SeasonalAmerican Barleywine
Bigfoot Barleywine
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. · Chico, California, USA
9.6%
ABV
90
IBU
1980
Brewery est.
Released every winter since 1983 and built to be cellared. Vintages are dated because the beer genuinely changes — the hop bite fades and the malt turns to sherry and dried fruit over five or six years.
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Who owns this beer
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is recorded as independently owned — no parent company is held above it in the archive.
Not established
Ownership has not yet been established for this brewery. That is a gap in the research, not a finding of independence.
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Brewery record last verified 2026-10-09 · https://sierranevada.com/about-us