Smuttynose Portsmouth Lager

Formerly brewed at Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Smeared pale gold color with a small compact whitish foam sitting atop for a brief stay. Minimal, lonely spotting lace. Aroma is pale and bready with a whole grain cereal/breakfast bar/flour kinda smell to it. Vienna malts are the prevalent feature here underscored with a light dashing fruityness and grassyness. Flavor sits well and long with a Vienna malt bready flavor and fashion. Drying out lightly as it goes into the finish leaving whispy notings of grassy spices, wheat germ, and dusty breadcrust flour. Quite nice actually, it grows on ya with every sip and begins to manufacture itself proudly onward to enduce more sipping and/or gulping. Which this becomes really easy to do as the exceptional drinkability is well handled behind its bold medium body and snappy, yet soft and yielding carbonation which is surrounded in its charming Vienna malt character. Smoothly combined with its effortless craft and solid taste, this beer is world class sessionable stuff for a Vienna lager. Nice stuff!

Light toast and cookies, specifically gingersnaps. Sweet and smooth. A little bitterness in the back balancing, but no real hops. Simple, but a perfect vienna.

I receive 3 beers from this company through a beer club, this was my second favorite compared to Old Brown Dog and Shoals. Good clean and fresh, satisfying, hops and malts well balanced. Just the right carbonation.

A very robust lager, similar to Sam Adams in color, body and taste. Very crisp and refreshing as a lager should be, but with sharp hoppy finish. Very engaging beer.

Delicious Lager! Gotta love any beer from a brewery called "Smuttynose"! But, seriously, this is one excellent lager. Pours a lovely carmel color with a nice, off-white head. Notes of grapes, carmel peaches and prunes (oh, OK, dried plums for the politically correct) in the palate. In other words, this brew is damned good!

Bottle at Andy’s. Deep golden, white head, clear. Hoppy nose with some sulfur present. Malty lager with lots of hops for flavor and bitterness. Best description would be that this is a APA lager...

Bottle: Poured a bright orange color with a nice big rocky head. Spicy aroma with almost a nutmeg kick. Stark flavor of candied apples; quite yummy.

This poured out a hazy golden orange color with a tall off white rocky head that drops to big foam chunks swimming a top the beer. Decent lace is left as well. Very malty nose with a doughy scent as well as notes of toasted grain and grassy earthy hops. There are also hints of citric hops as well mingling about, very good aroma for a lager. Taste is fairly similar with a big bready malt flavor and a good amount of hops in there to even it out and provide a nice bitter finish. Very clean and delicious taste. Mouthfeel was about what is to be expected, medium with good carbonation. These are definitely easy drinking beers that are clean, crisp and refreshing while providing a great taste.