Smuttynose Star Island Single

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

Poured from bottle. Malt and spice in aroma. A cloudy amber with lacing head. I taste malt, spice and dried fruit, with floral notes in backtaste. Nice finish. Enjoyable brew.

12oz bottle purchased as part of a multi-12pack at Shaw’s in Derry. Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow body with a short-lived inch of off-white head. Smells citrussy, slightly pulpy and pithy, with some lemon zest and hints of of grassy and floral hops. Tastes initially malty, with some pepper, lemon, orange, with some huskiness, hints of honey, butter, grass, and some slightly floral notes. Light and effervescent on the palate with a fair bit of carbonation, making this brew a fairly easy drinker. Not the best example of the style, the slight huskiness adds a slight astringency in my opinion, though this is still a pretty easy drinker. Not a bad summer beer.

(Bottle, Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, spicy nose with apricots, mandarin and spices (coriander seed?). Fruity, spicy taste with notes of apricots, citrus and a moderate, spicy bitterness in the finish. Light body and fairly dry. Leaning in the saison direction without really getting there. Decent and drinkable.

Bottle. Pours a dark orange with nice haze. The aroma is funky sweet malt. The Taste is sweet malt, some spice that is sort of offensive.

12oz bottle from Total Wine (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally clear golden yellow with thin white head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of wheat, grass, hay, yeast, bread, caramel, light honey. Flavor is sweet and wheaty with notes of honey, bread, yeast, light ripe fruit, light floral esters. Generally light to medium body with a refreshing finish.

cloudy dark gold with a very small head. sour lemon and grain aroma. very dry palate and not much flavor. a bit sour. maybe a hint of white grape. not really good. tasteless actually.

I liked this one. pours out a dark dingy yellow color with a huge head. aroma was sweet and slightly fruity. flavor seemed dry with a spicy finish. a nice brew.

It pours deep gold with copper hues and thin white head. The mild aroma has grapes, apples and hints of spices mingling around. The taste is punctuated by an above average level of carbonation pushing up notes of sweet malts along with a smooth mellow mix of apples, light colored grapes and raisins. By midway and to the finish it becomes a bit grainy and malty and those flavors overshadow the milder fruity notes.