Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale

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

(Bottle, Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Amber colour with brief off-white head. Fruity nose with oranges, mandarin and notes of rubbery hops. Fruity taste with notes of orange, grapefruit and a nice bite of citrussy hops in the finish. Not as explosively hoppy as many American IPA’s tend to be, probably due to the choice of hops leaning more in the English direction. However, the taste kind of grows on you, the hops come through very nicely in the finish, but are more modest in the aroma. Good, solid mouthfeel. Nice beer, balanced and very tasty.

Deep amber color with moderate head. Hoppy aroma with some grapefruit and pine with caramel undertone. Taste is similar. IPA with a little more malt than most but still pretty much by the numbers.

12 oz bottle 2007., resin, grass, orange, clear, white foam, light sweetness, medium bitterness, light body, sticky, slick feel, bitter, dogfish 60 is much better,just ok on this one.

Sierra Nevada IPA is an amber ale with some tiny dust-like particles swarming around in it. It is topped with a small, frothy, off-white head that fades rather quickly but leaves excellent lacing. The aroma is of pine and citrus. Underneath that is straw, molasses, concord grapes and granny smith apples. The mouth feel is slippery and slick. It is light to medium bodied. The carbonation is soft. It has a softly numbing effect on the mouth. The flavor is of West Coast hops-- pine and citrus. The flavor sweetens a bit and ends up like cinnamon candy. This is like their pale ale with a little more oomf.

This is a decent beer, but for an IPA, its pretty weak. I actually think that the standard pale ale feels hoppier than this. I am not that much of a hophead, so I enjoyed it.

Bottle from Utobeer. I opened this with some trepidation as not many UK raters who’ve had this in the last few months haven given it that good a score. In fact they’ve said they prefer the SNPA. This is amber with lasting beige head. Very moderate hop aroma. Far more hoppy and bitter in mouth, maybe a little unbalanced. Not enough malt to underpin the harsh peppery hop, which lasts. It’s fine. Just nothing special. No great fruit from malt and hops.

Bottle at københavnske øldage 07. Copper colour with a beige head.. Aroma is fruit, hop, malt . Flavour is hop, fruit, malt . Ok beer.

12 oz bottle: Nice bog hop aroma, citrus, grapefruit, pine needles, and small amount of backing malts. Pours a cloudy orange with a thick white heads that lingers around for quite a while. Taste is spicy, grapefruit notes, and a decent amount of hops. Palate is somewhat long lasting with the lightly bitter/sweet hops. Overall, I think it’s a pretty decent IPA almost always a solid outing for SN.