Rustic amber-coppered ‘biere de garde’ opens with gunky saison fruiting and dewy earthen fungi contrasting addictive caramel-toasted vanilla bean creaminess. Green apple tartness, red grape sweetness and navel orange tang counter dry grain bitterness. Flowery hop aromatics usurp warm maple tone, losing resilience and giving way to ashen acridity. Severe alcohol burn may turn off lighter thirsts. French-styled barleywine essence may be overstated.

Superb 8% alcohol-licked French amber ale brings sweet cereal grain waft to chewy butterscotch-chocolate malting, rich banana-creamed cherry vanilla accrual, and chipper hop prickle. Affluent barleywine midst picks up hazelnut-chestnut-almond influence and minor quince-tangerine-apricot tinge, adding further complexity.

Pour slowly fluffy-headed rust-hued corked brew to ease overwhelming billowy foam. Sweet honey-malted butterscotch-candied creaminess transverses lively spiced hops for mellow flow. Tiny yeast sediment at bottom warms light-hearted barleywine effervescence. As difficult to define as it is to find proper name on graffiti-packed label.

Startlingly complex caramel-hued blonde with earthen-grained herbal-spiced grassy-hopped inception, subtle yellow-fruited honeyed malt sweetness, and pastry-like frosting will endear experienced drinkers. Floral white-peppered rosemary-thyme-sage seasoning informs ascending buttery Scotch creaming.

Buttery white-headed straw-bodied French golden ale retains musty malt pungency countering corn-sugared challah breading and honeyed yeast sweetness. Gentle barley bottom reinforces peppery hop fizzle, but spiced fruitiness is lost.

White wine aromatics spur initial hop-spiced orange peel bittering, ensuing lemony grapefruit tang, and soured cider residual of obliging golden-hazed Belgian-styled pale ale (previously known as Sebourg French Wheat). Buttered corn sweetness drapes green apple tartness before bright tangerine-cherry-berry sheen lingers to soft-watered candi-sugared honeydew finish.

Surprisingly mellow 7.6% alcohol-fueled dark beer brags about “cold storage creating the perfect balance of strength and character.” Brown chocolate essence leads the way to persistent grain-fruited finish.

Lightly gold-hazed ‘Biere De Garde’ spreads musty yeast above spicy citrus. Deceptive dank-cellared moldy fungi waft juxtaposes tidy lemon rind souring and peppery-hopped ginger-spiced clove-allpsice continuance. Banana-breaded white peach-pear-quince illusions round out earthen clay-like backdrop of busy blonde ale.

Deliriously savory burgundy-hued full body cost $21.49 for 1 pint 9 ounces of luxuriant 10% alcohol liquid. But that’s a bargain. Matured in Merlot, Cabernet, and Grappa vats, its expansive sharp citric hop plain and vegetal earthiness spread across beautiful Sangria medley suggesting banana, apple, red grape, pineapple, and apricot. Spicy cinnamon entwines apropos vinous acidity to port wine finish. On tap at Copper Mine, vinegary brettanomyces funk brings mouth-puckering sourness to oaken cherry, green grape, white wine, rosé and vermouth tones.

Highly recommended.

Tantalizing warmth and luxurious complexity of  Abbey-styled Jersey brew attributed to perfume-like yeast residue, sinewy prune texture, buttery malt sustenance and black-peppered herbage. Flowery dry hops dart through ancillary plum-ripened sweetness, fig-spiced cherry dalliance, vinous sherry perk and peachy nectar niche. Only possible drawback is ester-y citric sourness could be off-putting.

Surreptitiously soured cork-wafted winter warmer (with 6.8% alcohol) provides sugar plummed fig-prune-cherry surge to recessive nutmeg-cinnamon tingle and earthen herbal subtlety. Vinous tannic citrus tartness and musk-y orange tang pick up barest cocoa hint by pastry-caked finish.

Thick-headed honey-toned rustic-grained lightweight (a.k.a. Jenlain Ambree) mired by rigid hop-stricken astringency. Unlike many French ales, lacking wine-y appeal. Instead, light watery flow flattens barley-oats spine and tangy fruit adjuncts for boring finish.