(Chico, CA) – Same beer, new name.

With Sierra Nevada Chico Estate now named Estate Homegrown Ale and being marketed in a very different direction from its two other two harvest ale counterparts, the Sierra Nevada team decided to make a change to the Harvest Ale name in its 14th (15th?) year. The beer will now be known as Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Harvest Ale to coincide with Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale which is released earlier in the year. Northern Hemisphere should be released relatively soon.

Per the SN website, “The cornerstone of our Harvest series is the beer that started the modern-day fresh hop ale phenomenon in America, our original Harvest Ale. Created in 1996, Harvest Ale features Cascade and Centennial hops from the Yakima Valley in Eastern Washington. These hops are harvested and shipped as “wet” un-dried hops—the same day they are picked—to our brewery in Chico where our brewers eagerly wait to get them into the brew kettle while their oils and resins are still at their peak.”

In other Sierra Nevada news, Founder, Ken Grossman, appeared with Charlie Papazian at the Brewers Studio Pavilion at GABF. You can watch the video here. He was also named one of Chow.com’s 13 innovators in food and beverage this week.