By Christopher Peake
 
Corporate growth and the environment too often find themselves unable to coexist, especially these days. But an established Portsmouth company is moving to Hampton and its goal is for its new building to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified.
 
Peter Egelston, president of Smuttynose Brewing Company, is a home brewer who has been in the craft beer business since 1987, when he and his sister opened the Northampton (Mass.) Brewery. They opened the Portsmouth Brewery in 1991, followed by Smuttynose Brewing in 1994.
 
The Hampton brewery site will be on Towle Road on the Towle Farm site, and Egelston plans to break ground sometime in the first half of 2010.
 
CP: What makes Smuttynose unique from other beers?
 
PE: Since its founding in 1994, Smuttynose Brewing has quietly built a reputation among beer lovers for its diverse portfolio of outstanding beers. Smuttynose was recently ranked 20th (out of more than five thousand breweries rated) on Beer Advocate Magazine's "All-Time Top Breweries on Planet Earth," and it was rated 33rd (among more than 8,700 breweries reviewed) on Rate Beer's 2009 Best Brewers in the World list.]
 
To read the whole story, click here!