Little Fish Beer Archive: Every beer we have ever brewed

This is a history of every beer ever brewed at Little Fish Brewing Company. We are constantly improving our recipes, creating new recipes, brewing interesting one-off beers, and collaborating with friends. Have a look!

Simply Put…

Sour blonde ale with Ohio blackberries

A Wild & Local League Season III exclusive bottle, but available to the public on draft.

Simply, a small batch of foeder-aged sour pale ale, refermented for 6 months, on 6 pounds per gallon of blackberries grown in Richwood, Ohio. This is the highest fruiting rate we have ever attempted in any beer. Enjoy this simple ... Read More

Sour blonde ale with Ohio Blackberries
ABV: 6 %

Beets by Request

Beet-infused, pilsner-esque beer.

The myriad folks who have requested a re-make of our 2019 “Beats on Repeat” finally wore me down, lol. I (Sean) told them I couldn’t do an entire 10 barrel batch of beet-infused beer, but that I would make a couple kegs for them!

“Beets by Request” is a 25 gallon batch of beer infusion that spent 48 ... Read More

Beet-infused Pilsner-esque beer
ABV: 5.7 %

O.U. Student Farm Raspberry

Barrel-aged sour ale with local organic raspberries.

A Wild & Local League bottle exclusive. Available on draft to the public.

A single oak barrel of lambic-inspired sour beer, aged 2 years and refermented on 67 pounds of organic “Caroline” raspberries from the Ohio University student farm, just a mile from our brewery. The brewers did all the raspberry harvesting for this beer! ... Read More

Barrel-aged sour ale with local organic raspberries
ABV: 6.5 %

Where Be Your Nutcracker?

Barrel-aged imperial stout with “nutcracker nut mix”

A Wild & Local League bottle exclusive, but available to the public on draft: “Where Be Your Nutcracker?” is a barrel-aged imperial stout, aged 2 full years in a single Basil Hayden barrel. Before packaging, we condtioned only 30 gallons of beer on 40 pounds of hand-roasted & mixed nuts including almonds, ... Read More

Barrel-aged imperial stout with nuts
ABV: 14 %

Coconut Coffee Double Harvey’s

Imperial Milk Stout with coconut & coffee.

A fun new riff on an imperial stout that we love to brew. We start with a base of mostly Ohio grains, supplemented with the best caramel and roasted malts we can find. We add lactose (dietary warning: milk-derived sugar) in the kettle because it adds wonderful body (ale yeast can’t ferment ... Read More

Imperial Milk Stout with coconut and coffee
ABV: 10.7 %

2023 Estate Fresh Hop Kveik

Pilsner-esque farmhouse ale with homegrown hops

We had a GREAT hop harvest this year. This estate-hopped beer uses whole-cone, dried hops grown by Sean, just steps away from our patio beer garden in Athens, Ohio. Dave Volkman of Ohio Valley Hops (Maineville, Ohio) helped us pick and dry our harvest. Thanks again, Dave!!!

Mashed with Rahr Northstar pilsner malt. ... Read More

Estate-hopped, pilsner-esque farmhouse ale
ABV: 5.7 %
Available In: Asset 3

Impossible Shake

Vegan Milkshake Imperial I.P.A.

Springboarding off a juicy imperial I.P.A. recipe, we’ve added passionfruit puree, whole vanilla beans, and maltodextrin (instead of lactose, to keep it plant based). Vegans, rejoice (everyone else too)!

Flavor Profile: Passionfruit and orange, vanilla-sweet aroma. Flavor is malt-forward, with a light bitterness expected from any I.P.A. Juicy passionfruit / orange character, smoothed and sweetenend by vanilla.

9% ABV, ... Read More

Vegan Milkshake I.P.A.
ABV: 9 %
Available In: Asset 3

Abseil Pils

German Style Pilsner

A finely crafted, German-style pilsner, brewed with European noble hops (Hallertauer Mittelfruh, Czech Saaz, and some Magnum for IBU’s), Weyermann Barke Pilsner malt, and fermented cold with our preferred lager strain.

Flavor Profile: Everything a German pils should be: elegant, simple, eminently drinkable, and balanced towards the hops with a crisp bitterness and light malt sweetness.

5.5% ABV, gluten reduced

 

 

German Style Pilsner
ABV: 5.5 %
Available In: Asset 3

Auburn Acres Chinook Wet Hop I.P.A.

Fresh / Wet Hop, West Coast I.P.A.

2023’s Wet Hop I.P.A. utilizes some fantastic Ohio-grown Chinook hops, grown by Jeff & Shari Bailey of Auburn Acres Hop Farm. 60 pounds of freshly picked and never-dried Chinook went into the boil. The mash bill was mostly Ohio grown and malted by Haus Malts, with a little Briess Carapils for body. ... Read More

Wet Hop I.P.A.
ABV: 6.7 %

What a Crop!

100% Ohio-Grown Blonde Ale

This rustic and pilsnery blonde ale, with a touch of kveik yeast fruitiness, was brewed with only agricultural ingredients from our state. The following credits go to the folks who made batch 1 of “What a Crop!” possible:

The 2-row Scala barley was grown by Sam Yarian, and then made its way to our friends at Haus Malts, ... Read More

100% Ohio-Grown Blonde Ale
ABV: 5.6 %

Dag-Burn Contraption

American Saison

Here’s a fun little number that combines the juicy, bubblegum character of Belgian saison yeast, with the tropical notes of new American hops. This is NOT a Belgian I.P.A.; It’s a saison with Citra hops. While there is bitterness, it’s in line with traditional hoppy saisons. While it is dry hopped, the rates are much closer to Belgian ... Read More

American Saison
ABV: 6.4 %
Available In: Asset 3

Family Gathering

Foraged flower farmhouse ale collab with Bookhouse Brewing

This extremely small (15 gallons) of beer represents a whole day of foraging in the hills and urban areas of Athens Ohio for early summer flowers. Vaughn Stewart of Bookhouse Brewing, his wife Gwen, their young son Finn, and I (Sean) went up to Radar Hill to forage on the morning of June ... Read More

Foraged flower farmhouse ale
ABV: 4.7 %

Gus 2.0

Hoppy S.M.a.S.H ale

Revived and renewed…our super popular “Gus S.M.a.S.H.” got Southern hemisphere a glow-up! Version 2.0 has arrived.

The only change is the hop we use. We switched out the Michigan Cashmere with New Zealand Nelson Sauvin (now that we can actually afford it. We used to not be able to find Nelson for less than $25 a pound. Now it’s ... Read More

Hoppy S.M.a.S.H. ale
ABV: 5.5 %

Pescado Relajado

Mexican-style light lager

Translation: “Relaxed Fish”.

Pronunciation: the J sounds like an H in English.

Certainly the lightest and crispiest lager we have made to date! (July 2023). Grist of Weyermann Pilsner and flaked maize. Hopped ever so lightly with Hallertauer. Fermented to dryness with our preferred lager strain, and lagered for as long as we could wait!

At the taprooms, we serve it ... Read More

Mexican-style light lager
ABV: 5.7% ABV %

Stoney’s Extra Stout Pig

Historical English Imperial Stout re-creation, and collab with Seventh Son Brewing (Columbus, Ohio).

First of, credit where credit is due: This recipe was cribbed from Ron Pattinson’s excellent brewing history blog, Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. Ron’s a somewhat cynical, dry, and damn entertaining beer historian that specializes in going through old brewers’ logs and sharing with the public how some ... Read More

Imperial Stout (historical recipe)
ABV: 9.5 %

Appalachian Spontaneous Ale, batch 1

Sour blonde ale, in the tradition of Belgian Lambic.

In 2019, we started a lifelong project and aspiration to brew beer in the tradition of Belgian Lambic, using ingredients local to us, and spontaneously fermented with indigenous microflora. This beer is the first-ever release from that program. Turbid-mashed with Ohio-grown barley, and raw Ohio Red Fife wheat. Boiled for 3 hours ... Read More

Spontaneous fermentation, barrel-aged sour ale
ABV: 6.25 %

Moonville Stout – 2023 blend

Moonville Stout is our annual-ish blend of bourbon & spirit barrel-aged imperial stout. 2023’s blend is a 13.9% abv (after aging) imperial stout aged in Heaven Hill & Basil Hayden barrels for 18 months.

This beer is inspired by the lore of the “haunted” Moonville train tunnel, a local legend in the historical mining town of Moonville, in the Zaleski State ... Read More

Bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout
ABV: 13.9 %
Available In: Asset 4 Asset 3

Shirt Brothers

Hazy I.P.A.

Shirt Brothers is mashed with our “standard” Hazy I.P.A. grist of Ohio barley, wheat, and oats, plus a little carapils and flaked oats. It’s hopped in a “cool” 175 Fahrenheit whirlpool with Azacca and Cryo-Pop blend, and after fermentation, dry-hopped with Cryo-Pop, Simcoe, and Ekuanot. Fermented with Omega’s “Helio Gazer”, thiolized British ale strain.

Flavor Profile: Ripe, punchy aroma full ... Read More

Hazy I.P.A.
ABV: 6.5 %

No Good Car Ideas

Hoppy S.M.a.S.H. Beer

Another one-off hoppy beer with a name referencing one of our favorite sketch shows. If you know the show, you’re in the cool club ; ) .

“No Good Car Ideas” is a Single Malt and Single Hop ale: mashed with only Haus Malts Ohio-grown pilsner malt, and hopped in the kettle (and dry hop) with a hop that’s ... Read More

Hoppy S.M.a.S.H Beer
ABV: 5 %

FV-5 I.P.A.

Hazy I.P.A. brewed in our only fermenter without glycol jackets (FV-5), with the only yeast capable of making clean-tasting ale at 90+ degrees Fahrenheit: kveik. The strain of kveik we prefer for Hazy I.P.A. is “Espe”, which produces a “fruit cup” ester profile that compliments classic juicy / hazy hops.

Mashed with a base of Haus pale and wheat malts, plus ... Read More

Hazy I.P.A.
ABV: 6.5 %