Earth Eagle Brewings

Nice place in downtown Portsmouth. They do flights and they have 8 taps with all own beers. Good to get new NH ticks.

Small place, I came in through an alley entrance. Small patio. Looks like an old workshop of some sort. Bar and high tables, rustic, worn vibe. Good music! Great service too. Beer was hit or miss. Fun little, quirky place

Small place, kind of a hole in the wall. Good ambiance with a bunch of cool decorations hanging all over the joint. Food is absolutely fantastic, service is good, actually a really cool place to hang out.

I haven't been here since they were just a home brew shop and massage parlor, glad to finally get to check out the place that makes all the fine beer I've had elsewhere. Somewhat industrial space with a small square bar area as you walk in. There's an outside beer garden with twice the space and most tables have shade. A dozen beers on tap and only one gruit today. I had a great strawberry blond and a really nice stout here today. They have food looks like dogs and sandwiches. We didn't try any but they looked interesting. Cans and bottles to go. Seems priced in line with the area. Most taps $6 North country cider is $8 a can for some reason. Id go back for the beer or to try one of the hot dogs.

Nice homey converted warehouse space. Service is polite and prompt. Beer is good and a number of interesting selections. Food is so-so and it is pricey.

Right downtown and just a few blocks from Portsmouth, this is a quaint little place. 10 house taps plus 4 guest taps on when we visited. Flights of 6 available for $12. Beer styles were whacky, with a couple of gruits on. Wasn’t enamoured with the beers, but a few were done alright. Not a top spot, but maybe worth a look.

Visited on quiet Monday but small place was quite packed up. Door is on the alley and gives cold chills but no reason to back up. 14 taps (11 own beers and 3 from visiting breweries). Half pours and 4oz pours available. Growler fills and some merchandise too. Strange combination of gruits, traditional ales and IPAs. Even sahti on tap but actually I think it was not real sahti but one of those heavily "junipered" American sahtis. Interesting charmful hippie music from 60-70. Very interesting place and actually Iiked this one very much. Reminds me from one of my favorite bars in Finland. Must place for hardcore beer travelers.

Stopped for dinner and drinks on a Sunday in late June 2016. Cool intimate space. Bar seats about 8, tables for another 20+. Decent crowd, but not crowded. Seven of their own beers, and seven guest taps when I went. Food menu seemed a touch high on a few items, but our bowls (lotus, and jambalaya) were pretty awesome. As my wife reminded me, we all too often think “like Americans” and expect price to reflect quantity, not quality. The food price here reflects the latter, and the quantity is enough to feel sated, especially while drinking. For having “only” seven of their own beers on, they cover a nice array of styles, with a saison, a kolsch, two sour gruits, a weizenbock, porter, and an IPA. The guest taps offered a few more styles, and a cider. Worth a stop, and this may fit in our travel plans for dinner stops in the future.

This place has hired two brewers assigned with overlooking two different brewing methods. One primarily does ales: typically, IPAs/DIPAs, porters, stouts, browns, and English-based bitters. The other is a forager, who is often responsible for disgusting herbal throw-up beer prevalent in the 12th century. I really did enjoy the sour beer they made with sweet gale, it’s just when they have a wormwood, anise and pine bark ale on along with four other beers that taste nothing else but Everlcear and toothpaste, I start to worry. I’m really glad to see that they finally fixed their flight glass problem. If you had ordered a flight a few years ago chances are high they came in these big chunks of wood with the wrong sizes for the holes. The glasses often would get stuck and took quite a bit of prying to get them loose. It was frustrating to say the least but also managed to be mildly amusing among wildly drunk patrons including myself. Sandwiches were just plainly alright when the kitchen first opened, and they were pricey too. A few years whoosh by and their sandwich game has been stepped up thoroughly, totally worth the price they’re asking for. Their IPA bases are astonishingly good and juicy. Yeah, it’s a young white hipster’s paradise. And I don’t even mean this as an insult. The people who come in for drinks are generally always ridiculously friendly and engaging. Only a small portion are pompous windbags. Bartenders know their shit, though it’s usually not totally free from at least somewhat impatient sass directed at order-lingering customers who say "um..." upon looking at their menus after sitting down. Cool decor, fun, jiving music (live music is a nightly thing now). I’ll be back most certainly. I felt like I was swimming against a heavy current just to walk up to the bar. This place has always been crawling with people, and sometimes their pets, even. I mean, this is Portsmouth after all. A tiny operation serving gruits and IPAs will now be trendy because of its uniqueness. Not necessarily "bad", but it also doesn’t really mean anything. My brain has this habit of unintentionally questioning whether or not they started brewing gruits just to be different, or because they genuinely believed that they could make a great addition to the style. And for as much I know, they have. However, I don’t think that I’m ever going to not worry about if new gruits on their tap line will actually be worth it or a revolting mess. I’ve had a lot of strange, uninteresting, and nasty Medieval-resurrected beer at this place, some of which I’d prefer not to remember. But you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, I guess.

Visited later in the afternoon on a Monday. They have a small parking lot, but there is street Parking and a garage close by if that is full. Small taproom with ten or so tables, plus a bar and some patio tables. Great variety of styles brewed, plus some guest drafts and a cellar bottle list. The beer I had was all very good. Pricing was fine. I had a flight of 7 beers. Highly recommend visiting when in Portsmouth.