About a year ago, on a trip to Hong Kong, I saw a single bottle of Sierra Nevada beer that somehow… ...

Map derived from Correlation of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada by W.P. Irwin After a busy couple of weeks in other places, I'm getting back to the Other California, the exploration of the places in my fair state that don't...

"Winter Sunset, Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe." Photograph by Elizabeth Carmel. In the 1930s, famed photographer Ansel Adams' images of the Kings River region of the Sierra Nevada helped protect the area as a national park. Seventy year...

from Grub Street San Francisco Fred Eckhardt A new reason to get a growler: In honor of their 30th anniversary, popular IPA-maker Sierra Nevada Brewery is releasing a series of limited edition beers called The Sierra 30 that...

Also, the deer get really hungry and a plywood sign has just enough wood and glue to keep you alive. We had about 4 - 5 foot drifts and a couple of feet of snow, can you imagine the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada Range where you...

There’s been a lot of news about Sierra Nevada’s 30th Anniversary celebration the past month or so, but the following video from the brewery sums it up beautifully. I can’t wait to start looking for these limited brews....

About a year ago, on a trip to Hong Kong, I saw a single bottle of Sierra Nevada beer that somehow had made it to a grocery store shelf. After I bought it I wrapped it up in a scarf, then later tucked it inside a shoe in my suitcase...

What is Sierra Nevada 30: A Collaboration of Brewing Pioneers? This video, featuring the protagonists, includes ruminations on the last 30 years and a hint of what beers to expect in celebration of Sierra Nevada Brewing’s anniversar...

The New York Times visits Mammoth Lakes to check out the ski house LA-based architect Richard Landry designed for his family: "The stone and glass home offers unimpeded vistas of the snow-dusted Sierra Nevada mountains. It is surrou...

Since I’m not there. I’m not there. I’m not there. Greetings from my stay over in Charlotte, NC. I drove up here yesterday afternoon, made it to the hotel, bought a six pack of Sierra Nevada and a Cheerwine from the gas station near...

Wow. Here's a great resource for those who do research in the Sierras, or the geologically-inclined visitor. Making this available online is a terrific public service by Allen Glazner and Mike Oksin at UNC-Chapel Hill.Via Geology Ne...

Last week I mentioned that when Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi wrote the business plan for Sierra Nevada Brewing their goal was to sell 3,000 barrels of beer annually. They produced 1,500 barrels the first year (1980) and the brewery ...

Gary Snyder, a 79-year-old poet with roots in the Beat scene, lives in the tranquility of the Sierra Nevada foothills. He doesn’t spend a lot of time in Silicon Valley, and he hasn’t heard about the existence of the Apple tablet. Bu...

Those black bears that keep coming down into the foothills of Monrovia and Duarte may not be native to the San Gabriel Mountains at all, but descendants of 33 "problem" bears relocated from the Sierra Nevada.

Join Greg Budney and other experts at San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus in the Tahoe National Forest, California, this summer, for a fabulous week learning to record birds--and not just any birds. The stat...

Climate change and habitat destruction affecting butterfly population Butterfly populations in California are declining and, in some cases, moving to higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada due to climate change and loss of habitat, ...

Beer nerds have been clamoring for a taste of the recent beer collaboration between Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head breweries. Much like the Brooklyn Brewery/Schneider collaboration, the brewmasters swap or combine yeasts and apply...

Plateau was ancient salt-making site Hundreds of basins carved into a football field-sized granite ledge in a remote Sierra Nevada wilderness are the remains of what may be the oldest manufacturing operation in North America, accord...

Today I stepped outside and was greeted with this image just after the clouds parted. Fortunately I had my camera ready to go. This view is at the Sierra Nevada foothills looking Northeast over Bidwell Ranch, CA. A light mist was fa...

Turns out that all the miserable weather we've endured lately isn't miserable enough. Despite an abundance of snowfall in the state, there still is not enough water in the frozen Sierra Nevada range to ease drought conditions. U...