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Sierra Nevada Stout

Sierra Nevada Stout

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A Stout brewed by
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Chico, California USA

bottled
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on tap
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10683.57/5.03.57/5.05.8%83.3English 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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 chokmah33 (107), Bremerton, Washington, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/515/20

Mar 4, 2008  
Smell like dark choco, black coffee, and wet hay malts with grape and green apple hops. Milky texture, tangy with a dry malty finish. Too much carb. Flavor is hoppy for a stout, wierd combo of fruity + floral hops and strong chocolate malts. Strange decomposition flavor that I wasn’t too into. Nutty espresso finish.....Just OK. Celebration or Bigfoot much better

 502Flavors (278), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 11, 2008  
12 oz bottle into pint glass. Near black pour with reddish hue and a huge creamy lacing dirty tan head (really remarkable head). The aroma was good and roasty, creamy and hoppy. The flavor was very nice and simple - roasty, hoppy, and almost a bit smokey. Meidum bodied and smooth (and a bit watery) on the palate. Overall: very solid (I can’t get over the beauty of the head).


bee__R (43), Cantù, Italy
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 6, 2008  
33 cl bottle from the renewed beeshop in Como. Deep black beer with a creamy tan thick head. It actually represents a wonderful example of the style, I’d say medium-high level. A maltry sweet nose, enriched with red fruits notes and liquorice hints in a bitter coffe-like frame. Full body and pleasant carbonation actually match with a roasty bitterness and sweet haloes. Right level of dryness.


mcjay (84), Neenah, Wisconsin, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 4, 2008  
Deep amber color, almost black with a very nice, thick tan/brown head. Rich, roasted aroma with a hint of chocolate. Robust and bitter taste with a hoppy bite to it.


JCastner (39), New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/512/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Pours black with a slight off white head. Aroma is all roasted coffee. Medium body with dry lingering bitterness. Simple and straightforward.


 Petrucci914 (374), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Pours a pitch black with a medium mocha head that leaves webs of lacing. Aroma is robust - hoppy, alcohol, dark roasts, coffee. Taste is the same with a slightly bitter finish. Nicely balanced and enjoyable stout.



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