Little Fish Beer Archive: Every beer we have ever brewed

This is a treatment of Smoked Helles with habanero peppers. And, a Zappa reference.

Over a year ago, our neighbor Pete, who lives “down the holler” from us on Armitage Road, called to let us know we could come pick some peaches for brewing if we were so inclined. His white peaches, in addition to some yellow peaches from another secret forage spot, went into a couple of oak barrels that were souring ... Read More

Our Estate series features ingredients grown right here on our property. Estate #2 is a very special & unique beer. This amber sour ale was fermented in a barrel that was first used for bourbon, then Hawk Knob hard apple cider. Then we soured Woodthrush in it. After about a year, we added fresh pressed apple cider from the ... Read More

Possibly a once-ever offering, possibly not…Gumberoo is an American barleywine, hopped in the kettle & dry hopped exclusively with Centennial hops, and brewed with Ohio-grown barley from Haus Malts. Enjoy it while it lasts!

Hazy I.P.A.

It took us a while to catch on to the hazy I.P.A. trend. We have mixed feelings about their place in the craft beer market, and the hype surrounding them. There’s too much emphasis right now on a single style that, compared to a barrel-aged sour beer that takes years to finish, just really isn’t that hard to ... Read More

The Giving Tree is our annual spruce tip farmhouse ale, and it is also a way that we give back to our community. $1 from every glass sold in the taproom (and $2 per growler, $20 per wholesale keg), go to COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES, a non-profit with a mission of improving fresh and local food availability for lower-income families ... Read More

100% Ohio-grown saison with wildflower honey

Poisson Grand is the strongest of our line of saisons (consisting of Petit Poisson, Saison du Poisson, and Poisson Grand). The name means “Big Fish”, in French.

The mash consists of Haus Malts pilsner & pale, and “honey” barley malt, wheat and oat malts. The hops vary a lot based on availability, but the ... Read More

“Reinheitsgewhat!?” is a series of beers inspired by German Berliner weisse. However, it leaves the malt-hops-water-yeast constrictions of the Reinheitsgebot behind. We actually use no hops, but rely on acidity and interesting herbs or spices to provide a counterbalance to the beer’s sweetness. Many, but not all, contain fruit.

This batch was brewed with Ohio barley & wheat, pomegranate & ... Read More

This English Dark Mild is dark but crushable, flavorful but light in alcohol. Props to the guy who taught us so much in our homebrew days, Jamil Zainacheff, a.k.a. Mr. Malty.

Taking a cue from a certain American lager that is transported by Clydesdales and aged on steam-neutralized beechwood, we took a keg of “Our Lightest Beer” and aged it on hand-toasted beechwood staves. The wood flavor is subtle but evident!

We brew a special batch of beer every year for the Athens International Film and Video Festival, currently in its 45th consecutive year. In keeping with the spirit of independent and experimental film, we try to really push out boundaries on this beer, and brew something with ingredients that are new to us. This year’s beer is an “Oyster ... Read More

We made this special batch of beer for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April). This sour brown ale was infused with Earl Grey tea and rose petals, in a single red wine barrel, and bottle conditioned. $2 from every bottle sold in the taproom will benefit SAOP, the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program, a local organization that works with sexual assault ... Read More

This freaky beer is a stainless-steel fermented, mixed fermentation sour ale, brewed with guava and passionfruit puree, and dry hopped with Simcoe hops. Tropical, grapefruity, refreshing AF!

Extra Pale Ale

Brewed with only pilsner malt and Nelson Sauvin hops: paler and hoppier than a standard American pale ale, but much lighter than an IPA.

Back Story: A tribute to our original cellar guy / beer deliverer / logistics coordinator, Gus Schmillen This “Single Malt and Single Hop” ale will always bring us fond memories of working with a ... Read More

This sour blond ale was aged for over a year in barrels that held “Bourbon Barrel Aged Cider” from our friends at Hawk Knob Cidery and Meadery. We named it after the Sharp-shinned Hawk, which is one of the raptor species that we see around the brewery quite a bit. We find that the cider and light bourbon notes ... Read More

Home Slice was brewed with true friends and comrades of the local foods movement. Todd, head brewer and partner at Fonta Flora, shared his expertise in brewing kvass (fermented bread) inspired beers. Christine and Bob, of The Village Bakery, provided us with a whopping 275 pounds of organic sourdough bread, and a sourdough starter with which we fermented the ... Read More

A tongue-in-cheek response for those customers who ask “what’s your lightest beer?”

Well, sir / ma’am, it’s Our Lightest Beer.

An unfiltered helles lager (kellerbier), crafted from Hausmalts Ohio pilsner malt & American-noble hops.

Enjoy! It’s quaffable.

This 100% Ohio-grown farmhouse ale is inspired by the local ingredients (both foraged and grown) available in the month of November. We don’t really do the “pumpkin beer” thing, or at least, we don’t do an early fall seasonal that tastes mostly of pumpkin pie spices. But pumpkins can be used in other beers as well.

Gambolier is what we ... Read More

This porter, brewed with house-smoked malts, is a tribute to the freight train line that runs right on the edge of our property. We brew this coal-black ale with Ohio-grown barley, smoked in our custom smoker, with a mix of local hardwoods (cherry, chestnut oak, and applewood). If you are a fan of smoked beers, seek this one out!

 

For this “treatment” beer, we took a couple kegs of our milk stout, and conditioned them on fresh-roasted organic cacao nibs and coconut shavings. It’s a very desserty experience that is only available in our taproom!