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Sierra Nevada Stout

Sierra Nevada Stout

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88
overall
A Stout brewed by
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Chico, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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10873.57/5.03.57/5.05.8%83.9English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Silver Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival, Stout 1988, 1989. Sierra Nevada Stout is a creamy and full-bodied example of this traditional style ale. Very dark and very rich, the Stout displays a pronounced roasted flavor.

Finishing Hops:Cascade
Bittering Hops:Chinook
Beginning Gravity:16 Plato
Ending Gravity:4.5 Plato
Malts:Two-row Barley Malt, Caramel Malt, Black Malt, Dextrin Malt
Yeast:Top Fermenting Ale Yeast

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ambroze (21), Old Hickory, Tennessee, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Nov 30, 2004  
To me this smells similar to their porter, but roastier. Opaque with a nice creamy head. Enveloping roastiness with a lingering finish. Good hop presence, and well balanced. Sierra Nevada seems to make really balanced beers that aren’t boring. Good stuff.


beergod434 (19), bossier, Louisiana, USA
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/105/520/20
Oct 19, 2008  
wow a true stout i was very suprised becouse there pale ale was not good at all but this stout with its hevanly aroma pretty color of dark blackish brown and a taste of a high claas stout with a hops after tone it is a beer that every stout lover can well injoy with a low price


stouty (6), USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Sierra Nevada Stout does not count
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Jun 29, 2005  
excellent stout nice black color chocolate taste,however not for lovers of crud light or michelob ultra


 Bov (4735), Bienne, Switzerland
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/518/20
Nov 29, 2000  
Well, it seems I’m the only one who really loves this stuff (it actually makes rank 6 on a total of 2001 beers !). All the other beer lovers are rating this beer quite poorly: ’...as a stout, it fails miserably’, ’...not quite appropriate to the style.’, ’’simple’ taste’ and so on ... On my side I really don’t care if a beer labeled ’stout’ tastes like an IPA or even a lambic. Anyway everyone is free and there is no truth, only human opinions. And here is mine about this beer: dark colour, big head, roasty coffee aroma, fantastic flavor, dry aftertaste


 foduck (300), Denton, Texas, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/519/20
Nov 12, 2002    Updated: Apr 9, 2003
Faint coffee/chocolate aroma, a little hops in there too. Appearance is not as dark as stouts I'm used to. Flavor is great, roasted malt and everything, it's all in here. Perfectly balanced bitterness. The palate is where this really comes through though. The most beautiful thing my mouth has felt. Soo smooth and so good. The more I drink the better it gets. Does Sierra Nevada make a bad beer? I haven't had one from them yet. I suspect mine is aged, because the hops in mine seem to have faded significantly. The bottles had dust all over them, bought from a gas station where most people probably have little interest in this sort of thing. Something about this beer REALLY hits the spot dead on! It's become one of my all-time favorites.



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