Lovely holiday-spirited Scottish ale with spicy caramel kick brings sweetish dewy peat to chalky cocoa base as perky cinnamon-nutmeg spicing, laidback dried cherry tartness and roasted chestnut-almond-pecan combo stick to gluey wheat sugaring.

Soft-toned New Zealand hop-influenced Imperial IPA utilizes Cryo Citra-hopped Sauvignon Blanc grape must to gleamingly tweak brisk yellow grapefruit-seeded lemon zesting, sweet orange peel tanginess and light floral spicing. Distant ‘mango, lychee, peach and nectarine’ illusions punctuate the sweet end while tart lemon verbena piquancy slips thru lightly vanilla creamed oated wheat sugaring. Superb!

Delightfully expressive fruited barleywine permeates invigorating raspberry puree thrust with sticky caramelized red cherry candied glaze. In the plush midst, figgy raisin-plum scrum, dark rum swirl and light whiskey snips receive medicinal cherry alcohol burn. Chewy molasses-sugared caramel center thickens tartly sweet raspberry jam continuance (with slight raspberry rhubarb pie twinge). A resplendent dessert-styled variant.
