Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Commercial Brewery
in
Chico,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 1979
Contact
Subsidiaries
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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz can c/o Ryan. Really nice Festbier. Not quite as hoppy as some of the others Sierra has done. Great malt depth, pleasant hop balance, lingers more than most examples for sure. Really good.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2025
at 05:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Pours clear golden, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is a bit dusty, orange, pine, mango. Flavor is medium bitter; light sweet. Medium body. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2025
at 19:40
2.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 0.5
Texture 1
Overall 1
3$ can from the giant bird of prey in Pgh. Eye, is pretty much simple pale and clear. Very fresh pine cone nose, like I’m out on a hike and I pick a green juicy cone off a conifer and break it open for the aroma. First taste is of course bitter as all misery; gehenna and purgatory. An ordeal nightmare. Rude and crude; totally terribly tittless and actually in fact on style. A progressive liberal ordeal of pandemonium. Assuredly an affliction in abyss. Undeniably a torment and suffering for a macro pale lager lover’s taste-bud. Beer? No, its a preponderance of rosebud wicked bitter eye pee aye, doctor prescribed, medicine. Such a manly beer, I need to mansplain the flavor to the better half. Exponentially a suffering perdition. Its an underworld trial of torment. Undeniable wretchedness. No tropical billingsgate in this bullish bomber. At least its got some carbonation to balance out the mouth coating hogwash poppycock. What else can be said? If you like IPA, put this on yer bucket list. There, you have it. Whew. The only thing going for this is the aroma of a Christmas tree.
Tried
from Can
from
Giant Eagle - Moon Township
on 13 Sep 2025
at 17:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Blik 35,5cl thuis. Zoetig, sinaasappel, juicy, passievrucht, perzik, wat caramel, maltig, fruitig. (13-9-2025).
Tried
from Can
from
Burg Bieren Bierwinkel
on 13 Sep 2025
at 15:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pour out of the cute little 8.4oz can is a bright but very light gold with a large white head. Aroma is a very herbal and spicy hop. The flavor is about the same. A very upfront herbal spicy hop with some non-descript generic malt. This was a pretty good hop forward pils.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2025
at 23:34
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
0.473 l can from 'Craftbeershop.com', canned in March 2025. A little hazy, golden orange with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, gently fruity-resiny aroma of mango, grapefruit, orange jam, some pine and light tobacco. Gently sweet, moderately bitter, quite resiny and gently fruity taste of pine, tobacco, grapefruit, mango and some orange jam, followed by a short, gently bitter, slightly dry finish. Medium body, smooth and gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. First time I tried this iconic beer in all those years, delivers as expected. Nothing outstanding anymore, but really well-balanced and harmonious.
Tried
from Can
from Craftbeer Shop
on 12 Sep 2025
at 18:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Love the annual Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest collab, this year is with a brewer from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the only German region I’ve yet to tick and won’t get credit here haha. Tannish gold and small head that turns to film. Nose is bready and honey. Tastes of bread, floral, honey, spicy. Fine drinkable palate. Hopefully sharing rest of my 12 pack with friends later this weekend but if not I’ll have no problem finishing myself.
Tried
on 12 Sep 2025
at 03:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Golden beer with a cream head. Toasted malt aroma. Citrus and toasted malt flavor. Medium bodied. Citrus and toasted malt linger.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2025
at 16:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Hazy golden beer with a big cream head. Peach aroma. Peach and citrus flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Peach and citrus linger.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2025
at 16:46
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a clear gold copper colored body that supports a full near tight dirty white head of foam that leaves behind sheet lacing. The aroma offers up spicy to floral hops, a thin mineral hit and then some breadiness and biscuits. The taste delivers similar notes with a full body and full flavour blend of yeasty fruity esters, moderately bitter spicy to floral hops and then a fair load of bready malty biscuit like character. Fun beer.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tipsy Cactus TapRoom & Bottle Shop
on 09 Sep 2025
at 22:31