Smuttynose Bouncy House
What is Bouncy House? It’s the next step in our quest to brew the perfect low-alcohol, high-flavor, hoppy American ale. We learned a few things from brewing ParadoX earlier this year, like lowering the alcohol content and avoiding the terms "session" and "IPA."
When you taste Bouncy House, you’ll taste a modest malt bill of North American 2-row, British pale ale malt, C-60 and Aromatic malt mashed for a refreshingly light body that leaves plenty of spotlight for a melange of Warrior, Calypso, El Dorado and Citra hops.
When you taste Bouncy House, you’ll taste a modest malt bill of North American 2-row, British pale ale malt, C-60 and Aromatic malt mashed for a refreshingly light body that leaves plenty of spotlight for a melange of Warrior, Calypso, El Dorado and Citra hops.
3.3
292 reviews
Hampton, United States
Community reviews
355 ml bottle. Clear golden body with a medium sized white head. Aroma is mostly fruity with a hint of metal. Something here reminds me a bit of Perry. Flavor is mild, pale malt, some citric fruit and moderate bitterness. Medium body and light aftertaste. Pretty straight forward, but also very close to the best before date, so I assume this was a lot better a few months ago.
Bottle. Pours golden with an off-white head. Aroma of pear, metallic notes, peach and malt. FLavor is sweet and fruity with some bitterness and peach. Medium to thin body, average carboantion.
Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, light bread, grass, light spicy hops, old hops. Flavor is malt, grass, light spicy hops, citrus. Thin to medium body, average carbonation, light bitter finish. 160316
Bottle @ DØE meeting. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 160316
Bottle 1 year past its date so should be awful. Not so. Meant to be drunk ’fresh’ as a session IPA. Pours slightly hazy with good firm head which lasts throughout. Scent slightly subdued now, orange and light piney with some malt sweetness. Flavour is now much more malt based. Sweeter, balanced (previously too upfront and bitter, hardly any malt backbone) and soft orangey, piney, herbal taste. smooth mouthfeel and less prickly. Interesting tast which (to me) prooves that you can easily age IPAs without it going off or deteriorates. It just changes, sometimes and in this case, for the better.
Ich muss sagen das ich kein grosser Freund von Session IPAs bin und ausserdem hat die von mir verköstigte Flasche schon den langen Weg über den grossen Teich hinter sich. Ich weiss also nicht ob die Hopfenaromen noch vollwertig durchschimmern............aber es ist durchaus erstaunlich wie sehr die üppigen IBUs (61) am Gaumen haften bleiben und durchaus fruchtig und erfrischend ist der ganze Spass auch. Bemerkenswert!!!!! Aus dem CRAFT BEER STORE HH.... 1 fuffzig.
Nice tasty and easy drinkable session ale.
Hazed golden color with a fine white head. Ok lacing on the glass. Ok intensity in the aroma. Medium body and a fine carbonation. Ok balance between sweetness and bitterness. More citrus than citric, malty, and passion fruit in the flavor.
[Bottle from Gulating in Lørenskog, Norway]
Old 12oz bottle into tasting glass. Pours a mixed caramel gold. Aroma of wheat, pine, hops. Taste of green valleys, mild pine, loose orange peel, saturated melon, off course grain. Mixed well in the boil, this slides down effortlessly, good session.
Golden with a white head - Malt and some citrus hops in the aroma - Malt body with a nice hop profile that has somr citrus and fruity notes to it - The hops goes into the finish with some fruity dryness - This was nice
355 ml flaske fra Gulating Arendal. Klar sprudlende oransjegyllen kropp med et lyst lavt skumdekke. Frisk og innbydende marmelade, furunåler og tropiske frukter i nesa. Tynn, tørr, bitter og humlearomatisk. Et snev av noe metallisk.
Draft at Rattle n Hum West with Brendan. Pours a clear golden body with thin white lacing. Nose is grains and malt. Mouthfeel is light bodied with notes of stale malt, bread, grain and spice. Bland.
Bottle. This is more of a standard, run-of-the-mill, buy-a-six-pack beer than anything else, but you can’t hate it for doing what it does perfectly fine. The flavor is subdued, but there’s still a perceptible IPA hop taste and aroma, and the lowered alcohol level is appreciated in the right settings (at lunch, for example). I’d probably rather have a well made 4.9% APA, but this little guy is a perfectly fine substitute.
Tap @ Rattle West w James. Watery bland useless. Only worthwhile points are that it’s a bit lively in terms of body/carbonation and the aroma has some wet wet hop character. Way too wet though.
Re-rate on 2.13.16 with Erica at Northern Bell. Not as bad as above but not great. Didn’t need to be so harsh.
Orange color with white foam layer. Light sour nose. The taste combines an active carbonation with a moderate sourness and a nice bitterness. Spicy bitter aftertaste.
Tap. Pale milky golden, fluffy offwhite head. Dish soap nose, a bit perfumed. Medium light, somewhat flat body. Light papery maltiness, grassy, light floral. A bit meh
Hazy orange-copper color with white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, piney, very fruity. Taste is tart-fruity, sweet tropical fruits, light-bodied, dry finish. Quite high carbonation. A very good Session IPA, especially because of the tartness that fits.
Draught. Slightly cloudy dark orange with large foamy off-white head, faint piney aroma, high carbonation, bitter hoppy taste, long hoppy finish. Very highly carbonated for an IPA.
Had a sic pack stick around in my fridge for a long time. Stupid branding and terribly weak and unenjoyable. First bad offering from Smutty.
Tap (IPA bar, Berlin). Barwa ciemno zlota, piana bialo-szara, ladnie krazkujaca. Aromat delikatny, owocowy. W smaku cytrusowo-owocowe z leciutkim kwaskiem na finiszu. Lekkie w odbiorze, pijalne i orzezwiajace z wyrazna, cytrusowa goryczka.
On bottle from Gulating Ølutsalg, Strømmen. Cloudy golden color, good foam. Medium aroma intensity; hop dominated, also good citrus and fruitiness- also caramel and vanilla.Medium body & complexity. Good bitterness and balance. Enjoyable
Crisp, very slightly hazy golden coloured body with a dense, two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of light citrus, a touch of pine and a lot of water - not much going on in the nose. Light-bodied; Very mild flavour of pineapple and resin with almost no malt at all and only a faint note of hops. Aftertaste is bland and very watery - this really isn’t a beer - this is like pineapple water with carbonation. Overall, I’m surprised that this is anywhere close to 3,0% abv - this is very water with only a faint note of any flavour at all - and there is no malt in here, seemingly. If you want a beer with absolutely no flavour but a touch of pineapple and hops, you’ve found the right beer; otherwise, if you like flavour at all - steer clear of this one, it’s way too mild! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 12-July-2015 for US$1,69 sampled at home in Washington on 12-October-2015 just three months later.
11.10.2015, 0,35l bottle @ home:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet concentrated grassy, leafs, sugar, lawn, hops, caramel malts, hay, hints of dried fruits. Taste is slightly dry grassy, weeds, leafs, minerals, hay, lawn, hops, bark, paper, soap, pine needles. Medium to longlasting bitterness, kind of watery mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Golden color , some haziness. Medium-sized, white head. Malt , citrus and hint of yeasts (?) in aroma. Moderate bitterness in hoppy taste . Decent , everyday beer.
Bottle at home on lazy rainy afternoon. Orange beer with small sudsy head. Nose is light exoctic fruits and candy. Tastes of grapefruit rind, straw, banana, passion fruit, candy. Slight watery palate
Bottle. Pours in amber body, little bit hazy, low white head. Aroma has honey malty sweetness, light strawberry, floral. Taste has pretty high earthy bitterness, low balanced maltiness. Body is full, medium carbonation.
Not the best session IPA, but it’s not bad. Very light golden color. Aroma is earthy, malty, hops, citrus. Flavor is well balanced, it isn’t super bitter. It seems a little watery like a watered down IPA though.
Bottle at GBBF, Olympia, London, 2015. Hazy gold pour with a white head. Aromas of dessert pear and sweet citrus. Flavours of bitter herb and citrus. Quite nice.
Pours a clear gold. A faint malt, hop and grain aroma. A malt, wheat, yeast, citrus, pine and grain taste. A dry aftertaste from the malt and grains.
.3l on tap @Harry’s. Pours cloudy pale yellow with low head. Aroma is yeast malts, citrus, exotic fruits, hops. Flavor is malts, hops, exotic fruits, resin, grape fruits.
slightly cloudy gold to light amber color; floral, citrusy hop aroma; light, grassy, floral hops with citrus notes on a light cereal malt base