Smuttynose Brewing's first beer, Shoals Pale Ale debuted on July 16, 1994 on Portsmouth’s historic waterfront. Their interpretation of a classic English ale is copper-colored, medium-bodied and pleasantly hopped. Its flavor is delightfully complex yet balanced: tangy fruit at the start, with an assertive hop crispness and a long malty finish that one well-known beer writer has compared to the flavor of freshly-baked bread.
At Smuttynose, we pride ourselves on making a wide variety of distinctive beers, from our year-round offerings and seasonals, to more the more limited releases in our famous Big Beer Series and our experimental Smuttlabs line.
