Fish Tale Old Woody English Old Ale

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Old Ale
Olympia, Washington USA

Aroma of resin, caramel and nuts. Color is a deep brown and cloudy amber. Head is frothy and abundant. Big heavy sweetness and very bitter. Full bodied, creamy texture and a lively, warm, long finish.

Bottle courtesy of CBA: Poured a cloudy dark brown color ale with a big thick foamy head with some good retention. Aroma of toffee and dry fruits as well as some NW hops. Taste of toffee malt and subtle dry fruits is well balance by some medium NW hops with s a subtle piney finish. Full body with some adequate carbonation and no alcohol was noticeable. Not totally true to the style because of a higher level of hops then expected but that doesn’t really matters since this is a great beer.

The key word in this beer is wood and this certainly have the wood flavor. the malts and robust and sweet, the hops though secondary give this character. The wood taste wraps everything around giving something truly special.

The aroma is sweet with caramel, toasted malt, alcohol, and wood. The appearance is dark amber with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma with more hop bitterness than expected. This is a well made beer that fails to impress me by itself but is much improved with food parings.

Light chestnut red clear body, oof white head; Sharp alcoholic, very malty sweet good but a bit 1-dimensional nose, a bit to "not what I hoped for but what I expected"; Soft texture in very sweet slightly bitter body; Very long alcohol warm finish, lots of aroma simple sweet malty. Pleasant beer just a little to much "NO surprises" and VERY far from my kind of English-English old ales.

Poured a cloudy brown color with some yeastiness to it . Aroma of maltiness and maybe a littl bit of the wine to it. Flavor had a little alcohol to it. Pretty sweet and a little alcohol.

Bottle shared by bdburdman. Crimson pour with a light tan head. Aroma of musty malt, light oak and some vinous notes...candied fruit...mostly cherry. Flavors of oak, sweet maly, candied fruit and dry vinous elements...a tinge of light spice. Medium body...light sweetness with a dry/sweet finish.

Bottle shared by bgburdman: Pours a nice copper color with an off white head. Aroma, grapes, oak, caramel. Flavor, caramel, some woody oak notes, earthy, fruity, some wine flavors come through. Pretty good brew.