Big Little Thing
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.17
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Make way for the Big Little Thing, an Imperial IPA flexing a full malt body, restrained sweetness, and tropical hop flavors of mango, grapefruit, and tangerine.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Stovepipe can. Aroma has notes of weed, fresh cut grass, onion. Pours lightly hazy golden with a two finger cream white head with excellent retention. Taste has a nice candy sweetness backed by light pithy bitterness. Pillowy mouthfeel. Really tasty dank ass DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2021
at 00:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
19.2 oz can, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out resinous hops, some pine, and some caramel biscuity malt. Flavour is biting, peppery and hoppy, with resinous hops, bitter pine, some black peppery notes, and sweet bready malt. There's a bit of confusion here, but the hop character is nice enough. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2021
at 05:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz can. A pretty decent old schoolish IIPA, a little heavier and more resinous than most recent examples. Decent hop depth, big malt tone too. OK, drinkable, but not really on the same level as most beers out there now. Not clean, crisp, bitter...still kind of weighed down by the malt bill.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2021
at 03:39
7/10
Not too shabby but this would likely be one of the last beers I’d remember on my deathbed.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Feb 2021
at 22:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Lots of fresh citrus hops mainly orange and grapefruit but with a little lemon in there too. Also some pale malt with hints of caramel. Flavors are like nose, mildly sweet upfront at first with strong carbonation and some growing bitter in the middle. Good body. Finish has a little more bitter plus some solvents and booziness. Nice beer.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2021
at 23:18
10/10
Tried
on 29 Jan 2021
at 03:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty good DIPA, not quite the big brother to Hazy Little Thing I was expecting, but still a nice pint. Hearty notes of grapefruit, pineapple, mango, stone fruit, and pine, with a lingering citrus pith finish and mineral bitterness in the fade. I’m partial to Fantastic Haze, but there’s room for both in the SN lineup.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2021
at 01:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is almost clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is honeydew melon with a very minor tropical fruit. Flavor is again I get a honeydew melon with some dry malt, and a pronounced alcohol. Not real big on flavor, this was kind of meh.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2021
at 23:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Nugget Market on Covell in Davis, CA. Pours brassy gold with a large foamy white head. Aroma is towards dank - lots of pine. Med plus body. Bitter. Pine. Heading to dank. Caramel in support, but not in sweet. Dry for me. The bitter pineiness that SN is renowned for. IMHO. Just excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2021
at 00:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 1/4/21. Slightly hazy orange, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of dank, melon, resin, pale malt. Taste is dank, resin, grapefruit. Medium bodied, mild bitterness. It's got a lot of hop bomb character without as much bitterness. Nice. But I miss the bitterness. Overall its very good.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2021
at 22:10