Our second to last beer in the Winter Beer series, we are looking at Sierra Nevada Celebration. Before you run out and buy it make sure to listen to the podcast.
News
It seems like all we have been talking about here lately is big business and mergers, this week we are back at it, with Groslch, the familiar beer in a green swing top bottle. Grolsh is being bought by SABMiller. Now the really interesting thing about this story is that Groslch currently has a distribution contract with AB (Anheuser Bush ) in the US, so it very well may end up with one major US company marketing and distributing another major US companies beer.
Sierra Nevada Celebration
- Sierra Nevada is not a new company to us. You all may remember when we talked about Pale Ales and we said that they make one of the best examples of a Pale Ale out there available on a large scale basis.
- Located in Chico, California and founded in 1979 by Ken Grossman, this company is one of those smaller craft brewers that hit it big and became a bigger brewer. The thing is, they kept there dedication to making good beer even though they got big.
- This beer company, like many, started as an experiment in home brewing. We don’t talk much about homebrewing on the show, but if you want to know more, give Basic Brewing Radio a try
- One of the great thing about this company is that the owner is still very much involved with the recipes and contributes to every step of the process…or so says the website.
- Well what about the beer. Well this one weighs in at 6.8% ABV, now were talking, and it is classified as an American IPA.
- This beer pours copper in color and has a nice tan head. The smell is exactly what you are going to expect from an IPA, hope, hops, and more hops. The taste is the same thing, 100% hops. It is much more bitter than there pale ale, which again you would expect. There is a little bit of the alcohol heat as you swallow but what really comes through is some of the pithyness of the citrus.
- While we are here I want to make a quick note about cellaring. Come beers, believe it or not, hold up pretty well over time. This is one of them.
Next Week
Well next week we will be wrapping up our Christmas shows with a hometown favorite, Mad Elf from Troegs brewing company in Harrisburg.
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