Vienna
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Amber / Vienna Rotating|
Score
6.55
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Our take on the classic European amber lager. It has bright reddish highlights and a pronounced bready malt aroma reminiscent of its Austrian counterparts. The flavor plays slightly toward caramel and toasted lager malt but remains balanced and drinkable with a clean finish perfect for a summer session.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pours clear amber with a thick white head. Aroma of sweet malt and bread punctuated by dry hops. Mouthfeel is light, pine and hopped malt are the most notable influences. Palate includes slight spice and a very unfamiliar hop taste. Really good vienna, probably the best one I've had.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2019
at 23:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown squat bottle poured into a glass. Clear caramel with medium/small white head. Aroma is bready malt, medium/light body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt and crisp hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2018
at 00:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Kroger bottle. Pours golden with a small off-white head. Aroma is brown leaf, grasses. Flavor is brown grasses and leaves, caramel, light bread. Not a ton of flavor. Finishes dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2018
at 23:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at The Torpedo Room. Pours bright copper with a yellowish tinged off-white head. Smells of roasty malt in an amber way. Light obscure hop note. Med body. Flavor is roasty malt with an interesting secondary malt flavor. Sort of whole wheat bread crust (flavor). Light hop, but enough to stave off the maltiness. This is a style I don’t normally enjoy, but this one is enjoyable.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2018
at 20:39
6/10
Clear gold amb bod med fizzy wht head. Spicy bready arma. Spicy bready toffee flav. Med bod mod carb. 6/4/6/3/13 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2018
at 19:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
So Sierra Nevada brewed up a batch of Sam Adams, and you know what? It ain't bad. I mean, Vienna Lagers only go so far with me, but Sierra Nevada's version hits all the right notes, with caramel and white bread and hints of toast against faint red apple and pine with a modest floral bitterness on the back end. Seems to be slightly sweeter than Boston's most famous beer, with a clingier bitterness, but otherwise serviceable in every way. Maybe Jim Gaffigan could drink a pint and then shut the fuck up.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2018
at 01:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Bud. Copper-gold color, clear and quite pale for the style, with a fine head. Light to medium malty nose with a touch of caramel and very light hops. Toast malt flavor, touch of caramel again, peaches, a bit roasty with decent bitterness and maybe even a touch of booze. Nice drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2016
at 21:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Keg at the Kings Arms, 14/11/16. Golden with a decent off white head. Nose is toasted bread, citric rinds, grains, fresh cereal notes. Taste comprises bready malts, mellow citric tang, caramel, toasted grains. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent clean drinking lager.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2016
at 10:08
6/10
Tried
on 14 Nov 2016
at 11:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On Tap clear golden, thin fine lasting bright white head. Soft smooth lightly toasted malt aroma and flavor. Decent noble european hop character. Somewhat pisenerish in that way. Nice refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Nov 2016
at 18:23