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Sierra Nevada Stout

Sierra Nevada Stout

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A Stout brewed by
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Chico, California USA

bottled
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on tap
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10663.57/5.03.57/5.05.8%83.2English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Silver Medal Winner, Great American Beer Festival, Stout 1988, 1989. Sierra Nevada Stout is a creamy and full-bodied example of this traditional style ale. Very dark and very rich, the Stout displays a pronounced roasted flavor.

Finishing Hops:Cascade
Bittering Hops:Chinook
Beginning Gravity:16 Plato
Ending Gravity:4.5 Plato
Malts:Two-row Barley Malt, Caramel Malt, Black Malt, Dextrin Malt
Yeast:Top Fermenting Ale Yeast

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 hotstuff (3045), Indiana, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20

Jun 3, 2003  
This stout poured a large tan head with fine-small bubbles. The lacing was fair. The body was very dark. It had a smooth coffee taste to it which I enjoyed very much. It also had a good coffee aroma to it. This is a stout that I could drink more than of one on any given day.

mcjay (73), Neenah, Wisconsin, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 4, 2008  
Deep amber color, almost black with a very nice, thick tan/brown head. Rich, roasted aroma with a hint of chocolate. Robust and bitter taste with a hoppy bite to it.


JCastner (38), New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/512/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Pours black with a slight off white head. Aroma is all roasted coffee. Medium body with dry lingering bitterness. Simple and straightforward.


 Petrucci914 (372), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Pours a pitch black with a medium mocha head that leaves webs of lacing. Aroma is robust - hoppy, alcohol, dark roasts, coffee. Taste is the same with a slightly bitter finish. Nicely balanced and enjoyable stout.


 BeerBelcher (744), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/511/20
Sep 30, 2008  
I drank a fair amount of craft beer in the mid-1990’s...then (like a lot of people) I stopped drinking it for a few years, and then started again in the early 2000s. And between these two periods of craft beer growth, there seems to be a marked difference in the types of beers that are popular. This beer strikes me as one that would’ve been exotic in the first craft beer explosion, but seems downright boring to me in the second (and current) expansion. Pours a thin dark brown. Aroma is very faint, with a hint of smoke and a touch of roastiness. Flavor offers a bit of roastiness, but is also extremely mild. Mouthfeel is a bit thin and watery. This is not a beer to get real worked up about. I would weakly recommend this beer. I bought this bottle at Discount Liquor in Milwaukee.


 hombrepalo (496), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Sep 23, 2008  
12 oz. bottle. Dark black color with a thin tan head. Aroma is mainly smokey malts, chocolate and a subtle hint of sweetness that I really couldn’t identify. Interesting taste... rather thick and chewy with a nice malty beginning and a roasty middle, but the end had some sort of odd sweetness to it... possibly the same sweetness that was in the aroma. It wasn’t bad tasting, it was just different.




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