Archive for Sierra Nevada

Beer Profile: Life and Limb – Dogfish head and Sierra Nevada Collaboration

Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada team up to create a collaboration brew

Life & Limb is a collaborative effort, the brainchild of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer that defies style characteristics— brewed with pure maple syrup from the Calagione family farm in [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Friday, November 20th, 2009

BEER EVENT: The Greenpoint Beer Festival at Red Star Bar

The Greenpoint Beer Festival at Red Star Bar featuring John Forté
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. – Red Star Bar, Brooklyn’s premiere sports bar will be hosting the first annual “Greenpoint Beer Festival” set to kick-off at 1:00pm on November 7, 2009.
Featuring over 20 craft and microbrews attendees will enjoy a variety of specialty brews from [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Great Leakes Craft Brewers and Water Conservation Conference‏

SPONSORS ANNOUNCED FOR GREAT LAKES CRAFT BREWERS & WATER CONSERVATION CONFERENCE IN MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee, WI – The Great Lakes Craft Brewers & Water Conservation Conference is proud to announce that the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., Chippewa Falls and Milwaukee, WI, will be the Platinum Sponsor, with special support provided by Beer Capitol Distributing Inc., Wauwatosa, WI. [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Beer Event – Indian Ranch Summer Brewfest 2009

Summer Brewfest – August 15th – 4pm to 8 pm

Come and enjoy the finest in craft brewers from New England and beyond, great live music and delicious food on the beach! Featuring Sherwood Forest, Magic Hat, Sierra Nevada, Hook and ladder, Woodchuck Cider, Cape Ann, Narragansett and more!
Featuring special musical guest Billboard Award winning [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Sierra Nevada Introduces Exclusive Estate-Made Beer

Chico, CA (07/22/09)—Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is honored to announce the release of Estate Ale—one of the world’s only estate-made beers brewed with 100% all-natural, locally-grown hops and barley, which are produced at the brewery in Chico, California. Inspired by the renowned winemaking region of its Napa and Sonoma neighbors, Sierra Nevada is the first [...]

Posted by: Ian on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

REVISED – Craft Beer Education Series Session #10 moved to Apr 29

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have moved session #10 of the Craft Beer Education Series to Wednesday, April 29th.

Posted by: Ian on Friday, April 17th, 2009

Top 50 breweries in 2008

The Brewers Association will be releasing their complete analysis of statistics next week in Boston, but here’s a sneak peak at the top Craft Breweries and top Overall Breweries for 2008.
New England was represented by the following …
Top Craft:
1 Boston Beer Co.
10 Magic Hat Brewing Co.
12 Harpoon Brewery
16 Shipyard [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Sierra Nevada Introduces Kellerweis as Newest Year-Round Beer

Link to PDF of press release
Chico, CA (03/06/2009) —Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is pleased to announce the release of Kellerweis Hefeweizen into their year-round portfolio of beers. This is the second new year-round release from the brewery in 2009, and a great addition to their lineup of world-class beers.
The name Sierra Nevada is synonymous with [...]

Posted by: Ian on Friday, March 6th, 2009

BEER EVENT: Philly Beer Week – 2009

Philly Beer Week announces Opening Tap kickoff event details – March 6 at 7 pm‏
PHILLY BEER WEEK 2009 ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR ‘OPENING TAP’ – THE KICK-OFF EVENT – FOR AMERICA’S LARGEST BEER CELEBRATION
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The second-annual Philly Beer Week (PBW) 2009 will kickoff on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m., in the spectacular Comcast [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Discarded yeast to be transformed into Ethanol

Here’s an interesting story that was posted last week about Sierra Nevada investing in turning their yeast extracted from brewing into Ethanol. If this is successful, then the small and large breweries can assist the green movement. It would be interesting to know how much yeast it would take to create XX amount [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, February 7th, 2009