Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Sweet Sunny South Southern Table Beer
2016 Beer Camp Across America Collaboration with Austin Beerworks, Bayou Teche, Creature Comforts, Funky Buddha, and Wicked Weed
The south holds strong to its traditional flavors--tea, honey-sweet peaches, and corn grits--so we looked at those culinary cues for this southern-inspired table beer. With a golden grainy malt body and complex tangy finish from the fruit, tea, and herbs, Sweet Sunny South is perfect for sultry summer sipping.
This rustic ale features Southern twists including corn grits, tea leaves and plenty of sweet fruit, peaches, papaya, guava and prickly pear - for an easy-drinking beer.
The south holds strong to its traditional flavors--tea, honey-sweet peaches, and corn grits--so we looked at those culinary cues for this southern-inspired table beer. With a golden grainy malt body and complex tangy finish from the fruit, tea, and herbs, Sweet Sunny South is perfect for sultry summer sipping.
This rustic ale features Southern twists including corn grits, tea leaves and plenty of sweet fruit, peaches, papaya, guava and prickly pear - for an easy-drinking beer.
3.5
223 reviews
Chico, United States
Community reviews
12 ounce bottle, 5/15/16. Hazy orange, large foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of pale malt, corn, tropical fruit, citrus zest. The taste is prickly pear, lemon, tea, pale malt. Medium bodied, well balanced, bright and refreshing. Nice.
Bottle sample at Beer Camp tasting at Beer&Beyond shop. Hazy pale yellow with a huge head. Aroma is fruity and spicy, notes of papaya and passion fruit. Sweetish fruity dry flavors, citrusy and spicy with bitter finish. Light-bodied, refreshing and easy drinking. Very good.
From a 12 oz. bottle. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with an off white head. Yeasty aroma. Floral flavors with some tea and peaches. Slightly tart finish.
Bottle sample at a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tasting at Beer & Beyond, Tel Aviv. Hazy yellowish with white head. The aroma has notes of yeasts, herbs, peach and prickly pear. Sourish and spicy flavor with notes of prickly pear, herbs, peach and citrus, yeasty, bitterish, very dry. Medium-bodied.
12 fl oz bottle via Piscator34. Pours a light, hazy straw with a large but rapidly diminishing white head. Aromas are bubblegum and papaya. Tastes are minerals and lemon. Light body, gritty on the tongue, light and medium mineral finish. Interesting beer, very sessionable.
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Bottle sample at a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Hazy pale yellow. Great juicy aroma of prickly pear, peaches. Flavor is quite dry, mildly tart, with a light sweetish hint, tropical fruits, and a slightly bitterish finish. Light to medium-bodied. Very nice and refreshing.
Meh. This is an ok beer. I wouldn’t turn my nose up to it but wouldn’t search it out either. Aroma was pretty weak. Melon, peach and honeydew were there if you searched. Pour was a beautiful hazy light gold with a thin white film for a head and lots of suspended yeast (very very tiny). Taste was better than the aroma. Not bad. Lots of melon and fruitiness with some tea notes as it warmed. Not big, but there. Slightly lemony and light Belgian yeast in the finish. Good carbonation. Probably would taste a lot better in the summer but I just found it last week
Bottle. Packaged on: 04/07/16. A hazy pale amber pour with lots of tiny floaties and a thick off-white head. The aroma features plenty of peaches, pears, honey, corny/wheaty grains, lemons, oranges, zesty citrus rinds, and some caramel. Goes down fairly thin-bodied. Semi-sweet grains, peaches, pears, and honey start things off taste-wise. Kinda herbaceous. Some mineral water qualities. Zesty citrus rinds finish things off. Quite refreshing. Reminiscent of Otra Vez.
Light florals and some hint of citrus. Good balance and easy drinking. Light sweet finish. Golden pour with good head and lacing. Bottle from mixed pack.
Pours a hazy golden color with a big rich white foamy head . Nose is sweet and fruity with some cloves yeast...with a somewhat Chardonnay nose . Taste is light spice and cloves with a Chardonnay backbone . Finishes on the same tasting notes , with an acidic dry ending . Nice !
Quaff Score 8 /10
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant golden color with a huge foamy white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sweet, tangy and yeasty with notes of mango, papaya and passionfruit and a strong phenol note. The flavor was bitter and tart with a strong perfumey presence, papaya, passionfruit and ended dry and yeasty. Very long finish. Medium body. Meh.
I’m not a big coffee drinker but I love coffee beers. I’m not a big tea drinker either but apparently tea beers aren’t as good as coffee ones. Or at least this one isn’t.
This was an interesting one. Flavor and feel kind of like a tropical saison. Was extra bubbly, and had to pour extra slow to avoid massive foam buildup. Similar bubbly champagne feel. Complex flavors of peach, light citrus, grassy/grainy, etc. Has a hazy pale medium yellow appearance with super foamy white head. Another decent collaboration.
Bottle. Pours light golden with a thin white head. Floral aromas with tea and peaches. Flavors of citrus, flowers, cut grass, bready tones. Clean mouthfeel. Lightly sweet, crisp and refreshing. Nice.
Bottle: Poured a peach color carbonated with bubbles. Aroma is yeast, tea, loads of fruits. Taste is loads of fruit with some tea leaf.
Bottle from the sampler. Pours a bright tan color . Head fades. Taste is slightly sweet and tangy. Very good session
12 oz bottle from the sampler case. All of these are really good and quite a surprise from the mostly average Sierra Nevada company. Try one before they’re off the market.
Poured into shaker glass, beer bottled 4/6. Medium body on the thin side, with funky lemon aroma amber color and nice tall white head. Tart fruit notes in the taste and brief clean finish. Inoffensive.
Thanks to altonbrownd for the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing well filtered neon yellow with half a finger of clean white foam.
The nose shows clean and bright lemon drops with light notes of round malts.
The palate is fully carbonated and light bodied. Moderate tartness that quickly fades away with a pilsner-like bitterness. Malt on the linger and a lemon candy profile throughout.
Veyr interesting, although not so BElgish. NICe aroma and some spicy fetures in it. Try to keep in order of abv.
This beer starts out on my bad side by pouring w/ a huge head of foam which causes me have to wait patiently for what seems like three hours. For fuck’s sake beer, I just wanna get a little bit boosted and go to bed. Is that too much to ask? Christ.
Anyway, this beer is not all that great beyond that. It falls into the collab beer trap of just throwing a bunch of bullshit on in there and seeing what happens. I can’t really tell what the fruit, tea and herbs add but this tastes like a mildly grassy saison or Belgian blond or something. I do like the light texture but it’s not quite right because all the carbonation dissipated in order to form a huge, annoying head. I’m not really getting anything special here but some lemony tartness in the background. It finishes pretty crisp and bitter which is pretty nice but overall this stuff just doesn’t feature any particularly nice flavors nor does it have some kind of masterful balance so I just don’t really feel any need to have anything to do w/ it.
12oz bottle from variety pack. Thought I drank them all, but apparently not. Pours a hazy bright orange color with a small fizzy white head. Aroma of light funk, sour tropical fruits, peach skins, tangerine pulp, and grain. Taste is much the same with hints of mint tea, and tart citrus fruit.
12oz bottle out of Costco’s SN Beer Camp 24-pack. Aroma was lemon-hops and tea. Cloudy light-straw color with a very white head. I was confused why RateBeer called this a Belgian based on the label description, but I get it. It’s sort of Belgian-y, with subtle malt tastes. But for me the tea really came through, and a hint of lemon. Really this is like a "sun tea" beer. I really enjoyed it as a summer beer, would go great at a picnic.
Pours clear straw-gold with a 3-finger off-white head. Fruit aromas, maybe peach and papaya, with a tea-like note beneath. Medium body, a touch watery. Brief, dry finish. Flavor is mostly tea, maybe a touch of corn. Sweet fruity notes at the back.
Tap at the Saucer. Clear light orange color. White head. End of the keg so FREE BEER! Interesting aroma. Fruity, peach, tart, funky notes, wood. Flavor is lightly tart, dried fruit, wood, and funky notes. Nice.
Bottle. Light yellow big white head. Prominent lemon aroma, some mustiness. Lemon citrus flavor, spiciness from hops, flavor hangs around. Carbonation provides prickliness to mouthfeel.
Sierra Nevada Sunny South Southern Table Beer is a virtual mouth party. Sunny golden color with a frothy white head. Aroma is a tropical fruits. Taste is a medley of tropical fruit with a bit of funk. Can’t get over all those fruit flavors in Sweet Sunny South -- a refreshing drink!
Super light at first taste. Like a bitter pineapple. Foamy at the edges. Looks like piss.. Its a novelty beer.
Clear dark golden with a nice foamy white head... tropical fruitiness and apricot ... light tannic note... interesting.. after reading the label, I guess I’m getting the peaches and prickly pear... Okay, I’d drink it again, but seems like a novelty more than a serious attempt at a good beer.
Bottle pours a nearly opaque gold with a medium, quickly dissipating white head. Smells light and fruity, and tastes much the same. Starts with carbonation and bitterness but quickly transitions to an enjoyable summer beer.