Another fine English-styled ale by rural Connecticut brewery. This earthier Brit variation bests lighter, less bitter American-styled goldens. Well-balanced citric-spiced crystal malting, raw wood-smoked oats graining and twiggy bark-dried tinder crudity congruently integrated. Vegetal corn-husked celery, carrot and fennel astringency grazes buttery biscuit bottom.

Brisk ‘summer salad’ utilizing fresh-chopped herbs maintains fruity regalia. Tropical pineapple, mango, melon and peach tang inundates sharp lemony orange-peeled grapefruit bittering. Earthen dry-wooded oaken pining seeps into tea-bagged thyme-basil retreat. Ascending alcohol burn deepens ultimate complexity of richly balanced step up from usual moderate-bodied golden ale contenders.

Too tame and pallid to be offensive, unenthusiastic ‘session ale’ will please less finicky ale heads yearning for an inexpressive light-bodied refreshment. Peculiar earthen fungi yeast and cardboard-y vegetal nuance take away from muted orange-oiled sour-candied tartness to cracked wheat spine. Blasé.

Easy-plowing summertime poolside light-body maintains understated sweet-watered fizz and mild marzipan-caramel creaminess lost to phenolic astringency. Slick honeyed malt pungency becomes diacetyl, deadening gentle hop-fizzed lemon bitterness. Sunny beach fodder for softer, indiscriminate tastes.

Heady Belgian-styled golden-hazed medium body (brewed for Florida’s Gordash Beer Company in South Carolina) brings vanilla malt creaminess to fungi-soured Belgian yeast endurance. At midst, peppery Saaz hop bitterness and musty barnyard funk counter durable cotton-candied butterscotch rummage, wavered apple-apricot-pear fruiting and clove-coriander-spiced banana bubblegum whim. Delightful maraschino cherry ripeness, zippy cinnamon-gingerbread dalliance, and supple Cognac finish prove affirmative. Busy mix never falters. On tap at Plantation’s Hurricane Grill & Wings, sweeter honey-fruited thrust receives herbal twinge.

Spry lemony aroma gives way to bitter-hopped orange peel sharpness and neutral barleycorn register for malt liquor palate. Crisp water texture provides soft bed for lingering silky yeast finish.

Elegant orange peel zest and perky hop fizz perfectly mesh with sweet barley-malted Scotch smoothness for aggressively carbolic lightweight. Beautiful dewy insouciance captivates citric finish of pale-bodied nicety.

Collegiate bound ale (check out the ‘U’ on the alma mater label) with foamy-headed water-textured golden body counters sweet caramel caress with rich chocolate-coffee bitterness. Thicker grains and richer malts would add better distinction. Brewery defunct: 2001.

Tamped down herbal hop resonation tenderly caresses sour lemon rind, orange peel, and apricot nose. Tea leaf tinge nearly escapes senses until soothing malted rye finish durably increases. Brewery defunct: 2003.

Lively carbonation absorbs sour mocha malting and yeast-sweetened oats-smoked barley-cracked resonation by firm mineral grain finish of moderately bitter bronze-clouded golden ale. Possible clove or mint notes lost in cocoa recess.

Funky gold-hazed farmhouse ale with uninviting olfactory compost waft and dubious herbal sage influence saturating recessive glutinous corn-sugared malting to dehydrated apple-pear-apricot tedium. Damning rosemary-thyme-tarragon potpourri secludes declining green-minted spruce tip freshness.