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Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

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An English Pale Ale brewed by
Smuttynose Brewing Company

Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

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4503.39/5.03.39/5.05%96.1English pint, Shaker P  Stats

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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tylerss20 (89), New Hampshire, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/104/513/20

May 28, 2008  
Clear amber pour, with white crown that flees quickly. Not much nose, perhaps a bit of flour and yeast. Taste is pretty dry, and earthier than you’d expect from a pale. Surprising hop presence, though not overbearing bitterness. Pretty good overall.

 thornecb (1135), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Oct 8, 2008  
Pours amber into a shaker. White micro head with good retention leaves spots. English hop aromas. Well balanced and crisp with caramel and hops. Lasting resin finish.


 TeamTrappist (169), jericho, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/57/102/513/20
Oct 8, 2008  
On tap at Hop Devil. Poured a medium clear amber.Kind of a spicey malty nose. This was very crisp and clean with decent hops and a malty flavor and finish. Good session beer.


 BREWMUSKCLES (794), WEEHAWKEN, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Oct 5, 2008  
dark and hoppy with a dishdetergent like taste that is somewhat sweet astringent and tangy. seems almost like an ordinary beer at like 3x’s the strength. small wirey white head but with good body, the beer is fruity and a bit toffee like somewhat harsh in flavor and yet refined in body it is unbalanced with a grapefruit rind taste that arrives a few minutes after pouring just when the suds and fishwater exits. czeck like hop character that is 3x as strong and bitter and lngers on the tongue. compex, a bit strange and also good. the Brits could learn something.


 AdamSkillin (369), High Bridge, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 4, 2008  
I like the color on this, a little towards brown of a typical Pale Ale. Smuttynose wasn’t shy with the bittering hops, which is totally balanced by malty sweetness, and I find drinking this beer to be a generally very pleasant experience.


 gpekar (131), Sykesville, Md, Alabama, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Oct 2, 2008  
Poured a clear copper color with nice carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. There was a thin tan head that left light amount of lacing. A nice citrus aroma. There is a nice light crisp citrus flavor initially with a touch of sweetness. The flavor rolls into a mild bitteness that builds into the finish. A good combination of the citrus and sweetness initially followed by the hops.



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