Sierra Nevada Brewery



This Sunday Niki and I drove all the way up to Chico to finally check out the legendary Sierra Nevada brewery in person





We showed up way early before the tour, so we decided to taste the taps...all 16 of them!





Sierra Nevada sells around 6 different beers in stores (including seasonals), but they brew about 16 total at any given time that you can sample all at once in their taproom. The glasses were way too small, making it hard for the beer to stay cold. I found out that the flagship Pale Ale is made slightly different between the bottled and the on-tap version. Both versions are included in the sampler.





We settled on the Ruthless Weiss Beer, which was a delicious "Begian white" style ale.

One thing I found out during the tour is that all of the Sierra Nevada bottled beers are bottle-conditioned (naturally fermented)!