Manfish Brewing

THE MANFISH STORY

I got my start, like many other brewers, with a gift of the Mr. Beer home brewing kit. When I got it, I honestly felt that it was to brewing what an Easy Bake Oven was to baking. I felt it was a joke. Was I ever wrong! 

What the Mr. Beer kit did was it started a fire. It didn’t take long before I moved away from Mr. Beer and started doing my own extract brews with steeping grains and different hop additions. Shortly after that I made the move to all-grain brewing. My first all-grain beer was a recipe I wrote and brewed for a friend called “Red-Headed Step Child”. By the time I had been brewing for 5 months not only was I doing all-grain brew days, I was also kegging my beers instead of bottling. 

The Manfish Brewing name comes from a discussion with a couple friends in April of 2010. We were joking about what I should name the ‘brewery’ and they suggested I name it after myself. I didn’t see the fun in that, so I combined one friend’s name with the others nickname and we became, originally, “Dick’s Manfish Brewing”. Not long after that it was pointed out to me that a local brewery, in Centralia, WA, wouldn’t appreciate the name as it made it sound like something they would produce aka a name of one of their beers. Because of this, I changed it to the current name and it’s been that ever since.