Shoals Pale Ale - Smuttynose Brewing Co. - Portsmouth, NH

Shoals Pale Ale Stats
Fluid ounces: 12
ABV: 5.0%
IBUs: 30

Sure, the brewer's name is hilarious, but that doesn't sell beer. Okay, so it sold me this one (Dig that serenely boring scene on the label!). But would I buy it again?

Yes, I think I would. The Shoals Pale Ale has got a nice hoppy flavor to it, and some bitterness on the backend that doesn't overpower, unlike some other beers I've recently sampled.

Somewhere in the range of a B+ is where this one falls on my rudimentary and poorly informed scale. It's pretty good, you could drink several of them in one sitting (and I did), but probably not my first choice off the shelf.

Smuttynose Brewing Co.