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Fish Brewing & Fish Tail Brewpub

Leavenworth Beers

515 Jefferson Street SE
Olympia WA 98501
Telephone: +1 360-943-3650
Hours: Monday-Saturday 11:00am-midnight, Sunday noon-10:00pm.
Brewer: Tony Powell
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Notes

Visited: April 10, 2006

Opened: 1993

Annual Production: 14,000 bbl

Contributors: Klaus Degen, Matthias Haaben, Ralph Wells, TomCat

Fish Brewing and Leavenworth Brewery merged in 2001.

Fish also operates a pub at 2019 Hewitt Avenue in Everett WA.

Updated: October 23, 2016

Beer List

10 Squared (10²)

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale

10.00% abv.
- Date: April 10, 2006 (#5918)
  
  Package: draught
  
  Place: at the brewery
  
  Score: 19 points
  
  Appearance (3)
  Bright deep red. Moderate dense head.
  
  Aroma (3)
  Spicy, dark caramel.
  
  Mouthfeel (10)
  Huge body. Huge caramel malt. Huge dark fruit. Huge toasted wood. Huge spicy hops. Huge beer. Vanilla tops off the finish.
  
  Overall Impression (3)
- Date: March 4, 2005 (#5584)
  
  Package: bottled
  
  Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR
  
  Score: 19 points
  
  Appearance (3)
  Deep orange, hazy. Thick head.
  
  Aroma (3)
  Spicy, citrusy, intense hops. Subdued compared to flavor.
  
  Mouthfeel (10)
  Big smooth body. Big spicy, smoky hop character; the bitterness initially burns like jalapeño pepper. Lots of caramel malt for support.
  
  Overall Impression (3)
  Good well-balanced complex beer. Sure doesn't taste like it has 10% alcohol. "October 2005...10 types of hops, 100 IBU".

Blind Pig Dunkelweizen

Dark American Wheat Beer with Yeast

4.70% abv.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5907)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Dark red-brown opaque. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Big dark caramel, and wheat.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, fizzy. Huge dark caramel and dark raisiny Munich malt flavor.

Overall Impression (3)

Blonde Ale

Golden or Blonde Ale

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5915)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 16½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Mild grainy malt.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light body, really fizzy. Big malt sweetness, mildly grainy but fairly toasty too. Sweet malty finish with a hint of spicy hops.

Overall Impression (2½)

Detonator Doppelbock

German-Style Strong Doppelbock

8.00% abv.

Date: April 19, 2001 (#3819)

Package: bottled

Place: from the brewery

Score: 16 points

Overall Impression (3)
Dark dark brown, moderate head. Oaky aroma, darkly malty. Big body, richly brown-malty, some vanilla in the finish. Aged in oak. Thanks to Steve Olson for bringing this bottle from Oregon!

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5910)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 20 points

Appearance (3)
Deep golden-amber, some haze. Thick head.

Aroma (4)
Huge floral, piney hops.

Mouthfeel (10)
Medium-big body, creamy. Massive piney hop character, resiny. Big malty base for balance.

Overall Impression (3)
Excellent beer.

Date: February 11, 1995 (#771)

Package: draught

Place: The HopYard, Pleasanton CA

Score: 13 points

Overall Impression (2½)
Yellow-amber, great white head. Same perfume as Pale, but not as strong. Thick, smooth. Flavor subdued, mild bitter finish.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5917)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17½ points

Appearance (3)
Deep red-golden. Dense head.

Aroma (3)
Peach. Mild Belgian spiciness.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium-big body. Creamy and fizzy. Tart. Malty. Reasonably bitter. Some (odd) peach flavor. Oaky. Very oaky at the end.

Overall Impression (2½)
Interesting beer. Winner of a 2006 homebrew contest.

Date: December 24, 2009 (#8090)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Red-brown opaque. Moderate head.

Aroma (3)
Toasty. Spicy. Bready.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light and sweet. Toasty and bready. Mild spicy clove character.

Overall Impression (2)
Good clean beer.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5906)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Yellow opaque. Good head.

Aroma (3)
Lots of wheat malt.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, fairly fizzy. Big wheat malt flavor. Fairly sweet. Really clean, with a hint of smoke in the finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: March 24, 2006 (#5868)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red-amber. Thinnish head. Bottle-conditioned.

Aroma (4)
Huge dark caramel malt. Some alcohol. Some fruity hops.

Mouthfeel (8)
Big body. Really chewy. Lots and lots of malt. Mildly bitter. Good dark fruity character along with dark caramel. Hint of milk chocolate.

Overall Impression (2)
Good beer, but still fairly young. "Batch #5, bottled November 2004".

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5914)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 12 points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Thick head.

Aroma (2)
Butter. Some floral hops.

Mouthfeel (6)
Light body, fizzy. Lots of butter. Sweet malt.

Overall Impression (1)

Date: June 28, 2003 (#4914)

Package: bottled

Place: Belmont Station, Portland OR

Score: 16½ points

Overall Impression (3½)
Amber, slight haze, thick head. Very mildly spicy aroma. Medium-big body. Richly malty. Lots of fruitiness...bananas, berries. Mild alcohol sensation and warming. Thanks to Steve Olson for the bottle!

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5912)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Black. Moderate beige head.

Aroma (3)
Mildly roasty. Mildly chocolatey.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, fizzy. Nice black coffee flavor, with a good malt sweetness and an earthy hop. Smoky.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: June 25, 1995 (#1073)

Package: draught

Place: The HopYard, Pleasanton CA

Score: 13 points

Overall Impression (2½)
Very very very dark red, good brown head. Some coffee in aroma. Coffee flavor, and alcohol. Weird balance in favor of alcohol.

Date: March 10, 2006 (#5865)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Burgundy. Thick head. Bottle-conditioned.

Aroma (3)
Big caramel. Big fruit. Big alcohol.

Mouthfeel (8)
Big body, silky smooth. Big earthy caramel maltiness. Powdery dryness. Nicely warming.

Overall Impression (2)
Young.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5908)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 14½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright red. Moderate head.

Aroma (3)
Caramel malt and spicy hops.

Mouthfeel (7)
Medium body, fizzy. Huge caramel malt character. Smoky, earthy hops, and maybe some DMS.

Overall Impression (1½)

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5911)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright amber. Thick dense head.

Aroma (3)
Very floral.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, creamy. HUGE floral hop flavor, almost perfumey. Fairly bitter.

Overall Impression (2½)
Tasty, but not as tasty as Hodgson's.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5919)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 19 points

Appearance (3)
Black. Dense cream-colored head.

Aroma (3)
Chocolatey. Fairly roasty.

Mouthfeel (10)
Massive. Massively roasty. Massively malty. Massively black. Big oaky vanilla note.

Overall Impression (3)
Massively complext beer.

Date: June 22, 2002 (#4357)

Package: bottled

Place: from the brewery

Score: 15 points

Overall Impression (2½)
(Batch #3, aged in cabernet oaks.) Black, thick brown head. Dill aroma on a roasty chocolate background. Medium-big body, high carbonation, hugely roasty, very mildly sweet. Black fairly dry finish, warming all the way. Thanks to Steve Olson for the sample!

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5916)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 19 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red-brown. Good head.

Aroma (3)
Some spicy hops, lots of caramel.

Mouthfeel (10)
Medium-big body, fairly fizzy. Huge spicy hops! Fairly bitter, but LOTS of spicy hop flavor and lots of malt to back it up.

Overall Impression (3)

Date: February 11, 1995 (#772)

Package: draught

Place: The HopYard, Pleasanton CA

Score: 13½ points

Overall Impression (2½)
Very deep red, not black. Eeeenormous brown head. Perfume aroma with black malt. Quite burnt flavor...ashtray. (That's a good thing.) Still some perfume in flavor. Late astringency OK. OK carbonation bite and sweetness.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5909)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 15 points

Appearance (3)
Bright amber. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Very mild grassy hops.

Mouthfeel (7)
Medium body, fizzy. Huge fruity hop flavor up front. Nice toasty/caramel malt behind that. Hint of diacetyl in the finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: April 27, 1999 (#3260)

Package: bottled

Place: from the brewery

Score: 14½ points

Overall Impression (3)
Golden-amber, high carbonation, thick head. Citrus hop aroma. Medium body, high carbonation, good malt background for the Cascade hops. Drying finish.

Date: February 11, 1995 (#770)

Package: draught

Place: The HopYard, Pleasanton CA

Score: 11½ points

Overall Impression (2½)
Red-amber, good head. Very perfumey nose. Thin, bitter. BIG bitter finish. Perfume aroma detracts.

Date: April 10, 2006 (#5913)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 20 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red. Thick head.

Aroma (4)
Huge piney spicy hops.

Mouthfeel (10)
Medium-big body. Creamy. Massive green hop flavor, like chewing on leaves. Spicy, and fairly bitter. Great big caramel malt base, very nicely balanced.

Overall Impression (3)

Date: February 19, 2006 (#5847)

Package: bottled

Place: Liquid Solutions, Tigard OR

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Bright amber. Bottle-conditioned. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Hops: very spicy, fairly citrusy, a little earthy.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body. Fairly fizzy. Big citrus hop flavor, fairly bitter. More malt, more body would be nice.

Overall Impression (2)
More malt, more body would be nice.