/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18799295
I feel like they really fell off in the last 10-15yrs
You can still get it at any Grocery/ Liquor store
But it's not as prolific as it once was as there is a boom in small American Breweries
Good brew, but there are so many choices now

>>18799295
Better than bud light

>>18799295
Pretty good stuff, they might be the only microbrew that went to macro without turning to shit.

>>18799295
ABV is too high for a drinking session

>>18799337
fuck off pussy

>>18799316
I mean, I love for what it is: a classic american pale ale.
There are so many small breweries now, that it's almost unavoidable to go in the hardtry territory if you want to stand out.

>>18799388
Mate I drink 14 beers a night, I need to work in the morning

>>18799295
My friends older brother would buy this for us in highschool when we wanted something better than Pabst. Haven't had it in probably 7 years or so, but it was pretty decent from what I remember.

>>18799337
>5.6%
maybe milk would be more your speed

>>18799396
yeah It was my go to in the late 00's
At least in my region it seems to have been pushed out of most retail spaces in favor for New Belgium, Abita, and motherfucking seltzers

>>18799295
I'm a yuropoor and this was only good American beer available in yuropoor stores.
However I never had one in America, grocery stores have them but I never pick it up.
I think I will on my next run, just for the old times feels.
I used to pay 4-5 EUR for a bottle kek, but still got it once in a while as a novelty.

its not bad for a cheap IPA in the states if you like it hoppy. ive tried these they are just a tad better but like $3 more

>>18799405
perhaps you could drink a higher ABV, less beers, and stop being a fat fucking retard

>>18799405
14 beers at 5% ABV is nothing.

>>18799663
Pale ale =/= IPA
Pale ales are usually fairly hoppy, but the hops are added during the boiling process of brewing. IPA's generally have more hops than a regular pale ale added during the boil, as well as even more hops added after fermentation has slowed down which is called "dry-hopping."

>>18799635
It's still like 3,7e here in the off-licence (same for torpedo)@Finland. Both are my favourite American beers.

>>18799663
all these are good for is getting you fucked up faster than you expect

>>18799295
>Is this just the everyday pale ale you can get from any mom and pop's?
Yeah, Sierra Nevada is just a generic IPA brand.

>>18799671
If you're an alcoholic

>>18799699
>wheredoyouthinkweare.gif

>>18799295
Yep, it's a nice, easy to find, fairly cheap beer. I prefer their "torpedo" extra IPA though. Lagunitas brewery has similar offerings.

its alright man

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is kind of weird. You can still buy it everywhere, but I feel like it's nowhere near as popular as it used to be. It's still a solid American Pale Ale, but it always just feels like there's something new or better to try. 20 years ago it probably did more than any beer to introduce people to craft brewing and make them realize that beer can actually have flavor and shitty macro lagers are kind of disgusting.

>>18799295
another american here to say it's good. probably my favorite beer to drink 6 of on a day off

>>18800203
I used to get the big glass bottles all the time when I lived in Seattle. When I get it on the East Coast, it's not the same. We have plenty of local breweries so not sure what the point is. Anybody who knows anything about beer knows it isn't as good after 2 weeks of sitting on the shelf .

>>18799671
14 drinks is a shitload for the vast majority of people

>>18799295
It was one of my gateway beers to exploring craft. I preferred Founder's Centennial IPA for flavor and strength. Cases were affordable too.
>>18800203
>but it always just feels like there's something new or better to try
I've had the hardest time finding my preferred beer and sticking to it. Every trip to the store there are 5,000 options. It seems breweries have exhausted every style of beer and we're left with bourbon barrel aged candy cane lactose space whore triple American IPA.

>>18799448
drink 14 of them in 3 hours and get back to me

For me it’s voodoo ranger juice force

>>18799295
It's one of the better pale ales but I'm not a huge fan of pale ales either.

>>18799295
It's pretty good, not my staple beer but I get it once in a while to have in the fridge. Their torpedo is also good.

>>18799635
I'm English, apparently the supermarket near me is selling the equivalent of 50 oz for $7.33

>>18799295
it's a solid beer and I still enjoy it from time to time. That being said, it is absolutely to blame for soiboi IPA culture. West Coast IPAs all started off trying to be """extreme""" versions of the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale since it was already known as a hoppier APA .

>>18803783
i don't think you can blame it on sierra nevada. they started the trend just by making a good beer, but the thousands of other breweries made it worse.
honestly it's us as consumers who directed the trend. i confess to ordering and enjoying some hazy citrus ipa shit

>>18803813
>they started the trend just by making a good beer
I had to look it up and was honestly kind of surprised that SNPA launched in 1980. West Coast IPAs were still pretty fucking niche until the late 90's, and the era of everyone trying to make the "most extreme" IBU shitfest happened a good decade after that. Looking back, it was a better trend than everything being being hazy shit these days.

>>18801998
i could do it quite easily and still go to work the next morning

>>18801998
>drink 14 of them in 3 hours
What kind of fucking alkie drinks a beer every 12 minutes for three hours?
Just do shots already

>>18804315
if you drink four or five in the first 20 minutes then you can space out your remaining beers more

>>18804270
Not only is it one of the oldest craft beers it won an award at the first GABF in 1983 by popular acclaim

For me, it's refreshing Two Hearted after a hard day's work.

It's been mentioned and corrected several times in this thread, but I cannot stress enough that Sierra Nevada pale ale (and many other US pale ales) are NOT IPAs.
I hate IPAs with a passion. Sierra Nevada pale ale is my go-to if I want to change it up and go with something more hoppy. However, 9 times out of 10 I'll go with
>wheat beers
>stouts
>amber ale
>porter
>golden lager
>fucking domestics
>rarely pale ale
>but never IPA
Take a swig of a domestic beer of your choice, pop a baby aspirin in your mouth, chew it, and observe the flavor. That's an IPA.

>>18799337
faggot detected

>>18799663
Sierra Nevada is much better than Elysian and I say that as a Seattleite where everyone is up Elysian's ass.

>>18799295
For me, it's the Hazy Lil' Thing IPA. I used to work in a bar and would always take it as my staff drink because it was the one draught beer that was the most bang for your buck in terms of getting buzzed

>>18799295
remember having it once and thinking it tasted absolutely disgusting.
i'll stick to 'girly' drinks thanks :3

>>18802038
These showed up at my local store, they need to nerf that shit in the interest of public safety, I couldn’t stop draining them like they were nothing.

>>18799295
love IPA, Sierra Nevada is ok
Best brew they have is Bigfoot
Seasonal Barley Wine
Have a few bottles I have been aging from 2000
At one time, they did have another barely based drink, 18 percent alcohol, thick and dark with heavy molasses flavor. Haven’t seen it in 25 years.

>>18804341
>drinking 5 beers in 20 minutes
just bloat my shit up

>>18805756
Not that anon, but Space Dust is one of those rare beers that I always enjoy on tap but find really mediocre out of a bottle. I have no idea why that is (and no, I'm not buying expired bottles).

>>18799295
Respectable, archetypal dadbeer. Good taste that goes with sundry weather, decent ABV so that a couple brews knocked back has you feeling good, and a nice label and respectable reputation.

t. West Coast USA

>>18805712
This beer is quite literally
pale ales: solved

Tastes like shit, just like lagunitas, just like every other soy brew made with 400 pounds of hops. If I wanted to get drunk on a shitty grass drink I’d blend my tomato plants up and mix it into my vodka.

>>18799295
Ales suck. Stout is superior, especially coffee and milk stout.

>>18799405
you're an alcoholic

too grapefruity, just like every ipa i've ever had
i don't like grapefruit

Drinking one right now.

For me its Lagunitas or Sierra Nevada, then bourbon.

>>18799405
Do a show, No Showler

>>18807416
If this isn't bait you deserve to be fucking slapped.

>>18807416
stout is a type of ale you fucking retard

>>18807164
post more

>>18808471
alcoholism is a type of ail
what's your point

>>18805712
Arguably the best pale ale you can buy

>>18799337

You a major lightweight or something? I've downed 6 IPAs that were no less than 8% in one sitting.

>>18809845
Just probably not obese or an alcoholic

>>18799337
>5.6 too high
did you skip every meal for 2 days prior to drinking

>>18799295
I would never buy it over an actual craft brew if I wanted a craft brew. I would never buy it as something to crush if I wanted a crushable.

>>18799663
Elysian Space Dust is my favorite beer. It isn't too much of anything, its just balanced well

>>18809998
>IPA
I just can't do it anymore anon

>>18799295
I used to enjoy Torpedo, probably the first American style IPA I tried, but it's been years since I last had it.

>>18799295
My dad's beer of choice before he started drinking Dale's Pale Ale.