Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 4 Venues

Established in 1979

Contact
1075 E 20th St, Chico, CA, 95928, United States
Subsidiaries
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company owns 1 brewery:
Description
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was founded in 1979, with founders Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi expanding their homebrewing hobby into a brewery. Sierra Nevada is considered one of the earliest and most influential breweries which spawned the craft beer movement of the 1980s-90s.

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6.6
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7.5

Can. An unclear golden beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of exotic fruits, lemons, hops, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus fruits, spices, pineapple, hops, and malt, leading to a bitter finish. 7/2/8/3/15

Tried from Can on 14 Aug 2025 at 20:01


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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bought locally. Packaged April 24th 2025.

Beautiful pour, clear gold, over an inch of foam, good retention and lacing.

Smell is hoppy to the max, some definite alcohol aromas, caramel malt that sweetens it up, some dankness.

Taste is uber hoppy, dank, citrus, some minor sweetness, hint of pine, big alcohol kick. Yow.

Full bodied, pretty high carbonation, it's a triple IPA. Not my favourite style but I do dig this.

Tried on 13 Aug 2025 at 23:08


7

Caskist chinookiga dry hopitud versioon. Magus, mõru, männine, puuviljane, karamelline, tsitrus. Ok.

Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2025 at 15:43


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Pours deep, clear gold into a stein. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Caramel and sourdough aromas. Medium bodied with sweet caramel and molasses upfront turning to earthy multigrain and mild hot plastic in the lasting finish.

Tried on 10 Aug 2025 at 21:49


7

Magus, mõru, kuiv, kange, tsitrus. Ok, vana koolikas

Tried from Draft on 10 Aug 2025 at 13:57



7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can. Nose is sweet malt, brown sugar, pine, light tropical, honey. Taste is resin, pine, dough, brown sugar, lots of melon with a hint of peach, leading toa Spicey pine with a hint of mint in the sweet finish. Oily Mouthfeel

Tried on 07 Aug 2025 at 21:34


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8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bought locally, packaged November 30th 2023.

Pours a clear deep amber, small head of foam, retention not great, lacing minimal.

Smell is very hoppy with pine some citrus, grass, light caramel malt presence.

Taste is very bitter. Pine and grass, light citrus, some malty notes throughout. Finish is as bitter as it gets. Wonderful.

Full bodied, lively carbonation, I always buy this every year.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2025 at 14:08


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Dose 0,355l: Helles Bernstein, leicht orange, deutliche Trübung, mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; sehr frische + sehr fruchtige Nase, kräftige Zitrusnoten, exotische Früchte, leichte fruchtige Säure, Ananas, Maracuja, Limetten, florale/grasige Hopfennoten, Weizen/Hafer, Hefearomen, malzig-fruchtige Bitterkeit; fruchtiger + würziger Körper, trockene Zitrusnoten, leichte fruchtige Säure, Limetten, Limettenabrieb, Grapefruitzest, florale/grasige Hopfennoten, Malz, Weizen, cremig, kräftige Kohlensäure, Hefearomen; fruchtig-trockener Nachgang

Tried from Can from Craftbeer Shop on 06 Aug 2025 at 13:14


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8.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 10

750 c&c Liz brought from the Chico Taproom. Pours dark brn/blk with a dark tan head that was huge and slowing fizzed away. Aroma of dark malt, rum, bourbon, treacle and red berries. Far from dry. Heat and toasted malt stand in for hop bitter. This is really, really good ale.

Tried from Bottle at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company on 05 Aug 2025 at 23:51