Trail Pass IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular|
Score
6.24
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Grab a Trail Pass and start a new adventure with miles of flavor. Explore the hoppy notes of citrus and pine from Amarillo® and CTZ varieties in non-alcoholic Trail Pass IPA. The silky malt body and clean hop bitterness are just what you’d expect from a world-class Sierra Nevada IPA, yet it’s less than 0.5% ABV.
With Trail Pass IPA we captured the iconic citrus and pine explosion that you expect from a Sierra Nevada IPA, all without the alcohol. Hit the trail with the hoppy aromas and let the smooth maltiness wash over your taste buds. It's like a hike through a hop forest.
“It meets all of our criteria for what we would consider a craft IPA—not necessarily even a craft non-alcoholic IPA, but a craft IPA,” says James Conery, Innovation Brewmaster at Sierra Nevada.
Trail Pass uses traditional brewing methods, not alcohol removal, to create full craft flavor below the 0.5% ABV non-alcoholic threshold.
With Trail Pass IPA we captured the iconic citrus and pine explosion that you expect from a Sierra Nevada IPA, all without the alcohol. Hit the trail with the hoppy aromas and let the smooth maltiness wash over your taste buds. It's like a hike through a hop forest.
“It meets all of our criteria for what we would consider a craft IPA—not necessarily even a craft non-alcoholic IPA, but a craft IPA,” says James Conery, Innovation Brewmaster at Sierra Nevada.
Trail Pass uses traditional brewing methods, not alcohol removal, to create full craft flavor below the 0.5% ABV non-alcoholic threshold.
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5.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 19 Oct 2024
at 16:03
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is wort, light malt, some hops/citrus. Taste is the same, wort, bitter, sweet, malt, hops. meh
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2024
at 18:36
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can 330ml (PBF XIV)
A bit cloudy golden colour, tiny white head. Very neutral, a bit worty aroma. Light-bodied. Flavour is also neutral, some citrusy hop flavours. Not much going on but not offensive NA.
A bit cloudy golden colour, tiny white head. Very neutral, a bit worty aroma. Light-bodied. Flavour is also neutral, some citrusy hop flavours. Not much going on but not offensive NA.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2024
at 08:00
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Tried
on 01 Sep 2024
at 07:59
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
--Canned at PBF XIV. -- Clear pale golden, small head. Faint piney grapefruit up front. Sweetish with light to thin body and clean mouthfeel. Sourish thin malt, notes of rubber and citrus. Mid bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2024
at 07:59
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
355ml can. PBF XIV. Poured clear and golden in color, white head. Some light piney hops in aroma, citrus and light mmalts. Finishes slightly bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2024
at 07:59
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Can@pbf xiv. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is citrus, floral and some mild grainy tones. Flavour is grassy, herbal, some floral and mild bitter tones.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2024
at 07:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden with chill haze, small head. Nose has the expected citrus and pine hop profile but thats it. Flavor is basically the same, a distinct hop presence, mostly resin, a little citrus. Super dry with basically no malt flavors at all. At most a dry cracker like presence. Light bitterness. Its a drinkable enough beer, bordering into the hop-water or hop-tea domain, but the piney hops with lack of anything in the way of balancing sweetness detracts more than a little from the overall enjoyment here. Tolerable. Edit: revisiting this after drinking the rest of the sixer straight from the can over a few days. When drinking from the can, the super dry lack of malt is less noticeable, and it is almost a convincing IPA, so I'm raising my score from the original 2.6 with the nod to just drink this, don't try and geek it.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2024
at 20:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.33 l can from 'Rudat', apparently canned in February 2024. Hazy, golden yellow with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, gently fruity-floral, minimally dank aroma of passion fruit, lemon peel, gooseberry and pineapple. Slightly sweet, moderately bitter, rather fruity-floral, a little dank taste of grains, pineapple, gooseberry, lemon peel and some passion fruit, followed by a short, hardly bitter, gently dry finish. Thin to medium body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very pleasant thirst-quencher.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jul 2024
at 18:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Beer Merchants. It pours clear yellow with a decent fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, floral, pine, clean, zingy citrus, grapefruit, orange peel, marmalade and biscuit. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy, touch of bitterness, green hops, pine, grass, pithy, zesty, grapefruit, pomelo, peppery spice, floral accents, cracker and toasty grains with a drying finish. Light body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Decent nolo, a lot better than the golden anyhow.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2024
at 11:10