Fish Tale Winterfish Ale

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Olympia, Washington USA

This is a mighty tasty brew.Juicy fruit hops with some mild yeast. Slighty cloudy orange amber in color. Rich, sweet malt flavor, some caramel apple, some succulent honeycomb pine. Slight bitter, quick finish. An enjoyable ale.

Glowing orangish gold color with a slight smear to it. Thin, off-white cap. Finely placed, closely scattered, spotty sheets of lacing sticks across the glass. Toasty with a big orange oil aroma starts from the pour. Very pungent, rich, oily, and deep with a well-rounded citrusy realm with notes to cannibus, the sister of hops, and some doughy fresh malts. Taste is well oiled in citrusy hops, oily, flavor heavy with oranges, a flint of lime, lemon and tangerine, yet calmly bitter with rinds and resins, somewhat smokey with herbal nuances. Quite a nice taster. Nice malt backing thats lightly toasty and bready/doughy. The bitterness closing in the finish is delicate and nurtured to perfection with a nice amount of citrus rinds, oils, and smokeyness. Smooth and oily textured feel from front to back. Quite silky for an IPA, even its bite tends to be smoothed out in oils and resins. Body is moderate in mediumness with a rich, soothing, quaffable, drenchable, lower carbonation that is utterly beyond average in drinkability. Damn good stuff. Winterfish would be one to bring to the frozen lakes while fishing through the ice if it were here in MN.

This is really an amplified IPA to make a big beer in respect to Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale. So the golden hoppy winter seasonal is not dark for that reason. This beer is a cult beer among locals in Washington state, as it is really a strong IPA available in bottles at the supermarket about 4 months out of the year. It tends toward more crisp citrus hoppiness when young, but set some bottles aside for upto a 9 months or a year and it matures to a delightful slightly sherry toffee malty sweetness with very smooth hop notes which are well worth the wait.

12 oz bottle bottle via Roths. Pours a clear amber with an average size beige head, leaves lots of spidery lace as it dissipates. Nose is mostly citrus and pine. Very tastey and very hoppy for a Winter beer. Starts out with some sweet orange, then some bitter orange/grapefruit, then some molsasses, and finishes with a perfectly balanced bitterweet sweetness with a little pepper thrown in the mix. Medium body. Moderate carbonation. This is an excellant beer.

Remarks Thin lacy white head.Clear thin bright light gold color.Rich floral mild vanilla hop front Earthy tangy mild sweet thin crystal pale malt hot hop body.Rich earthy hop spice bittersweet Yakima Chinook hop end.Big earthy IPA missing Winter Seasonal Notes.??

Cloudy orange/amber color,small head that managed to stay around for a while leaving a nice lace behind.Nice fruity,piney,hop aroma with a mild sweetness to it.The flavor was malty and fruity with a nice mild spice and decent amount of hops coming through.There is a slightly creamy feeling to this brew,and the alcohol doesn't make an appearance at all.Making this a fairly well balanced brew IMOThe after taste reminds me of the 10 sq. nice and hoppy with a nice bitterness.This is another fine brew from theseguys and they still remain as my favorite brewer.Well worth finding this brew for a trial.

Light orange with a huge head. Beautiful nose full of peach, pineapple, various hop varieties, scotch and pine. Definitely earns a 10 for aroma. Big fresh and crisp flavor of scotch, dark fruit and rum. Exceptional flavor with a very bitter and dry palate. A new favorite. Tasted this along with Cascade Lake Santa’s Little Helper and Flying Dog K-9 Crusier and WinterFish won.

The pour somewhat hazy amber color, the head is modest and frothy and a winsome beige color, the residual lace a fine covering upon the glass. Hop floral dominates the nose, sweet and malt laden, crisp and clean to boot. Start has a lot of malt, lightly sweet with a middling top and the finish biting in its hop spicy bite, the carbonation moderate, the aftertaste dry and long lasting and another great beer from “Fish tale”