Garrison City Beerworks

Microbrewery in Dover, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Garrison City Beerworks

Established in 2013

Contact
455 Central Ave, Dover, NH, 03820, United States
Description
We are a 3bbl nanobrewery in New Hampshire's Seacoast, focused on bringing high quality, inventive craft beer to the region. Our main passion is the East Coast IPA, especially the ability of the hop to play such an integral role in taste and aroma. In addition to unfiltered IPAs, our smaller brewing capacity allows the ability to brew many one-off and experimental series outside of our core beer; pilsners, fruited sours, Goses and stouts and constantly rotating through our tanks.

Our tap room is located in Dover, NH, offering samples and pints of all of our 10 current drafts. With our 3bbl size, we are able to constantly rotate beer selections, so every time you come in you'll find new offerings and interpretations of a variety of beer styles.

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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from the Brewery Slightly hazy orange amber color with a decent sized long lasting bubbly white head. Big raspberry nose as soon as the cap comes off. Tart lemons and a touch of nail polish round this out. Huge raspberry flavor light earthy funk light body big carbonation. Decent brew.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2015 at 19:03

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle purchased at the brewery. Amber color with a slight pink hue. Good Lord this is highly carbonated! Slow canted pour produced massive head that lasted forever. Aroma is like they let the brew age on raspberries (nice dry hopping), very fresh with tons of Berry. Berry comes out in a big way.

The flavor shows the Brettanomyces and a spicy display of the Sorachi Ace hops. Spicy hop bite with a moderate amount of bitterness. In the very backend of the sip the Berry is just a hint with more of the herbal / spicy hop overriding the berries. The raspberry is way more notable in the aroma.

This is a very fun brew with a creative recipe. Overall different and pleasant enough to drink but I’m not convinced it is worth $15.00 a bottle. However, if you have a chance to try it, do so.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2015 at 15:04

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Crowler from the brewery Slightly hazy deep golden color with a huge bubbly bone white head that persists forever. Dripping with juicy fruits from the moment that I crack open the can. Resinous and slightly sweet aromas as I dive in a little deeper. Raw pine and resinous hop flavors with lots of citrus and juicy fruits and hints of sweet bread and a bit more than a touch of smoke. different, but good.
Tried from Crowler on 19 Sep 2015 at 18:47

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Poured from crowder thanks Airforcehops. Pours amber with a quickly fading white head. Aromas of pine and dank grapefruit. Taste is mild citrus up front with a bitter lingering pine finish. It’s ok.
Tried on 13 Sep 2015 at 20:00

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32 oz. crowler purchased at Craft Beer Cellar, Portsmouth. Poured this into a snifter golden / amber color with fast dying head. Aroma on this is very nice, floral hops in front of fruit and light hints of pine.

Flavor shows some caramel sweetness and fruit hints upfront. Medium bodied. Good bitterness although a bit abrasive after a while. The resin shows up and is like chewing on a simcoe hop pellet. Body is on the lighter side of medium with the pine hop pellet drying out the finish.
Tried from Crowler on 13 Sep 2015 at 15:48

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Crowler from Drinkery Derry. Pours a hazy tang color with a smallish bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Big citrus with some bitter pith, pine and a touch of tropical fruit. Light bready toasty maltiness provides some balance. Great easy drinking ipa, a bit toasty but I liked it.
Tried from Crowler on 23 Jun 2015 at 16:19

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Crowler from The Drinkery Derry. Hazy light golden color with a decent sized off white head that lingers. Great hop nose with a noticeable earthy funk that at times clashes with the hop bouquet. Earthy funky spicy with some solid citrus and tropical fruits as well as bits of pine and resin from the hop. Decent drinker but I’d grab something else for this brewery before I grabbed this again.
Tried from Crowler on 13 Jun 2015 at 15:40

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Crowler from The Drinkery Derry Solid black color with a huge mocha head that persists forever. Huge chocolate aroma milk and dark with bits of caramel light fruit and earth. The taste again is huge chocolate, rich and luscious with hints of dark pitted fruit, light brown sugar and hints of earthy hop flavor. Light hop bitterness, just enough to keep from cloying and to let the chocolate shine through. Medium to medium thick body light to moderate level of carbonation with a creamy silky velvety mouthfeel. Huge chocolate flavor like a brown porter would have but thick and creamy, I’m a fan!
Tried from Crowler on 08 Jun 2015 at 17:25

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Crowler from The Drinkery Derry Solid black color thick mocha head. Heavy chocolate on the aroma with bits of roast smoke earth brown sugar, and light dark fruits. The flavor follows the aroma but adds a bit of tobacco. Medium to thick body with a moderate level of carbonation. That’s a pretty damn good sweet stout.
Tried from Crowler on 07 Jun 2015 at 16:03

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Draft at Cask and Vine. Pours a murky dark straw color like fresh grapefruit juice with a bubbly white head that dissipates rather quickly. Huge earthy pine with some dankness, citrus and tropical fruits. Light bready malt in the aroma I think. the flavor has a hint of sweet bread and a whole lot of fruity juicy dank hop goodness. Holy hell that is a damn fine IPA right there! NH might have something to give VT a run for its money!
Tried from Draft on 06 Jun 2015 at 21:20