A 1982 article in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighting the brewery, as well as having its beer sold in prominent restaurants such as Berkeley's Chez Panisse, helped establish a market for Sierra Nevada's beer. The company distributed the beer itself in the early 1980s, struggling with financial and marketing problems. Interior of Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico Head brewer Steve Dresler was hired in 1983, when its output was 25 to 30 barrels per week, and retired in 2017. The company's first employee was Steve Harrison, who was put in charge of marketing and sales. The company sold 950 US beer barrels (1,110 hl) of beer in its first year and doubled that amount in the second. The following year, the brewery introduced Celebration, an IPA, which continues to be released as a winter seasonal. The first batch brewed on premises was its Pale Ale, in November 1980. They later were able to acquire second-hand copper brewing kettles from Germany before moving to their larger, current brewing facility in 1989. With $50,000 in loans from friends and family, Grossman and Camusi rented a 3,000 sq ft (280 m 2) warehouse and pieced together discarded dairy equipment and scrapyard metal to create their brewing equipment.
Along with the brewery's location, Grossman claims the company's name comes from his love of hiking in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. was founded in 1979, with founders Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi expanding their homebrewing hobby into a brewery in Chico, California. The brewery was named "Green Business of the Year" by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 for its practices in sustainability. The brewery produced 786,000 US bbl (922,000 hl) in 2010, 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. was established in 1979 by homebrewers Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi in Chico, California, United States. ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. The specific problem is: inconsistent years of foundation.
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