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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 03:52:28 PM

Title: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 03:52:28 PM
I've seen a few of you (Equaliser) posting about this beer, i saw some in Tesco so bought a bottle (didn't realise it was pale ale  :doh: ) do you have it cold or room temp as i've chucked it in the freezer, also going to try a bottle of chang.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: RidgeRider on April 16, 2011, 04:05:52 PM
Fred, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is brewed a little over an hour north of where I type from in a college town named Chico. In my years of drinking it, I have never had it at any temperature other than well chilled. Others may like it different however even at the brewery they serve it cold.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 04:18:56 PM
Cheers Ridgey, I'll leave it in a few more minutes then. I've never been keen on bitters and the like so not sure i'm going to like this, i'm not sure i've had pale ale before.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: Tom on April 16, 2011, 04:27:21 PM
You want to have it chilled Freddy.  :beer:
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: leonffc on April 16, 2011, 05:26:34 PM
I'm not a fan mate. Had some (chilled) in the jolly gardeners once
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: finnster01 on April 16, 2011, 05:37:42 PM
I quite like it. Find it to go well with BBQ and/or sausages Freddy. Curious to what you think?

I do drink mine cold as well. Nice on a hot day.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: sipwell on April 16, 2011, 07:00:59 PM
Drinking non-Belgian beer, mr. FF? Shocking!
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 11:00:41 PM
Quote from: finnster01 on April 16, 2011, 05:37:42 PM
I quite like it. Find it to go well with BBQ and/or sausages Freddy. Curious to what you think?

I do drink mine cold as well. Nice on a hot day.

Surprisingly enough i had sausages today Finny  :015: . To be honest i'm not sure what i made of the beer (Ale) , it seemed ok, a couple more might have made me love it, or want to  :020: . I'll give it anouther chance sometime but i wouldn't go out of my way to find it.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: HatterDon on April 16, 2011, 11:19:18 PM
The big question always is: Is what I'm drinking on this continent anything like what they're drinking on the continent where it's brewed. Most of the bottled British beers I've had here are well below the standard expected in the UK -- preservatives mostly -- and Guinness here is fine if you've never tasted it in England [which is fine if you've never tasted it in Ireland].

Mind you, nothing travels over the Atlantic worse than German Wine, but ... .
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: timmyg on April 16, 2011, 11:29:04 PM
Quote from: HatterDon on April 16, 2011, 11:19:18 PM
The big question always is: Is what I'm drinking on this continent anything like what they're drinking on the continent where it's brewed.

No. Look no further than Smithwicks here compared to Ireland.

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 03:52:28 PM
I've seen a few of you (Equaliser) posting about this beer, i saw some in Tesco so bought a bottle (didn't realise it was pale ale  :doh: ) do you have it cold or room temp as i've chucked it in the freezer, also going to try a bottle of chang.

If the beer is from the USA, it should always be served chilled/cold.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: Edwatch_Winston_Malone on April 17, 2011, 07:24:13 PM
Tastes like "long life" - needs to be chilled, or better still poored down the sink...
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: finnster01 on April 17, 2011, 07:35:42 PM
No it doesn't.

By the way, you are a bit of a  :hook: aren't you? Wait till the yanks get hold of you  :dft012:
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: Edwatch_Winston_Malone on April 17, 2011, 08:01:00 PM
I had one only the other day from the Slug and Lettiuce in Regent street; it was pants and very much like long life which could never make up its mind if it was a light ale or a light larger.

I shall be in NYC in June, resplendent in my Fulham shirt and they are all welcome to buy me a decent beer - if they can find one...
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: Jimbobob on April 17, 2011, 08:03:17 PM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on April 16, 2011, 03:52:28 PM
I've seen a few of you (Equaliser) posting about this beer, i saw some in Tesco so bought a bottle (didn't realise it was pale ale  :doh: ) do you have it cold or room temp as i've chucked it in the freezer, also going to try a bottle of chang.
Chilled Freddy: :beer: :beer:

http://www.sierranevada.com/beers/torpedo.html (http://www.sierranevada.com/beers/torpedo.html)
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: Quills on April 17, 2011, 08:16:03 PM
Chilled.  Believe it or not I strongly associate this beer with Fulham as I used to drink it in the White Horse before games - lovely beer - plus our form dropped dramatically when they stopped having it on tap.  Really depresses me that we get so much American muck like Budweiser when there's actually tasty stuff like that available.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: The Equalizer on April 18, 2011, 11:57:50 AM
Definitely chilled mate. I always chill bottled ales anyway, they tend to taste better cold.

Sierra Nevada on tap is a very good brew, and the Jolly Gardeners serve it well.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: americanmike on April 18, 2011, 08:15:18 PM
Love the stuff...and any pale ale really.  Nice choice FFC.
Title: Re: Help with Seirra Nevada beer. Quick please.
Post by: ron on April 18, 2011, 10:07:19 PM
Quote from: leonffc on April 16, 2011, 05:26:34 PM
I'm not a fan mate. Had some (chilled) in the jolly gardeners once

Getting the beer you wanted in the Jolly Gardeners?....I bet you drank it by the light of a blue moon !