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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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98
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
20323.89/5.03.88/5.0Winter9.6%92.1Snifter
Commercial Description:
Gold Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival (Ales: Brown, Bitter and Pale 1987, Barleywine 1988,1992,1995). Sierra Nevada Bigfoot is an award winning example of the English Barley Wine style. It boasts a dense, fruity bouquet; an extremely rich, intense, bittersweet palate; and a deep, reddish-brown color. This ale is superbly balanced between an almost overpowering maltiness and a wonderfully bittersweet hoppiness.

Beginning Gravity:23 Plato
Finishing Hops:Cascade & Centennial
Dry Hops:Centennial, Cascade & Chinook
Bittering Hops: Chinook
Ending Gravity:6.0 Plato
Yeast:Top Fermenting Ale Yeast
Malts:Two-row Barley Malt, English Caramel Malt, Dextrin Malt
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guerinfbfan (40), Elmwood Park, Illinois, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/518/20
Apr 12, 2009  
Nice red-brown color. Not a lot of head. Nice fruity taste. Very hoppy. I really enjoy this beer.


 merlin48 (511), New Tazewell, Tennessee, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Apr 11, 2009  
Mostly clear, dark amber body with a small offwhite head. Aroma of toasted caramel and resinous hops-floral, pine, and grapefruit. Medium body with appropriate low carbonation. Taste is mostly bitter hops, grapefruit rind and pine. Herbal and spicy notes. Solid cararmel malt backbone. This is the 2008 version and it is an excellent example of an American barleywine. Tasty!


floydo15 (7), Pennsylvania, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot does not count
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/103/519/20
Apr 8, 2009  
One of my favorite beers so far, up there with dogfish 90 and three floyds pale ale. Great dinner drink, has a lot flavor, and fills you up pretty good. Not easy to find in PA though.


 DarkSong (105), Dacula, Georgia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Apr 7, 2009  
12 oz bottle. Pours reddish brown with a medium off white head. This is a heavily hopped and very malty ale. It tastes of toffee with a nice roasted and burnt resinous taste. This is the first barley wine style beer I’ve had. I would describe it as complex but very enjoyable.


 Coltrane (108), South Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Apr 7, 2009  
A nice beer with, of course, an absurd amount of hops. Enjoyable for me because I find most barley wines too sweet. Quite carbonated, almost too much. For the price and availability, a tremendous beer. 09 vintage, consumed fresh.


 shawnm213 (913), South Bend, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Apr 7, 2009  
bottle. pours a copper with a head that quickly disapates intoa off white film. warm, alcohol, fruity. a decent barley wine.


suchen (81), , Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Apr 7, 2009  
Why call this a barleywine? More apt description is red IPA. When they say ’fruity’ bouquet they mean Cascadey, Chinooky, Centennial hops. The thing that saved this beer for me was the attempt to balance the hops with a malty finish.


 JoeTheYounger (243), California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/516/20
Apr 7, 2009  
2007 bottle from Lone Hill Liquor in Glendora, CA. Dark coppered amber color. Aged very well with great hop finish. Maltiness is very apparent in retrospect to the hops. Very good though.



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