Sierra Nevada Brewing Co
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
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Celebration Ale
Big Foot Barleywine Style Ale
2. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Annual sales: 723,880 barrels
Share of segment: 7.94%
Change in share: +0.06%
Established in 1980 by Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi, Sierra
Nevada is the second-largest craft brewery in America and is located
in Chico, California. Producing over 723,000 barrels of beer annually,
the most popular brew is the company's pale ale, although the
company has a wide range of seasonal brews, porters, stouts and
special releases.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
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Headquarters and brewery in Chico, CA.
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 Pale Ale is the
second best-selling craft beer in the United States, behind the Boston
Beer Company's Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
Sierra Nevada's specialty brews include the winter seasonal
Celebration, which is similar to the pale ale, but hoppier; and
Summerfest, a lager which is citrusy and sunny.
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, featuring
world-class acts from country, bluegrass, folk, rock, blues and other
musical genres.
The head brewer 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.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was featured in the February/March
2009 Issue of the fine beverage publication, Mutineer Magazine.
Beers
Sierra Nevada Classics
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
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
Sierra Nevada Porter (note: current label/cap is brown)
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
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
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
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
Seasonals
Glissade (Golden Bock) replaces ESB in seasonal lineup for 2010
- Alcohol Content: 6.4% by volume
- Beginning Gravity: 15.5 Plato
- Ending Gravity: 3.2 Plato
- Bitterness Units: 42
- Yeast: Lager Yeast
- Bittering Hops: German Magnum & German Perle
- Finishing Hops: German Spalter, Slovenian Aurora & Styrian
- Malts: Two-row Pale, Europils, Munich & Crystal
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
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
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
Special Release
Bigfoot, 2006 Edition
Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale
- Dry Hopping: Cascade, Centennial & Chinook
- Malts: Two-row Pale, English Caramel & Dextrin
Harvest Ale
Estate Ale
Limited Drafts Only
Pale Bock
- Alcohol Content: 7.0% by volume
- Maibock/Helles Bock Style
- Was sold in bottles in the Chico, CA area only
- No longer sold. Replaced by glissade
India Pale Ale
- Alcohol Content: 6.9%
- Bittering Hops: Magnum
- Finishing Hops: Goldings
- Dry Hopping: Goldings
- Malts: English
Brown Ale
Crystal Wheat
- Malts: 65% wheat malt, 35% barley malt
- Sold in bottles only in Chico
Blonde Ale
- Hops: Perle, Styrian Goldings
- Malts: Maris Otter English
Best Bitter Ale
Ruthless Weiss Beer
See also
References
- ^ Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Gets Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
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