Pleasing honeyed wheat sweetness welcomes dry-hopped earthiness and everlasting sweet-grained hazelnut impression. Coarse walnut hint and stingy floral dab become phenol, exposing brittle toasted bread bottom.

Heavy nickel-copper viscosity and corresponding white yeast sediment match thick glutinous red-fruited spruce-maple sweetness with profound piney cedar waft. Spicy hop dryness reinforces lilting barleywine reminder coercing wheat-y bottom.

Sour grain mash absorbs sugary malt rush as fresh-pressed cherry and cinnamon-spiced gourd give way to tobacco- leafed cigar ash undertones for medium-bodied bliss. Dirty earthiness mildly affects bottom.

Moderate straw-paled Marzen-styled Oktoberfest with smoky wood tinge places dry-hopped wheat-husked maize astringency atop sourdough malting. Honeyed lemony fizz gets soapy then fades away.

’99 tasting: Cordial vegetative autumnal plies dried barley and husked wheat bittering above clementine orange souring as fresh cut grass, hay, and cowhide consume nose. A chummy ‘ur-Marzen’ Munich lager. ’05 tasting: Antiseptic pumpkin-spiced ruby red grapefruit-sweetened mocha-tinged mediocrity accrues nasty backend acidity.

Well-balanced heavy-hopped copper-toned ale with indistinct bitter finish tethers pallid ‘five malt’ sweetness to floral wheat tinge.

A tad watery, metallic, and indistinct for amber ale styling. Sulking rye facade wanes as blanched brown sugared caramel malting falters to peat-smoked honeyed wheat spine. Flimsy pumpkin, white grape, yellow apple, and red peach mustiness slithers into lemony iced tea limbo.

Autumnal auburn amber acquaints earthen chestnut palate with caramel chocolate, sour cocoa, and lively citrus adjuncts. Syrupy maple sinew evaporates too quickly, allowing fizzy hops to inefficiently lighten its terse barley roast and leathery vegetal-glazed tobacco leaf dryness.

Aromatic pumpkin pie sweetness gathers bitter-hopped gourd essence punctuated by cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Sharper and richer than most pumpkin ales, though sweeter honeyed spicing would be welcome.

Desultory German-styled lager lacks character and resolve. Slick biscuit-y malt profile sinks into worsened orange-apricot souring fractionalizing flaccid floral-herbal fling. Latent tart cider twang runs into astringent phenol hop indifference.

Insistent pumpkin protraction gains sweet ‘n’ sour dark fruit variance, mild cereal grained barley roasting, and nutty jot for well-rounded autumn treasure.

Sinewy rust appearance much more prominent than dim crystal malt sweetness and slim tangerine-soured pumpkin seeding. Shaky barley-wheat center completely weakens plain gourd-spiced finish.