FAQs

All Sierra Nevada beer is dated when it is packaged. This package date is printed on the exterior of our cans, bottles, packaging and kegs.

The shelf life recommendation for most of our regular production beer, including Pale Ale and the rest of our year-round and seasonal lineup, is 150 days with optimal storage conditions in a cool, dark and dry place. For Northern Hemisphere Harvest, our Wet Hop IPA, it is 100 days. Customers often choose to cellar specialty beers like our Bigfoot, Narwhal and barrel-aged offerings for many years, as the flavors will continue to evolve and change with time.

Use our beer locator to find which retailers in your area have our beer.

Unfortunately, we are not able to ship beer directly to consumers. Please use our beer locator to find a retailer in your area.

In the United States, we have distribution in all states. We also have limited distribution in the following locations: Australia, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Virgin Islands, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. uses the highest quality and most natural brewing ingredients while utilizing the very best brewing practices. This allows us to create ales and lagers with superior flavor, aroma, balance, and character. As a traditional brewer, Sierra Nevada currently uses water, malt, hops, and yeast for every brew. We will also use malted wheat and rye, oats, various fruit and more for some of our beers. If used, these ingredients are listed for each beer page online here.

Yes. We require that all of our ingredients used for our regular production beers are Non-GMO.

We brew with malted barley, wheat and rye for all our beers, and these grains all contain small amounts of naturally occurring gluten. Although the brewing process notably reduces the gluten levels, no beer brewed using these materials can be called gluten free. We do not currently have any plans to brew a beer without these grains, nor do we have plans to use enzymes in order to call a beer gluten reduced.

Please check out our individual beer pages here, or see the full nutrition list.

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The sediment evident in the bottom of a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and other naturally conditioned beers is the yeast we use for bottle conditioning. Typically, the yeast lies tight and flat to the bottom of the bottle. As the beer is poured, the yeast will re-suspend making the beer’s appearance cloudy or slightly particulate, but this will not adversely affect beer flavor. If bottles are stored improperly (e.g. upside down or on their side) the yeast may resettle into what looks like a drop of pancake batter or vanilla ice cream and will be more apparent, but it will still not affect the finished flavor of the beer.

Bottle conditioning is a time-honored method for naturally carbonating beer. We dose back a small amount of fermentable sugar and yeast into the beer right before we package it. This fermentation creates the finished carbonation and flavors unique to our beer.

We bottle condition our original five beers: Pale Ale, Porter, Stout, Celebration Ale, and Bigfoot. We also can condition our Pale Ale.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. complies with California’s Proposition 65 as it relates to BPA regulations and notification. Beer packaged in bottles, Keg’s and Growlers do not, and have not contained BPA in their packaging materials. All caned beer produced after November 15, 2017 (16 oz. Sidecar packaged after December 20th 2017) is and will continue to be fully compliant with the same Prop 65 regulations regarding the exclusion of BPA.