Hazy coppery amber medium body retains muted citrus bitterness, mild hop spicing, and toasted barley biscuit respite, but oxidized finish diminishes impact.
Peppy and hoppy with fresh Rocky Mountain water as its ace in the hole. Spicy-hopped auburn-hued dry body combines fruited malts and mineral grains in straightforward manner. Though lacking specificity and finishing soapy, it gains extra points for being simplistically efficient.
Copper penny-hued medium body provides bittersweet barleymalt cache not dissimilar to Pipkin Brown as tiny black yeast dots bring forth butterscotch aspect for caramelized orange thrust and tealeaf adjunct. Brewery defunct: 2007.
Bright golden glowed pale body integrates wheat-honeyed Graham Cracker sweetness with comely peach-grapefruit-melon briskness. Peppery hop fizz jolts citric adjuncts.
Britain's oldest brewery (since 1698) bottles this regal English premium. Strong, sharp, and full of character, Spitfire's sweet whiskey entry, creamy butterscotch center, and chewy caramel malting deliver quite a kick. Bitter-hopped citric-spiced red ale-like finish recieves refreshing water crisping.
Straw-hazed pale ale finds tart grapefruit-lemon rind essence gliding above daintily soured orange peel mist befitting acrid citric finish. But earthen mineral-grained mustiness and herbal lemongrass continuance come up lame hemming frail straw wheat backdrop.
Disappointingly plain pale-bodied moderation lacks body, character, and weightiness Young's headier ales usually have in spades. Faint hops, dismal Scotch malts, distant pecan tinge, and overwhelming carbolic acidity come up acrid.