Category: Indie Beer

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (what the Internet thinks)

a sixpack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bottles
Sierra Pale Ale, there is nothing more important

This is an appreciation post for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I feel like I can’t have a beer geeky blog without more acknowledgment of the greatest of all time Pale Ale.

Yes, to many of us Sierra may taste outdated. But it is the greatest “outdated” taste of all time and the best palate-reset beer in the business.

And as we are about to see, as Craft Beer goes, so goes Sierra.

Sierra Pale is a great barometer for how beer/Craft Beer is going. Just look at the search volume for Sierra and it totally goes along with how popular Craft Beer has been in the past fifteen years

Search volume for Sierra Nevada Pale

Yes, you read that chart right, we are at our lowest level of the Internet searching for things related to Sierra Nevada Pale. What a sad world we live in.

What is everyone asking the Internet about Sierra Nevada Pale? These are the top searches:

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Music I’ve Been Listening To With My Beer: The Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” on Cassette

Can of “Taking It Easy” IPA from Original Pattern Brewing with a tape (all red) of the Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” cassette
Original Pattern Brewing’s “Taking It Easy” paired with “Bleed Out” cassette from The Mountain Goats

I don’t know where someone clued me into the Mountain Goats but they did. I am not gaga from them, but they are cool.

I liked the new song “Training Montage” enough that it motivated me enough to buy the tape of their new album “Bleed Out”.

It’s a fun red:

Kinda rad “Bleed Out” cassette

I drank an Original Pattern Brewing SIPA with it called “Taking It Easy”. It was a nice beer and I did what it told me and took it easy while I listened.

I recommend both things. ✌️🍻📻