Though lacking true fruited-hopped red ale essence, barley-roasted chocolate easement provides minor credibility for Irish-styled brew. While imbibing, reddish brown hue seems richer than expectant flavor. And that’s a shame. Needs thicker yeast sinew and denser malt extract. Brewery defunct: 2002.

Dry Irish-styled ale misnomer discounts peculiar sour cherry-peach pucker and orange blossom-grapefruit tartness. Overt fizz knocks back any sweet ‘red ale’ semblance as acridity builds, negatively affecting overall zest.

Well-built Flemish Red medium body lathers leathery sour cherry parch with unripe fig, oaken vanilla, and green grape souring. Tart vinegar-y white wine aridity subsumes brimstone treacle.

Spectacular slow sipping garnet-hued dessert ale alternates strong green apple waft and dry cherry nose above undeniable eye-squinting citric tartness. Lithe berry tang sweetens prominent vinous vermouth sourness, grape pulp mustiness, mild orange bittering, and rose’ wine illumination as strong soda-fizzed cherry essence receives oaken cask-aged seduction.

Moderate-bodied spice-hopped Irish-styled amber ale layers red apple, pear, and orange fruiting above peat malts. Tea-like midst adds some depth.

Elegant orange-ambered red ale bequeaths taut butterscotch-caramel sweetness to off-dry barley roast and chaffed wheat astringency for delightful medium body.

Mellow fruited grain succinctness provides gentle effervescence for black cherry-scented ale. Rich barleywine pleasantries and sour citrus subtleties add to delicate sweetness, but incomplete roasted mocha malt bite lessens its finish. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Hesitant ruby red medium body matches black malt cinch, charred grain upsurge, lemon curd intrigue, and crisp water flow to Red Ale-like ambrosial hop essence. Lively on the tongue though a tad weak flavorwise considering Irish-styled labeling.

Soured orange frontage and herbaceous undercurrent stricken by raw-honeyed hop-charred bitterness deepening abundant dry citric finish.

Expressive pine-spruced maple malt insistence expands through lively sharp-fruited spiced hop surge. Grapefruit-soured berry suggestion turns to lingered nut bitterness as floral clove entices earthy wet leaf axis.

Piney maple sap and subtle nutmeg-clove spicing indulge softly-hopped off-dry chestnut-hued seasonal amber. Caramel malt thickness intensifies citric grapefruit-tangerine souring as boysenberry, juniper, pear, and cherry hints resonate. ’05 tasting found toasted barley and roasted chocolate taking lead.

Nonpareil spruce-hopped excellence embraces bittersweet chocolate malt lunge, creamy butterscotch luster, and hazelnut-walnut illusions to soothing raisin finish.