USA, KY: Angry Fish Brewing sets opening date for June 2

A brewery called Angry Fish Brewing is swimming onto the Lexington scene, the Free Times reported on April 30.

Now, Angry Fish has set its opening date for June 2.

Located in an appropriately industrial area behind a shopping center on Highway 1, this operation started in a garage and finally found its home base at 106 Fabrister Lane in Lexington recently, and Joseph Turner and friends have been working around the clock to ready the space and their array of lake-themed brews for opening.

The original plan was to locate in the Ballentine area, but “Lexington made it easier to do business than Richland County,” says Turner.

The space, which formerly housed JAKAL Distillery, was ready to go with floor drains, but has been since upfitted with upcycled tin, handsome wood finishes and other decorative touches to give it a bait and tackle shop feel, Turner says.

Six fermenters are churning away to create their offerings, which range from traditional to unusual, such as an American wheat, blackberry gose, key lime gose, and a coffee double IPA, to name a few.

They’ll be operating under a brewery license, limiting patrons to 48 ounces per person, and will have a crowler station for taking home brews.

Angry Fish will be the first brewery to open its doors in Lexington County. (Old Mill brews beer, of course, but is licensed as a brewpub, and Hazelwood Brewing is making brews but you can't go buy a beer there yet. Steel Hands, a brewery coming soon to Cayce, won't open till fall.)

Turner hopes to offer a limited food menu in the future but is focused on getting the doors open first. Anticipated hours are Thursday 5-11 p.m., Friday 5 p.m.-midnight, Saturdays from noon to midnight, and Sundays 1-6 p.m.

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