Smuttynose Headquarters is Certified LEED Gold

After a decade of planning and thorough documentation, Smuttynose’s Hampton headquarters is officially certified LEED Gold!

Craft brewers have always taken the road less travelled. That iconoclastic spirit has traditionally been manifest in creating, resurrecting, or interpreting a wide range of beer styles and choosing distinctive, engaging brands for their beers and businesses. Smuttynose Brewing Company has been certified LEED Gold for extending that enterprising spirit into the design, construction and functionality of its Hampton headquarters. The brewery’s headquarters is just the second brewery in the United States and the third industrial facility in New Hampshire to attain this certification.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a worldwide green building standard and accreditation program administered by the United States Green Building Council that creates benchmarks and criteria for environmentally responsible construction and operation of buildings. The decision to pursue LEED status is one of the first decisions made and cannot be taken lightly as it guides every part of the design and construction process.

“With climate change increasingly threatening the agricultural regions where malt and hops are grown, I knew it was important to make as many environmentally-considerate choices in building our new home in Hampton,” said Joanne Francis, Smuttynose’s Creative Director and Co-owner, “the decision to pursue LEED made the process more involved and more difficult in some places, but it put us in a much better position for longer term operations. One place we can’t and won’t cut corners is in our process and ingredients.”