We arrived in Asheville, North Carolina, a couple days ahead of this year’s 2015 Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference on an evening filled with sunny skies, humid mountain air and the promise and excitement always present in completing cross-country vacation travel. Until the hotel informed us we did not have a reservation for that night,…
The 2015 Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference provided a long desired opportunity to explore Asheville, North Carolina, this past weekend with friends old and new. What follows is not a recap, but an articulation of three takeaways searching for a place on this digital paper. Asheville Lives Up to the Hype I am fortunate to…
It was August 2011. We stepped off the tour bus at Goschie Farms south of Portland, OR, into a cloud of hop particles floating like crystals in the warm, bright, sunny evening air. The hop harvest had just begun and our timing could not have been better. It was a bath of hop aroma and…
Sierra Nevada is close to opening its new east coast brewery in Mills River, NC. To celebrate, they’ve been traveling the county while presenting a multi-weekend traveling beer festival in select cities. Two more take place this weekend (Portland, ME and Philadelphia, PA) before the final stop in Mills River on August 3. Credit: Sierra…
Missoula’s Sustainable Business Council kicked off their 10th Anniversary celebration Wednesday night with a gathering of local brewers, industry representatives and craft beer fans for a discussion with Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. The fun continues tonight, Thursday, February 23 at 6:00 p.m. in room 106 of the Gallagher Business Building…
Last year, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. released four fantastic beers in celebration of its 30th Anniversary. Each beer was a collaboration with one or more of the pioneers of craft brewing. These corked and caged 750ml beers looked great, tasted great and were fun to explore. For 2011, Sierra Nevada has a new project, releasing…
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s new Hoptimum Whole-Cone Imperial IPA has hit the shelves and we popped open a bottle to check it out in celebration of the impending weekend. Hey, it doesn’t take much. Sierra Nevada has pours a lot of hops into this brew using German Magnum, Simcoe, Citra, Chinook and some “exclusive new…
If you’re a regular reader of Growler Fills (and hey, why wouldn’t you be?) you know I’m a big fan of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, one of the pioneers of American craft brewing. For their 30th Anniversary, Sierra brought together a collection of other craft brewing pioneers to brew a series of four special release…
It’s Sierra Nevada, so you know it’s going to be good. Yet, when Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced it would be brewing a series of special beers to celebrate its 30th Anniversary in a collaborative effort with some of the legends of American craft brewing, both the bar and the expectations were raised to great…
Sierra Nevada Brewing recently released its new fall beer, Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale, and I’ve started seeing it arrive in Missoula’s grocery stores over the past week. It replaces Sierra’s Anniversary Ale in their line up of regular seasonals. I’ve read (source: beernews.org) that Sierra replaced its Anniversary Ale for a couple of reasons. First,…