Locale: Portsmouth,
NH
Craft Circa: 1994
Style: American Pale Wheat Ale
ABV: 5.46%
Overall: What an appropriate beer for today. A string of hot and humid days here, and what
better way to end this run of Gainesville (shout
out to Gooner) Swamp like weather than to give this wheat ale a try. The beer pours almost as hazy as today, a
nice golden haze. It is lightly hopped,
and quite refreshing, but lacks tastiness.
Overall, it is an average beer.
For the style of beer, it’s above average. For a Smuttynose brew, it’s below
average. Probably my least favorite
Smuttynose I’ve consumed, and I’ve been impressed with a couple other Smutty’s
that I’ve tried. There are plenty of other
summer seasonal beers that are worth acquiring, and with so many options, I
feel this one does not stand out in a crowd of summer seasonals like a Seminole fan would at a Gator game
(Gooner again). There is just not enough
to it. There are some hints of what you may expect in a beer referring to
itself as a Summer Weizen, but that’s the point… they are only hints.
There’s
one person in mind that may be able to save this beer, with enough hard work
and enough prayer. This Man.
Acquisition: 6 pack - $9
Tidbits: Smuttynose is named after Smuttynose Island,
the third largest of the nine islands that comprise the Isles of Shoals, a
small, rocky archipelago that lies seven miles off the coast of New Hampshire
and Maine. The name appears on nautical charts going back as far as the
seventeenth century, so its true origins are lost to time. Prior to the arrival of Smuttynose Brewing,
the island was best known for a brutal double
axe murder that occurred there in 1873.
This is per Smuttynose website.
~gY
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