Featured in the Portsmouth Herald

If you want to see what a company looks like at a time of rapid growth, visit Smuttynose Brewing Co. on Heritage Avenue in Portsmouth.

Every square foot, from floor to ceiling, is in productive use either brewing, bottling, packaging or preparing beer for shipment. Even the small lunchroom that once served as a hospitality area holds a 7,200 gallon cone-bottomed fermenting tank and an equally massive cylindrical conditioning tank where beer is stored while gravity slowly filters out sediments. Another tank will soon be added to the already tight space.

Smuttynose Brewing Co. had a breakout year in 2009 with revenues growing by more than 20 percent and is off to an even faster start in 2010, with January sales volume up 30 percent year over year. Read the full story here!