Summer Break
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States πΊπΈ
IPA - Session New England / Hazy Summer|
Score
6.62
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Drop into summertime, stocked with a Session Hazy IPA brewed for long days of play. Go anywhere with hoppy notes of mango and passion fruit, backed by smooth malt flavor.
2021 Summer Seasonal
2021 Summer Seasonal
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
5 oz. draft flight at Baseline Tap House in Disney World Hollywood Studios. Cloudy yellow color with a small white head. Juicy mango aroma. Very mellow for an IPA. Light grapefruit bitterness with a slightly sweet finish. Very good for an IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2021
at 02:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can (4/8/21) pour from Trader Joe's, Bedford. It's a deeply hazy, dark yellow with tons of sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with good retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong sweet/tart grapefruit, passion fruit and slight scallion. Taste is strong grapefruit (almost like Fresca) and passion fruit with late cracker malt balance. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average carbonation and crisp, fairly dry finish as taste. Overall, quite strong for a session...until you get to the mouthfeel and then it's most definitely a session (akin to a seltzer). Good summer afternoon beer.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2021
at 00:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 6/26/21. Hazy orange, thin head. Aroma of dank, grapefruit, and a bit of green pepper. Taste is grapefruit, resin, pine. Medium bodied. Not quite as promised, but still a good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2021
at 20:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz can. Rather tasty Session IPA. Some biting bitterness, but lots of tropical fruit tones. A lot of hop depth, easy body. Solid offering.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2021
at 06:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 oz from a six pack. Aroma has notes of orange, pineapple, creamsicle. Pours hazy golden with a thin off white head with decent retention. Taste has a hint of bitterness and is mildly sweet. A bit grainy. A little thin and watery. Crisp, clean and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jun 2021
at 02:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Canned 02042021, drunk 5/30/21. Very lightly hazy, pale, straw golden. Small white head atop shows moderate retention. Good juiciness in the nose; mango, pineapple and a touch of pine in the background. Little/no malt appearance - just some cracker and biscuit in the background. But no flaw or alcohol or hop twang. Pretty thin and aggressively carbonated in the mouth. Pine, pineapple, apple and just a bare amount of cracker and honey. Kinda missing the softness that is a hallmark of the style, but otherwise it's competent and unexciting/unadventurous, as you'd expect.
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2021
at 00:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Hazy golden beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light lemon flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. tropical fruit and light lemon linger.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2021
at 21:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz can on a zoom tasting. Cloudy golden orange, white head. Mango, grapefruit. Clean, fizzy, slightly dry on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2021
at 00:50
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
Another IPA in a can, why bother even pouring it in a glass, it got to be a hazy off yellow or something like that, just like any other ubiquitous domestic poorly made IPA. Drank right from deh can, nearly at room temp. Smell is slight off skunk cabbage BO. Taste is IPA and it sort of has the lack of an alky kick, a little disappointing. Tries to hide that typical cabbage feel to it that hinders most session IPA, but its there, even if just a hint. You can only wish if a beer is so insulting it may have other positive attributes, like an alky numbing euphoric sensation to make you forget a bout how bitter bad IPAs, in general, taste. Beer preservative? Summer break? What - ever, I prefer a good clean cheap pale lager to drink outside in a sunny summer breeze, or break, just saying. I can at least mow the lawn with that and enjoy it. Those are only one-eighth the price, go figger. Muh-fah mouth coating arrogant bitter finish. There, you have it; another IPA. So be it: One more, taste like the rest, IPA tick.
Tried
from Can
on 21 May 2021
at 18:25
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 8
Had 2 or 3 while hanging at my sisters backyard. Nose is tropical citrus. Tastes of pineapple, lime, floral and grassy. Low bitterness and light bodied. Easy drinking but not all that impressive.
Tried
on 15 May 2021
at 23:25