Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Celebration

Celebration

 

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Winter
Score
7.33
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 65 Ticks: 375
Once we pick fresh hops, the clock starts ticking. Each year, we visit the Pacific Northwest to hand-select the best Cascade and Centennial hops, race the harvest home, and brew immediately to capture citrus, pine, and floral notes at their absolute peak — aromas and flavors for the perfect winter beer. It’s a magical time at the brewery — has been for 40 years now! — when our brewers huddle around the fermentation tanks, toasting the start of a special season with a holiday beer in hand. Wrapped in red, consider Celebration IPA your first present of the holidays.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12oz can. Light amber pour yields a rocky off-white head and streaks of lacing. Malty aroma with notes of pine, hoppy. Taste is malty, leather, toffee with a strong astringent hops flavor .

Tried from Can on 01 Jan 2026 at 05:38


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7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Loose off white head on an unclear dull copper coloured body.
Spicy malt aroma.
Medium bodied, foamy with a dry back
Malt, caramel, biscuit, spiced & floral tastes with a bitter finish.
Good one.

Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2025 at 19:07

gave a cheers!

7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a fairly dark copperamber, medium sized, stable near-white head. Scent is mild, crisp caramel maltyness, fairly mild on the hops though. Taste is full, bitter, crisp malty base (caramelly crystal malts) . Hoparoma is mild. Medium bitter finish of medium length. Very decent, easy going. nothing spectacular, but balanced and enjoyable.

Tried on 28 Dec 2025 at 13:39

gave a cheers!

7.6
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home picked up from HOTM. A deep reddy amber coloured pour with a lively rocky beige frothy head. Aroma is singed pine, biscuit, liquorice, green hop, sap. Flavour is composed of aggressively bitter piney, sap ,resin, . Harsh bitter, resinous pine, sap, tar, biscuit, liquorice, Palate is semi sweer, resinous sticky hop ,moderate carbonation. Not bad.

Tried from Can at House Of The Trembling Madness (Stonegate) on 24 Dec 2025 at 01:01


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Both amazed this isn't reviewed, and startled about how long it must be since I had one of these venerable classics. Nose is pine, light floral, with a base sweet fruitiness; very balanced. Taste is pine, with malt, leading to a pithy grapefruit and resin with a grapefruit finish. A balanced classic.

Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2025 at 00:07


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7.5

Tried from Can on 06 Dec 2025 at 17:48


Tried from Can on 28 Nov 2025 at 22:04


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Whole Foods. Deep copper and clear, with large, chunky tan head. Warm, fall aroma. Flavor is citrus and woody. Always nice to have the first one of these of the year.

Tried on 22 Nov 2025 at 19:41


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

This can is coming from Ingelheim, Strumpf, Getränkmarkt. I could say that it is a old school ipa, typical bitterness of this brewery, mineral, dry malt, generous resinous side, a bit grassy, bitter, floral, 11.05.24

Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2025 at 10:39

gave a cheers!

6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

wow, can’t believe I haven’t rated this guy yet. Pours a clearish brown, actually a lot hoppier and earthier than I expected.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 00:50