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Virginia Craft Beer Tasting for April 6th – 12th

Friday April 4th: Vintage Cellar will host a weekly beer tasting including Sierra Nevada’s Hoptimum from 2-6pm. Once Upon a Vine North will have Chris with Loveland is back again pouring a few from Sierra Nevada Brewing from 5 -8pm. Once Upon a … Continue reading [...]

New Belgium to open a brewery in Asheville

Asheville, N.C., is certainly becoming the place for beer. New Belgium Brewing has announced that it will building a brewery in the city’s River Arts District. In January, Sierra Nevada announced that it would build its long-rumored eastern brewery jus… [...]

Virginia Craft Beer Tastings fro March 30th – April 5th

Friday March 30th: Vintage Cellar will host a weekly beer tasting including Sierra Nevada’s Hoptimum from 2-6pm. Once Upon a Vine North will have Chris with Loveland pouring a few from Sam Adams from 5 -8pm. Once Upon a Vine South would normally have … Continue reading [...]

Review: Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye

Sierra Nevada, being one of the originators of the craft beer movement, could just sit back and let their already impressive lineup of beers pull them along. But that is not the craft beer, or Sierra Nevada, way of doing things. For 2012 they have a new beer for the Spring, the Ruthless Rye IPA. [...] [...]

Sierra Nevada lança cosmético à base de lúpulo

Em homenagem ao Dia Internacional da Mulher, comemorado nesta quinta-feira, dia 8 de março, trazemos uma notícia que agradará as fãs de cerveja mais vaidosas. A Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. acaba de lançar o Cascade Hops-N-Mint, um hidratante labial feito, como o próprio nome diz, à base do lúpulo Cascade. O produto não contém álcool [...] [...]

Irish Coffee Porter

Last month, I made my first homebrew for 2012. I started with an extract recipe that was a clone of Sierra Nevada porter. After primary fermentation for about two weeks, I transferred it to a keg, where I added 1 quart of Sumatran cold-press extract (… [...]

Sierra Nevada beer tasting, talk to focus on sustainability

The Montana Sustainable Business Council has two events up its sleeve this week as the sustainability coordinator of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (one of the pioneers of the American Pale Ale) comes to Missoula. Cheri Chastain will be at The Loft (119 W. Main St.) on Wednesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. for a Sierra Nevada [...] [...]

Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen

Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen:  It’s not hard for me to love Hefeweizen with their full wheat backgrounds and vague nuttiness…and this is no exception. Sierra Nevada has provided this top notch version with the addition of slight spicine… [...]

Dress Like Bigfoot, Get Beer. What Could Be Simpler?

Let’s get this out of the way. Bigfoot is real. There’s no way Sierra Nevada would name its epically delicious barleywine after some piece of crypozoology. Got that established? Good. Great. Now break out your Bigfoot costumes and get to t… [...]

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale 2011

Sierra Nevada har ständigt en anledning att fira och har passande nog satt i system att göra det med en amerikansk IPA. Precis som förra året är det en färskhumlad historia på 6,8%. Vi har en rödskimrande öl med ett något spretigt skum, öve… [...]

I bought this III

This time, I’m trying Sierra Nevada‘s Ruthless Rye, which has a lovely peppery nose, and then resembles a fine IPA afterward. They claim citrus on the back end and I’m not sure I pick that up. Hop bitterness, for sure and I guess that since it’s not piney that citrus is the default. The rye [...] [...]

Beereview: Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye

At A Tale of Two brewers we’re no strangers to ruthlessness. If a beer smells like urinal cakes, tastes like garbage, and its brewer hasn’t sent us $200 via either PayPal, money order, or BitCoin (no checks please,) we’ll let you know exactly what we t… [...]

Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Ale

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The New Belgium scenario could involve the Delaware Valley.

Anent yesterday’s story here about Sierra Nevada going to build its East Coast plant in Asheville, Lew Bryson has a good piece on his site about whether New Belgium might land in our neighborhood. As the story notes, the “short … Continue reading [...]

ncbrewing.org’s Win Bassett discusses Sierra Nevada on Aleheads podcast

Slouch Sixpack, who is a writer and “resident IT and social networking expert” for Aleheads, interviews ncbrewing.org‘s Win Bassett about Sierra Nevada‘s expansion into North Carolina on the website’s weekly podcast today. Aleheads is “a blog solely dedicated to the world of beer…oh, and other stuff,” but the authors quickly note that their website ” is not [...] [...]

Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Fritz and Ken Ale

There are some beers that are soooo hyped up that you wonder if they are any good. Fat Tire and Dead Guy come to mind.Yes, this beer is all that…. Sierra Nevada Fritz and Ken = 10/10 Ratebeer 3.95 100th  percentile Beer Advocate 93% This … [...]

Sierra Nevada is Carolina-Bound

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company ended the suspense over the location of its second brewery by announcing today that it will be built at the Ferncliff Industrial Park in Mills River, near Asheville Regional Airport. The $100-million-plus facility is expected to offer tours and onsite dining, similar to Sierra Nevada’s Chico, California brewery, which opened in [...] [...]

Sierra Nevada decides on the site for their Eastern brewery: is it time to run for the hills?

Sierra Nevada has chosen Asheville, North Carolina — okay, Mills River, 12 miles south of Asheville, but from 100 miles or more away…it’s Asheville, and you can bet that the beer-happy folks in Asheville will see it that way, too –  as the sit… [...]

Sierra Nevada to open a second brewery

The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, one of the pioneers of American craft brewing, officially announced today they will be opening a new east coast brewery in North Carolina. That’s exciting news. That means us east coasters will be getting even f… [...]

Sierra Nevada makes it official: North Carolina

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. made it offical today that it has chosen a site in western North Carolina for the future home of an east coast brewery. The site, approximately 90 acres in the Henderson County town of Mills River – 12 miles south of Asheville – will be home to the new production facility, [...] [...]