Smartmouth Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Norfolk, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
1309 Raleigh Ave, Norfolk, VA, 23507, United States
Description
Since 2012, Smartmouth Brewing Co. makes beer, thinks beer, talks beer and drinks beer. Family Friendly. Free Parking. Casual.

THE UNEXAMINED BEER IS NOT WORTH BREWING

There comes a time in every man’s life when he must ask himself – Should I continue working my steady and lucrative job or should I just quit and make beer? Well, for Norfolk-native Porter Hardy, the decision was a no-brainer. In 2012, the former home-brewer (and now former lawyer) traded his ties in for tap handles, and never looked back. With a stellar team around him, Porter entered un-fermented waters as one of the original craft breweries to set up shop in Hampton Roads.

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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
16 ounce can thanks to hershiser2! 1/9/20. Hazy bronze, large foamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of grain, honey, caramel, hay, raisin. Kinda like raisin bran. Taste is piney hops, honey, cherry, grain, toast. Medium bodied, crisp. Solid.
Tried from Can on 10 Jan 2020 at 02:13

7/10
Tried on 24 Dec 2019 at 13:53

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12 oz can from jocs, 12/23/19. Pours a dark brown color with a large, fizzy, light brown colored head. Roast, chocolate, bit of coconut. Moderately sweet. Fizzy feel. Decent, but not quite there for me.
Tried from Can on 23 Dec 2019 at 21:55

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$2.10 can, WW. Pours black, or close to it, with a brown head. Cocoa, chocolate, coconut nose. Flavor is cocoa, metal, very light coconut, chocolate. Not artificial tasting, but tastes cheap... like cheap candy.
Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2019 at 00:42

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pours slightly hazy, bit darker blonde. Small white head. Smell is pine, bit fruity, malty, bit sweet impression. Not creamy like all the new hazecraze got us used to. Taste is medium full, pine, decent bitterness. Room is left for the malts to compete as well, creating a more than decent body, under a lower carbonation. Mildly fruity. Surprisingly easy to drink. Bit caramelly. Fun to drink this more 'classical' style of American IPA.
Tried on 24 Oct 2019 at 23:46

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$3.25 Pint can, WW. Hazy brown with an inch of tan head. Caramel candy, chocolate, cola, cream... somewhat artificial nose. Flavor is candied chocolate, caramel, brown leaf. A bit on the artificial or at least cheap side.
Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2019 at 02:21

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
16 oz can from jcos. Lighter amber color with a beige head. Spice forward aroma with lots of bready / grainy malts and a bit of a dark fruit (raisin?) type of thing as well. Bit of brown sugar / molasses comes through on finish. Solid.
Tried from Can on 03 Sep 2019 at 21:48

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Imported from my RateBeer account as Smartmouth Notch 9 Double IPA (by Smartmouth Brewing Company):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

18/VIII/19 - 12Fl. Oz. can from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a, canned: IV/2/19 - (2019-1259)
Clear blond to orange beer, small irregular white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very cheesy, pretty oxidized, weird as this just got in, old, honey, orange peel, more cheese. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, alcohol, fruity, oxidized, honey, sweet, more alcohol. Aftertaste: bitter, sugary, bit resinous, hoppy finish.
Tried from Can on 18 Aug 2019 at 22:10

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Cask at GBBF: Poured a hazy milky yellow with white head. Aroma is grapefruit juicy. Nice juicy fruit light citrus taste.
Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2019 at 16:31

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Small white rim over hazy ochre beer. Almost smell-deprive. Rainwater, some faintly toasted malts. Artichoke, cooked. Bitterish, bananapeel, lupulin, bitter baguette. Bit slick, low to medium carbonation, but a bit tittilating feel, all the same. Not exciting.
Tried on 18 Aug 2019 at 11:37