Sierra Nevada Harvest

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

Copper light orange with an off white head, sticky, spotty lacing. Aroma is spicy, herbal hops, caramel, body is there but light. Taste is caramel, fruity, nicely bitter even hops, herbal and spicy.

Aroma is of impressive hops and pine. Pours a very nice reddish amber with a nice size head that is retained very well. Flavor is bursting with sticky hops on the tougue, balanced very well for an IPA with a relatively clean finish. This has to be one of the best IPAs I have had.

A hop head’s delight. Intense hop aroma from a cloudy, reddish brown pour. Nice fluffy head laces the glass. Flavor is a sweet malt at front followed by a heavy hop it. Finish is very dry with a very nice after taste. Very well done.

24 oz bottle, $3.99 at Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Brown a-ber with a huge head. Nose is soap, pine, caramel. Flavor is pine and soap mostly with a hint of malt. Lingering bitter finish.

Bottle 24fl.oz.
Alc. 7.0%. Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090801]

Copper coloured with a huge dense and chunky head typial of SN. Aroma is fantastic, really shows of a complex assault of hops alongside a really solid biscuity malt character. Mouthfeel then dissapoints a bit, rather thin with almost too light carbonation. Flavour also delivers less than the aroma promises but still delivers a tasty, highly drinkable IPA.

2009 edition,13th anniversary 24 ounce bottle at the Beerhive- wet hopped. Pours a dark amber color with a dark full white head. The aroma is sweet citrus hops, caramel and light earthy malts. A full balanced flavor; rich caramel, sweet citrus and pine hops. Lightly bitter in the finish. Very aromatic and flavorful. Nice.

First, I disagree with this being reviewed under the same entry as last years version, because this is a different bottle altogether. I thought about starting a new listing, but everyone else seems to be putting their reviews under this one so, I guess that I will, too. Last years release (11th) was a dry-hopped version, while this years is wet-hopped. Last years was 6.2% abv while this years is 6.7% abv. Clear, golden amber liquid, similar to maple syrup in appearance. Massive 4+ finger head with very good retention. Excellent lacing, very sticky. Very hoppy nose. Very citrusy. Lots of lemon zest and tons of grapefruit. Lighter floral tones. Slight hint of fresh-cut grass. Some sweet malt notes are detected. Big bitter hop bite smacked me in the face, right out of the gate. Piney, citrusy and floral all combine for an abundant attack. Flavors of grapefruit, pine resin, and bitter citrus. Light malt sweetness is in there, but it’s way down deep. Good mouthfeel in general, but I find it abit on the waterey side. I can see that this would make an easy drinking bottle, but for me, the hops are too over dominant. I might pick up a few bottles to cellar for a year or two, to see how they age.