Delicious off-dry fructose malt formality leads to spruce-y hop lather and succinct orange rind-soured apricot-raspberry-blueberry tang. Bitter black currant ebb-tide and dainty floral rim inform barley-toasted cracked wheat spine. Tantalizingly fresh and modestly bold.

Hippie chic psychedelic bee label, citrus-y ‘Hempen Ale’ aroma, and fruited pale malts confront bitter-grained luster for rich frothy-headed complexity. Heavy Brussels lace coats the top as yeast sediment cakes the bottom of mellow Beatles-inspired curiosity.

Brisk roasted barley template receives creamy malt richness, absorbing well-hopped soda-like fizz of highly carbolic moderate body. Mild fruitiness sweetens polite grain finish. Serve to pilsner fans as an alternative.

Moderate amber-paled clear-bottled mediocrity brings modest crystal malting and mild corn sweetness to delicate off-dry bitterness. But watery flow lacks resilience of Wychwood’s much better Fiddler’s Elbow and autumnal Hobgoblin (though the bewitching scarecrow label’s a scream).

Bright citric nose enjoins soothing barley-oats confluence, dry pumpernickel-rye reminder, and distant piney floral hints as sourdough sways upward. Minor juicy grapefruit souring embitters cocoa malts, consuming dense alcoholic acidity.

Aromatic orange rind prominence and tangy grapefruit-peach-blueberry medley lead heavily carbonated bitter-hopped dry body. Prudent honeyed malt sweetness gains organic earthiness, animated floral accent, and meager kiwi-quince-melon hint to piney finish.

Fine sunset orange ale offers cracked wheat, doughy biscuit, and sweet tobacco triage to deepening raw honey bittering. Lingering spruce hop finish receives floral grapefruit-lemon twang and dried tobacco nuance.

Pronounced mocha malt creaminess and prickly hop spicing illuminate beguiling fruitiness. Concordant yeast-thickened sinew richer than lighter-bodied pale ale competition. Roasted barley-nut insurgence heightens exquisite backend.

Easygoing yellow-hazed pale ale maintains simple buttery-nosed pilsner appeal as pale-malted banana-orange-apricot dryness caresses barley-wheat mildness. Picture courtesy of www.ratebeer.com

Sedate buttery flow and casual spiced hop bitterness satiate floral yeast sweetening, but slight astringency at tempered finish knocks back initial warmth. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Coppery ale retains bittersweet malting, sour citric tartness, and grassy hop drynesss to rye finish as unexpected charcoal illusion thickens. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Mildly clouded amber appearance, oily mineral grain essence and dreary red fruited subtlety lack resolve. Sparkly carbolic fizz becomes phenolic. Blasé IPA similitude stays unengaging. Lively, refreshing, but undistinguished.