Brewed By: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California
Purchased: 12oz bottle from the 2014 Snowpack purchased at Binny's in Chicago, IL; 2014
Style/ABV: American IPA, 6.7%
Reported IBUs: 60Purchased: 12oz bottle from the 2014 Snowpack purchased at Binny's in Chicago, IL; 2014
Style/ABV: American IPA, 6.7%
DAE Cerro Nevarros? I do. For $14.99 the 2014 Snowpack was too cheap to pass up. This year's Snowpack features their Porter, Pale Ale, Boomerang IPA, and Coffee Stout. About Sierra Nevada:
Sierra Nevada are one of the big players in craft brewing, and one of the first craft breweries to arrive on the craft beer scene. If you check out their history page, you will see that founder Ken Grossman began his quest to build a brewery in 1976. In 1980, Ken Grossman and co-founder Paul Camusi brewed their first batch of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. According to Wikipedia, Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale is the second best selling craft beer behind Boston Lager. Sierra Nevada is the sixth largest brewing company in the United States as well, cranking out over 750,000 barrels in 2010. For more info, check out their website.
The Boomerang IPA is brewed with Galaxy, Vic Secret, and Ella hops. This one features a malt base of Two-row Pale, and Wheat. This veers into the land of golden IPAs, with golden tones for days. The beer is well carbonated, and kicks up a finger of fluffy, creamy, whipped head.
The aroma here is really nice, with lemon, pineapple, white pepper, and big spicy and resinous hops. As you dig into the aroma, you can pull out some citrus: grapefruit, tangerine, and orange. There are also some grassy notes, and the malt backbone reminds me of a Pilsner for some reason.
This is clean and refreshing but kind of par the course...you get some nice hops. Actually, this is pretty vibrant, with clean lemony hops, white pepper, and lots of tangerine. This has a good amount of spice, and the malt backbone drifts towards that American Pilsner thing...which is weird. It's like crackery.
This is medium-light bodied, with great carbonation, great palate depth, and not a ton of complexity. This is pretty straightforward, with tight execution. A refreshing winter beer for sure...and much cleaner and brighter than the Celebration Ale and Torpedo. This leads with lots of lemon and white pepper up front; and gives way to some resinous citrus and lemon; the back end lingers with white pepper and a fair amount of cracker malts. Not bad, not great, good.
Rating: Average (3.0/5.0 Untappd)
I'm feeling a Strong Average on this. This is definitely par the course for the style, but it's very well executed with clean lemony lines and lots of nice white pepper. You could pair this with burgers and wings and be in good company.
Random Thought: Beeer...mmm
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| Sierra Nevada Boomerang IPA |
The aroma here is really nice, with lemon, pineapple, white pepper, and big spicy and resinous hops. As you dig into the aroma, you can pull out some citrus: grapefruit, tangerine, and orange. There are also some grassy notes, and the malt backbone reminds me of a Pilsner for some reason.
This is clean and refreshing but kind of par the course...you get some nice hops. Actually, this is pretty vibrant, with clean lemony hops, white pepper, and lots of tangerine. This has a good amount of spice, and the malt backbone drifts towards that American Pilsner thing...which is weird. It's like crackery.
This is medium-light bodied, with great carbonation, great palate depth, and not a ton of complexity. This is pretty straightforward, with tight execution. A refreshing winter beer for sure...and much cleaner and brighter than the Celebration Ale and Torpedo. This leads with lots of lemon and white pepper up front; and gives way to some resinous citrus and lemon; the back end lingers with white pepper and a fair amount of cracker malts. Not bad, not great, good.
Rating: Average (3.0/5.0 Untappd)
I'm feeling a Strong Average on this. This is definitely par the course for the style, but it's very well executed with clean lemony lines and lots of nice white pepper. You could pair this with burgers and wings and be in good company.
Random Thought: Beeer...mmm
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