Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Collaboration, Chico, CA and Milton, DE
To say this beer has a reputation would be an understatement. The most sought-out and appealing collaboration of 2009 was no doubt the Life & Limb / Limb & Life series by two of my favorite places, Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada. We’d been trying to get our hands on Life & Limb for quite a long time. We were pretty sure it would never come to Montana (it didn’t), we didn’t think it would come to a nearby state (we were probably right), we held out hope for someone finding a bottle and bringing it back to Montana with them (no luck), and finally, we resorted to trying to grab a bottle or two on eBay (failed in every auction). Judging by the prices set on the eBay auctions, this was a special beer (we’re talking ~$80 for a pair of 24oz bottles). After 2009 trickled to an end and we entered 2010, our hopes of finding and tasting Life & Limb were looking bleaker and bleaker. But then a job move to D.C. and a crop of new beer bars got my hopes up that I still might find a bottle. So it came as an amazing find to run into not only Life & Limb in D.C., but to also find it on tap AND to find Limb & Life right beside it. There was no doubt about my choice; it was time to take the plunge into the beer I’d been searching for for months.
