Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Pours clear mahogany with a good buff head. Aroma presents nutmeg, cinnamon, sweet potato and vanilla. Flavor furnishes resiny hops, sweet potato, spices, sorghum (must be sorghum) and vanilla. Texture adds good body and lively fizz. From the soil come all ingredients in beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Pours hazy, barely translucent peach with a thick cream head. Aroma yields rich and juicy orange, nectarine, tangerine, pineapple, even a bit of melon, plus piney hops and hay. Flavor produces piney but hardly bitter hops, juicy orange and tangerine, sweet nectarine, tangy pineapple, zesty melon. Texture delivers good body and lively fizz. Sky high.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours clear, bubbly amber with a thick parchment head. Aroma brings fresh malt, bread and subtle resiny hop tones. Flavor offers pleasingly bold fresh malt, bread, hints of orange and hops. Texture provides good body and peppy fizz. Wouldn't a fountain of youth be wonderful?

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

2011 version. Pours dark chocolate with a thin head. Aroma generates boozy and roast malt notes. Flavor unleashes sharp pomme, brandy, roast malt, chocolate. Texture provides nice body & peppy fizz. Call for a glass.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Pours minty green with a fair head. Aroma contributes strawberry, minty and grassy tones. Flavor delivers strawberry, minty and subtle grassy notes. Texture provides nice body & peppy fizz. Cotton to this.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours opaque creamy raspberry with a fair pink-buff head. Aroma furnishes raspberry, strawberry, blueberry. Flavor produces sweet and tart raspberry and strawberry plus sweet blueberry and a bit of cranberry. Texture brings good body & peppy fizz. Double up.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours barely translucent raspberry with a fair purply ivory head. Aroma presents raspberry, other berries, citrus hints. Flavor adds tart & sweet raspberry and other berries plus orange and a little lemon. Texture wraps up with good body and lively fizz. A sour treat indeed.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours hazy peach with a nice eggshell head. Aroma releases tangy orange, resiny hops, sweet mango. Flavor yields piney hops, zesty orange, sweet mango, hints of pineapple and grass and grapefruit. Texture provides nice body and lively fizz. Very drinkable.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours clear amber with minimum head. Aroma gives boozy, wheat, apple brandy. Flavor delivers sharp apple brandy and wheat. Texture offers decent fizz & body. Motor on.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours hazy cinnamon with a fair buff head. Aroma contributes toasty malt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Flavor brings toasted malt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Texture features decent body and peppy fizz. Merry whatever-you-celebrate-in-December.