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.

As plain as its name indicates, frugal ale rivals bland, unsophisticated lagers. Grains and hops come to the fore, but lack of distinguishing adjuncts or malt-like assertiveness keeps this stillborn.

Decent pint-bottled (or oil canned) copper-hazed pale ale retains moderate hop bitterness to mineral-grained finish. Watery consistency absorbs creamy caramel malting and sugared nut nuances. Could pass for brown ale in a heartbeat.

Interesting golden amber summer seasonal with dry rye signature maintains pleasant roasted grain sweetness, slick hop dryness, and mild caramel-nut creaminess. Tangerine tartness lingers but unresolved oats-toasted finish is suspect. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Wavering medium-bodied English Pale Ale punctuates dark mocha overtones, hop-roasted barleymalt backbone, and dry coffee-nut subtlety with creamy liqueur absorption. But watery texture and metallic nuisance squander subdued toffee finish most fuller-bodied British bitters maintain.

Pleasing lemony grapefruit easement lightly embitters grassy-hopped wheat husk, cardboard-y pale malt dryness, and mineral grained recess. But pasty texture and slight alcohol burn cloak apple skin snick and floral lick.