Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

(12 ounce bottle) Smuttynose has a good looking bottle. Pours a dense but small head, has great head retention though which leads to a nice lacing. Hoppy aroma with notes of pepper and citrus. Crisp hoppy taste. Carbonation is there though not at all overpowering, light crisp finish. 5% ABV makes this a good session beer.

12oz bottle. Pours a hazy copper color with a fine head of white foam that leaves a good amount of lace. Grain and malty sweetness and a touch of floral hops make the aroma. Great flavor balance goes from a citrus hop flavor to full sweet maltiness and finishes with a drying hop bitterness. A decent Smutty.

a nice pale ale, however, the problem with pale ales in general for an IPA drinker is a lack of overall taste and flavor or body. this is a good example of that. nice refreshing PA taste and crisp palate, but it leaves you wanting more body.

This one poured a nice copper color with a white head. Aroma was slightly grassy, a bit sweet and some herbal and citrus musty hops too. Flavor was light crisp pale ale, nice balance if slightly bitter hops and pale malt.

12oz bottle. Your basic pale ale here. Very drinkable, nice caramel taste with just enough hops. Very well done though nothing out of the ordinary for this style.

Bottle. Has the color of a tarnished penny and supports a dense but small head. Aromas of caramel and peppery spices with a little bit of citrus. Flavor has quite a bit of caramel and bready malt with lots of spice and bitter grassiness in the finish. Pretty decent stuff.

Bottle. Poured a clear pale golden, with a small white head. Aroma of citrus hops, with lemon & orange coming through. Some light sweet malt in there as well. Taset is similarly straight forward, with the hops hitting early and in the finish, plenty of citrus and a sweet malt backing. Mouth is medium. Overall, a nice basic APA.

Aspetto brillante e interessante ambrata chiara dalla schiuma bianca e persistente. Olfatto intrigante dalle morbide note di malto con sentori di caramello frutta secca e frutta caramellata con lievi sentori di tostato;la luppolatura è soffice e non eccessiva daalle leggere note verdi.. Al palato si presenta subito astringente e mediamente amara ma subito ritornano la note restoolfattive percepite al naso più pronunciate sulla nocciola senza nulla invidiare ad un nosiola del trentino.. In chiave generale ricorda molto una pale in stile inglese(vedi la perxcezione dei malti e dei luppoli) rivisitata in chiave americana(un amaro più pronunciato e astringente)...Good beer, very good! Cheers.. Pane e birra!!