Caramelized ruby-hued ale reliant on barley-toasted cracked wheat sweetness to soured fruit midst. Embittered hops enrich red grape, grapefruit, and melon tangent as butterscotch finish recedes. Brewery defunct: 2006.

WGV stands for Whitbread Goldings Variety, a dry hop style worthily informing this soothing moderate body. Tingly dry-spiced lemon-grapefruit rind mildness embitters steadfast tea-like malting, grassy earthen musk, and minor tobacco nuance. Woody hops absorb citric acidity.

Toot-sweet Egyptain-styled multi-grained pale ale ‘brewed with honey and chamomile’ finds both advertised adjuncts hitting their mark firmly. Anticipatory honey-dripped affluence slowly picks up tea-like subsidy overrun by pasty marzipan-butterscotch creaminess and warm almondine illusion. Astringent hop coarseness and minor diacetyl buttering cut into mild ginger-snapped cinnamon-nutmeg interlude.

Tenuous moderate-bodied ‘golden session ale’ lacks sufficient Kolsch styling. Politely embittered lemony grapefruit-spiced hop pep counters buttered corn sweetness to slim white breaded spine. Vegetal nuance lowers appeal.

Simple biscuit-y treat. Obvious barley-toasted caramel malting counters dry hop-spiced astringency. Cardboard-y cocoa-powdered marzipan reminder has polite acidic bitterness and soft nuttiness of copper ale. Brewery defunct: 2010.

Sweet malts collide with snazzy citric hop bitterness for crisp up-front delight. Mild dirty-grained finish retains nutty pliancy. Just wish buttery lemon-spiced mildness didn’t quit halfway through.

Protracted cereal-grained marzipan sweetness counters grassy-hopped lemony orange peel bittering and acidic alcohol astringency fronting rust-hazed medium body. Resinous floral spices then infiltrate buttery wheat biscuit spine, nestling latent apple-peach-pear tingle.

Spruce-induced almond-biscuit sweetness and sharply citric grapefruit-peach-pineapple verve counterbalance harsh pine needled dry-hopped bitterness swaying rigid alcohol acidity. Spicy floral juniper snipe caresses cracked wheat spine and expansive orange peel finish of hazy amber marvel.

Refreshing golden medium body with sharp grain influence and dry citrus bite. Though labeled pale ale, fruity hops offer richer red ale-like insistence to clean malt-spiced finish.

Zesty citrus flow, dry malt follow-through, and lively hop infiltration overwhelm thin ‘roasted buckwheat’ presence. As prominent bittersweet flaked oatmeal pungency diminishes, pleasurable floral adjuncts consume piney finish. Despite unique herbal seasoning, somewhat predictable for a spicy pale ale.