Dogfish and Sierra Nevada Collaboration

Thursday, November 19 at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh will be the Raleigh debut of both Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada collaboration brews. They are called Life and Limb, and Limb and Life. I'll let the official Dogfish site describe the beers:

Life & Limb is a 10% ABV strong 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. 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; it is the first beer we know of ever to use birch syrup in the brew.

Limb & Life is a companion to the big beer-an acorn off the larger tree. It is a 5% ABV small beer-a low-gravity beer made using the residual sugar as "second runnings" from the first larger brew, fortified with American hops.

At the Saucer you will have the chance to try both of these side by side. I'm sure they will not dissapoint!