Smuttynose Brewing Company

A small piece of Portsmouth, N.H. is headed west. Smuttynose Brewing today announced new distribution agreements with two of L. Knife & Son Companies craft-focused wholesale operations in California: San Diego-based Craft Beer Guild Distributing of California and Los Angeles area’s El Dorado Distributing.

Portsmouth, NH — Smuttynose Brewing Company is delighted to announce their new partnership with West Side Distributing, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who will bring New Hampshire’s leading craft brewer’s beers to the Wolverine State starting in October, 2013. The deal with West Side makes Michigan the 23rd state (plus Washingotn DC) where Smuttynose beers are… Read more »

Smuttynose Brewing Company is proud to announce its partnership with San Diego’s Stone Brewing Co. for the New Hampshire brewer’s first collaboration brew, Cluster’s Last Stand. Cluster was once the king of American-grown hops (at one point, the variety made up 90% of all the hops grown in the America), but is now considered passé.

In preparation for the addition of 60,000 new barrels of capacity, Smuttynose Brewing Company will expand distribution into Indiana, the 22nd state where the company’s beers will be sold. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based craft brewery has signed a wholesale agreement with Cavalier Distributing-Indiana and will begin selling in the Hoosier state at the end of June.

They’ve got a powerful ally in a governor who has sworn to veto it, but a proposed tax hike on beer sold in New Hampshire has nevertheless agitated beer producers and distributors across the state. As proposed, House Bill 168 would raise the excise tax on beer sold from a wholesaler to a retailer by… Read more »

Smuttynose Brewing today announced the return of its Big A IPA and the debut of a new ‘Big Beer’ series offering, Zinneke. Big A IPA, formally a year-round offering, was discontinued in April and moved into the company’s rotational lineup. Smuttynose will now only brew 100 barrels of the beer a month, until January, and… Read more »

July may have been the hottest month on record in the U.S. but that hasn’t stopped the traditionally cooler-weather crop of pumpkin beers from encroaching on the summer season. According to Phillipsburg, N.J.-based Hunterdon Distributors, pumpkin beer sales set a record last month.