Fish Tale Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Pours a light amber with a massive, bubly white head that takes its time. Aroma is very hoppy, not typical of a pale but more like a heavy IPA. Taste is a tad dry with a slight fruity flavor (think fruit snacks). Aftertaste is nothing to write home about. Overall a very average beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

a little thick and overly malty for the style imho. didn't really care for it. seems to me like this brewer is hit or miss but the couple organics i remember off hand were a slight miss.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Light orange amber colored ale. Small tight soapy white head. No retention. Settles quickly into a nice ring. Hops jump out to the nose. Floral and citrusy. Body is thin, nearly watery. The taste is hops and water. Not a good representation of the American Pale Ale. Good thing I only had one bottle.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle courtesy of Piscator 34: Poured a cloudy orangey/beige color ale with a big foamy head. Aroma of sweet malt with a nice floral hoppy touch. Taste is also quite sweet with some nice floral notes and a medium bitter finish. Body is quite full with limited filtration and good carbonation. I really liked how the hops provide a nice floral aspects without bringing too much bitterness to the beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity hops along with some slight caramel malty hints. Flavour is mainly fruity hops with some maltyness and paperyness.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours a dark golden/ orange colour with a small frothy white head. Plenty of citrusy hops in the aroma, very pleasent. moderately hopped taste. fruity all around. very well balanced.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 3

Orange-amber pour, well beyond anything typical of pale ales, head on par, lacing ok. The aroma was herbal, earthy, light smoke. The latter was odd. The flavor was overcome with rotten vegetables and a harsh smokey background. The latter started out almost as a hop spiciness, but before I finished the first sip turned to a peat and ashy smoked flavor that was nasty. I had to recheck the label and make sure smoked salmon wasn't an intent of the beer given its name. Just not a good beer, started to take me back to a bad experience I had with MH's Jinx. Mouthfeel was light and maybe a little acidic, an overall flat out bad experience.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Better than I expected, for an organic beer -- but still not all that interesting, IMO.

Many organic beers -- including a vast majority of American organic beers -- all seem to have the same overally-soft mouthfeel, and way-too-soft-and-cushy hop profiles. This gives the beer a sometimes interesting mouthfeel, since you're not having to slog your way though a rough&ready hop profile to get to malt profile. But, at the same time, the very same soft-as-cotten-candy hop profile does the beer something of an injustice. In other words, for an American Pale Ale, this beer is just way too "well behaved" for my liking.

Thumbs up for the appearence -- and the *lack* of an insanely massive head of feather-light foam that I normally see from American organics. Good lacing, too. An interesting bready aroam, though it would make much more sense for the nose to have more hops than malt, wouldn't it?

Regardless, this beer is not bad, by any means. But I'm really tired of finding the same ol' will-o'-wisp hop character in organic beers such as this -- especially in a style of beer that normally puts the hop profile front-and-center.

A good drinker, but if this is meant to be a typical organic American Pale Ale, I just as well rather stick to non-oragnics, thanks....

Music: Praying Mantis' "Time Tells No Lies"
//TB

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Another Certified Organic brew from Fish Tale. Pours a clear copper color, lots of carbonation. Two fingers of white head, good retention, thin wisps of lacing left trailing down the glass. An earthy, grassy smell. Some, but not very much citrus hops in the aroma. The flavour also contains this earthiness (I also picked this up in their IPA). I found the flavor quite restrained, especially after enjoying the IPA, and found myself wanting more taste. The aftertaste is more earthy and woody. The mouthfeel is full and creamy. Slightly above average when compared to some of their other brews.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Pours a light orange color with a decent head and some lacing. Smells a bit...yeasty, with orange scent. Tastes really weak. I mean, there's not much there. The hops and malt are there but neither have much to say. Almost hard to believe this is a PNW beer. It's not *bad*, really, it's just not much of anything. Mouthfeel is thin with decent carbonation. Drinkability is fine since there's surely nothing offensive about this beer. I donno, I'm rather disappointed. This is the same brewery that puts out the heavyweights Posiden and Leviathan so I was expecting something a lot more bold.