Mild maroon-hued bitter with unique dry red wine essence. Purple grape esters recede to bittersweet black cherry tartness lightened by sour chocolate wisp, crystalline watering, and flat carbonation. Mild dirt-grained grid is only so-so.

Single worst red ale ever. Pungent vegetal fumes and blase’ dried fruit mouthfeel douse roasted caramel malting, leaving dirty-grained fizz-hopped aluminum-like stagnancy.

Light-bodied chestnut-hued brown ale brings candied sugar malt waft to toasted barley efficiency, nutty chocolate fizz, and raisin-date sweetness juxtaposing roasted coffee signature. Tamped down hop dryness secures earthy wheat backbone but phenol astringency shrivels mocha finish.

Elegant burgundy-cleared chocolate-wafted English pale ale provides dry Scotch malt frontage with roasted hop gust and tangy citric-cherry allure to cracked wheat bottom. Meager caramel apple stint and cocoa-tea-tobacco hints lost in soured prune midst. By finish, watered down Scotch blotch brought down a notch.

Lively rust-copper Irish-styled ale contrasts spicy hop bitterness with cracked wheat, caramel malts, and honeyed cornmeal for medium-bodied joyance. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Wholly organic amber-styled ale guided by musty mildewed malts, mineral grains, and bitter hops. Clustered berry-nut tones underpin subtlest nectar sweetness. At fruity finish, resounding orange peel bittering gathers mossy intrigue.

Pour slowly highly hopped hemp-aided red ale. Sweet grained outline cannot fortify drifting undefined spicing, tea-like nuance, and lost nuttiness, finishing in chemically medicinal doldrums.

Nearly everything you’d ever want in a red ale. Sinewy yeast sediment embellishes mild hop-fizzed fruitiness and sweet mocha malts for mellow flow. Savory pale-fruited finish lingers on the tongue as hints of nectar and pear brighten the corners. Brewery defunct: 2001.

Soured orange-apricot tartness given thin dry-hopped oak-soaked cherry mustiness before grassy-to-toasted barley finish recedes rapidly. Residual pine needle, floral and earthen tones underscore barrenly spiced berry-apple-pear remnant as harsh oxidation invades hazy copper amber medium body.

Strong Lucifer-endorsed amber-clouded pale ale with lacey flesh-toned remnant and teensy yeast particles. Capacious citric-soured entry enjoins herbaceous medicinal spell, but phenol acidity and weak barley-hopped spine drag it down. Putrid orange, dry grapefruit, tart lemon, muted cherry, and ester-y grape engage latent cinnamon-clove spicing, giving way to barren fig souring.

Refreshingly fruited Irish Red Ale forms roasted barley easement through effervescent apple-peach-grapefruit tang and ripe pumpkin sass. Spruce-hopped malted rye sweetness grows tangentially. Meager dark spicing picks up agave hint. Crafted by nearby Goose Island Brewery for Trader Joe’s shopping chain. Brewery defunct: 2003.

Eye-squinting oaken cherry tartness and tangy orange pith souring give ultra-dry copper-hazed Flemish-like red ale blunt acidity beleaguering ester-y white grape parch, green apple acridity, and dehydrated fig recess. Funky earthen grains secure soft-tongued grassy-hopped citron prickle.