Sierra Nevada’s 2025 Festival Lineup Is Here — And It’s Delicious
A Legendary Brew Returns: Sierra Nevada x Blues & Brews 2025
We’re hoppin’ with excitement! 🍻 The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is proud to welcome back our longtime partner and craft beer icon — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. — for another unforgettable year in the San Juan sun.
A true OG in the craft beer world, Sierra Nevada has been brewing bold, award-winning beer since 1980. With state-of-the-art breweries in both Chico, California and Mills River, North Carolina, their passion for quality and innovation hasn’t just set the bar — it built it. From sustainability efforts to legendary hops, Sierra Nevada continues to lead the pack, one pint at a time.
🎉 HERE’S WHAT THEY’RE POURING THIS YEAR:
Prepare your palate for a killer lineup of festival-ready brews, including:
Premium PILS Lager – Crisp, clean, and made for mountain sunshine
Pale Ale – The iconic hop-forward classic that started it all
Hazy Little Thing IPA – Juicy, unfiltered, and full of citrusy swagger
West Ghost IPA – A fresh new spin on a West Coast hop bomb
Peachy Little Thing – A fruity, slightly tart sipper bursting with peachy goodness
OKTOBERFEST Festbier – A special collab brew that’s rich, malty, and made to toast with
Trail Pass NA IPA – A non-alcoholic IPA that packs all the flavor, none of the fuzz
🍺 WHERE TO FIND THEM:
Sip your way through the fest at the Sierra Nevada Beer Truck, VIP bars, House of Brews, Blues Stage bars — and the exclusive Camp Pale Ale.
Whether you're here for a juicy IPA, something crisp and sessionable, or a non-alcoholic brew that doesn’t hold back, Sierra Nevada’s got a beer for every kind of festival-goer. Come thirsty — and come ready to cheers to the mountains, music, and magic of Blues & Brews 2025!
Step Inside the Camp Pale Ale Craft Beer Lounge 🍺
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is proud to present the Camp Pale Ale Craft Beer Lounge — your exclusive gateway to rare, small-batch, and vintage brews you won’t find just anywhere. During the festival, Sierra Nevada will tap into their vaults to unveil limited-release beers typically only available at their Chico, CA or Mills River, NC breweries — plus a few surprises brewed just for special events like this one. And yes, the classic Pale Ale will be flowing too.
These beers are available one keg at a time — once it’s tapped, it’s fair game until it’s gone. So swing by early and often to see what’s pouring!
👀 Stay tuned — the 2025 Camp Pale Ale beer menu is coming soon
Let’s take a closer look at the lineup…
Premium PILS Lager
ABV: 4.7%, IBU 25
Ken Grossman started Sierra Nevada with a purpose: Bring together the craftsmanship of European brewing with distinctive American flavor. That’s exactly what we set out to do with PILS. Like the legendary European pilsners that inspired us, PILS is brewed with precision and balance. Its brilliant clarity and tight, white foam reveal our commitment to quality, from selecting the purest ingredients to our brewing process. Each sip reveals a smooth, crisp body with just the right amount of sweetness, a pleasant hop character, and hints of citrus peel, all leading to an endlessly refreshing finish.
Pale Ale
5.6% ABV, IBU 38
Pale Ale’s unique piney and grapefruit aromas from the use of whole-cone American hops have fascinated beer drinkers for decades.
Hazy Little Thing IPA
6.7% ABV, IBU 40
This is hazy with modest bitterness and intense hop character. Making an unfiltered hop bomb may seem crazy, but to us, it’s a hazy little thing called IPA.
West Ghost IPA
7.2% ABV, IBU 65
An old-school IPA back from the dead, lest we forget that today's haze began bright. This West Coast ghost is uber crisp and proudly bitter, with notes of citrus and sweet fruit.
Peachy Little Thing
7% ABV, IBU 18
This golden, velvety hazy IPA is dripping with peach flavor, balanced by bright hop aromas. Pick up this Peachy Little Thing before it’s gone!
OKTOBERFEST - COLLABORATION FESTBIER
ABV 6%, IBU 30
Our authentic Oktoberfest is a collaboration with Störtebeker, an award-winning German brewer internationally recognized for quality and innovation.
This modern Festbier leans into a rich, smooth malt backbone with notes of fresh-baked bread and honey. Traditional German hops provide balanced bitterness and herbal-spicy aroma, rounding out the crisp, clean finish. Prost!
Trail Pass - NA IPA
ABV <0.5%, IBU 35
Grab a Trail Pass and start a new adventure with miles of flavor. Explore the hoppy notes of citrus and pine from Amarillo® and CTZ varieties in non-alcoholic Trail Pass IPA. The silky malt body and clean hop bitterness are just what you’d expect from a world-class Sierra Nevada IPA, yet it’s less than 0.5% ABV.
“It meets all of our criteria for what we would consider a craft IPA—not necessarily even a craft non-alcoholic IPA, but a craft IPA,” says James Conery, Innovation Brewmaster at Sierra Nevada.
Trail Pass uses traditional brewing methods, not alcohol removal, to create full craft flavor below the 0.5% ABV non-alcoholic threshold.