Portsmouth Brewery to Celebrate 20th Anniversary

New Hampshire’s Original Brewpub celebrates 20th Anniversary with a Sampler of Special Events
(For Immediate Release- May 23,2011)

Portsmouth, NH -- In 1991, a young, but experienced brother and sister duo, Peter and Janet Egelston, opened New Hampshire’s first brewpub at 56 Market Street in Portsmouth. It was their second venture, having cut their teeth five years prior when they opened the Northampton Brewery in Massachusetts. Since opening, The Portsmouth Brewery has grown from being the quirky new kid on the block to being hailed by the Boston Globe as “a linchpin in the revitalized core of downtown Portsmouth.” “The Brewery,” as much a nickname as an indicator of its stature amongst Seacoast residents, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with three special events starting on June 1.

The brewery’s anniversary date, Wednesday June 1, will serve as both the kick-off for the busy summer season as well as a birthday party. New beer glasses will line the back bar, staff will don new work shirts, and a selection of 20th Anniversary t-shirts, glassware and other apparel will be available in the retail store. Another commemoration of this milestone will be a special 20th Anniversary Beer, brewed with 20 malts, by 20 brewers making 20 hop additions and starting at 20˚ Plato will also be tapped. The beer is a hoppy version of an “old ale,” a traditional British-style strong ale noted for pronounced caramel and roasted malt flavors. Video footage from the brew will be trickling out online at Portsmouth Brewery TV over the next week. There will be a candle-blowing ceremony and pub-wide beer and cake toast at 5:30pm. We hope you’ll help us pack the place for this special moment.

The next two days will see business as usual but with a few extra decorations appearing around the pub. But on Saturday June 4, regular service will end early (last seating-5:30, last call-6:30 and closing-7) so that staff can transform the Portsmouth Brewery into downtown's rarest music venue, a nod the pub’s early days when live music was regularly booked.

Seacoast MC's BCap and Face of Fate will be throwing down their hypest set in the Seacoast yet! Backed by DJ Ryan Obermiller, their always improvised hip-hop a la of freestyle and soul, allows the trio, affectionately known as TheDodgerz or ThePressMCs, to ebb and flow seamlessly with their audiences. These MCs have collaborated and shared stages with such artists as Nas, The Roots, Myka9, Boyz II Men, Slick Rick and more. Ryan Obermiller is a staple in the electronic music scene both as a DJ and show promoter, bringing top rated international DJs to Portsmouth for nearly a decade now.

This is a 21+ show and ID must be shown at the door. Admission is FREE and WXGR will be broadcasting the entire show live. Doors open at 9pm while the show starts around 10. We strongly encourage you to bring cash for the bar for ease of service; all that dancing is bound to make you thirsty!

The final event of the schedule cranks down the intensity for a lazy Sunday, June 5. Portsmouth Brewery will open its doors for an indoor, city center cook-out. The wild energy from the night before and in its place will be long tables for community style seating. The patio will be filled with grills and all the fixins you’d expect to find at a typical New England cook-out.

If live music isn’t your cup of tea, then Sunday will certainly be your day to celebrate.
The kitchen staff will emerge from their subterranean lair to man the grills while live acoustic music fills the air and puts you into backyard relaxation mode. It’s a perfect setting to make some new friends while enjoying pints of our anniversary beer alongside your grilled treats. Please bring the whole family!

Doors will open at 10:30am and a $10 entrance fee at the door will give you tickets redeemable for a plate of food and a pint of beer. Additional beer and food tickets are available for $5 each. The menu will be reminiscent of a cook-out and this is yet another event at which cash in encouraged. The LaPanza Lounge will be open for extra seating as well.

We can’t thank the entire community of Portsmouth enough for their support over the last two decades. We hope you’ll join us for these special events and that’ll you’ll want to come celebrate with us. Event update will be posted on our Facebook page, which is also a great place to go if you’ve got questions and don’t want to use 1990’s technology, like a telephone.


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The Portsmouth Brewery, New Hampshire's original brewpub, has been serving great food and award-winning, handcrafted beers in a friendly, lively atmosphere since 1991.

For more information, please contact

JT Thompson, Minister of Propaganda, Portsmouth Brewery
jt@smuttynose.com
603-436-4026 x 26

Smuttynose Wins Two Medals in Europe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Portsmouth NH –9 November 2010

Smuttynose’s Second Trip to Europe This Year is Twice as Nice

Smuttynose Wheat Wine Ale and Smuttynose Robust Porter each won a gold medals at
2010’s European edition of Mondial de la Biere, held in Strasbourg, France. An
international panel of experienced judges awarded two of only fourteen gold medals
to the Portsmouth, NH brewer, which was the only American brewery to claim hardware.
Both beers are previous gold medal winners at the Great American Beer Festival,
with Wheat Wine Ale taking a gold in 2005 and Robust Porter taking a gold in 2001.

In a world of style-shredding beers, the Mondial de la Biere is one of the few
competitions that takes a post-style approach to judging. Instead of each brewery
choosing the categories in which to enter its beers, judges nominate each beer into
a style category. The winners are then chosen through a numerical scoring system.
Beers can be entered into multiple style categories but each beer can only win one
medal and awarded medals aren’t tied to a specific style. “This unique judging
format really opens the door for a lot brewers who, like us, don’t brew exactly to
style,” says David Yarrington, Smuttynose’s Director of Brewing Operations,
“Obviously, we’re really grateful that the folks at the Mondial have taken such a
unique approach to beer judging.”

This year was the second edition of the Strasbourg Mondial de la Biere. The
original Mondial began in Montreal in 1994 and has become one of the world’s premier
beer festivals, offering not only a wide range of beers to sample but a successful
educational program as well. The festival is the premier international beer event
in North American and is world renowned, expecting around 100,00 visitors next year.
This year’s French edition hosted 16,000 attendees (up 5% from last year), showing
how rapidly craft beer culture is spreading, even in areas that are traditionally
considered wine country.

The wins continue a great run for Smuttynose in European competition. The brewery’s
Big A IPA won the Michael Jackson Award, given to the Best American Beer at the
Great British Beer Festival in August of this year. European interest in craft
beer, and American craft beer in particular, is booming, and Smuttynose is exploring
options by which it can join this European beer renaissance. The medals, which
would have simply been a nice surprise in days past, may now open a door to new
markets.

Smuttynose Brewing Company is New Hampshire’s leading craft brewery. Founded in
1994, Smuttynose brews more than 20 different styles of beer, which are distributed
in 19 different states, including the entire East Coast. Its beers have won many
awards both domestically and abroad and have been featured in publications as
diverse as “Wine Enthusiast,” “Men’s Journal,” and “The New York Times.”


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