Beer review: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (5.6% United States: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company)

The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is an ale, more specifically an American Pale Ale. It's brewed by the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, the seventh-largest brewery in the United States. The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was founded in 1980 and produces around 100 000 000 litres of beer annually. Thus, it's most definitely not the smallest of breweries but it's a craft brewery nevertheless. Furthermore, the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the best selling pale ale in the United States, so it has to have something extraordinary in it. Let's see what that is!

Taste: The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a medium-strength beer with a well-balanced slightly sweet taste. It's relatively easy to drink, yet it offers an interesting set of aromas: a sweet, even caramel, maltiness combined with a fruity hoppiness of citrus, orange and even pineapple.

Overall, the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is an excellent beer. It's refreshing and it offers a perfect balance of sweet malt and hoppiness. It's definitely one of the best widely available APAs I've come across and deserves its fame. In my books the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the beer that sets the standard for other APAs.

95 Legendary

Beer review: Brooklyn Lager (5.2% United States: Brooklyn Brewery)

The Brooklyn Lager is a lager beer, more specifically an Amber lager. It's brewed by Brooklyn Brewery, a medium-sized brewery located in Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Brewery was founded in 1987 and the lager is their most popular beer.

Taste: The Brooklyn Lager is a medium-bodied beer with a nutty, sweet malty body. It is quite soft, very well-balanced and features aromas of caramel, citrus, fruits and finishes with a slight bitter hoppiness.

Overall, the Brooklyn Lager is an excellent lager. It's well-balanced and rich in flavor, yet refreshing and easy to enjoy. In my opinion Samuel Adams Boston Lager wins by a nose, but that's just because I prefer the toffee aftertaste of it. Both are very close to perfection in their own category.

90 Exceptional

Beer review: Samuel Adams Boston Lager (4.7% United States: Boston Beer Company)

The Samuel Adams Boston Lager is a lager, more specifically an Amber Lager. It's brewed by the Boston Beer Company, the fourth largest brewery in the States and the largest one to manufacture craft beers. The brewery was founded in 1984 and its products have since received several awards, for example at the Great American Beer Festival.

Taste: The Samuel Adams Boston Lager is a light/medium-bodied beer with a pleasant malt-rich body. The taste is slightly sweet and offers aromas of toffee. The beer finishes with a nice herbal hoppiness, a touch of bitterness and faint aromas of toffee.

Overall, the Samuel Adams Boston Lager is a well-accomplished beer. It was a really pleasant surprise and among the market beers, it's definitely one of the best. It's the best amber lager that I've come across.

95 Legendary