At first, the Summer comes slowly. You’re full of anticipation. You’re longing for the freedom, the warmth, the celebratory feeling that washes over the city. You’re enjoying the gentle pause between Spring’s breezes and Summer’s punishing inevitability, and all of the sudden, you find yourself sweating and panting, walking the avenue looking for a corner [...]
Magical things happen in Chico, California – It’s been proven, and many beer devotees make the pilgrimage every year to witness in person the massive amounts of alchemy which take place on the sacred grounds at Sierra Nevada’s brewery. Though I haven’t ventured on the road west yet to sup of the wares in the [...]
2008 marks the 28th anniversary of one of America’s oldest and most celebrated craft breweries, Sierra Nevada. In order to celebrate their anniversary every year, Sierra releases an “Anniversary Ale,” a nicely hopped American IPA which, according to the label, “features Cascade hops.” It certainly does, and in the process, Sierra succeeds yet again in [...]
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, [...]
