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BEER TO GO! Portsmouth Brewery growlers are available at the bar.

Visit our sister company, Smuttynose Brewing.

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The Brewery provides free wireless internet access.

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 The Portsmouth Brewery, New Hampshire's original brewpub, has been serving great food and outstanding handcrafted beers in a friendly, lively atmosphere since 1991. Please take a few minutes to explore this site. In it, you will find out about our company, our community, and our sister company, the Smuttynose Brewing Company.

We are open seven days a week, from 11:30 AM till 12:30 at night. Our kitchen is open till eleven PM on weekdays, till 12:30 on Friday and Saturday nights.

Please note, the descriptions of our beers on this site have been temporarily removed, due to a notice we recently received from the Federal Tax & Trade Bureau, which regulates beer advertising. The notice stated that federal regulations prohibit language stating or implying the alcoholic content of a beer, even when describing one beer in terms of another, as in the case of the description of our Imperial Porter, which we compared to our regular porter. Terms such as "strong" or "stronger" are strictly verboten, according to this notice.

We take that to mean that our Federal government doesn't trust you to make informed decisions about the beers you consume and doesn't want us to provide you with the basic information you need to make such decisions.

We'll get new descriptions up as soon as we bowdlerize them, removing all references to the strength of our beers, relative to each other. Thanks, Uncle Sam. We're happy you're looking out for us!

Cheers!

If you weren't able to join us on June 24th for Kate Day, here's a little sample of what you missed, courtesy of our friends Nancy & Brian at Altantic Media. The other day, over beers and lobsters, Tod revealed the date and time of the next Kate release, so let the countdown begin!

"A linchpin in the revitalized core of downtown Portsmouth, NH, the brewery that bears the name of this old maritime city is everything a small brewpub should be."
Boston Globe - May, 2006

Got a BIG PARTY? We've got a BIG TABLE for you. The Brewery's Big Table, located in our semi-private Ezra LaFleur Room seats up to twenty guests. Custom built for us by local craftsman Jack Kane, it's the largest restaurant dining table on the Seacoast. The Big Table is available for large parties, private functions, meetings and luncheons. Call ahead (603) 431-1115 or email us for availability.

ON TAP NOW at the PORTSMOUTH BREWERY...
To see what's on tap and the works, to read news from the brewhouse, or to post your own comments, please visit our Brewers Blog.

For detailed descriptions of all our beers as well as our brewery, click here.

Have a question or comment for Tod, our Head Brewer? Send him a note.

What's that wooden token for?
Every Tuesday at the Brewery is Community Pint Night. For each beer you buy, we'll donate 25¢ to a charity of your choice. It easy - on your way out the door, just place the tokens you've received in the yellow wooden box mounted next to our front door. We'll take care of the rest. So now you can do good by drinking well.

FUNDS FROM COMMUNITY PINT NIGHTS ARE CURRENTLY DONATED TO:
- New Hampshire SPCA
- Child Advocacy Center of Rockingham County
- Sexual Assault Support Services
- Krempels Brain Injury Foundation

If you would like to see a particular charity featured on our Community Pint Nights, contact us.

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Over the years, a lot of folks have asked us about the origins of the Jimmy LaPanza Lounge.