What yeast does Sierra Nevada use in Liquid Hoppiness?

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  1. StJamesGate

    StJamesGate Grand Pooh-Bah (3,766) Oct 8, 2007 New York
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    Sierra Nevada Liquid Hoppiness is listed here as a New England IPA.

    But does it actually use a New England yeast - i.e. an estery, English-derived ale yeast (e.g. London III)?
    Or is just the same clean, Chico yeast that SN uses in most of their hoppy beers?

    Does anyone know for certain?
     
    #1 StJamesGate, Nov 4, 2022
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  2. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Terence (@SierraTerence) knows the answer to your question.

    Cheers!
     
    #2 JackHorzempa, Nov 4, 2022
  3. bubseymour

    bubseymour Grand Pooh-Bah (4,800) Oct 30, 2010 Maryland
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    All I know is I enjoy Liquid Hoppiness. Then again I like Torpedo as well. I like beer!
     
    #3 bubseymour, Nov 4, 2022
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  4. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    There will never be a clear line dividing what is and isn’t a NE-style IPA.
     
    #4 zid, Nov 4, 2022
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  5. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,174) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    I still have high hopes for Cold IPA. :grin:

    No, no -- I really don't. :wink:
     
    #5 steveh, Nov 4, 2022
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  6. beardown2489

    beardown2489 Pooh-Bah (1,966) Oct 5, 2012 Illinois
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    Sierra Nevada calls it a Juicy ipa, which doesn’t have a definition. I interpret juicy ipa to mean modern hop utilization, low bitterness, but without the body or hazy appearance found on famous New England ipas.
     
    #6 beardown2489, Nov 5, 2022
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  7. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Because the differences are hazy!?!

    [​IMG]
     
    #7 JackHorzempa, Nov 5, 2022
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  8. Shanex

    Shanex Grand Pooh-Bah (4,960) Dec 10, 2015 France
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    I don't know for certain but I thought it was good.

    And I cannot draw the line either between juicy IPA and NEIPA.

    At some point people were calling those ”WCNEIPA”, good luck making sense of that.
     
    #8 Shanex, Nov 6, 2022
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  9. Urk1127

    Urk1127 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,790) Jul 2, 2014 New Jersey
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    Cold-School IPA
     
    #9 Urk1127, Nov 6, 2022
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  10. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    If Sierra Nevada can brand a beer Big Little Thing what not WCNE!?!

    Does New England have a west coast? :thinking_face:

    Cheers!
     
    #10 JackHorzempa, Nov 6, 2022
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  11. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    +100 miles along Lake Champlain in Vermont.
     
    #11 jesskidden, Nov 6, 2022
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  12. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Ah, the 6th Great Lake!

    Sunset over Lake Champlain:

    [​IMG]

    WCNEIPA it is!! :beers:

    Because we can never have enough beers styles with the three magical letters of "IPA" in them. :wink:

    Cheers!
     
    #12 JackHorzempa, Nov 6, 2022
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  13. SierraTerence

    SierraTerence Zealot (649) Mar 14, 2007 California

    It uses Chico Ale... Harvested from Pale Ale.
     
    #13 SierraTerence, Nov 7, 2022
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  14. CentralPABeerDude

    CentralPABeerDude Zealot (506) Sep 1, 2022 Pennsylvania
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    So based off this, is the same yeast used in all of your ales?
     
    #14 CentralPABeerDude, Nov 7, 2022
  15. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    I am confident that their specialty beer Kellerweis is not brewed using the SN house ale yeast (Chico yeast) but I would be willing to bet that all of their other beers brewed with Ale yeast are fermented with Chico yeast.

    I can't wait to see how Terence responds here.

    Cheers!

    P.S. They can 'tweak' how the beers turn out by varying other fermentation variables like yeast pitch amount, fermentation temperature,...
     
    #15 JackHorzempa, Nov 7, 2022
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  16. StJamesGate

    StJamesGate Grand Pooh-Bah (3,766) Oct 8, 2007 New York
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    Thank you!!
     
    #16 StJamesGate, Nov 7, 2022
  17. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    While a very fine lake indeed, not being connected to the other 5 in any way does not allow Champlain to be a Great Lake.
     
    #17 BBThunderbolt, Nov 7, 2022
  18. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Well, the US Government disagreed with you (for a period of time):

    "For a brief period in 1998, the United States government officially recognized Lake Champlain as one of the Great Lakes."

    Cheers!
     
    #18 JackHorzempa, Nov 8, 2022
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