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Welcome to the Granite State's leading craft brewery, located in the historic seacoast city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Smuttynose was founded in 1994 by the folks who started the Northampton and Portsmouth Breweries. Our beers - Shoals Pale Ale, Old Brown Dog, Portsmouth Lager, IPA, Robust Porter, The Big Beer Series & our seasonal specialties - are distributed throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states.

Thanks for your support,
The Smuttynose Crew

(Site last updated 3/31/08)
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Brewery tours are offered on Thursdays & Fridays at 3:00 PM. To arrange a group tour,
please call ahead at (603) 436-4026, or drop us an
email.

Take a video tour of Smuttynose Brewing, compliments of Seacoastconnects, the Portsmouth Herald's interactive website.

Smuttynose founder Peter Egelston rambles on in last January's All About Beer magazine. Read the interview here.

NEWS FLASHES -
For all of you who have inquired, here's our tentative 2008 Big Beer Series lineup, with estimated release dates. Please note that these are the dates we expect to ship to our wholesalers. The beers will take somewhat longer to reach the shelves of your favorite store.

Baltic Porter - mid-January (New Release!)
Imperial Stout - mid-February
Maibock - early April
Big A IPA - early May 
Farmhouse Ale - early June
Wheat Wine mid-August
Barley Wine - early October
S'muttonator Double Bock - mid-November
Belgian Quad - mid-December (New Release!)

Smuttynose Brewing was awarded the 2007 Excellence in Business Award in the Manufacturing Category by the New Hampshire Business Review. Joanne Francis and Peter Egelston collected the award on behalf of the company.

Smuttynose Big A IPA is listed as one of the 25 Best Beers in America in a recent issue of Men's Journal Magazine.

June 2007: Smuttynose Brewing ranked #48 on Ratebeer.com's World's Top 100 Breweries list.

Left: Executive Brewer David Yarrington guides a new 200-barrel fermentor into place, the latest step in our ongoing expansion. (photo credit: Jeremy Heflin)

 Back in '98 we ran a tv ad, shot on Portsmouth's commercial fishing pier, featuring a catchy reel by Gary Szredzienski. Click to see it now.

Smuttynose Summer Weizen is shipping now. Can't you feel it in the air?

E-store orders are normally shipped via UPS, typically arriving within three days of shipment.

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Visit our sister company, the Portsmouth Brewery, New Hampshire's original brewpub, located on Market Street in the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth.

Meet Alex, Frank, Keegan, Sidney, Reggie, Syd, Una, Olive, Buddy, Peggy, Brown Dog, Freida, Pico, Dirty Dog, Sophie, Tweed, and Mojo, our current Old Brown Dog Pinups. Click here to see full size images of these and other pinups, and to find out how to submit your own pooch's photo.


Olive, our beloved Old Brown Dog.
1991-2007

 

Do you know when you're approaching the legal limit? Does just one beer put you near that limit? Two? Three? To separate the facts from folklore, the Brewers Association has developed an estimated blood alcohol content calculator to help you understand the relationship between consumption and BAC.


"Full-bodied and malty with undertones of coffee and chocolate and a bright, hoppy finish, in style it's like Cary Grant's accent: the best of British and American." - The Boston Globe, describing Smuttynose Robust Porter, November, 2005

Writing in the Weekly Dig about 2004's beer highlights, Jason and Todd Alström had this to say about our IPA: "Hands-down one of the best American-style India Pale Ales ever crafted. This brew is lip smacking, with an aggressive and pungent grapefruit hop character. Wonderfully balanced and insanely drinkable."

"Shoals Pale Ale is the closest thing to an English ale in an American bottled beer."
THE BOSTON GLOBE - September, 1999

Vegetarians, please take note: Smuttynose beers are made without the use of any animal products, such as isinglass or gelatin. Why? Because we prefer it that way, and we're sure you do, too, so enjoy!

Smuttynose Brewing Company ~ 225 Heritage Avenue ~ Portsmouth NH 03801
(603) 436-4026 FAX 433-1247

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