain exertion and alcohol-stricken malt astringency provide off-dry finish with cheap Scotch neutrality.