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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot - Barley Wine

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine

Chico, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
20273.89/5.03.88/5.0Winter9.6%92Snifter
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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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 CheersMate1 (763), 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 (2737), Tromsų, 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].


 ajm (902), Los Angeles, California, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/517/20
Dec 8, 2008  
Tap at Lucky Baldwins Strong Ale Fest May 2008. I got the 2001 and my friend Joe the 2000. Deep dark brown color and no head. Like a Belgian quad, the notes were subdued dark fruit, malt, candi sugar and roasted sweet wood. The 2000 was light years better.


MarthaPromise (12), Illinois, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/513/20
Dec 3, 2008  
2008 bottle. Enjoyed on 3/2/08. Poured dark amber with a white head. Excellent caramel & floral hops. Medium mouthfeel. Very bitter with a lot of alcohol warming. My first barley wine. Very enjoyable overall.


 JCastner (102), New York, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/103/517/20
Nov 29, 2008  
Amber with a white head. Wonderful aroma of sweet caramalt and sweet grassy hoppiness. Medium/heavy mouthfeel. Taste is like the aroma. A big beer with plenty of taste and balance. Wonderful finish.


 JorisPPattyn (5155), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Nov 29, 2008  
Medium, but dense mango-yellow head, slightly irregular by fine pearling feed from foxy-amber beer. Inviting nose of hopcake: fresh, citrussy C-hops, grapefruit and other exotic fruit, rosewater and cakebottom. Bitter-hoppy, slightly roasted, maltsweet (-syrup) just not getting through. Bit metallic finish, however, grapefruit peel and raisins. Syrupy MF, very thick & viscous. Alcoholwarming after some time. Very good, if severely bitter Barley Wine.
<i> Many thanks to Darren, who made me realise I had never rated Bigfoot, despite having had it more than once. </i>


 cbeers21 (563), Miami, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 28, 2008  
HInce hazy pour with appetizing head. Boastful malts and good fruits on the nose, and a layered and complex vineous body. Good beer to have before bed, a nice nightcap. Quite tasty.



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