Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 6 Pack

Pros: Tasty, complex and overflowing with hops
Cons: It's taken 20 years for it to be readily available in the UK

Until quite recently, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was one of those beers that I'd heard good things about but had never come across. So imagine my delight when a local supermarket began stocking it last year. I know, I'm easy pleased. Actually, ...

Pros: Nice Hop and Citrus Flavor; Not too Bitter, like some other pale ales
Cons: Price is a bit steep

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was one of the first craft- brewers in the United States. This California micro is one of the best- known brewers of high quality beer. It started out as a regional brewery and today its products are sold all over the U.S.,...

Pros: a great tasting pale ale
Cons: fairly pricey at $6.99 a six pack

I’ve enjoyed Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on occasion for a number of years now. It has a robust taste, nice body and just the right amount of bitterness on the finish. My local grocery had it on sale for $5.99 a six pack and so I picked one up. Yes, ...

Pros: Tangy taste, great aroma, a proud effort
Cons: None

From time to time you longtime readers know I post a beer review. It's not that I only drink occasionally, my severely addictive personality does not allow me that luxury, why else would I be surfing Epinions at three in the morning on a work...

Pros: Finished in the bottle — Naturally carbonated
Cons: Hopefully they don't run out

If the beer industry were forced to benchmark what a pale ale should taste like, they would use Sierra Nevada as the comparison pivot point. From the time you pop one open and derive its presence of hopiness spouting out of the bottle neck ... to the ...

Pros: Very available, easy to drink, pleasant taste
Cons: If you think it smells bad stick to the Bud

Last night was essentially a Bud night. As you'll see from my reviews, I got home a little drunk, and knocked a review out on Budweiser. However, about 1.30 am, a couple of guys sent their bottles of Sierra back untouched, complaining that they smelt...

Pros: Very hoppy, but complex, too.
Cons: Pricey, if that means anything to you.

Sierra Nevada brews have always been about the costliest beers widely available in Kansas. For a few years I let this fact put me off. When I finally tried it, I knew why it was expensive. When my Army Reserve unit had our day off in Nevada this year,...

Pros: Can act as fuel to promote anti-social behavior
Cons: See Pros

After having to endure another eight hours of the Beast at work, you can believe I was looking forward to Friday night. The only problem was that I had no plans yet. I say yet, because I knew that something would materialize. After all, when you hang...

Pros: Full frontal assault of hops flavor and aroma
Cons: Flavorful beers are not for everyone...

Hundreds of modern craft breweries have an American style pale ale as their flagship brand, but few can claim to define the style. Sierra Nevada can. It's been around for almost 20 years, and it's one of the best, most hoppy craft brewed...

Pros: Easy to find, Delicious
Cons: none

Like many of the other reviewers of this beer, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was the beer that peaked my curiosity about craft brewed beer. In fact, I believe this was my first micro ever. My first encounter was of all places in the parking lot of a Grateful...

Pros: great tasting, Gold Medal Winner
Cons: expensive

The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has been producing beer for 20 years now, so it is a fairly young company in the brewing industry. It produces a variety of different beers: Porter, Stout, Wheat beer, etc., but its biggest seller is its Pale...

Pros: Complex and delicious Pale Ale
Cons: None

My first encounter with Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was seven years ago at the Brickskeller in Washington, D.C. I'm normally a dark beer drinker, but do like to start out with a lighter beer when I'm at a long lunch or dinner, so I've had a pretty wide cross...

Pros: A classic.
Cons: None. Nearly perfect.

Somewhere in beer heaven there is a glass case in which one finds the standard, best examples of every beer style made by mortals. There, alongside Pilsner Urquell and Guinness Stout, Sam Smith Taddy Porter, Schlenkerla Rauchbier, Westmalle Tripel, etc.,...

Pros: Hop lover's paradise
Cons: Ask me again later

Now this beer is a world classic. The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is one of the finest beers in the world. This is the Dean of the California Pale Ale. As far as I'm concerned, this is the definitive pale ale period. It is an explosion of hoppiness...

Pros: Good hops, crisp but not bitter
Cons: Not quite as good as a very few others

I like Sierra Nevada because, along with Sam Adams, it has brought American microbreweries to the forefront of Americans' beer consciousness. More than at any time in the last century, we are opting go for quality over quanity, eschewing the flat,...