Cushnoc may not immediately seem like a “Fish Beer,” until you learn that in Algonquin, Cushnoc means “head of the tide.”
The head of the tide, that is, the spot in a river where it stops being tidal, is also where smelt tend to gather in early spring to spawn, so when OTW’s Eddy Stahowiak and Andy Nabreski stopped at the Cushnoc Brewery on their way to a Maine smelt camp in late-January, it seemed like the perfect fish beer for their road trip.
