Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz bottle courtesy of eaglefan538. Pour is hazed golden orange with a two inch off white head. Nice streaked lacing left behind as the head falls. Aroma of toasted malt, some light biscuit sweetness. A bit of earthy hops present as well. Taste is the toasted slightly sweet maltiness from the nose. The earthy hops are a bit grassier in the taste. Nice mineral finish. The palate is unfiltered yet smooth, though perhaps a bit watery. Overall, a nice session beer. Thanks Brian.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz bottle courtesy of eaglefan538. Pour is hazed orange golden with a one inch light tan head. Audible carbonation crackling on the pour. Aroma of soft bakers cocoa and fruity maltiness. Taste is the sweet maltiness, with a bit of a sharp acidity in the middle, leading to some hay and dirt in the finish. Decent complexity. After taste is dry and lingering, perhaps a bit too lingering. Palate is medium to thin, perhaps a bit heavier than a traditional Oktoberfest, though still nicely drinkable. Overall a decent Oktoberfest. Thanks for sending this my way, Brian.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle courtesy of Thaichile. Pour is hazed straw golden with a pretty two inch white head. Fine carbonation bubbles streaming their way to the top. Aroma of earthy herbal maltiness and some soft citrus notes. Taste is grainy earthiness, melding into a light sweetness in the middle, and a crisp citric bitterness to the dry finish. Floral notes are present. Palate feels unfiltered, drinkable and satisfying. Quite a bit of character in this one, I enjoyed it. Thanks Mark!
theisti (5540) reviewed HopFish from Flying Fish Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle courtesy of Thaichile. Pour is golden orange with a nice settling 3 inch off white head. Head falls slowly to reveal pretty lacing. Quite a few visible carbonation bubbles. Aroma of sweet malt and orange citrus hop. Nice inter play between malt and hop on the nose. Nice grassy earthiness present underneath the initial smell. Taste is more earthly sweet biscuit than orange citrus hops, but they are both there. The finish is long, grassy, with minerals and bitterness. Palate is medium body, with not much carbonation. Nice IPA. Thanks Mark.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Love Fish from Flying Fish Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
At Oregon Brewers Festival 2008 Pours out a nice brown topped with a off white head. A nice aroma of light cherries and spice. A little sweetness on it. A nice mix with the cherries and spice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Thanks to decaturstevo for sharing this one. Clear light amber body under a firm, creamy head of off-white. Malty aroma. Flavor is firm malt with well balanced supportive hops. Good for style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle-pours a rich dissipating off white head and amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-molasses, spice, yeast. Taste is lots of sweet medium malt-molasses, peat, spice-hops, yeast. Nice, easy drinking, interesting interpretation of the style. Has a dopplebock character. OK carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, bonus from Ty5592, drunk on 10/3/07, aged some 4-5 months.
Very lovely appearance, looks like Flying Fish went all out on this one, with sediment at the bottom and what looks like a bottle conditioned, rich, dense, lasting tan head atop a mostly clear, maroon-mahogany tinted dark brown body. Moderate lacing as well.
Sweet coffeecake-like notes arise in the aroma, with a shy amount of dryness/tartness from the dark malts peeking through the finish. A fair amount of residual sugars are brought to the nose, with the strong, tight carbonation, and cookie-dough vanilla mixes with the choco-coffeebean flavors to linger long on the finish. Clean yeast with low fruitiness and seemingly no flaws. As it warms, the coffee flavor softens, and the beer gets fudgey-sweet in the nose. Banana esters and some glue-like vapors emerge, unpleasantly, though the dry coffee still commands some authority. Medium-high strength of aroma.
Terrific amounts of succulent chocolate-fudge and vanilla-caramel maltiness give the impression of a full body, as creamy, tight carbonation helps intensify this character as well. Minimal scratchiness from the dark malts, and a very flavorful coffee create a highly drinkable beer, that still manages appropriate attenuation, for all the maltiness. Went down very fast, I must admit, with just a marvelous texture. Warming found the malts grow slightly too sweet/tacky and allowed some odd esters/phenols to emerge, just as in the aroma, but I was just about done with my glass by that time. Some dark malt/coffee astringency builds up on the finish. Alcohol not noted.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Small beige head...color--golden leaning more towards the orange side...smells a little sweet with caramel aromas mixed with honey...in the mouth...a silky feel, followed by a quick bitterness, then evens out...flavor is sour yeast and bitters...also has an orange rind flavor to it...aroma and mouth feel make this beer appealing
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed OktoberFish from Flying Fish Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Mill Hill Saloon in Trenton, NJ: The beer is brownish-amber with a medium thin beige head that has good retention. Thin rings of lacing. Bready malt, grain and floral hops aroma. Medium body with a mellow fruit and malt character, and grassy hops in the background. The finish is sweet at first with a light hops and spicy alcohol aftertaste. Above average overall.