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Society & Solitude #4
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
Ranked #17 - ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 100
Ranked #72 - Avg:
- 4.58 | pDev: 6.33%
- Reviews:
- 200
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 17, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 08, 2012
- Wants:
- 452
- Gots:
- 130
Imperial IPA Brewed with Citra® and Galaxy Hops. The series of experimental imperial IPAs continues. Think Double Citra Meets Double Galaxy.
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Ratings by Goblinmunkey7:
Reviewed by Goblinmunkey7 from Massachusetts
4.33/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Growler.
Appearance: Hazy yellow-gold. Head is bright-white, pillowy, and dense. Minimal retention. Leaves a couple chunks of cap with a small dense collar. Splotches and ropes of sticky lacing. Moderate carbonation on the pour.
Smell: Juicy tropical fruit explosion. Tons of peach and nectarine. Solid push of pine needle, grapefruit and orange zest and juice. Green onion and weed. So much peach it's actually a bit nuts. Juicy and macerated peach flesh. Sweet in good measure. Malt base offers a touch of a bready element with some pale malt sweetness. Resin. A touch of lemongrass thrown in the back. Incredibly dank under the sweetness.
Taste: Peach flavored weed. Super dank and super tropical. Peach flesh and juice in abundance. Oily and resinous pine. Pine needle. Touches of lemon and pineapple as well. Malts offer up a solid backbone with a slight biscuity sweetness with some bready elements. Pale malt. Some green onion. Bursts of grapefruit juice and zest. General citrus juice. A spicy and floral hop runs throughout. Tons of white nectarine as well. Fruity to the point where it's almost a candied sweetness. Lingering bitterness that almost hits aspirin.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with a moderate carbonation. Juicy and a touch creamy through the sip. Relatively high astringency with a decent dryness overall.
Overall: Double down every time.
These two hops always play well together and this is absolutely no exception. It's intense and almost overbearing but not quite. It might be the most peach forward thing I've had that didn't have peaches in it.
Aug 29, 2015Appearance: Hazy yellow-gold. Head is bright-white, pillowy, and dense. Minimal retention. Leaves a couple chunks of cap with a small dense collar. Splotches and ropes of sticky lacing. Moderate carbonation on the pour.
Smell: Juicy tropical fruit explosion. Tons of peach and nectarine. Solid push of pine needle, grapefruit and orange zest and juice. Green onion and weed. So much peach it's actually a bit nuts. Juicy and macerated peach flesh. Sweet in good measure. Malt base offers a touch of a bready element with some pale malt sweetness. Resin. A touch of lemongrass thrown in the back. Incredibly dank under the sweetness.
Taste: Peach flavored weed. Super dank and super tropical. Peach flesh and juice in abundance. Oily and resinous pine. Pine needle. Touches of lemon and pineapple as well. Malts offer up a solid backbone with a slight biscuity sweetness with some bready elements. Pale malt. Some green onion. Bursts of grapefruit juice and zest. General citrus juice. A spicy and floral hop runs throughout. Tons of white nectarine as well. Fruity to the point where it's almost a candied sweetness. Lingering bitterness that almost hits aspirin.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with a moderate carbonation. Juicy and a touch creamy through the sip. Relatively high astringency with a decent dryness overall.
Overall: Double down every time.
These two hops always play well together and this is absolutely no exception. It's intense and almost overbearing but not quite. It might be the most peach forward thing I've had that didn't have peaches in it.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Hobbs87 from New York
4.19/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A very good IPA but really stunned it scored 100. Seems like BA is throwing out 100’s like candy to kids at Halloween.
Definitely a very good IPA with a citrus and a little sour flavor but still smooth. Again a really good IPA but just not top notch like a Heady.
Oct 20, 2023Definitely a very good IPA with a citrus and a little sour flavor but still smooth. Again a really good IPA but just not top notch like a Heady.
Reviewed by cambabeer from New York
4.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Had on tap at Rivercrest in Astoria NY. Deep yellow haze, really nice white leaving on the glass. Citrus, dank, resins nose… orange peel, peach. Taste is huge waves of hops, light orange peel bitterness, cracker breadiness in the background… just delicious
Nov 10, 2022
Society & Solitude #4 from Hill Farmstead Brewery
Beer rating:
100 out of
100 with
1453 ratings
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