Resilient Grand Marnier mouthfeel and capacious anise nosing lose stamina for sedately alcoholic Holiday treat. Desolate rum-soaked raisin tinge and muted cinnamon-nutmeg spicing squander silky sweet butterscotch elegance to husked wheat backbone. ’13 version: demure cinnamon-spiced brown sugaring and murky fig-date conflux mired by bland crystal malting.

Slightly turbid, rust-browned, non-spiced holiday ale regaled by corky single malt Scotch oeuvre, leathery peat-smoked earthiness, dehydrated orange tartness and vinegary white wine tannins. Dense prune dryness and fruited hop tang score mid-palate, but complacent finish dulled by diminished chocolate malt souring and dreary cocoa-chalked bitterness.

Middling reddish maroon winter ale pits up-front maple-sugared yeast sinew against sour raisin come-on and minor nutmeg suggestion, but tinny copper ale finish lowers ancillary mocha appeal by a drop.

Tart raspberry aroma surrounds cinnamon and nutmeg-spiced holiday-styled amber ale. Sharp grains battle back summery fruit essence, but malts falter badly at coy finish. Creatively meshed, though inessential.

Dizzying copper-hued, tan eggshell-headed, floral-hopped seasonal can’t decide whether to envelop its squalid honeyed malt cusp with ester-y cherry quip or to mediate its candied caramel slurp with tepid almond-chestnut roast. An off-dry harsh metallic astringency lowers its earthy grain potential.

Burnt resin complexion, blackened mocha-malt mouthfeel, toasted hop crest, and roasted barley backbone given brown-sugared honeyed tobacco lilt. Lacking expectant wintry seasonal spicing. Brewery defunct: 2002.

Strong sweet chocolate-wafted ale with loud raisin presence promptly backed by dry-hopped barley-roasted maple-sugared mocha malts. Secondary coffee-stained richness and heady wheat creaminess simmer down for complex, yet smooth, efficacy. Serve to brown ale fans.

Well-balanced cola-hued seasonal yields wintry cinnamon-nutmeg-gingerbread spicing above sweet sarsaparilla sufficiency and sugared fig-date-pecan illusions. Baker’s chocolate powdering and vanilla bean bittering coarsen residual dry-hopped vegetal earthiness.

Pleasant moderate-bodied amber-hued libation with red-orange-fruited waft and wispy lemony lime spritz eclipsed by Belgian-styled candi-sugared barley-toasted honey malting. Reedy earthen tea mildness persists above doughy bottom, but lack of expectant wintry spicing hurts.

Wintry-spiced brew with merry berry startup, soda pop fizz, Coca-Cola swallow, and unexpected clove seasoning needs more convincing finish since fruitiness dries up, sweetness subsides, and deflective acidic undercurrent baffles.

Subdued English-styled winter warmer trickles earthen red grape-cherry parchedness into wood-dried Chinook-Fuggle hops. Aloft cocoa malts, sour fig-date finish picks up slim apricot-banana tingle. Marginal twig-leaf tandem fills out thin tobacco backdrop.

Majestic Christmas-styled winter warmer with wafting gingerbread opulence illuminated by definitive honey-soaked brown-sugared cinnamon-clove-allspice-cardamom spicing and lickety-split licorice lollipop lob. Swooning alcohol buzz felt as tertiary orange-bruised banana snip thickens residual sugared medicinal warmth.