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Sierra Nevada Summerfest

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
12193.01/5.03.01/5.0Summer5%87.6Lager glass
Commercial Description:
Summerfest is a delightfully refreshing example of a traditional style lager beer. While lighter in body than our ales, Summerfest displays significant hop aroma and a tangy hop bite. The long lagering period adds a smoothness that makes this beer a great summertime treat.

Bittering Hops: Perle & Saaz
Beginning Gravity: 11.8 Plato
Finishing Hops: Saaz
Ending Gravity: 2.7 Plato
Malts: Two-row Pale, Dextrin Malt, Munich
Yeast: Lager Yeast (bottom fermenting)
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 Hopper (302), San Antonio, Texas, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/57/102/59/20
Jun 23, 2009  
If I was going to drink a pale lager I would drink this one over the Buds & Coors.The flavors are well balanced, & easily drinkable


 Jblauvs (547), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Jun 22, 2009  
straw pour with a slight fizzy head and an effervescent character. slight hop aroma and light grassy notes. mild malt character in the mouth, but nothing that sets this above many other halfway decent light lagers. So ill stick with halfway decent and certainly drinkable


 maltdog (514), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/512/20
Jun 22, 2009  
Clear sunny yellow, spongy white head. Gentle malt aromas whisper grass, green bananas and honey. Crisp with the butter-balsawood taste I normally associate with American pilsner malt, plus a little bit sufury/minerally/skunky. A touch of DMS in the aftertaste. Medium bodied and gassy.


 jbye4334 (658), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Jun 21, 2009  
(bottle at Summit Brewfest in Colorado Springs). Pours a clear yellow color. Small white head. Light grass aroma. Light bitter flavor. Avg duration. Lively carbonation.


 dalek123 (103), Houston, Texas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Jun 20, 2009  
Pours golden with a thick white head that fades quickly. Light carbonation. Slight sweetness upfront,then a delicious bite of bitterness . A great alternative to most American pale lagers for easy drinking.


 wxman (585), O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Jun 20, 2009    Updated: Jul 11, 2009
Pours a clear pale golden with a substantial thick white head. Aroma is sweet grass and some earthiness. Taste is sweet pale malt and a bit of caramel. Hop bitterness after the swallow a little higher than the style would dictate, though all flavors are well balanced.


 DiabolikDUB (143), Portland, Oregon, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/56/103/511/20
Jun 15, 2009  
Poured from Bottle into Pint Glass. Pours a crystal clear straw color with a good finger of bubbly foam that quickly dissolves and leave a fine ring around the glass. The aroma has sweet nutty malts and some earthy, grassy hops. The flavor is sweet caramel malt upfront that is supported with some bitter hops towards the end. Its a light bodied beer with lots of carbonation. Summerfest is a very easy drinking beer but I’m still trying to work into the lager thing so I probably won’t be grabbing more of this soon.


 KnN (716), Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Jun 12, 2009  
Pours a golden yellow color with a bright white head and a lot of carbonation. Sierra Nevada’s Take on a pale lager. A little biscuity, the slightest hint of hops. Pretty decent.



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