Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Life and Limb

Life and Limb

 

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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Score
7.41
ABV: 10.2% IBU: 45 Ticks: 108
Life & Limb is a collaborative effort, the brainchild of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer that defies style characteristics- brewed with pure maple syrup from the Calagione family farm in Massachusetts and estate barley grown on the Grossman "farm" at the brewery in Chico, CA. The beer is alive with yeast-a blend of both breweries' house strains-bottle conditioned for added complexity and shelf life, and naturally carbonated with birch syrup fresh from Alaska.

Life & Limb is dedicated to the family of beer drinkers and enthusiasts worldwide who continue to support the little guys, iconoclasts, entrepreneurs, and pioneers who risk life and limb to shape the vibrant craft-brewing community.
 

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8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can (5/19/19) pour into nonic pint glass from Greg & Jane's Beer and Wine. Appearance is dark brown--almost opaque black--but when held to the light a hazy, mahogany/dark orange with nice sparkle, 1.5-finger width beige foamy head with nice retention and light leggy lacing. Aroma is strong lightly roasted caramel malts, woody/earth, maple, vanilla. Taste is caramel, earth, maple and a little bit of sweaty feet. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with thick texture, soft carbonation when cold, average-to-lively as it warms with a hint of alcohol burn and then nice esophageal warmth, and finish as taste. Overall, a nice amount of complexity and things work in harmony for the most part. Enjoyable across the board.

Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2019 at 02:22


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a pint can. Pours a clear cola with a big tan head. Aromas are woody with some maple in there. Flavors are moderately sweet with maple and sarsparilla soda. Nice combination, actually.

Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2019 at 23:47


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

From a 16oz can. Very dark reddish brown with a dense tan head. Darknmaltu slight smokey aromas and flavors. Darkneqrthy malys and just enough hop bitterness to balance. Big and full and ri h dark malt flavors.

Tried from Can on 26 Jul 2019 at 23:25


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

7-14-19 cans CBC

Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2019 at 02:04


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Roast, maple and some caramel. Good, though not next level. Pours black with good mocha head and lacing. A little too much booze. Boozy sweet and bitter end. Can.

Tried from Can on 23 Jun 2019 at 20:15


8

Backlog --- Beer merged from original tick of Life And Limb (2010) on 06 Sep 2018 at 09:12 - Score: 8. Original review text: Backlog

Tried on 06 Sep 2018 at 09:12


8

Backlog

Tried on 06 Sep 2018 at 09:12


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 750ml. corked @ [ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2015 (TEODRBSG15) ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House, Denmark. [ As Sierra Nevada / Dogfish Head Life & Limb 2 ].Clear light dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, bread, roasted, caramel, dark dried fruit. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, caramel, dark dried fruit, bread. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150829]

Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2015 at 04:19


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2015, Ulfborg. Pours dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma of caramel, malt, molasses, toffee and light booze. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2015 at 15:40


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering, 2015. Pours nearly black with a small creamy head. Licorice, sweet caramel, fruit and licorice. Sweet and warming with a touch of alcohol. Sippable.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2015 at 11:13