Sierra Nevada/Dogfish Head Life & Limb

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Chico, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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This beer is incredible. Brew pours coffee dark with a lasting creamy head. Smells of roasted coffee bean and bitter cocoa with a touch of plumb. Medium full nectar with excellent carbonation giving a velvet feel on the tongue. This brew is sublime. Superb aroma to flavor follow-through adding chocolate cake bread and a killer hop bittering component. This brew is lush and velvet at the same time. The finish is bittered heavily creating a dynamic sense of balance. It moves from bitter to lush sweetness then back over and over again. It leaves a pine laden dryness on the finish which, despite the gravity, keeps me coming back for more. I hear by Trump this brew!

this is has now become one of my favorite beers. its aroma is smooth rich hazelnuts and toffee. with a touch of coffee. this is a strong beer with very little alcohol flavor though its strength. the toastiness brings a nice perfect balance with the malts are dark roasted and the hops after slight pine to it. this is a must have, do not miss this

Bottled 22 oz sample. Am sorry that I did not share this with Piscator. He would have loved it. Syrupy texture. Perfect blend of hops. A real work of art.

I was down in Rehobeth beach for a vacation and went to the DFH brewpub almost every day. The one beer I kept coming back for was life and limb. I had to drink this out of a bottle in the brewpub because I couldn’t leave with it. I tried everything to get a couple of these bottles out of the brewpub but to no avail. So I drank atleast 3 or 4 of them while I was at Rehobeth beach for the week. Every time it was the same things, as I ordered it the waitress was like, "Are you sure, you know it’s a big bottle right?" oh trust me I knew and man was it worth it. So out of the 22 or 24oz little fatty bottle it Pours dark brown with a tanish head. smell is of sweet caramel and chocolate. Taste was sweet like maple syrup, and finished a little bitter malt, much like semi sweet chocolate. This beer was great, ver upset I can’t get more of this beer. This is honestly one of my favorite beers.

Richly sweet taste with a strong nose. Your traditional "beer" taste is shadowed under the maple and birch!

Cervesa fosca, molt vinosa i amb molt de cos. Per a menjar amb un bon tros de carn. Brutal!!

Fantastic beer! Had this from a 24oz bottle from the DFH brewpub. The beer pours a very dark brown color with a generous tan head. The head leaves a beautiful lacing around the sides of the glass, as well. The nose is full of complex malts, earth, bread and fruits. The body is fairly thick and demands to be sipped on. I had to do just that! In fact, it took me my entire visit to the pub to drink the 24oz bottle. The flavors are quite complex, as well, with notes of fruits, bready and earthy malts and light hops. The finish is a bit sweet and malty. All around, another fantastic beer by both brewers!

Comes out of the tap a luscious warm sable with a fairly thick and fine-bubbled light tan head that sticks around for a while. Malty aroma has strong molasses and caramel notes. Mouth-filling flavor has a malty core and caramel, nutty, molasses and earthy notes plus a hint of honey sweetness. Full-bodied texture is rather smooth and has a firm, fine tingle. Risk life and limb for this ’un! ;)

Gold with big, foamy, white head / Dry, piney, nose / Medium body, lightly sweet, good malts with biting hops, and bitter finish / Flavors of cut pine and resin with notes of orange, grapefruit, and just a hint of maple syrup

This is essentially a high-gravity porter. An aroma of dark chocolate turns into a flavor melding chocolate, coffee, and cola, along with just a touch of smoke. A mild, fresh hop flavor rounds out the taste profile. As the beer gets warmer the cola sweetness becomes more prominent. This is a beer whose flavors develop as it starts out ice cold and gets warmer, and gets tastier with time. Impressive.