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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot 3.88 2044

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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98
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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20443.89/5.03.88/5.0Winter9.6%92.2Snifter
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Gold Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival (Ales: Brown, Bitter and Pale 1987, Barleywine 1988,1992,1995). Sierra Nevada Bigfoot is an award winning example of the English Barley Wine style. It boasts a dense, fruity bouquet; an extremely rich, intense, bittersweet palate; and a deep, reddish-brown color. This ale is superbly balanced between an almost overpowering maltiness and a wonderfully bittersweet hoppiness.

Beginning Gravity:23 Plato
Finishing Hops:Cascade & Centennial
Dry Hops:Centennial, Cascade & Chinook
Bittering Hops: Chinook
Ending Gravity:6.0 Plato
Yeast:Top Fermenting Ale Yeast
Malts:Two-row Barley Malt, English Caramel Malt, Dextrin Malt
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 Butters (1653), Virginia, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Mar 31, 2009    Updated: Sep 28, 2009
On draft at the Abbey brewing company. Clear amber pour with fair head retention and legs. Massively hopped. Moderately hot alcohol flavors. I’d love to try this aged. Tried again aged, and this is fantastic. Still has the cascade hops. Very good and balanced. Great brew.


Zaprozdower (42), Boone, North Carolina, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/516/20
Mar 31, 2009  
Vintage 2009. Great aroma, love that the hops can be found here. Nice head and color, somewhat dark copper. Very balanced for a barleywine, perfect amount of hops to counterbalance the maltyness. Definitely better than the Duck Rabbit barleywine. Aging my 2nd one for a bit as I’m sure it can be even better!


 BOLTZ7555 (1113), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Mar 30, 2009  
2009 Vintage. Thick viscous pour produced a maroon body and tight eggshell head that left ringlets on every sip. Aroma exhibits brown sugar, caramel, and pine. Flavor shows some traditional barley wine qualities (molasses, caramel, toffee, honey) but also has a strong hop presence. Citrus and pine resin are also very apparent and will mellow with time. Wish I had the patience to cellar a few.


jstek (8), USA
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4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 29, 2009  
Dark, hoppy, heavy, and delicious. I was thrilled to find a bottle of this at Otto’s in SE Portland. Between this and my "Kitchen Sink" sandwich, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven, probably thanks to the hgh ABV. Will definitely be seeking this out again.


sparky075 (8), Michigan, USA
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4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 28, 2009  
Wow...definately a barleywine. Very hoppy, but delicious. Good head and color. Finishes like a Sierra Nevada--very Pale Ale-ish. Going on my good list.


 drjay44 (818), Salida, Colorado, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Mar 28, 2009  
12 oz. bottle. Vintage 2009. Pours a thick but rapidly diminishing head, with heavy lacing over a clear brownish (SRM15) body....nose is grapefriut and pine, with some floral wafting through....tastes initially of rich sweet malts, with balancing grapefriut and bitter hops, finish is long lingering fruity hop flavors....mouth feel is rich thick and chewy.


jonboy32818 (30), orlando, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Mar 27, 2009  
I wait every year for this. Pours garnet with a thin cream colored head. Aroma is hops upfront and sweet malt. Flavor is bitter c hops and the sweetness in the aroma really doesn’t appear when the beer this young. The body is the best thing about this beer so full and it just sits on the tongue after swallowling. I can’t wait until next year.


 clong83 (243), San Diego, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Mar 26, 2009  
One of my favorites! Very hoppy but the malts are even bigger here. Syrupy and heavy and it packs a wallop. Caramelish and dark fruits and a bitter kick, with a tinge of alcohol. Really a good beer, but not for the faint of heart.



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