Sierra Nevada Celebration (2020)

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$13.99 a 6 pack. Same as Lagunitas Born Yesterday

 

Great to know.
Now, if only I could get it where I live.
I used to find it, but it's been scarce in the last few years.

 

Me too!
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There are few regular "seasonals" I buy every year because there is much great beer available, it's easy to look past them.

Celebration is not one I look past. When I see it in my local, I'll buy some and enjoy the shiznit out of it. Truly a pleasure to drink every year, IMHO.

 

I think it's fantastic as well. A firm malty backbone with layers of fresh floral and earthy hops.

 

Damn, I saw it at $15.99 and passed hoping to see it elsewhere cheaper but I haven't encountered it anywhere else yet

 

I can always find national versions obviously, but locally I can probably count on one hand (if I'm lucky) breweries that are making them.

And the one's I do see are mostly one-offs, for example Idle Hands just brewed one as their anniversary beer (it's fantastic by the way).

We have Smuttynose Finest Kind of course, so there's some I'm probably not thinking of. But they're certainly not ubiquitous.

 

Only two months away, time flies.

 

Kidding aside, don't discount how much of the "hazy" market probably belongs to them.

 

Celebration is one of the few beers that I buy a 6 pack of every year.

 

Last year's sold for $1 a bottle at our local Old Chicago and it still tasted fine until the supply was exhausted.

 

Me as well re Celebration. I would also add Deschutes Jubel Ale...

 

we finally started getting deschutes where I live, I really hope we see Jubel Ale when the time comes.

 

That's another favorite, but I don't think we see that here in the "lower Midwest."

I've got a Deschutes anniversary beer I need to crack.

 

I haven't had that one in many years, have to look for it.

 

I miss that beer a lot. It no longer comes to my area. An unfortunate casualty of the increase in breweries.

 

But it is relatively easy to build up one's resistance to it - don't think I ever had one in the US (probably drank one in Ensenada, MX at Hussong's circa 1976 - don't remember exactly, but I remember all the empty clear bottles in the place so I can imagine the folks I was with just ordered "the usual". US-marketed Corona at the time came in brown glass).