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 Ale, Old Brown Dog, Star Island Single, IPA, Robust Porter, the Big Beer Series & our seasonal specialties - Hanami, Summer 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.”
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!
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!)
Go Sox!