Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Fritz & Kens Ale

Formerly brewed at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Chico, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Dark brown beer with tan head has good pacing. Hops are earthy with smell of roast and coffee. Body is thick and syrup with roasted flavors and burnt toast. Finish is dry with the lingering burnt flavors. Malt is predominant. Good beer but aftertaste lasts longer than o would like.

Aroma is piny/citrus hops then ashy-sour and metallic with some cocoa and alcohol coming through at the end. Pour is rich and black with a tan molasses head that persists. Taste is initially sweet and chalky with a good amount of roast and ash, coffee, some sourness, and a hint of bitterness on the end. As it warms it develops an unsulphured molasses-type of thing with a creamy, sweet malt profile that doesn’t completely lose the ashyness or the piny/citrus hops. Basically, let this beer open up for a few minutes. Finish is sweet with a lot of bitter baker’s cocoa, accentuating the alcohol. Overall, I am not very impressed with this beer. It is quite aggressive and brash, but not in the way I would expect (hopping, alcohol, malts).

A good, strong stout. Not my ideal stout, as its more earthy and hoppy than how I like them. Nevertheless, I’d drink it again.

Draft. Pours pitch black with a tan head. Flavor is.. band aids? Some combination of tobacco, coffee, and dark chocolate gives it that weird band aid taste/smell.

Bottle @ home. Deep black appearance with a big tan head. Strong deep chocolate malty nose with some noticeable alcohol. Quite strong and bitter, dark roasted chocolate malty flavor. Bitter, roasted, alcoholic finish.

A decent offering, well worth the money and i’d possibly get it again. Just didn’t knock my socks off. Slightly bland, nothing really stands out.

Heavy roasted chocolate that grows sweeter as one progresses through the beer. Minimal lacing. Bitter, unimodal.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small, brown head that recedes to nothing. Nose is ight roasted malts with some coco and chocolate. Palate is light, with a smoothness and a bit of dry sweetness. Flavor is chocolate, coco, roast malts.

Corked and caged bottle is pretty fresh. Pitch pour, light brown head. Heavy chocolate and roast nose with light brewer’s licorice, some smoke. Taste is intense, alcohol lightly out of control, light-medium smoke and burned notes, very strong (for me, dominant!) licorice, dark chocolate. Tiny bit of Bustelo-like espresso. Chicory? Not really getting any hop balance [certainly not that claimed here by some]. Too sweet. Too-full body. A bit overdone and hard for me to finish, but I definitely understand the appeal.

Notes from my backlog: Opaque pour with a tan ring of head. Big boozy aroma- fruity notes, burnt raisin, fig and apparent alcohol. One dimensional. Nice creamy body, however, with a big one dimensional flavor. Burnt dark fruits, molasses, salty char. Big and nondescript. Salty black malt bitter finish. Disappointing.