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Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
5313.4/5.03.39/5.05%97.7English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Copper-colored ale is medium-bodied and highly hopped. Its flavor is delightfully complex: tangy fruit at the start, with an assertive hop crispness and a long malty palate that one well-known beer writer has compared to the flavor of freshly-baked bread.
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 DandyWolfFloyd (331), Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 2, 2008  
Aroma is full, with a nice array of hops, muted hops. It’s appearance is a dark amber, with a decent head white head. It’s lacing is nice. It’s flavor is a collection of heavy hops, medium malt bodies, and bit tangy, followed by a strong bite of hops. It’s a bit too heavy in the hops, but otherwise a nice brew.


 OldRaspy (292), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Aug 28, 2008  
On tap at Portsmouth Brewery. Served in pint glass dark amber with a very small off-white head. Aroma was malty with a herbal/citrus hops. Flavor was citrus hops with a slight touch of malt at the back.


 mcox90 (641), Wilton, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Aug 24, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Pours a rddish copper color with a 1/2" white head. Minimal lacing. Heavy hop aroma with a bitter somewhat dry palate. Average carbonation. Fruity up front with an assertive hop finish. Also flavors of biscuit and or crackers.


 kmweaver (2465), Sebastopol, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 20, 2008  
Draft @ Frisco’s. Pours a slightly hazy, orange-brown color; creamy, frothy light-tan head with good retention and fine-bubbled lacing; nice pour. Kind of a resigned aroma: basic mineral and earthy bitterness, followed up by biscuity malts and crackers and oiliness. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lively carbonation and citrus acidity upfront; good, drinkable levels of bitterness (earthiness, floral notes), toasty crackers, and oily dried fruits; solid, very pleasant overall. Lengthy finish: earthy bitterness, crackers, and toasty malts; nicely dry and bitter throughout.


urnamesucks (92), New York City, New York, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 20, 2008  
Very good if you enjoy hoppy beers. Tasted slightly summery, but an avergae pale ale.


 docsteigs (139), USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/103/513/20
Aug 19, 2008  
dark amber pour WAY over-carbonated w/ small spill; head reduces to thin white cap; smells of strong hops; tastes of strong bittering hops with bready aftertaste


 Underhook (162), Lincoln Park, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/513/20
Aug 17, 2008  
Great hoppy nose, dark amber pour, small thin head. Strong hop presence, some malt and orange undertones. Very good!


 ElGaucho56 (393), USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 16, 2008  
Pours a decent amber with a small ring of a head; nose is pleasant piney hops with a solid sweet pastry malt backbone. Grassy hops dominate the somewhat thin palate with a toasted cracker malt underpinning and a lingering herbal bitterness. More like some other breweries IPAs, although this itself is relatively hard to distinguish from smuttynose’s own IPA.



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