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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
20323.89/5.03.88/5.0Winter9.6%92.1Snifter
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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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 dmtroyer (409), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/516/20
Jan 14, 2009  
Draft. Beautiful, beautiful dark copper pour with a good tan head. I had a hard time retrieving any aroma initially, but once it came closer to room temperature I found quite a bit of caramel, leather and spice. This was pretty smooth on flavor profile, a relatively lighter hoppy barleywine. Just a twitch of harshness on the finish.


 Pipper (230), Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/516/20
Jan 10, 2009  
Poured into a pint glass. Once poured the head is HUGE, but that could be due to the glass. Upon settling the head evens out to a crisp, frothy inch. Aroma is that of very light caramel, subtle banana. Great color like warm dark honey. Lighter color belies the robustness of the taste. Lovely bitterness at the beginning, then a very slight sweetness towards the finish and at last the kickback of the alcohol. A silky and very smooth barleywine.


PMgep (71), Lund, Sweden
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Jan 6, 2009  
A nice ruby color. The aroma have lots of hops and a hint of caramel. The flavor is very bitter with lots of hops and a hint of caramel in the aftertaste.


 beerheart (237), Erie, Colorado, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/516/20
Jan 3, 2009  
I wanted this to be sweeter. I don’t mind hops or the resulting bitterness in a barley wine. But something of the balance that I find in, say, an Avery Hog Heaven, which is also a well-hopped barleywine, is missing here. This beer finishes noticeably more bitter than that one. The color is a beautiful ruby red. The pour has plenty of lace. The aroma is more of a traditional IPA than the malty sweetness of a traditional barley wine. It has a floral aroma, rather than the dried fruit and alcohol.


 jimmay (203), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jan 2, 2009  
Bottle from Premier Gourmet. Pour dark reddy copper in colour. Very aromatic, both hoppy and malty. Strong alcohol taste. This kicks you in the ass when have one. 2008, 25th anniversary edition.


 CheersMate1 (785), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Dec 24, 2008  
First of all, I have purchased a 2002 bottle of this! I do not understand how I came about this beer, but Bottleworks in Seattle had this. Nice light caramel brown in color. Slight head. This beer has a HUGE alcohol aroma. Very malty and alcohol aroma. Again, this is from 2002. PUNGENT AS HELL! Sweet caramel and alcohol. Malt, very very malty, and nice and hoppy and alcohol flavor. This beer is good. This is an awesome barley wine. I know the aging has done a lot, but still this thing is great. I love this barley wine. Nice and creamy, but not extremely creamy. The aging has made this excellent.


 Moggman (187), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
Dec 20, 2008  
Bottle 2006 vintage. Pours reddish/brown with sweet aroma, almost smells like a tripel with notes of fruit and. Flavor is sweet with a nice hop bite. This beer has gotten very well with age.


 Rune (2787), Tromsø, Norway
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/105/515/20
Dec 15, 2008  
355ml botlle, vintage 2008, picked at the Luvians in St Andrews. Lasting vanilla-like head, dense and bubbly, on top of a clear brown ruby-tinged body. Pleasing aroma of fresh hops added by spices. Rich taste of citrus shells and sweet caramel fills the mouth. Bittersweet finish of satisfying length. Full bodied [07.11.2008].



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