Little Fish Beer Archive: Every beer we have ever brewed

Barrel-aged sour red ale with Montmorency & Balaton cherries.

A lot of folks might not be aware of this, but Little Fish co-owners Sean & Jimmy spent a lot of their youth playing fantasy role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons together. These games often don’t get the credit they deserve for helping young adults develop important life skills, such as ... Read More

Sour red ale.

Maker of Things is our American take on a Belgian Flanders red ale. This beer ages in a fleet of foeders (large-format wine barrels). When Maker is mature, we pull off a portion of each foeder (ususally a third), and refill it with freshly fermented red base. In this way, we achieve a continuity of flavor, age, ... Read More

Wine barrel-aged sour ale with Ohio black raspberries

Learn’d Astronomer has always been a wine-barrel aged sour ale fermented on raspberries, but this batch (the fourth), represents the first time we have been able to do that with entirely Ohio-grown fruit. Most of the raspberries were black raspberries, grown by Stokes Farm, in Wilmington, Ohio. These berries are extremely special; ... Read More

The Acorn is a symbol of life and potential. From this small seed comes a majestic tree. The Aecern was aged in our new, 930-gallon white oak foeder that is the centerpiece of our barrel aging program. A portion of this beer will be left in the foeder as the “seed” for our next batch of foeder-aged beer, a ... Read More

Sunfish is our mixed-culture, barrel-aged saison, brewed with Ohio wildflower honey. A large majority of the malt and hops were grown and processed in our home state of Ohio. This bottling (our third) contains a blend of barrel-aged saisons with an average age of 1 year, which we blended and bottle conditions with honey as our priming sugar.

We brewed ... Read More