Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

On tap...Pours a slightly hazed copper color. Citrus and malt nose. Easy on the palate for an IPA. Very piney flavor w/ typical hop bitterness, the finish was was slightly sweet. Overall, a good IPA.

Bottle. Really nice aroma of citrus, floral, and perfumy hops mingling on the canvas of the malt. Flavor is predominantly the citrus, but still remains rather complex for such a hop-dominated brew. Nice IPA to slurp down on a slow night. 8-4-7-4-15-3.8 Rerate 2008. Lordy, I cannot taste anything above the unbelievable level of astringency. Had some nice citrus hoppy notes and caramel malt notes in the aroma, but once it got in the mouth...yikes.

2007. Pours a lightly hazy amber color with a medium off white head. Pretty powerful hop aroma, alot of grapefruit citrus in this as well. Definitely get some hints of malts too. Nice aroma. The hops are pretty big and bol but the malts really show up too give it some balance and slow the bitterness somewhat. The citrus is mostly in the finish as the front was pretty piney. Damn solid IPA, lot going on in the flavor with nice balance overall.

It had an amber body and was delicious. The flavor was not as hoppy as I would have expected from an IPA, but it was still great.

Not as hoppy as the uber-IPAs normally rated this high. Smells delicious, but excessive carbonation masks some of the more subtle flavors.

07 bottle. Pours a deep orange-copper color with a fluffy off-white head. Strong aroma of hops, slightly fruity, slightly spicy. Semi-sweet entry leads into a somewhat resiny hop hit. Interesting hoppiness, not really piney or fruity, but still bring a nice bitterness to the beer. After the bitterness dies some a bit of caramel and spice comes out in the finish. Pretty nice, I would prefer a bit more fruitiness, but it’s a good beer.

Bottle, 350ml. A copper colour with an average sized head. Aroma is sweet and hoppy with malt, cherry, citrus and raisin. Taste is malty, incredibly sweet and very bitter. Almost syrupy with excessive bitterness that masks the other flavours somewhat. What flavours do remain are citric hops, cherry and malt with a hint of spice. Moderate carbonation.

12oz bottle: pours a amber hazel color with a small white head. aroma has a pretty strong hop smell. flavor is a pretty hoppy IPA but has some added spice tast to it. pretty good IPA.