Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Pours a nice looking copper color. Off-white head with nice lacing. If I sniff real hard I get a bit of sweetness but no pine or anything else. Mostly bitter taste but has some malt to back it up. While I like this it doesn’t taste much different than the pale ale, just add more bittering hops.

Way too hoppy for my taste. Maybe someday I will have acquired the necessary discriminating ability to fairly critique such a hoppy beer.

Pours a deep copper color with a frothy tan head. Aroma is dominated by pine and citrus. Nice strong hoppy bitterness to this ale which has a citrusy finish. Very nice beer.

Absolutely Delicious Brew! This along with Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA are my 2 favorites. Buy a keg, it’s even better on tap

2008 bottle, sampled at Grand River Brewery. Pours dark/mid amber colour, decent head, with fine carbonation. Flavour and aroma dominated by hops. Very hoppy for a winter ale.

2008 Bottle. Pours reddish-hued golden color with a medium to thin bubbly off-white head which leaves a nice web of sticky lacing. Aroma is citrus, and piney and grassy hops. Bitterness hits you right away but then fades into a decent malt backbone and some citrus. A solid session IPA.

Bottle, pours a nice transparent orange body with a thin pure white head. Lots of grapefruit in the nose along with some pine needles and wet grass. The hops and bitterness come out right away on my tongue, forcing the very tip to bunch up and numb just slightly. The flavor is crisp and fast with notes of pine needles, citrus peel and a sweet malty backbones that helps everything come together. Really a well balanced beer, perfect to mix in and extend an all night session.

The look is orange to amber in color with a decent beige colored head. Smell is hops with the pine parts really coming through some fruits as well some malts and caramel malts. Taste is medium bitterness, malts, and caramel. Decent beer.