Warbled dark amber-clouded dry body lacks highly hopped sharp-fruited nature of archetypal red ale, depending instead on chestnut-roasted barleymalt scheme, sweet tobacco leaf crisping, honeyed pecan passage and dismal vegetal conflux to its toasted cereal grain spine. Flustered grape-skinned orange-tangerine-apple fruiting picks up tropical pineapple-mango-grapefruit succor but offensive phenol acridity, aspirin-like astringency and cardboard-like finish deaden impact.

Scintillating medium-bodied amber ale maintains endearing barley-wheat calmness, buttery malt creaminess, and cotton-like hop caress. Raisin and hazelnut fill out soft-toned finish. Perfect for softer thirsts.

Dark brown ale with indistinct malt aroma matching elusive soft water sweetness and muted chocolate-nut flirt. Needs better foundation (thicker malted grains) to be heartier, nevertheless, quite comforting and a tad strong. Brewery defunct: circa 2004.

Hearty, briskly carbolic, medium-bodied red ale integrates sweet mocha malt splurge with sharp piney hop spine and resinous mineral grain depth. Juxtaposed ripe red fruit tartness counters sour pink grapefruit bite rather well.

So-so “classic ruby red ale” allows some diacetyl muck to irritate serene mocha malting, roasted hop char, and dried fig-cherry recess. Soured orange rind dankness and earthen peat backdrop gird latent pumpernickel, walnut, and oak tones.

Herbal tea spicing placates earthen grains, floral hops, and vegetal backdrop. Chocolate-covered cherry undertones lace cocoa-powdered mocha bitterness surging beneath.

Burgundy-hued bitter with mocha malt pungency, bittersweet spiced-hop refuge, and tart red-fruited simmer. Oxidized chocolate undermines unconvincingly dry roasted barley finish.

First impressions led me to believe rustic-grained lightweight needed tangy citrus boost. Is it a weak copy of an Irish red ale or just a smoothly nebulous ‘auburn’ ale? One thing is certain, it’s not as pure tasting as most New England styled ales. Brewery defunct: 2009.

Tawny mocha-spiced medium body dampens buttery chocolate malt continuance with astringent caramel-pecan finish. Phenol fizz dissolves cleansing orange rind/ white grape dryness and desolate hop whimper. Lacks true red ale spicing; closer to pleasantly embittered cola nut-influenced copper ale.

Turbid sunset orange ale retains highly carbolic phenol flow, depleting dry barley-wheat base and soapy orange rind-embittered peach suggestion. Yellow grape-dried white ale midst fades to grassy citrus tang where meager nutty recess withers. Brewery defunct: 2010.

Friskier phenol hops are just about all that separates this from Weinhard’s Pale. Vacuous.

Fantastic Irish-styled pure malt ale is thicker, creamier, and cloudier than nearly all its Great White North competition. Caramelized molasses richness retains blood-thick yeast sinew, milk chocolate sweetness, and idyllic sour mocha bitterness, settling to resplendent maple sugar finish. Citric hop scurry relegated to backdrop. Moderate mocha warmth comparable to excellent Mc Ewan’s or Mac Andrew’s Scotch Ales.