Well calibrated, boldly boozy, full-bodied winter seasonal not dissimilar to complex pale ales, yet not as distinctively detailed as Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown or Oatmeal Stout. Sweet whiskey malts inform creamy vanilla-butterscotch frontage and cinnamon-nutmeg-spiced fruitiness contrasts slinky orange peel bittering. Sugar plum, stewed prune, and rum cake illusions relieve ancillary red cherry, pear, and marmalade snip to medicinal finish.

Apt copper-toned seasonal with cinnamon toasted apple jacking, modest dry-hopped spicing and barley-roasted caramel chocolate malting given mild cherry encore. Ashy spruce embers cloak tart citric whim.

Serviceable clear garnet-ruby winter warmer less sweet than past seasonals, downplaying traditional cinnamon-nutmeg spicing for gingerbread-allspice-coriander conflux, raisin-currant backdrop, and molasses mellifluence. Smoked cedar and pine needles emerge mid-palate, whisked away by vegetative riptide, cigar ash dash, and cola nut hint.

Passable bottle-conditioned penny-hued Belgian holiday ‘saison’ counters tannic white grape tartness with dried prune-raisin confluence abruptly sweetened by brown sugar dalliance. But muted dry pulp finish loses luster after fourth sip.

Resilient Grand Marnier mouthfeel and capacious anise nosing lose stamina for sedately alcoholic Holiday treat. Desolate rum-soaked raisin tinge and muted cinnamon-nutmeg spicing squander silky sweet butterscotch elegance to husked wheat backbone. ’13 version: demure cinnamon-spiced brown sugaring and murky fig-date conflux mired by bland crystal malting.

Slightly turbid, rust-browned, non-spiced holiday ale regaled by corky single malt Scotch oeuvre, leathery peat-smoked earthiness, dehydrated orange tartness and vinegary white wine tannins. Dense prune dryness and fruited hop tang score mid-palate, but complacent finish dulled by diminished chocolate malt souring and dreary cocoa-chalked bitterness.

Middling reddish maroon winter ale pits up-front maple-sugared yeast sinew against sour raisin come-on and minor nutmeg suggestion, but tinny copper ale finish lowers ancillary mocha appeal by a drop.

Tart raspberry aroma surrounds cinnamon and nutmeg-spiced holiday-styled amber ale. Sharp grains battle back summery fruit essence, but malts falter badly at coy finish. Creatively meshed, though inessential.

Dizzying copper-hued, tan eggshell-headed, floral-hopped seasonal can’t decide whether to envelop its squalid honeyed malt cusp with ester-y cherry quip or to mediate its candied caramel slurp with tepid almond-chestnut roast. An off-dry harsh metallic astringency lowers its earthy grain potential.

Burnt resin complexion, blackened mocha-malt mouthfeel, toasted hop crest, and roasted barley backbone given brown-sugared honeyed tobacco lilt. Lacking expectant wintry seasonal spicing. Brewery defunct: 2002.

Strong sweet chocolate-wafted ale with loud raisin presence promptly backed by dry-hopped barley-roasted maple-sugared mocha malts. Secondary coffee-stained richness and heady wheat creaminess simmer down for complex, yet smooth, efficacy. Serve to brown ale fans.

Well-balanced cola-hued seasonal yields wintry cinnamon-nutmeg-gingerbread spicing above sweet sarsaparilla sufficiency and sugared fig-date-pecan illusions. Baker’s chocolate powdering and vanilla bean bittering coarsen residual dry-hopped vegetal earthiness.