Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
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| Location | Chico, CA United States |
| Owner | Ken Grossman (independent) |
| Year opened | 1979 |
| Annual production | 680,000 barrels |
| Active Beers | |
| Sierra Nevada Pale Ale | Pale ale |
| Sierra Nevada Porter | Porter |
| Sierra Nevada Stout | Stout |
| Sierra Nevada Wheat Beer | American Wheat |
| Seasonal Beers | |
| Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale | Barley wine |
| Celebration Ale | India pale ale |
| Summerfest | Pale lager |
| Specialty Beers | |
| Best Bitter Ale | Bitter |
| Blonde Ale | Blonde ale |
| Brown Ale | Brown ale |
| Crystal Wheat | Pale wheat ale |
| India Pale Ale | India pale ale |
| Ruthless Weiss Beer | Hefe weizen |
| Other Beers | |
| 20th Street Ale | Pale ale |
| Doppelbock | Doppelbock |
| Draught Style Pale Ale | Pale ale |
| Extra Special Pale Ale (ESP) | Pale ale |
| Harvest Ale | Pale ale |
| Oktoberfest | Oktoberfest |
| Pale Bock | Helles bock |
| Pilsner | Pilsener |
| Rauchbier | Rauchbier |
The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was established in 1979 (first beer sold in February 1981) by homebrewers Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi. Camusi retired in 1998 and sold his share in the company to Grossman. Located in Chico, California, Sierra Nevada Brewing is one of the most popular craft breweries currently operating in the United States. Their Pale Ale is world renowned, and the brewery produces almost 700,000 barrels of beer per year. Their specialty brews include the winter brew Celebration, like the pale ale only hoppier with hints of oak and cinnamon, and Summerfest, which is citrusy and sunny. Their beer is consistently rated high in BeerAdvocate.com's Top 25 list, and has been featured on many television shows, including Friends and Sex in the City. In 1989, after moving the brewery to its current location, Ken 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. The facility is to be entirely fuel cell powered by 2007.
The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company'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 their output was 25 to 30 barrels a week. While commonly referred to as a microbrewery, their production has outgrown that label and they are more properly called a craft brewery.
Sierra Nevada has sponsored a professional bicycle racing team since 2001, now co-sponsored by Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
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[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: 5.7% 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] Seasonals
[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] 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] 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] Specialty Drafts
[edit] India Pale Ale
- Bittering Hops: Magnum
- Finishing Hops: Goldings
- Dry Hopping: Goldings
- Malts: English
[edit] Brown Ale
Now available bottled in select markets, the bottled Brown Ale is slated to be a Fall seasonal release between Summerfest (sales ending around September 1), and Celebration (sales beginning November 1).
- Hops: Goldings
[edit] Crystal Wheat
- Malts: 2/3 wheat malt, 1/3 barley malt
[edit] Blonde Ale
- Hops: Perle, Styrian Goldings
- Malts: Maris Otter English
[edit] Best Bitter Ale
[edit] Ruthless Weiss Beer
- Unfiltered
