Soft water texture, bland seltzer fizz, muted quince-red grape seduction, and pleated orange peel bitterness inform busy, yet light-bodied, spice-hopped Belgian knockoff. Sweet cracked wheat finish accessible to sporty pilsner fans.

Delectable dry-hopped grapefruit-orange frontage picks up candied malt sweetness dotting pine-needled spruce bottom of golden-hazed medium body. Earthen floral finish increases prickly hop bite twofold.

Banal English-styled pale ale with weak maize-wheat confluence and arid hop follow-through has supposedly been ‘a Washington DC tradition since 1873.’ All others need not apply. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Zesty orange peel bittering caresses well carbonated amber-clouded moderate body. But stimulating butterscotch sweetness whisked away abruptly by lingered dry hop astringency.

Red fruited nosing begets alcohol-drenched citric tongue as juicy grapefruit-orange-peach tang counters sharp juniper-creased floral hop bittering and charcoal-stained wood-burnt harshness of hazy golden liquid. Beneath, roasted barley-oats and toasted almond provide rich bed. Serve to hop-headed gin lovers.

Dry muted fruitiness (unripe grape, green apple, pear, orange) and subtle nutty dissonance cut through diacetyl lemony hop fizz and slim barleycorn backbone of clear straw low calorie lightweight.

Enormously successful reddish copper pale ale bursts forth with juicy orange-peach citric punch after cascading amber bubbles settle at top. Perfumed hops match piney notes for alcohol-thickened bitterness, countering gorgeous floral yeast bed, sweet barleywine legs, and butterscotch variance.

Exquisite citrus sweetness, toasted barley persistence, and piney piquancy inform totally consistent ruby-hazed English bitter. Floral backdrop deepens spruced hop surge and candied malt purge. Upon ’08 re-tasting, astringent earthiness distracted lightened yellow-fruited meander and mustard seed twinge.

Original British version differs slightly from Sam Adams’  copycat Traditional Pale Ale by way of drier barley flow, better sourdough yeast penetration, minor wood seepage, and deeper amber hue. Bitter mocha presence absorbs sweet Scotch ravine, banana-bruised orange-fig slip, lucid clove-nutmeg dip, and piquant pecan-praline-cocoa nip by light-watered finish too metallic for serious consumption. Nascent sorghum astringency and mucky honeyed butterscotch souring intrude upon scruffy spiced-hop coarseness.

Golden-hued butterscotch-sweetened pale ale relinquishes slight malt tingle and clean water texture to mellow cracked wheat insinuation. An understated brew in need of better up-front assertion.

Serene butterscotch-chocolate malting fades quickly to soapy tobacco-tea-mushroom scourge, dragging dry fruited esters to copper ale-like anonymity by dull finish. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Famous baseball legends sport labels-caps of these inconspicuous lagers. Sour malts fade to muted orange-peeled apricot midst before phenol nature gets best of dreary finish.