Being & Time
Hill Farmstead Brewery

Autumnal amber, nearing light brown, with a translucently bubbly, sparse blanket.

Nose seems heavier than expected, exhibiting white raisin and even a bit of port.

The sharper palate is prickly of strong acid suggesting orangey lemon with waxy oak coming out in the swallow.

A strange dichotomy, but with time, a little aged cheddar emerges, oddly enough--and this was BEFORE we purchased the best deal of the week at the Jasper Hill tent.

 

 

 

Bottle pour at FoFA 2019.

 

 

 

Bottle purchased for onsite consumption at Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend, VT. Never publicly released by the brewery.

This one pours a golden orange color, with a very small head, and not much lacing at all.

This smells like funky lime, spicy oak, minerals, light acidic, oak, basement funk, cheese rind, and brine.

This is spectacularly funky, rustic, and bucolic, with a pronounced mineralesque brine character, a definite lime and grapefruit fruity funk, a pleasant oak character, and a bit of white wine. It's such a complex funk on top of a wonderfully vibrant beer.

This is very light bodied, with a surprisingly crisp and clean feel- lending a beer that you should sip slowly as quite drinkable. It goes down too quickly.

This was Hill Farmstead's first spontaneously fermented beer, and it's a funky masterpiece. This is wild ale at it's best.