Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Brewery in the United States Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Type Private Location Chico , California , United States Opened November 1980 ; 42 years ago ( 1980-11 ) Annual production volume 1,250,000 US beer barrels (1,470,000 hl ) Owned by Ken Grossman Employees 1050 Website https://sierranevada.com/ Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was established in 1979 by homebrewers Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi in Chico, California , United States . [1] The brewery produced 786,000 US bbl (922,000 hl ) in 2010, [2] and as of 2016, Sierra Nevada Brewing is the seventh-largest brewing company in the United States and is the third largest privately owned brewery in the United States. [3] The brewery was named "Green Business of the Year" by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 for its prac