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.
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
Our Current Seasonal - Winter Ale
The October issue of Men’s Journal magazine names its selection of America's Best Beers, and leads with Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale.
POETRY CORNERWe'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?
Winter AleA clear winter night.
Snow blankets the ground and a wet chill fills the atmosphere. Standing in a field with a good friend, sharing laughs, insults and watching his two labradors frolic in the snow.The Smuttynose Winter Ale cold in our mittened hands, frosty in our throats and warm in our bellies.“Good beer!”“Aye, Good.”
P.S. Thank you for the absolutely wonderful Ale.BrianDecember 17, 2008
Ode to Smuttynose IPAWhen the stress of a day just grows and grows
And I'm ready to unwind,Just one sip of a SmuttynoseAnd I leave it all behind.
The IPA's my drink of choice.It's friendly and it's hoppy;So I want all the world to know,Without appearing soppy.
If you like your ale to beAssertive, with a twang,Then Smuttynose IPAMay just well be your thang.
It puckers and refreshes;It'll really lift your mood.It's pure delight all by itself,Or savored with your food.
So thank you, brewers, for this gem;I'm grateful and adoring.As long as I drink Smuttynose,Life's lovely, never boring!
Ilene BauerNew YorkMarch 19, 2008
(Site last updated 1/6/09)
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