Well-rounded English-styled Bitter connects initial barley-roasted earthiness to sweetly soured clover-honeyed cocoa-powdered mocha muck. Rye-pumpernickel breading and recurrent dried cherry-apple sweetness broaden scope. Damning phenolic astringency is only drawback.

Boorish swamp water overwhelms indistinguishable ale. One of the most pretentious English ales on the market and too ornery for serious brewhounds. Pass.

Beige-headed amber-bodied cask-conditioned ale offers soft-toned Vienna-styled pale malts, delicate spicy seasoning, and elegant sweet yeast persistence. Soothing finish remains clean, efficient, and mild.

Earthen mineral-grained copper-hazed organic ale brings dry Scotch malting, tobacco-tinged barley roast, and wafted breadcrumb sniff to blanched resin hop stead. Herbal tea midst locates slimmest citrus, quince, and sherry illusions above walnut singe. ’09 re-tasting brought butterscotch frontage to burnt orange backdrop.

Chaotic fizzy grained sweetness merely gets in the way of off-dry mild hop bittering and thin berry afterburner, becoming too predictable by dissolving cracked wheat finish. Grapefruit-orange peel souring needs sharper identity.

Traditional cask-conditioned bitter places floral hop bittering above buttered caramelized wheat setting. Earthen geranium rusticity softens tertiary lemony berry hints, but soapy finish lowers its appeal, nipping redeeming citric spiciness.

Crisp copper-toned medium body retains persistent floral hop bittering to rich mineral-grained finish. Thin yeast sinew forms at the head as crystal malt sugaring serenades pleasing piney maple and sweet vanilla undertones.

Satisfying amber-hazed bitter with resonating mineral grain entry and invigorating creamy malt richness maintains strong alcohol content. Satisfying on many levels: not too bitter for lite-minded blue collar drinkers nor too soft for snobby connoisseurs. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Providing effective daytime relief, canned amber-hued white-headed medium-bodied bitter smuggles wheat-cracked oats-honeyed toasted barleymalts inside tingly floral hop spicing. Orange oil, cantaloupe, and melon illusions inform contagious vanilla Creamsickle motif, pillaging expectant bitterness.

Chewy prune-hued amber-bordered Country Ale remits light-bodied barleywine illusion fortifying expansive dried raisin-fig continuance. Heavy alcohol influence absorbs subsidiary chocolate-walnut notes and depleting vinous acidity.

Decent chestnut-hued English bitter draught envelops red-fruited entry, wild honey bittering and cresting hop zing with heavenly chocolate nuances. Indistinguishable mocha finish and failing aftertaste lighten initial promise. Serve to aggressive rookies not fully prepared to switch to heavier dark ales.

Boozy sour-honeyed orange-dried lemon peel-embittered cask conditioned ale retains sweet malt counteraction to restrict heady juniper usurpation. On tap 2011, gentle hop-spiced peach-orange fruiting breeched minor ethanol burn and plasticine clay-hopped peppering.