Welcome to Smuttynose Brewing

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Welcome to the Granite State’s leading craft brewery, located in the historic seaport city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Smuttynose was founded in 1994 by the folks who started the Northampton ;and Portsmouth Breweries. Our beers - Shoals Pale AleOld Brown DogStar Island SingleIPARobust Porter, the Big Beer Series & our seasonal specialties - HanamiSummer Weizen, Pumpkin Ale & Winter Ale - are distributed from Maine to Florida.

We offer tours of our facility at 3:00 on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Here's a map to help you find us.

Thanks for your support, 
The Smuttynose Crew




“Smuttynose has a well-earned reputation as one of America’s best all around breweries.”

All About Beer Magazine



Why's there sediment in my IPA?
We occasionally get inquiries about the “lees” (sediment) that sometimes appears in our IPA bottles.
“What is it and why is it there?” people want to know. It is a combination of malt proteins, hop tannins & yeast, which occur naturally in a dry-hopped, unfiltered beer such as Smuttynose IPA. 

Because most mass-produced beers are subjected to intense filtration - mostly for aesthetic reasons - many people have grown accustomed to crystal-clear beers. We, too, could make a beer that is pretty and bright by processing it that way, but that would sacrifice flavor, which we are not willing to do. We like the way our IPA tastes, so we've chosen to live with our “ugly” beer, even though this may not please everyone. So here's to lees, a healthy & natural feature of our homely IPA! Cheers!


POETRY CORNER
We're not sure why, but our beers have inspired some to wax poetic. How about you. Perhaps after reading this you might be moved to submit a bit of your own Old Brown Doggerel?

Imperial Stout
There is no doubt Imperial Stout;
The stuff that tests ones mettle.
I took one sip across my lip
And now I'll never settle.

Peter Willcox

Haiku
Hazed hopped elixir
Finest kind, t'aint none bettuh
Break out the lawn chairs!

Ken Morse, At Bats Baseball Training Facility, Boxboro MA


An Ode to Perfection
With the adjective Smutty applied to your nose
It's an effort of love to come up with the prose
To tell all the world with lips pure and true
Of the excellent taste of your quality brew.

The Malamute's far from where Cy and Old Paul
Are whooping it up and having a ball
But the bottles they savor you can bet your last buck
Will prove far more pleasant than Dan McGrew's luck.

So I thank both the brewer and bottler too
For the best beer that's sold from Taipei to Peru
I've tried every one-Be quite sure of that-
And yours is the best to come out of the vat.

Troyonymous


Well Spent Afternoon
Pale pinely cascade hopping
tickles lighted neurons
gentling opening cardial and 
cranial portals
to contentlyness.

Flying stick dragons
out skill skeeterly
blood lurkers in
photosynthetic abundance.
Waiting berries buzz.

I go slow (speed is ruin!)
Sitting outside,
soaking happy electrons
brewed and incidental
as they pour in.

Ryan Conner
(The subject is Shoals Pale Ale. I wrote it before I knew you were silly enough to ask for poetry.  Thanks for brewing!)


(Site last updated 7/1/09)
Go Sox!

Smuttynose Brewing Co. • 225 Heritage Ave • Portsmouth NH 03801
603•436•4026 

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