Fish Tale Starfish Imperial Red

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: American Strong Ale
Olympia, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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A strong aroma of caramel malt. A strong solid red appearance. This is a pretty tasty beer. Hops and malt in a battle almost. Pretty good stuff.

Rich red tones, aromas of red liquorice, black tea and cherry. long and lasting from mid-palate to finish. a great beer for cold nights and fire roasted foods.

On-tap at the Olympia brewpub. This beer appears a clear reddish burnt amber hue, with a thin cap of soapy white head, which leaves a Swiss cheese wall of lace around the glass as it is quickly exposed. It smells of caramel malt, and grapefruit/orange hops. The taste is bitter pine/citrus hops, caramel toffee, and a bit of breadiness. The carbonation is moderate, the body medium weight, and kind of sticky, smooth overall. It finishes off-dry, the hops predominating. Proving to be a Fish product, the hops win out throughout. Nice to see it at the source.

Bottle from Brewery Creek, Vancouver
Hazy red-amber color, small head. Nice fruity aroma, bitter oranges, with a hint of sweat, yeast and vanilla. Medium body strength; the mouthfeel is just a bit drier than expected; very good caramel and toffee flavor, with light toasty notes, and a clear Earl Grey tea character (bergamot); strong bitterness, with a lot of hop resins and some yeasty astringency. In the end, the drier mouthfeel increases the drinkability. Very good.

Bomber from Malt & Vine. Bottle says 7.5% Pours very ruddy, almost ruby, amber with a transient beige head. Aromas of pine and grapefruit rind. Flavor is fairly smooth roasted malt, with a fair amount of grapefruit rind forbitter. Finishes long, slow grapefruit, eclipsing the malt to a significant extent. Very NW.

22oz bottle: pours a transparent deep copper amber with a clingy-lacing froth of off-white head. Has a sweet toasty caramel malty nose with lots of fresh resiny piny hops. Starts with good fullness and sweet toasty malts well balanced with fresh piny hop flavor and bitterness before a drier bittersweet finish. True to style and enjoyable.

The only problem I had with this was absolutely no head, but everything else about it was amazing. Fair amount of carbonation for an American Strong blended well with the toasty caramel, which blended well with the Douglas Fir hops. I looked at the glass after every sip and smiled... that makes it a winner.

Reddish amber in color, clear with a thin amber head. Nice malt and hops characters. Hops are floral and fruity in taste. This is a malt forward brew and has a good hops addition to make this not too sweet as some do. This is a terrific rendition of a Red Ale. Great job Fish.

On tap at Capone’s. Amber pour with an off white head. Pine and floral hops. Pine, floral with some caramel tastes.

Bottle, shared with Parksy. Rich dark copper amber, thick creamy head. Sweet fruity toffee aroma. Heavy malt platform, quite sweet, emphasis on toffee with lingering stonefruit aromatics. Less bitterness than I expected given the listed IBUs, but maybe its because I had a couple of hop bombs beforehand. Nice.