Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Location	Chico, CA United States
Owner(s)	Ken Grossman (independent)
Year opened	1979
Annual production	680,000 barrels
Active beers
Name Type Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Pale ale Sierra Nevada Porter Porter Sierra Nevada Stout Stout Sierra Nevada Wheat Beer Wheat beer
Seasonal beers
Name Type ESB (Early Spring Beer) Bitter Summerfest Lager Pale lager Anniversary Ale American IPA Celebration Ale India pale ale
Other beers
Name Type Special Release beers Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale Barley wine Harvest Ale Pale ale Limited Draft Only beers 20th Street Ale Pale ale Best Bitter Ale Bitter Blonde Ale Blonde ale Brown Ale Brown ale Crystal Wheat Pale wheat ale Doppelbock Doppelbock Draught Style Pale Ale Pale ale Extra Special Pale Ale (ESP) Pale ale India Pale Ale India pale ale Oktoberfest Oktoberfest Pale Bock Helles bock Pilsner Pilsener Rauchbier Rauchbier Ruthless Weiss Beer Hefe weizen

The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was established in 1980 by homebrewers Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi. Camusi retired in 1998 and sold his share in the company to Grossman. Located in Chico, California^[1], Sierra Nevada Brewing is one of the most popular craft breweries currently operating in the United States. Its Pale Ale is world renowned, and the brewery produces almost 700,000 barrels of beer per year. Sierra Nevada's specialty brews include the winter Seasonal Celebration, like the pale ale only hoppier with hints of oak and cinnamon, and Summerfest, which is citrusy and sunny. Sierra Nevada's beer is consistently rated high in BeerAdvocate.com's Top 25 list, and has appeared on many television shows, including Friends and Sex and the City. In 1989, after moving the brewery to its current location, Grossman added The Sierra Nevada Taproom and Restaurant, which serves lunch and dinner. More recently the brewery opened "The Big Room", a live music venue located inside the brewery's facilities, and featuring world-class acts from country, bluegrass, folk, rock, blues and other musical genres.

Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale is the second best-selling craft beer in the United States, behind the Boston Beer Company's Samuel Adams Boston Lager.

The brewmaster is Steve Dresler who has been with the brewery since 1983 when its output was 25 to 30 barrels a week. While commonly referred to as a microbrewery, its production has outgrown that label and it is more properly called a craft brewery.

Contents 1 Beers 1.1 Sierra Nevada Classics 1.1.1 Pale Ale 1.1.2 Porter 1.1.3 Wheat 1.1.4 Stout 1.1.5 Torpedo Extra IPA 1.1.6 Kellerweis 1.2 Seasonals 1.2.1 ESB (Early Spring Beer) 1.2.2 Summerfest 1.2.3 Anniversary Ale 1.2.4 Celebration Ale 1.3 Special Release 1.3.1 Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale 1.3.2 Harvest Ale 1.4 Limited Drafts Only 1.4.1 Pale Bock 1.4.2 India Pale Ale 1.4.3 Brown Ale 1.4.4 Crystal Wheat 1.4.5 Blonde Ale 1.4.6 Best Bitter Ale 1.4.7 Ruthless Weiss Beer 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Beers

[edit] Sierra Nevada Classics

[edit] Pale Ale

• Alcohol Content: 5.6% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 13.0 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 2.8 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 37
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Magnum & Perle
• Finishing Hops: Cascade
• Malts: Two-row Pale & Caramel

[edit] Porter

• Alcohol Content: 5.6% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 14.5 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 3.8 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 40
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Goldings
• Finishing Hops: Willamette
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Munich, Chocolate & Caramel

[edit] Wheat

• Alcohol Content: 4.4% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 11.5 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 2.3 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 27
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Perle
• Finishing Hops: Spalt
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Dextrin & Wheat

[edit] Stout

• Alcohol Content: 5.8% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 16.0 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 4.8 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 60
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Magnum
• Finishing Hops: Cascade & Willamette
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Munich, Caramel & Black

[edit] Torpedo Extra IPA

• Alcohol Content: 7.2% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 16.8 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 4.6 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 70
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Magnum
• Finishing Hops: Magnum & Crystal
• Dry Hopping: Magnum, Crystal, & Citra
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Carapils, & Crystal

[edit] Kellerweis

• Alcohol Content: 4.8% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 12.8 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 3.5 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 15
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Perle or Sterling
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Wheat, & Munich

[edit] Seasonals

[edit] ESB (Early Spring Beer)

• Alcohol Content: 5.9% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 14.9 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 3.6 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 45-46
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: English Challenger
• Finishing English Challenger & East Kent Goldings
• Dry Hopping: English Challenger
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Maris Otter & Crystal

[edit] Summerfest

• Alcohol Content: 5.0% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 11.8 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 2.8 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 32
• Yeast: Bottom-fermenting Lager Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Perle & Saaz
• Finishing Hops: Saaz
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Dextrin & Munich

[edit] Anniversary Ale

• Alcohol Content: 5.9% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 14.9 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 3.5 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 46
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Chinook
• Finishing Hops: Cascade
• Dry Hopping: Cascade
• Malts: Two-row Pale, Caramel & Munich

[edit] Celebration Ale

• Alcohol Content: 6.8% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 16.0 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 4.0 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 62
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Chinook
• Finishing Hops: Cascade & Centennnial
• Dry Hopping: Cascade, Centennial & Chinook
• Malts: Two-row Pale, English Caramel & Dextrin

[edit] Special Release

[edit] Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale

• Alcohol Content: 9.6% by volume
• Beginning Gravity: 23.0 Plato
• Ending Gravity: 6.0 Plato
• Bitterness Units: 90
• Yeast: Top-fermenting Ale Yeast
• Bittering Hops: Chinook
• Finishing Hops: Cascade & Centennnial
• Dry Hopping: Cascade, Centennial & Chinook
• Malts: Two-row Pale, English Caramel & Dextrin

[edit] Harvest Ale

[edit] Limited Drafts Only

[edit] Pale Bock

• Alcohol Content: 7.0% by volume
• Maibock/Helles Bock Style
• Sold in bottles in the Chico, CA area only

[edit] India Pale Ale

• Alcohol Content: 6.9%
• Bittering Hops: Magnum
• Finishing Hops: Goldings
• Dry Hopping: Goldings
• Malts: English

[edit] Brown Ale

• Hops: Goldings

[edit] Crystal Wheat

• Malts: 65% wheat malt, 35% barley malt

[edit] Blonde Ale

• Hops: Perle, Styrian Goldings
• Malts: Maris Otter English

[edit] Best Bitter Ale

[edit] Ruthless Weiss Beer

• Unfiltered

[edit] See also

• California breweries
• Craft beer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Website
• A review of Sierra Nevada's Summerfest at Beer is My Poison