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September 28, 2025 6 mins
Sierra Nevada Summerfest Refreshing Summer Lager Craft Beer Review

Allen and RD try Summerfest by Sierra Nevada.

From website:
"Summerfest
Available April–July

A refreshing lager for blazing days, Summerfest balances delicate yet complex malt alongside spicy, floral hops. Hints of lemon zest lead into a crisp finish, and the sessionable 5% ABV invites another round of this summertime beer that pours golden bright like the sun."

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What is going on? Everybody?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome to strike up your quick beer reviews with your pals. Allen,
rapid day.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
And rapid Day.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
I'm Allen, how's it going, buddy?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Phenomenal?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Uh today, Sierra Nevada Summerfest refreshing summer lagger.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Now did this come out of the mix?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Bac No? I bought it as a single.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
At Kroger Total Winekroger Total, No, No, It's either it's
either Kroger or Total Wine, one of the two. I'm
pretty sure this was a Kroger by Yeah, but this
is a refreshing lagger for blazing days. Summerfest balances delicate
yet complex malt alongside spicy floral hops pints a lemon

(00:37):
zest land into a crisp finish, and the seasonability five
percent ABV invites another round of this summertime.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Beer that pours golden bright like the sun.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Maltz Munich Pilsner two row, pale hops, Magnum sap here
teetening tradition and uh geese was h Auger five percent
alcohol by volume twenty eight IBus ever score a three
point four to nine out of five all right, untapped
out at eighty nine and ninety two ratings US classified

(01:12):
as a German pilsner. Oh hello, so cheers, mauzz and
mazel good things.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's been a while.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Side of the pillser is that, Lizzy, No, I was
just oh, cheer soul that is.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
That's good. That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I like pilsners, big fan German pillsmers Zeck pilsners. Italian
pilsners are pretty good as well. I'd say Check pills
probably my favorite. Germans right up there with it though.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
A new ticket beer is a New Zealand Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I like New Zealand too.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't think I've ever had one, so you need
to go get it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I think we have from you've had it from three
Nations or something like that. Yeah, yeah, they've done it.
I think another one of our little brus we like
to go too.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is delicious, Like this is pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, so checks boxes.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Obviously, if you're looking at this, it's got just as
very slight. I mean, I don't know, it's pretty clear, right,
it's almost completely clear. But with these you'll have a
little bit of a haze. But it might be just
because of the glass fogging up a little bit from
the cold. But yeah, perfect little golden look had pretty
good head on a hard poured both of them.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So the head was right there was it? Uh? It
was almost paper white?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, a little darker. It's definitely got dehydration urine. Jesus
yellow urine going on action.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Maybe just vitamins. Maybe you had some body that's what. Yeah,
it's a white head. Yeah, micro but little micro bubbles.
But yeah, if I knew very flavorful, If I knew
this is what we were having, I wouldn't have thrown
such a fit.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You the look you gaming.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
You're like, hey, grab a beer and they're on the
top shelf. And I just reached in and it was
the closest one, you know what. I grabbed right and
I set it down. You look at me like, what
is this? I'm like, that's what you told me to
grab you. First of all, it's a bear, which we
absolutely love. We've been going through them because they're because
they're good and good for you.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Exactly that we got or whatever that thing was.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Was there an a pack that we went through recently?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh? Was it like Trails or something? Okay, I could
have swore it was another one, but I think that
might have been another brand of beer. Yeah, there's there's
a couple in there.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, couple.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
What's uh?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
We did last time we did a remote, we were
knocking back some solo Sierra Nevadas.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Too probably yeah whatnot, but they're good.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But yeah, the.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Beer you texted me to buy. If I saw it,
it was a Sierra Nevada. So when you gave me
that sight, I was like, what is your deal?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
What's your deal?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Man?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
What's so? It looks I can get this anywhere?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Essentially, Uh sprouts Iberson's Corner, Star, corner stop things like that?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Is it? I think it's available all year around?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Does it happen this summer?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh summer? Oh summerfest?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, summer.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was looking for the word has style pills and
five percent twenty ws and you get this thing delivered?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Did you look at that?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I mean, let's see fourteen carbs, two grands of protein
twenty on the bitterness. Were talked about that one hundred
fifty five calories, How it tastes delicious. I was looking
for like a little profile or whatever, because you should,
they'll give you that.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
But it looks like you got to hey go to YouTube.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hints of lemon zest lead into a crisp finish. That
is that what you're picking up zes.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Spicy with floral hops.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I was looking to see it. Said cook cook with it,
and I'm like, okay, well how do you cook with it?
I was like, you know, oh uh simmers with a
simmer with fish and veggies creates a golden juice that
highlights the bruce faintly sweet notes.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh there you go, there we go, cheers maus and
malls of good things.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Chere's yell out there and thanks for watching.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
M hm, that is good. That is really delicious. I
really enjoy that. Yeah, I'm like a three.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Seven on this bad boy saying, yeah, a little bit
above the average average three.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Probably I can probably do four because it is my favorite.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's really good, it's crisp.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
This this is definitely a refreshing logger for blazing days,
as they say, oh, because it's hot as.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Balls outside and this is very refreshing.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Didn't someone do like a specific like a test on
how what is actually hot as balls?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
And it was like one hundred two points freaking awsothing
I needed we need to we need to research that,
like he rise open for Patreon for hot at Ball's video.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
But yeah, this. This is really good and it's good
for you.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh it's eighty four degrees. That's that's so that must
be an English person or whatever they put that out there.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
There is that celsius.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's a heat wave and it's like seventy eight degrees.
And they were like, someone did, uh an English person
was here in America, like in Texas, because that's what
people set their ac yet, seventy eight and it's crazy, bro.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Seven eight is gorgeous. Just that's gorgeous, drinking weather beautiful.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, I crack the whip window open. What do you
got on this? Uh?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I was gonna say three seven five, but give
me the four. It's a style I love it's it
looked good, smelt great, check boxes right, yes, And it
did have a little extra. It just had a nice
little flavor to it as well. So I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Perfect carbination.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's it's just a killer of a beer, and it's
it's one that you can just sit around and enjoy,
especially when it's hot outside. This is your perfect summer beer,
even though summer is winding down around here, but it's still.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
If we had more of these, I say, hey, buddy,
let's go skinny dipping and knock them back.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
But unfortunately we only had one, so yeah, we can
just skinny dip with no beer. Good choice. Oh all right,
you're missing out, buddy. But have you guys had this?
Let us know?

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Tell us what you think? Uh, we loved it? Do
you love it?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
As always, guys, I'm Alan. We'll talk to you later
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