Dogfish Head Life & Limb Rhizing Bines
Rhizing Bines is a collaborative IPA using the best of both coasts: Carolina-grown red fife wheat and Dogfish Head’s continual-hopping from the East and Sierra Nevada’s estate-grown caramel malt and Torpedo dry-hopping from the west.
3.5
311 reviews
Milton, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Dark ruby/copper with thick off white head. Aroma is caramel, apple and grape juice. Taste adds some light woodiness and just a hint of hop bitterness. Medium sticky mouthfeel. Ok.
Bottle (750ml): mostly clear golden with nice white head. Medium creamy body. Very easy drinking IPA Bitterness is subtle. Very good. Get again
Bottle. Spicy and pungent cat pee and pineapple hops aroma with some other tropical fruit notes and some base malt sweetness. Hazy copper under a pristine cover laced with large bubbles. Spicy melanoidin malt with some cardboard, most likely from extended storage. Tropical and spicy hops with pine and pineapple notes. Medium body, moderate carbonation, faintly bitter finish.
Pours a hazy caramel gold, with good lacing. Caramel and citrus in the smell. Hints of honey and orange peel in the taste. Creamy mouthfeel. Very well balanced.
une belle ipa bien foncé, ambré qui nous offre un gout de caramel qui ne prend pas tout la place et que l’alcool estompe vite en bouche pour laisser la place aux houblons
Slightly funky barnyard Saison aromas off this medium yellow body with a white head. I would have guessed there was Brett in this, but it doesn’t mention anything about that. The initial flavor is pungent and dry with notes of hay and mushrooms. This gives way to a much softer wheaty taste and then a strikingly astringent bitterness. However, an incredibly focused caramel sweetness cuts through the middle of this in a reversal of what you usually get with an IPA. Not to worry, that bitterness lays into your tongue with a strong citrus pith character and doesn’t let go while the sweetness slides over it. It’s then that the alcohol attempts to wash things clean with a strong booziness, but the bitter hangs on tenaciously. In the end, with all this swirling around, the finish is quiet and bitter with just a trace of the initial barnyard funkiness. This is unlike any IPA (or any beer for that matter) I’ve ever had!
[5243-20130420] Tap. Mild biscuit straw light fruit aroma. Clear, bright orange body with a long-lasting creamy white head. Light fruity grains flavour. Medium body. Average. (6/4/7/3/14) 3.4
(@ Cole’s, Buffalo, NY)
When all is said and done this is a well made slightly off the intended mark IPA. Looks and smell delicious. beautiful hazy orange/amber color and nice nose. Taste is unusual as the hops are an weird mixture. Not a total miss as the glass empties my score lifts. weird but good collaboration.
Au nez, les houblons sont présents. Le goût ressemble vraiment gros a la 90 min de Dogfish. La bière a un beau sucre résiduel. La finale est assez longue, sucré et agréable.
Another good, unique beer from Dogfish Head. Pours a basic clear orange with a white head. Smells like an orange creamsicle, with some rose. Taste is a bit hoppy to start, then becomes very creamy and sweet, with some vanilla. Very well balanced. Had on tap at Billcos.
P: Slightly fragmented but clear golden copper body. Creamy wet head that laces the edges gracefully.
S: Fresh sun kist grains, wheat, barley, orange oil, lemon and lime leaves. Clean and crisp.
T/M: Toasted caramel malt forward, toast with honey, lime, lemon grass and fresh grains left in the sun. Bitterness presents itself in a stable citrus assortment creeping in toward the finish with an ever evolving profile. Timid persimmon bitters in the back of the throat. Creamy medium feel with a dash of perfected carbonation to create a creamy smooth pull.
O: The aroma is a powerful beast of beauty and grace. Smooth and relaxing flavors massage the palate and coax it into submission. The profile changes from sweet sunny malt to a assertive yet refined bitter dragon that creeps in towards the end. Enjoy!
Honey golden with a huge foamy head. Aroma sweet with lots of floral hops and a touch of alcohol. Flavor is earthy and bitter with a hit of grainy honey. Finishes very bitter.
The aroma is citrus, caramel, wine-like. The appearance is orange, clear, white head. The flavor is citrus, sweet fruit. The finish is citrus, grapefruit. Nicely done.
Bottled sample from Specks in San Antonio. Could be one of the best beers I have ever had. Pours golden with medium head. Great aroma, and very complex taste. Loved it
Draft. Pours amber orange with an off white head. Earthy hops, medium malty sweetness, and a floral and earthy bitter finish. Not that good.
0.75l bottle shared with Inbreak @ the Ginger Man NYC. A light blurry golden one this and it has a nice medium sized just off-white light bubbly top. Not to extreme on the nose but it get a nice strawberry sweetness with green hops, pine cones, quite fresh on the nose, perhaps a bit cold but fresh. Nice light hoppy flavors. It has a oily mouthfeel and a below average carbonation level. Light fruity, kinda blend in a way. Some white fruit meat with a little bit of something spicy. Tangerines are mentioned and I agree. Not bad in any way, but perhaps a bit mellow? Had hoped or at least expected something a bit more from these two great brewers. 19.06.2013
750ml bottle ordered online. Pours a dark amber and smells of caramel, citrus and some hops. Very interesting aroma, pretty nice. Taste is smooth, with well balanced malt and hops. Not a typical double/ imperial IPA, but very drinkable and enjoyable. Would have preferred a bit more bitterness.
On tap at the Falling Rock May 16th. Pours an amber gold with significant head and lace. Aroma of biscuits, oats, amber malts, floral hops. Moderate carbonation and smooth mouthfeel. Flavors of grassy hops, minerals, funky fruit. Overall flavorful and bold with some astringency...tasty but not delicious.
Didnt mind this offering from DFH. Pretty solid IIPA, caramel tofee backbone, solid bitterness, medium to fuller mouthfeel. Not mind blowingly great but a well made beer
750 bottle-shared by jtclockwork-offwhite head with trailing lace-gold. A-med pit fruit, lt/med malt-caramel, spice, wood. T-follows.
Caramel color, thick head. Sweet hop smell; not overpowering. Caramel malts, crisp taste and even finish. Could last longer. Smooth tastes like low ABV.
Timid Citrus, hops and yeast aroma. Nice orange color, hazy with a fat head and nice legs. Taste is a perfect balance between the sweet caramel and the bitterness that last. Salty. Invites you to take another sip right away :-) medium body with a creamy texture with a finish you don’t want to end. This beer with 2% more would be a real nice barleywine. I realy love this beer and i could drink this the rest of my life. Good investment.
Pour on tap at the brewpub, dark brownish black pour with thin off white head, aroma brought notes of big bitter pine, grass, slight earth, orange, slight roast, dark chocolate in there as well, hints of coffee. Taste is a mix of dark chocolate, roast, hints of orange, orange peel, slight grass, pine, hints of slight herbal notes, finishing fairly bitter, slightly dry.
Clear brilliant golden with a thick rocky white head. Nose is floral and sweet with some caramel and earthy piney resin, with a touch of orange zest. Taste is a bit sweet at first, with a big caramel tone on the start, Turns to a very grassy and semi bitter hop flavor, with some floral resin and a bit of buckwheat or something like that. Ends smooth with a little bitterness and some orange rind and a bit of pine, and more of that caramel malt body.
Bottle at Darkness Day. Aroma is weak hops, hard to get much. Flavor is caramel, grain and more weak hops. Ugh. Looks like a nice beer but is lacking. Might have been an old/stale bottle, no idea.
14th July 2013
hazy amber beer, good pale cream coloured head. Smooth palate with fine carbonation. Smooth malt, trace of cream. Light hops - pine with a touch of mint and quite bitter on the finish. Finishes smooth. A touch disjointed but quite drinkable. #644 hops in this one as well as Bravo.
The caramel malt is really the star of the show here...if you like that sort of thing.
(Bottle) Cloudy orange body, small white head. Aroma is sweet, honey, floral, fruit (strawberry, melon, light citrus). Medium body. Medium carbonation. Flavor of grass, citrus peel, moderate to strong bitterness, light sweetness. Flavor is flatter than aroma.
750 ml bottle. Pours a warm copper/amber color with a pure white head/good retention. Aroma is hoppy with a note of citrus. The flavor is full but not heavy with plenty of body. Solid beer and I like the colabo idea - East meets West, but there really wasn’t anything outstanding here.
Clear copper body under a tall, long lasting, sticky off-white head.
Earthy hop aroma over a sweet malt base.
The flavor is not too sweet, not too hoppy with a dry finish.
O.K. but nothing special here.