Fairhope Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Fairhope, Alabama, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Fairhope Brewing Company

Established in 2013

Contact
914 Nichols Ave, Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Description
We’re just a bunch of beer geeks who have all pondered the same question: “With breweries popping up everywhere else in Alabama, why not in the southern part of the state?” Rather than sit around a bemoan the answer, we decided to do something about it, and the Fairhope Brewing Company was born.

The Fairhope Brewing Company is located at 914 Nichols Ave., just a block off Highway 98 in Fairhope, Ala., and less than five minutes from beautiful downtown. Our taproom is open six days a week, offering a comfortable atmosphere to meet up with friends and enjoy a variety of our hand-crafted beers. We don't have a kitchen, but please feel free to bring in your own food.

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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
12oz can pours out crisp straw topped with a white head. Nose is floral grassy pine citrus hops. Taste is more of the nice citrus floral grassy hops and a little cereal malts.
Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2020 at 04:29

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottles from Mary and Graham 11-21-15
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2020 at 03:19

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Mary & Graham 11-23-15
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2020 at 03:18

4.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Mary and Graham 11-25-15
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2020 at 03:18

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
12 oz bottle poured, brought back from the Alabama Florida line to be enjoyed in the Seattle slush. An enjoyable IPA for the weather for sure. A beautiful amber-ish color, with an active, lasting fizzing head. A nice aroma of a pine and bready malt combination. Flavor agrees with this balance. Flavorful malt, and resiny hops. Some darker malt flavor. Bready, caramel. I actually enjoyed this IPA in a few ways, mainly because it's hard to find an IPA like this around here these days. With all respect to IPAs that are about milkshakes and clouds, I need a beer like this more often than not.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2019 at 20:52

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Ever so slightly hazy coppered and bronze coloured body with a very thick, and quite soapy off-white head, about five centimetres tall. Aroma of light metal, some caramel and toffee with a quite earthy and nutty malt profile and showing some lower alpha acid hops (Germany/England?) with some bitterness noticeable towards the end and a hint of alcohol showing up in the nose. Medium-bodied; Deep metallic and earthy malt shows at first with a lot of alcohol and nuts around the edges and a touch of pungent grain and a tiny amount of sweetness that seems to come all from caramelised sugars and toffee and no fruits at all. Aftertaste shows some deeper malt and earthy notes with not much complexity or bitterness - more of an amber ale than anything else without much hops. Overall, a decent beer, but not for the style - this was lacking a big hop character, any signficance of bitterness and hardly any complexity - especially at the end with only some malts, caramel, nuts and alcohol at the end. I sampled this stubby twelve ounce bottle purchased from Habersham Beverage Warehouse in Savannah, Georgia on 04-May-2018 for US$2,59 sampled in my hotel room here in Orlando, Florida on 07-May-2018.
Tried from Can on 08 May 2018 at 14:06

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bomber from Mary and Graham 8-28-16
Tried on 19 Mar 2018 at 01:25

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2017 at 21:17

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2017 at 20:53

7/10
Tried on 15 Nov 2017 at 10:50