jhaase (14816) reviewed Summerfest from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Tap @ Lucky Baldwins, Pasadena Anonymous nose. Golden, low carbonation and head. A bit fruit in the flavor, but overall lightish with a bitter finish. Not too exiting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Slightly hazy golden color, short white head. Aroma of cascade hops. Sweet and bitter taste, like an american pale should be i guess. Nice beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pale Ale on 26 Sep 2017 at 20:35 - Score: 7. Original review text: Klassiekertje
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2004 Draught @ Redbones 11/04. Well well well, after 3 years of searching for this beer, here it is, in the pint in front of me. Not too bad looking for an APA, though to be fair, the Cisco I just drank looked much deeper, darker, and cloudier. This one was more of a yellow-cream color, with dark beige and light honey-orange tones. Small white head, mostly clear body. Aroma has hops, yes, and light yeast, but it is not hugely hoppy, nor extremely bitter. Fresh and light it is, with notes of tangerines, mint, pine sap and orange blossom honey. Flavor starts out restrained, interesting, I’m getting lots of sweet caramel malt and then the hops second, which are moderately bitter, but only lightly citric. A good dose of yeast is apparent, and is enjoyable, for me at least, as I’ve always liked Sierra Nevada’s yeast strain. Finish has a zip of carabonation, a good amount more citrus flavor (light lemon zest and oranges) and ends with a note of lightly toasted malt (probably caramunich or something similar). It’s a good deal sweeter than I expected, but has a very warm feel to it, with a medium body and a smooth consistency. Whereas Cisco’s Harvest is much sweeter and malt dominated, this has a thinner body, but showcases the green hops more effectively. A very good beer, to be sure.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pours a light yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is weak. Flavor has a lemony zest to it but that’s about it. I don’t get the hops like the bottle tells me i should. Overall a weak attempt at a wheat. Needs more yeasty and fruity flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled draught at O’Briens, San Diego.
Clear nut bown. Somewhat restrained grapefruity hop aroma. Clean straight forward malt profile. Lingering salty bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sampled draught at Lucky Baldwin, Pasadena.
Pale amber, clear, no head. Restrained orange arioma. Dry with clean crystal malt profile. Light flavoured with short salty finish. Easy and straight forward session beer with simplistic malt character.
omhper (44752) reviewed Wheat from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled. Cloudy golden. Sulphury malt aroma. Sweetish and medium bodied. Some hops in a reasonably bitter finish. Not unpleasant, but I don’t grasp the idea with this beer.
omhper (44752) reviewed Summerfest from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Clear golden. Rounded clean maltiness is this beer foremost feature. It’s medium bodied with average bitterness. Fairly well made easy drinking stuff.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Wheat from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a lightly hazy golden orange color with a medium fluffy white head. Thin and sticky lacing. The aroma is midly hoppy with no discernible wheat. Light-bodied and crisp, with light hops, citrus and yeast flavors. As with the aroma there is little to no wheat present. The finish is Lager-ish, mildly bitter and carbonated. As it stands, this is a fair summer beer but falls short in the Wheat category.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Porter from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Coffee and chocolate nose. Jet black, low creamy white head. Sweet chocolate, some sugar - mellow profile.