About
Adam and Grace Robbings opened Reuben’s Brews in 2012, after Adam’s award-winning homebrewing career, naming the brewery after their first child, Reuben.

The original brewery and tasting room in Ballard closed to the public in 2015 when our Taproom opened, but we still brew pilot batches here every week on our 5bbl system. Our Taproom features a brewery right in the middle of the tasting room, where we brew batches of beer that you’ll taste in both here, at The Brewtap, and in distribution. Our system here is 15bbl. In 2019 a new production brewery opened. This is where we brew the majority of the beers you see in cans and bottles on our 30bbl brewhouse, it is also home to The Brewtap, our second tasting room.

At our family brewery we brew from the glass backwards: designing each beer with intention, unbound by constraints. We know making that extra effort is worth it. From your everyday favorites beers to our innovative new releases, we help you grow your love of beer.
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fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Marionberry Rye from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Draught at the brewery
Cloudy amber color with pinkish hue, and pinkish head. The aroma is delicate and fruity, with light sweat. It’s a bit too much carbonated, the character of the American Rye is not evident, there is a fruity touch, but it gets dry in the final, with a minimal acidity.
Not fully convincing.
Tried from Can on 19 May 2014 at 04:53
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Altbier from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
5.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Draught at the brewery
Hazy amber color with creamy head. It’s a bit dusty, weak, with some dark caramel, and low bitterness; dry overall.
Nothing like the beers in Dusseldorf.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:51
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Dry Stout from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Draught at the brewery, on nitro
Black color with creamy beige head. Strong aroma of coffee and roasted malts. Very dry, as promised; the mouthfeel is also quite weak; roasted malts, some coffee; moderate bitterness.
Ordinary Stout, luckily the nitro didn’t kill all the flavor.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:41
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Imperial IPA from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 2 samples, co2 and nitro
Golden color, with compact head; the co2 version is clean, the nitro is cloudy. Strong aroma, hoppy, piney, animal. Good body strength; moderately sweet; malt flavor, then the strong hoping, which has a strong animal character, hop resins, piney, and just moderate fruits.
The nitro version has obviously less aroma, it’s smoother, a bit cloying, but still acceptable.
With such strong animal character, it’s a rather difficult beer to drink, I wouldn’t have too much of it.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:36
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Robust Porter from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draught at the brewery
Black color with beige creamy head. Roasty malt aroma. Dry mouthfeel, with roasted malts, burnt feeling, and not enough chocolate.
More Stout than Porter.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:34
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Cream Ale from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Draught at the brewery
Pale blond color. Dry mouthfeel; some cereal and grain character. The aroma has an interesting note of malt, but the flavor has much less interest; ordinary bitterness; the final is a bit papery and astringent. This is where Ale meets Lager, and the product is not interesting.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:32
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Imperial Rye IPA from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery
Hazy light amber color. Both aroma and flavor have a fairly animal character, very similar to the Imperial IPA; but this beer is drier, and with the rye it helps to make it more drinkable. The hops are resiny too.
Good beer, more character than the regular IIPA, but this one too is not too easy to drink.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:30
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Summer IPA from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draught at the brewery
Hazy golden color. Nice IPA, dry and light, well hopped, with more hop resin character, but also some hop fruitiness; strong and long final.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:29
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
American Rye from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draught at the brewery
Cloudy blond color. The aroma is mildly spicy, coriander, fresh. The mouthfeel is dry, the flavor crispy, and it has a nice spicy touch.
It’s a pleasant spicy weizen, well hopped too.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:26
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Roggenbier from Reuben's Brews
12 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draught at the brewery
Hazy dark amber color with creamy head. It has some character of Dunkelweizen, but it’s a bit too yeasty, mainly the aroma. The rye has some value, there is some banana and clove, but in the end it’s an ordinary beer.
Tried on 19 May 2014 at 04:24