Sierra Nevada Harvest

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Pours a dark orange color with a nice, creamy white head which leaves a lot of lacing on the glass. Aroma of orange, resin, pine needles, grapefruit, grass, grass and some caramel. Flavour of resin, pine needles, grass and grapefruit. There’s some nice toffee notes, fruit and lingering hop bitterness. Mediumbodied with a refreshing carbonation which tickles the tounge, a bit oily in the texture even. Nice one!

Sierra Nevada Harvest Wet Hop Ale Pours medium copper with a thick rich head and some nice lacing. Medium retention. Clear appearance and a good looking beer. Aroma of pine resin and hops. Not much citrus here. Taste is a fresher version of regular Sierra Nevada with a thicker hop character. Good but not great.

This 13 th release was a wonderful delight. I poured light orange copper. Aromas of great fruit and pine. Definatly a fresh backing. Taiste of lemon and spices. Great ipa for those that are looking to taiste quality. Very drinkable.

This beer, along with their end of the Life & Limb project, makes me give Sierra Nevada a second look. Pours a deep amber with a thin white head. Nose is crisp, floral hops. Nicely balanced flavor of citrus with a bit of maltiness in the background. Finishes just a bit dry. Incredibly drinkable. A wonderful beer, especially for the price.

Great poor and lasting head. Wonderful pine flavor that I love but backed up with malt that is absent from most IPA’s. Often this is preferable (GET AWAY FROM MY HOPS CURSED MALT), but here it works to perfection.

Absolutely stellar IPA that has both great hopiness and malting. The balance was extraordinary and the aroma was very very fresh pine and citrus with the taste following through nicely.

Bomber in a pint glass. Aroma is sweet citrus hops with a dash of pine, subtle and pleasant. Color is a dark, cloudy amber copper with a one finger head that leaves behind some lacing...very nice looking pint. Harvest snaps at my palate like a rolled up towel but then gently massages it afterward with some sweet fruity hop flavor, followed by just a bit of malty caramel. This is a robust American IPA that gives just the slightest nod to the English style as if to say "respect". Well balanced is correct shakespeare, your favorite brewery strikes again.

Wet hops are usually so forward in the beers that are made with them that they completely dominate the flavor (not that I’m opposed, I love them). But the nice thing here is that they are well balanced and the result is a more muscular brew that gives you that citrus, resiny, piney hop factor but also a deep maltiness. Very good.