Sierra Nevada Harvest

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

Bottle. Pours a bright orange color with a big white foamy head. Nose is piney, dry hops with a biscuity essence. Palate is full and tingly. Flavors of biscuit and grass with the dry piney hop finish

Bottle- Enjoyed the wet hop ale, good thick head with a clean copper tinge. Fresh hop and mild citrus notes with a malt smoothness ties it together. Spice and a touch of sweet, a bit of bitterness at the end . Smooth, fresh flavors and really drinkable.

Aroma: spicy pumpkin, nutmeg. Apperance: transparent, copper, huge head. slight carb. Flavor: spice, long hop palate, Palate: a bit watery, nice lingering hop finish. Overall: ok, neutral watery hop IPA-style. actually nice for a Sierra Nevada

What a hoppitastic beer--wet hops at that. A bit of bitterness in the finish otherwise a nice strong ale with huge lacing.

On tap at Chappys in Dayton. Ok not too bad of an IPA. I’m not the biggest fan of harvest ales or fresh hop IPAs but I like this one. Easy to drink, not overly bitter. A nice aroma and flavor of raw hops, but nothing extreme.

More Vegas stuff Poured out a huge wonderfully thick and creamy tan head with great retention and massive sticky lacing all on top of a crystal clear burnt orangy / amber brew. The aroma is very stiff early on but blends into more of what is expected except for one thing: a background musty nose that seems very out of place. Nectarines, grapefruit, dust, thick "nectar juice" (sunripe), some empty herbal quantity, caramel. The taste is also a surprise: lingering grapefruit and herbal bitterness, which is good. Lots of leafy stuff but the leaf is not one that is overpowering. A bit of fruit, some caramel (lesser notes), seems to lack something. Comes across with a nice, smooth carbonation, medium bodied and good sweetness that finishes wonderfully and leaves a candyish aftertaste. Damn, wish I could get more... ahahh Cirrhosis is a total retard. He read the label as "Wheat Hop Ale" instead of "Wet hop ale". Now, I may not have mentioned this if it weren’t for his insistance that it was the word "wheat". Jesus dude, did your mommy drink too much Slivovich during the first trimester?

Okay, this one caught me by surprise, and I am glad to see others rating this as highly as I did. (Usually) not swayed by gimmicky labels or elaborate descriptions of brewing processes, I nonetheless pronounce a simple amen after finishing the glass.... opens with a tremendously aromatic fragrance with a floral, buttery smoothness... beautiful orange-brown body in an oversized Hop Devil snifter; two-finger foam leaves wonderful lacing, the look of a limited release... medium to full-bodied, with a crunch that reverberates--a smoothness early that balances well with the grit betweent the teeth... not at all my expectations: no big Christmas tree suck of pine cone explosion, no cascade of Cascade--mellow, almost laidback to the point of sharing common ties with the creamier, more balanced English pales... start to finish, a crowning achievement... an excellent spring nightcap to a day of work, but in most (any?) settings this would work well, well enough to finish the 24oz. bottle and wish for a second...I get more of the citrus as the glass drains, but this may be misadvertised as a hophead’s "wet" dream , due to the fact that the pleasure of drinking this beer is its bouquet and its flavor balance... I had to buy brother Jer a bottle before the 4th, just to share the triumph with someone...

Bottle. Aroma is of citrusy dry hops. Nice peppery bite, dry hops and citrusy floral mouthfeel. Nice smooth creamy citrusy dry finish. Very nice beer.