LocalBrewery.com » dogfish head http://localbrewery.com LocalBrewery.com Introducing People To The Breweries Near Them! Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:30:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Theobroma by Dogfish Head http://localbrewery.com/theobroma-by-dogfish-head/ http://localbrewery.com/theobroma-by-dogfish-head/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:01:41 +0000 Ricky http://localbrewery.com/?p=514 Dogfish Head brought us something special with Theobroma (translates to food of the gods). This craft beer is part of Dogfish Head’s “Ancient Ales” series and is a beer made based on the ingredients found in pottery fragments from 1200 BC! This discovery pushes back the earliest know use of cocoa by humans for consumption 500 years!

The beer contains cocoa, chilies, honey, tree seeds and more. It’s not what you expect from a chocolate beer and I promise it will surprise you!

The beer pours a redish amber with almost no head. It looks unfiltered and should help keep the flavor.

It has a sour smell and it makes it very difficult to pinpoint what it is. Theobroma didn’t smell like most beers and I think the chile’s with cocoa mix really confuses what you expect to smell.

It was sour and has a spicy dryness. It feels excellent in your mouth. It was very surprising. You get the cocoa bitterness right up front but the chiles really follow through in the end to keep it very complex.

I wouldn’t drink this everyday but it is worth buying and trying!

]]> http://localbrewery.com/theobroma-by-dogfish-head/feed/ 1 Sierra Nevada Dogfish Head Collaboration Called Life and Limb http://localbrewery.com/sierra-nevada-dogfish-head-collaboration-called-life-and-limb/ http://localbrewery.com/sierra-nevada-dogfish-head-collaboration-called-life-and-limb/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:47:47 +0000 Ricky http://localbrewery.com/?p=428 This is the type of collaboration beer your mouth has dreamed about! Dogfish Head has always been stepping up as an extreme brewery. They have done collaboration beers with many many breweries and every one has turned out superb. Dogfish Head mostly produces their beers on a reasonably small scale, very complex beers compared to the giants in the industry. On the other hand, Sierra Nevada has always produced excellent beers that have survived on a large scale competing with the large fizzy yellow beer champs. Over a few beers (as the story go’s), Calagione (Dogfish Heads owner) suggested they create a collaboration beer. They would only use the products from their family farms and produce something truly unique.

The life and limb beer uses a blend of house yeasts, maple syrup and birch syrup (probably a first for beer). Because the life & limb is only using family products and both breweries have very strong heritage to their farms and families they decided to name the beer Life and Limb. They have dedicated the beer to all the beer drinkers, brewers, enthusiasts, etc. that risk life & limb to help grow the craft brewing community. That is what this site is all about!

Life and Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer. It should be pitch black and I assume it will be very rich and slightly sweet from the syrups. Both breweries make exceptional beers and I am sure this will be just as good as everything else they have made if not even better.

The beer is now available on draft and they are shipping the bombers throughout the country. It will probably somewhat hard to find. If you have a Bevmo or Total Wine, etc you should probably be able to pick it up.

While making this they came up with a very very small batch of another beer titled Limb and Life. It’s a “small beer” and will be difficult to find. It will only be available on draft so if you can find this, let us know where you found it!

*Picture is courtesy of their website life-limb.com
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