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.
On tap at Reuben's - Ballard, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh piney hops, crisp biscuity malt, and a touch of doughy malt. Flavour has doughy malt, piney hops, and some diacetyl creeping in here. The diacetyl is very minor but ruinous enough to fuck me off. Not great.
Can from Tavour. Pours clear light gold with a large creamy white head. Aroma of bready malt with some citrus. Near med body. Malt is kind of crackery. Hop is citrus with some slight grass/spice. Quite dry for me. Mildly bitter. Decent.
16oz can pours out hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice sweet citrus fruit notes some big time juice notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet big time juicy citrus hops and some nice bitterness on the end.
16oz almost clear orange, white head. Triple ipa? Maybe. Sticky honey, citrus and soap. Flavors same. Sticky and full bodied but heavy handed. 6 3 6 3 11