Sierra Nevada Harvest

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Bottle Pours a cloudy light brown with a good tan head. The creamy head lasts well and produces nice lacing. Has a good hoppy aroma with hints of pine. Has a good carbination a solid mouthfeel. Medium body and a good finish. Has a good flavor and crispness. A real good easy drinking IPA. I like it.

My Wet Hop Ale from Sierra Nevada poured crystal clear amber, seemingly frozen in time while a huge poufy head of orange-tinged foam sits daintily on top. I am reminded of the inner side of an orange peel where all the soft squishy skin lies, protecting the juicy goodness inside from the damaging bumps and bruises outside. Massive clumps of lace cling to the sides of my glass as the amber and copper-hued brew sports a settled layer of foam on top. Not to be outdone, before I even have a chance to raise my glass, her abundant aroma spills over the sides and makes a run for my nose. Wet, moist, and sappy with sticky hops bouyied by cut grass, crushed pine needles, lemon, grapefruit, and some faint floral notes. Truly decadent and oh-so-very wet, much like her name implies. My first quaff is also wet and sappy with a coating mouthfeel ripe with tons of crushed pine, grass, floral esters, grapefruit, and lemon skin. There is so much going on in this beer; I’ll try to break it down as best as possible before I find my glass empty. Hop oils linger in the finish while more bitterness from lemon skin and grapefruit tickles the back of my throat. A growing sweetness whispers of honeycomb and further pine sap. Supporting my Wet Hop Ale is a solid backbone of sweet cereal grains, bread, and toasty malts, a quiet yet reliable partner lingering in the shadows. Even though she comes in a big bottle, I find my Sierra Nevada 12th Anniversary Harvest Wet Hop Ale to be gone all too soon. Thankfully, a pleasing reminder of our time together remains in all her wet, sticky, and divine finish.

Just as her name implies, this year’s Harvest Ale is wet with everything that I love about wet-hopped ales. Once more I have an even larger appreciation for this amazingly magical plant whose discovery hundreds of years ago has led me here. History is best lived in the now, specifically, in my glass.

bottle.. really a nice easy to drink beer..solid flavour throughout.. not much color..reddish

doesn’t see much improvement to this from the regular sierra nevada, except the color is more beautiful and it does taste wetter.

Bottle. Pours a darker orange color with a long lasting white head. Smell is pine and hops. Taste is hops and it leaves a little bitter aftertaste. A really good beer. A must for hop lovers.

deep orangey amber, forming medium off white head. Lots of little bubbles give the beer a hazy look. Aroma of resiny citrus hops, wet forrest grass. Flavour of grassy hops, caramel rock candy with a slight peppery note. Bottom line; a superb IPA beer, easy drinking and clean and crisp. Would love to try an on tap version

Bottle. Pours a deep brown amber color and a large huge white thiner head. Aroma is nice, full and large aroma of citrus mostly, hops and some pine notes. Taste is milder than expected, but a nice mild hoppy taste. Lots of malty body and sweetness throughout. Bigger, fuller body than expected, Finishes clean.

Bottle. Pours amber in color with a foamy off-white head. Piney hoppy aroma with grapefruit and citrus notes. Flavor is hoppy and slightly bitter with pine resin, grapefruit, caramel and has a nice balance of swet malts with a bold and hoppy finish.