Got free glass with this creamy burgundy-port-like suffrage tributary featuring mahogany-marooned hue rising above ravishing ruby-garnet sash. Dried fig, raisin, date and bruised black cherry linger atop vanilla-chocolate souring, infiltrating earthen peat bottom and impending tobacco chew, hazelnut and walnut mirage, finishing with molasses-like Scotch malt twist.

Really fine full-bodied southern ale may lack creamy resilience, but not rounded nutty makeup. Oily coffee surge embitters cocoa-powdered toffee malts and hazelnut-pecan-walnut illusions. Fig-date souring enhances peanut shell reminder.

Celebrating nine years brewing with 9-malt, 9-hop, 9% alcohol limited ’05 release, this dramatic tan-headed, brown-bodied Semite-embracing ale brings incipient visual pleasure as frothy cascading spume floats briskly to top. Ebullient brown chocolate sweetness saturates complementary creme caramel center, swirled vanilla scoop, and cherry syrup topping. Deep-recessed creamy coffee linger perfectly counters curvaceous sticky sugared malt spine. Photo courtesy of www.beeradvocate.com

Sweet yeast aromatics grace organic barley-hop palate, initiating elegant butterscotch mouthfeel complemented by silken crisp-watered carbonation. Only the quickly dissipating mocha finish keeps this from absolute perfection.

Deliciously provocative digestif boasts insinuating burgundy aromatics, head-on carbolic briskness, candied yeast tongue, and buttery caramel quotient. Bubbly champagne fizz surrounds musty raisin-fig conflux and overripe melon-cantaloupe sentiment to subtle black cherry coughdrop finish of the most uncommonly complex brown ale on the market.

Sassy medium-bodied ruddish-hued delight saddles mocha malt bitterness, roasted barley sear, and dry chocolate resin with illusions of pine combs, sappy spruce, walnut, cola nut, and tobacco. Prickly hop-spiced resilience lingers skyward.

Wonderful 8% alcohol Belgian dark ale with thick maple-sapped malt-smoked caramelized grain insurgence striking keen balance between sweet honeyed spicing, dried raisin-fig-plum consort and mild barleywine underling for heartily full-bodied treat.

Sweet chocolate aroma and mouthfeel, syrupy yeast sinew, and creamy mocha malting cannot disguise lack of fulsome nut finish. Brewery defunct: 2004.

Auburn-clouded ale with pungently aromatic mocha contour, prevailing crystal malt detail, and pepper-spiced hop bittering lingers to caramel finish, spanning stylistic range from frisky red ale to light chocolate porter. Brewery defunct: 2003.

Floral hops, dry prune, and chalky mocha regale meager barleywine essence, but foamy carbolic explosion overflows. Brewery defunct: 2001.

Bock-like raisin-fig distinction picks up fruity grape esters as caramel malt sweetness anchors roasted almond-chestnut-hazelnut undertones. Smitten butternut finish dotted by resinous hop dryness and ashy cigar remnant.

Auburn-hued dry-hopped moderate body carries diffuse mocha-prune sourness and relegated Baker’s chocolate parch to equally sparse nutty rye center. Peanut-shelled Brazil nut, walnut and cola nut soaping nips dark-spiced perfume hops. Dewy earthiness insulates sweet brown tea finish.