Portsmouth, NH

[chicanuck]

I work down in New England quite often and there are tonnes of great craft beer options; I am currently in Portsmouth, NH for the week. I am impressed at the beer bar options in Portsmouth given it's size, there is an unbelievable choice of craft beers on tap at various bars downtown. Of course the Portsmouth Brewery Company is top shelf, I spent an hour tonight talking IPA's with their assistant brewer......he is pumped to try Nash's beer on his planned Halifax visit this summer. There is also the British Beer Company with over 35 taps and several cask taps, great England ales on cask with local craft ales available.

Then last night I just walk by a shitty looking place called the Thirsty Moose Taphouse with a crappy sign that claims they have over 100+ taps.....I say bullshit, probably 100 different bud light lime taps. Fuck me........they have 116 - 20L keg taps with Coors Light and Bud light being the only true macro beers......their menu was 6 pages long of awesomeness and had all the micro big guns like Stone, Dogfish, Flounders, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, etc. If you are visiting Portsmouth, you need to visit Portsmouth Brewing Company Brewpub and the Thirsty Moose Taphouse.

- chicanuck

Note: Sorry for the shitty photo.....I counted, easily over 100 craft taps.

[mr x]

And a hockey game.

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[LeafMan66_67]

Yes - impressed there's a hockey game on.

[chalmers]

Nice find! Kinda like the Great Lost Bear in Portland, which we've nicknamed Moe's Family Feed Bag: looks like a gimmicky restaurant with only Coors on tap, but has well over 100 excellent beers.


While in Portsmouth, head across the bridge to Black Birch. Small but excellent tap list, really enjoyed the food.

[TimG]

Yup, enjoyed my time in Portsmouth a lot in previous years! Will be back for sure.

[Albert]

+1 on Portsmouth Brewing...we tried to stump our waitress with beer questions and man she knew her stuff.. even knew the farm the hops came from for the one off one hop pale ale they had on at the time, turns out she was the brewmaster's wife! Its nice asking a server about beer and not getting responses like: "oh it's a darker beer...its kinda hoppy etc.."

Also check out Gary's Beverages: https://goo.gl/maps/qWzmL" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like a sketchy convenience store on the wrong side of the tracks from the outside, but inside they have wall to wall stacks of micros and hard to find beers. Too much to list from memory but a couple I remember bringing back were Stone Ruination & Arrogant Bastard, Old Rasputin, SN Torpedo & PA & Allagash Black.
Cheers,

AL