Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop Ale (or as us in the know call it “SNSHHFHA,” pronounced, obviously “sin-shif-haa”) is a blast of hopped goodness from one of the originators of the Craft Beer movement, Chico, CA’s Sierra Nevada. It’s no secret that these guys make great beer, and besides having perhaps the greatest, most consistent and sessionable beers you’ll find in most decent bars, they often bring the ruckus with shit like this. SNSHHFHA comes as a blessing to North Americans from the “down under” New Zealanders who are slowly claiming a larger and larger percentage of the world’s market for Hops, providing loads of Organic hops at reasonable prices (and delicious varietals at that).
This beer, available for the first time in bombers, is pretty much all over the place by this point. I picked up a bottle of this before a radio show I do sometimes and it treated me quite nicely. Pours a beautiful dark gold color with a huge head and a very refreshing amount of carbonation. This is a balanced beer, not an over the top Hop Monster, and with a relatively low < 7%ABV, a very drinkable beer indeed. There’s a lot of good malt, a lot of good hop spice, flavor, and aroma, and Sierra Nevada succeeds again in the realm of highly quaffable session beers which aren’t boring, bland, or shallow. This is a truly great beer for Summertime when you want something a little on the darker side of a Pale Ale or Lager. Enjoy it while it’s around.
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