Smuttynose Brewing Company
Smuttynose Brewing Company was founded in 1994 by Peter Egelston and his sister Janet in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is named after Smuttynose Island off the New Hampshire coast. After financial difficulties, the brewery was sold at a foreclosure auction in March 2018, purchased by Runnymede Investments, and subsequently operated under the entity Finestkind Brewing. In December 2024, Finestkind merged with Mass. Bay Brewing Company to form Barrel One Collective, making Smuttynose part of the largest craft brewing group in New England. Production at the Hampton, NH facility was paused as operations consolidated, though hospitality at the Hampton campus continues.
Beers by Smuttynose Brewing Company
3 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Smuttynose Brewing Company brew across 2 style families.
Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 368 other breweries brewing American IPA and New England IPA:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Old Brown Dog Ale
Their beers place in the Top 65% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Smuttynose Brewing Company
Smuttynose Brewing Company was founded in 1994 by Peter Egelston and his sister Janet in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is named after Smuttynose Island off the New Hampshire coast. After financial difficulties, the brewery was sold at a foreclosure auction in March 2018, purchased by Runnymede Investments, and subsequently operated under the entity Finestkind Brewing. In December 2024, Finestkind merged with Mass. Bay Brewing Company to form Barrel One Collective, making Smuttynose part of the largest craft brewing group in New England. Production at the Hampton, NH facility was paused as operations consolidated, though hospitality at the Hampton campus continues.
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