Tag Archive 'Sierra Nevada Brewing'

Roll Out the Barrel, We’ll Have a Barrel of Brew

Posted in Beer, Reviews on Dec 5th, 2009

What’s life without the barrel? It seems that everywhere I look these days, my favorite breweries are releasing tricked-out, new barrel-aged beers. Port barrels, whisky barrels, sherry casks, madeira casks, wine barrels.  Its kind of dizzying. What’s next?  Monkey barrels?  Fish barrels?  Oil drums?  (Who knows, perhaps an Exxon Light Crude Porter would pair beautifully with my […]

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My top 5 favorite breweries: Number 5

Posted in Beer on Jan 3rd, 2009

5.  Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico, California Founded:  1979 Production: approx 680,000 barrels (website) No god-fearing microbrewer could ever not bow down in worship to Sierra Nevada.  It would be an outrage.  I would have to throw my shoes at you.  (I still think it would have been off the chain if Mr Bush caught […]

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