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.
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.
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours hazy yellow. Peach, lemon, grain, apricot, generic tropical notes. Medium body. Fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jul 2024
at 04:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap. Pours amber. Tropical, citrus, tangerine, pine, grain. Medium body. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2024
at 21:19
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at Aslan. Clear deep reddish amber color white head. Aroma of burnt caramel. Taste is sweet vinous toasted caramel. Sweet atrong and rich without being boozy. Thank you Alan Sprint!
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jul 2024
at 22:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Brewers Haven. Softly dull yellow pour with a thin dense white head and lacing. Smooth mellow citrus and subtle piney go character. Full smooth palate.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jul 2024
at 22:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at 7% from Tavour. Pours hazy dirty gold with a large foamy/frothy white head. Aroma is so citrus it has armpit aspects. Approaching full bodied. Flavor is the aroma plus a touch of chives. Not dry but bitter enough to solve that problem. It has very good flavor. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2024
at 01:55
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Aromas are dark malt, maybe some wheat and light paper. Flavors are somewhat similar to nose, sweet upfront and a little more bitter in the finish but still sweet. Add in some caramel and a hint of fudge. Some alcohol warmth in the finish. Very smooth. 2023.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2024
at 22:07
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
On tap at Reuben's - Ballard, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is very dank, with plenty of pot-like hops, plenty of pine, and a nice resinous oiliness. Flavour unfortunately has plenty of low-level diacetyl that I couldn't detect on the nose -- damn, this ruins everything. It comes across more as a grainy off-note. Ugh, that is awful. A shame.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2024
at 23:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Reuben's - Ballard, pours black with a tiny head. Aroma reveals a nice mixture of the chocolate, cherries and waffle cone, wth plenty of sticky sugars. Flavour is extremely rich and decadent, with tons of chocolate, waffle cones and cherry, with a somewhat syrupy palate. Super sticky but somehow not cloying. If you're gonna do something like this, then this is how to do it. Really tasty dessert stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2024
at 23:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Reuben's - Ballard, pours a clear dull golden with a small white head. Aroma is quite dank in the hop department, followed by pine, and crips biscuity malt. Flavour is mega-dank, with intense pot-like hops, some pine, light mineraly notes, and gentle allium. Very dank, with a thin malt backbone. A bit too oily and mineraly on the palate, but it's solidly made.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2024
at 23:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Reuben's - Ballard, pours a clear copper golden with a small white head. Aroma certainly brings out the rye -- with plenty of earthy spiciness -- some gentle piney hops, and dry bready malt. Flavour likewise reveals the rye upfront, but at the expense of the hops, which end up buried. The balance isn't great, and I'm finding it hard to pick out anything I like. It's not bad, but the rye/hop combo doesn't work for me here.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2024
at 23:01