When Has Sierra Nevada Ever Let You Down?

Readily available Stout, Porter, and Kellerweis.

Also, I was not a huge fan of Torpedo when it first came out. Maybe I should revisit some time. Honestly, wherever I see torpedo available I also see pale ale and just normally get pale ale.

 

I forgot about this one. They really need to bring the kolsch back.

 

Aw, dammit. There goes my "they've never let me down" narrative.

Having that beautiful beer available regularly would make me so happy.

 

I don't see their Porter or Stout around anymore but that's more of a distributor thing letting me down.

 

I wish I could find their basic stout and Hop Hunter a little easier around here. I had Narwahl for the first time a week ago. It was an excellent representation of the style at a fair price. I love all of their stuff. Like somebody else said, if I don’t like one of their beers, it’s because I haven’t yet developed a taste for the style as a whole (e.g. gose).

 

The Brut IPA they released as a spring seasonal was pretty lame. Would love to see something else take that spot, maybe an Oberon like-beer, that is a balanced hoppy, wheat beer.


But I think that's literally it.

 

They let me down when they stopped brewing Glissade as their spring seasonal.

Other than that, besides some small quibbles like those mentioned above, I good with them. Very good, that is.

 

Love Sierra Nevada. Have had 91 of their beers!

Look forward to cracking 100.

 

The Brut IPA is probably the best example of SN letting me down. Other than that, I just get sad that Big Foot Barely Wine isn't as easy to find anymore.

 

SN Pale Ale was my first love. It's what walked me into craft beer in my college years.

 

Love Sierra Nevada and wish Victory had taken note of how they gracefully evolved over the ever changing craft beer scene. The only negatives I have is I've never enjoyed their Oktoberfest colabs and wish they kept their Pale Bock.

 

Didn't their Beer Camp sets get really crapped on value-wise in one of these past few years?

 

I love Sierra Nevada and sure, they don't get everything right, but it's not for a lack of trying. Bigfoot IMO is World Class, and sets the bar for the hoppy barleywine category.

 

First time trying SN Northern Hemisphere Harvest Wet Hop Ale. It's good. I like it, but not for $15.99 a sixer. I'd rather have gotten the 12 pk of Pale Ale for the same price. I like Celebration better too.

 

They are an amazing brewery. No brewery is so good at so many styles. Gotta respect that.

 

Orange Side Car and Trip in the Woods Maple Scotch Ale. Matter of fact, most of their barrel aged offerings are pretty mediocre for the price.

 

Yeah, they got rid of Nooner.

 

I think it might be more of a case of consumers letting you down. If more people bought those beers, they'd be around.

On that note, there are some posts here about wanting certain beers or packs on the market. I get it, but Sierra Nevada making decisions that they think will keep them in business and not fill shelves up with beer that won't sell is ultimately not an example of Sierra Nevada letting you down.

 

What!?!

If Sierra Nevada is no longer producing a beer(s) that a customer wants how is this not letting them down?

Cheers!

P.S. It is indeed Sierra Nevada's prerogative to make business decisions which impact their long standing customers but it is also the prerogative of those customers to be disappointed in these decisions.