Anniversary Ale
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Special Out of Production|
Score
7.11
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The 2007 Anniversary Ale features prominent usage of Cascade hops– the signature hop used in Sierra Nevada’s most popular product, Pale Ale. It is an American Style IPA with a big, fragrant pine and citrus hop aroma balanced by the sweetness of two-row pale and caramel malt. It finishes with an additional Cascade dry-hopping creating a big hop aroma Sierra Nevada fans will look forward to.
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7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
2008 Bottle. Pours with a largish, rocky, off-white head covering a murky orange to copper body. Outstanding lacing. Aroma of spicey Cascade hops, caramel and light acetaldehyde. Taste is a bit watery, then a bit bitter and grainy at the back, finishing clean. Water like mouthfeel and lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2008
at 01:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at ÅBF08. Good white bread aroma with a refreshing hoppiness. Clear golden colour. Good bitterness, fruity and grassy hoppiness to flavour. 6 3 7 3 15
Cask at GBBF08. Weak caramelly hop aroma. Clear copper colour. Small frothy head. The flavour is quite hoppy, biting from the start. Good caramelly and grassy hop flavour, quite clean. 8 3 8 3 18
Cask at GBBF08. Weak caramelly hop aroma. Clear copper colour. Small frothy head. The flavour is quite hoppy, biting from the start. Good caramelly and grassy hop flavour, quite clean. 8 3 8 3 18
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2008
at 14:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle. Clear, golden orange body with a medium off-white head. Aroma is citrus and hay. Flavor is refreshing bitter with grapefruit fruitiness and a grassy bitter finish. Not really complicated but very well made.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2008
at 15:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium offwhite shiny head does not last. Amber body. Strong citric tropical fruit aroma backed by a firm maltiness. Dry biscuity citric malts taste with chalky tropical fruit notes. Dry malty aftertaste. Nice! (0.33l bottle, St. Urho’s pub, Helsinki.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2008
at 06:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber with huge long lasting off white head. Hoppy aroma with caramel, grass and grapefruit notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with caramel and grapefruit. Finishes dry with solid bitterness.
Tried
on 28 May 2008
at 15:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(2007, bottle at St Urho’s on 2008-05-08) Amber colour. White medium head. Clear hop aroma and some malts in nose. A bit fizzy and dryish palate. Quite amount of hops in taste and some malts. Slightly sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2008
at 04:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange. Semi lasting white head. Aroma is pine wood dry hops. Semi sweet flavour and dry pine wood hops flavour. Light sweet note intermixing this. Ends once again into a rather dry finish. Crisp and clean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2008
at 14:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Dark Amber color, poured with big white disipating head. Hoppy, grapefruit and pine aroma. Pleasantly smooth, gives a crisp, grapefruity flavour with sweet hints of honey and orange peel . Decent hoppy finish. A shame if this isn’t going to be a regular.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2008
at 19:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
bottle - Pours light copper with a thin white head. It has a very good hop aroma with citrus and pine notes. The flavor is of course quite hoppy, but is rather well balanced too. The citrus comes through nicely. Carbonation is light. The body struck me as a little thin. Crisp hops lingers pleasantly in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2008
at 00:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[i] [b] Bottle, big thanks to Ian (Harrisoni) for this, cheers mate. [/i] [/b] Pours orangey amber colour with large white head that also looked as though it had highlights of orange. The aroma was a bit soft fruity with apricot or peach noticaeable. Some citrus on first taste but it was soon sweetened and the citrus was more orangey citrus. There was some lingering bitterness and maybe a bit of cape gooseberry, in fact the bitterness whilst not overpowering remained throughout although it was more than kept in check by the sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2008
at 01:33