Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

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

Pours a reddish amber with a medium, lingering white rocky head that leaves a moderate amount of lacing behind. An aroma of malts with mild touches of hops. Tastes of toasted malts with mild hops on a medium body. A pretty plesent beer.

I got this in a bottle from my local beer-joint. Pours a dark copper body with a small, off-white head. It has a slight citrus hop aroma. Malty, with a slight bitter finish. Drinkable.

(12 oz bottle: Chevy Chase Liquors in Washington, DC) This is a well-balanced pale ale, but it seems pretty ordinary to me. It’s somewhat toasty, minimally sweet, and the hops is citrusy, grassy and moderately bitter for an overall flavor that is consistent from start to finish. The nose is mostly just grassy hops with a hint of toast in the background. Light-medium bodied, trending pretty close to medium, carbonation is good, and the beer is very clean. The dark amber and hazy body is topped by a smallish off-white head that settles to a very wide ring while leaving a few large patches of lace on the glass. I was expecting much more from this beer, and maybe I should try another bottle just to be sure, but I don’t think it’s more than just an average pale ale. I don’t see what the fuss is about.

12oz. bottle. Dark amber color with a medium sized off white head. Citrus hop and biscuit malt aroma. The malt flavor hits me first, followed by a certain grassiness, finishing with a decent hop bitterness.

Pours a dark amber color with a creamy head that subsides quickly. Aroma is hoppy, has some honey and some wheat in it. Flavor is a tad bit bitter at first but the finish is smooth and sweet. It needs a few more hops to be a great pale ale but it already is a pretty good brew.

Bottle from dirtymike. Thanks! Pours a rich amber with a nose containing floral aromas and sharp hops. Flavor is nice and floral, with biting hops. A lingering smoke taste somehow appears in the finish. Palate is coating. This ain’t no session beer.

clouded dark brown. aroma iswell, contaminated sour oak notesand yeasty. tasted is hopped up wheat., so angry and acidic in the finish. it burns a bit. lingering smoke taste that makes me think it is up to something., not bad, but interesting.

Clear dark amber body, nice offwhite head. Modest malt aroma with just a little floral hops presence. Hops element is more apparent in the taste accompaning roasted malt. Lightly metallic and bitter aftertaste.