Moderate straw-paled Marzen-styled Oktoberfest with smoky wood tinge places dry-hopped wheat-husked maize astringency atop sourdough malting. Honeyed lemony fizz gets soapy then fades away.

’99 tasting: Cordial vegetative autumnal plies dried barley and husked wheat bittering above clementine orange souring as fresh cut grass, hay, and cowhide consume nose. A chummy ‘ur-Marzen’ Munich lager. ’05 tasting: Antiseptic pumpkin-spiced ruby red grapefruit-sweetened mocha-tinged mediocrity accrues nasty backend acidity.

Well-balanced heavy-hopped copper-toned ale with indistinct bitter finish tethers pallid ‘five malt’ sweetness to floral wheat tinge.

A tad watery, metallic, and indistinct for amber ale styling. Sulking rye facade wanes as blanched brown sugared caramel malting falters to peat-smoked honeyed wheat spine. Flimsy pumpkin, white grape, yellow apple, and red peach mustiness slithers into lemony iced tea limbo.

Autumnal auburn amber acquaints earthen chestnut palate with caramel chocolate, sour cocoa, and lively citrus adjuncts. Syrupy maple sinew evaporates too quickly, allowing fizzy hops to inefficiently lighten its terse barley roast and leathery vegetal-glazed tobacco leaf dryness.

Aromatic pumpkin pie sweetness gathers bitter-hopped gourd essence punctuated by cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Sharper and richer than most pumpkin ales, though sweeter honeyed spicing would be welcome.

Desultory German-styled lager lacks character and resolve. Slick biscuit-y malt profile sinks into worsened orange-apricot souring fractionalizing flaccid floral-herbal fling. Latent tart cider twang runs into astringent phenol hop indifference.

Insistent pumpkin protraction gains sweet ‘n’ sour dark fruit variance, mild cereal grained barley roasting, and nutty jot for well-rounded autumn treasure.

Sinewy rust appearance much more prominent than dim crystal malt sweetness and slim tangerine-soured pumpkin seeding. Shaky barley-wheat center completely weakens plain gourd-spiced finish.

Richly robust nickel-rusted autumnal lager sits proudly on tongue. Fine whiskey-tinged barley-oats graining reaches creamy midst as mellowed allspice-nutmeg-cinnamon tingle sops up funky hot-buttered sourdough waver.

Rustic Bavarian-styled four-malt lager ‘to celebrate autumn’ draws strength from sweet ‘n sour malt variance, dried fruit binge, toasted nut singe, and delicate maple tinge. Caramel-burnt butterscotch sweetness consumes spice-hopped finish.

Pedestrian nut-fueled copper-hazed brown ale tarnished by obtrusive skunked vegetal aroma, phenol caramel malting and indistinct barley-roasted pecan-almond peculiarity. Glutinous rye-wheat spine bridles buttery chestnut modesty refracting peanut-oiled marzipan zip and tart pomegranate quip.