Sierra Nevada Estate Brewers Harvest Ale

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

Thanks Chibbyman. Dark amber pour with an off-white head. Nice malt and hop aroma. The taste was great. The malt was smooth and balanced well with the citrusy hops. It is well worth the bottle price.

$9.13... pours a medium copper w/ a decent 2 finger head .. . an easy drinker, maybe to much so ... pine and light woodiness, some slight resin .. . calm ... what’s jack in the box hiding under that big head? grease burns? .. . a mellow brew but ridiculously overpriced for what you get, a standard ipa... i love freedom..

Plenty of carbonation, murky orange/brown in color. Clean notes, pine, citrus, bark, finishes with Sasion flavor.

24oz bottle. murky copper pour with a finger sturdy looking light tan head. aroma is citrus, grass and resiny hops. taste is strong herbal hop bitterness with hints of juicy citrus. finishes a medium bitter and a slightly metallic. light tingly carbonation in the light to medium creamy palate. a good bitter ipa - but nothing crazy spectacular.

On tap at the Pony Bar, NYC. Pours an orange-brown with a medium beige head. Nose of hefty hops and some mild malt sweetness. Flavor is nicely balanced blend of hops and malts, perhaps a bit heavier on the hops. Piney, citrusy hop notes with some sweet, malty toffee flavors. Mildly bitter from the hops and still crispl. Clean, tasty finish. Solid IPA.

Similar to the "regular" Harvest, but with a bit more toffee like notes in the malt and a much spicier/pepperier hop profile. A good effort, but still not as good as the "regular" Harvest, which might be my favorite IPA. For the same money as one bottle of this, I can have two of "regulars". Well, I get a "tick" out of it. ;)

Again, nice IPA, I wasnt sure of this one when i saw it, thought it was one of the other Harvest beers, but this one had a distinct character that was very indicitive of S.N. nice citrus and pine notes, and maybe a little apple, bitter finish but just enough malts to make it balanced, really nice, i personally think its better that the other Harvests.

THOUGHTS: I had this one sitting around for a few weeks before I had the chance to try it and boy was it worth the wait. It was perfectly balanced. One of the best IPAs I’ve ever had. Excellent transition between sweet and bitter flavors. There was nothing very interesting flavor-wise, but the flavors were in just the right proportions to make this great. and it sure looked nice, too. I half expected to see a prehistoric insect encased in this beer because it was so close to the color of actual amber that you would see in a museum. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a medium to dark amber with an average to large off-white to cream colored head that mostly diminished, but left good lacing. The aroma was slightly weak in comparison to the flavor. There was moderate caramel and oranges; moderate pine hops, a little more grapefruit hops, a little less orange hops, a little earthy hops and a hint of mint; and a little apricot. The initial flavor was sweet and light to moderately bitter; while the finish was lightly sweet and moderately to rather bitter with a fairly long duration. There was lots of citric hops (both orange and grapefruit are high with hints of lemon and lime), and some pine hops all supported by a strong carmel-like, malt backbone with some orangey sweetness too. All the flavors were in perfect balance. The medium body was smooth and slightly slick with fairly soft, yet tingly carbonation and a lightly astringent, lightly dry and ever so slightly metallic finish.