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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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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
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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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 VTHopHead (897), Barre, Vermont, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
May 31, 2008  
Bottle - Poured a beautiful dark reddish amber in color with a foamy light tan head that hung around. Aroma is strong of citrus/pine hops with some maltiness in the background. Flavor is very strong of piney hops balanced with a bit of malty sweetness in the finish. Alcohol is apparent in the profile, but does not detract from the overall experience. This is yet another example of a truly excellent beer from a quality beer... I really like this beer!!


 jrmac (213), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/103/517/20
May 30, 2008  
Beer pours a dark brown with a good thick hed. Smells of hops, barley, and malt. Tastes much more hoppy then I expected from a barley wine. good brew.


 KnutAlbert (3115), Oslo, Norway
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/104/515/20
May 30, 2008  
Bottle at the Bull and Castle, Dublin. Very hoppy, very oaky. Full malty sweetness underneath. Warming alcohol. Very respectable.


jdmhawk (31), Bettendorf, Iowa, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/515/20
May 29, 2008  
aroma is of fruit and wine with hops and grass. pours a dark reddish orange color with little white head. flavor is hoppy and dry with a definite presence of alcohol. strong barleywine.


 chimplechamp (463), Oslo, Norway
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/517/20
May 29, 2008  
I could have sworn I rated this one already?2008- bottle from oddbins, pours beautifully brown dark amber with a large white foamy head. nose is strong fruit cherry, slight floralness, with a good dose of toffee and butterscotch. big taste with a great balance of malt to the intense hopping. floral, grapefruit, and lemon rind, with strong cherry fruit flavours. malted balance with a big biscuit butteryness, sweet butterscotch. god i love this beer. im cellaring one to see how it matures. probably amazingly.


 cellar (485), Dublin, Ireland
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
May 29, 2008  
Thx for another great tasting, Kim (beljohansen): Darm amber, nice haed, notes of hops, toffee, roasted matl, grapefruit, , dry hops, bitter taste and long bitter finnish.


 lithy (1650), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 29, 2008    Updated: Apr 18, 2009
2008 Vintage sampled young. Translucent dark copper color with a small off-white head. Nose is very sugary, malts. Smooth on the mouth, syrupy. Taste is sweet and syrupy with an alcoholic finish that leaves a lasting taste of caramel on the tongue. Not my favorite barley wine. Re-rate from a bottle thanks to nearbeer. Dark ruby brown color with a thick soft light tan head. Nose is hugely hoppy, some citrus and pine. Taste is a nice sweet body, some fruitiness, floral, then lots of lingering hop bitterness. Sticky but not too cloying. Much better than my first bottle it is too hoppy for my tastes in Barley Wines but nice nonetheless. First rating 6:3:6:3:13


 Slipstream (745), USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
May 29, 2008    Updated: Jul 2, 2009
2008 edition, 12 ounce bottle. It is a dark amber liquid that looks almost like maple syrup, with a hefty head and lots of lacing. The aroma is fresh and enticing, with nice floral hops plus a little yeast and honey. It smells even better as it warms. The full, complex flavor with piney hops and solid malt backing. Bitter, astringent hops dominate, followed by some sweetness, then the hops bite back, and the alcohol swoops in for the kill. Rich and powerful. Tried it on tap too, and it was mellower that way, and I liked it more. Tasted more smoke and malty sweetness. 2009 edition was excellent too - fresh and full. This is my favorite from Sierra Nevada.



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