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Sierra Nevada Summerfest

Sierra Nevada Summerfest - Premium Lager

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 Percentile 
47
overall
Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager

Chico, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
12173.01/5.03.01/5.0Summer5%87.6Lager glass
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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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 blindeyedbetty (148), Arlington, Virginia, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/103/512/20
Apr 26, 2008  
12 oz. bottle poured crisp clear golden color with lazy white head. Aroma of sweaty butt crack in the summer time. Not pleasant. Initial palate was hoppier than I’d expected with malty wheat in middle and bitter finish. Watery and thin without any particularly interesting flavors. Kind of one-dimensional. Strange beer for me, nothing like any lager I’ve tasted before and definitely my least favorite of the SN line.


ELab2 (38), USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/55/103/512/20
Apr 26, 2008  
Pretty good. Nice golden color. Very mild aroma with just sort of a generic hoppy beer smell. Little bit of a hoppy bite but not much. Pretty bland and shallow.


 Guinness4Duff (507), Tallahassee (and Poconos, PA), Florida, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/57/20
Apr 26, 2008  
Pours a clear gold color with a small white head. Has the distinct hop aroma of a european pilsner ... and pretty much the taste too. Not their best offering.


msiano (30), Belmar, New Jersey, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/518/20
Apr 25, 2008  
2008 from the bottle... Had a nice golden color with about an 1/2in head when poured from the bottle . There was a nice crisp Hop taste perfect for a summer at the beach.


 jeremytoni (1069), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Apr 24, 2008  
From the tap at North Third poured a amber color with a fair amount of head. Good flavor hoppy, with a quick finish.


 iride15 (169), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/513/20
Apr 24, 2008  
I was surprised at the amount of hops added to this. It’s not the best that I’ve had, but some of the different qualities added to this makes it its own unique twist. A decent drink, but I’ll stay with their Pale Ale.


 GreatLibations (1440), Last Supper, Arizona, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/57/103/515/20
Apr 23, 2008  
Summerfest pours a light golden color with a tall head that lingers. Aromas of skunky citrus and putrefied vanilla cream. Light nectar with ample residual effers. Clean and crisp with snappy hoppsy citrus rind and slight biscuiting. The finish is bittered nicely. This is one of the best lagers out there. A great session beer.


 JorisPPattyn (5155), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Apr 23, 2008  
Marks for Appearance are an average, as beer was sampled in weak artificial light after dark. Very grassy nose, pale malts out in force. Again very grassy qua taste, slight & fine sweet touch, crisp. Very fizzy MF, ’smooth’. Light crisp lager - exactly what it says on the label...



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