Flora Pear
Hill Farmstead Brewery

 

 

 

Pours a straw color with minimal head. Pear, hay, delicate and traditional HF nose. Taste follows with great pear with some lemon tart, HF well water. Feel is light medium with nice effervescence. Overall, dang! Great pear character with traditional flora and HF character, and greatly balanced acid

 

Poured from the 2018 harvest, 375 ml bottle into the test glass.
A - Superb clarity, you can watch the Champagne style carbonation dance its way topside all day. On the initial pour a thin white cap formed and mophed into one ring to bind them all.
S - Floral and expressive, with ripe pear skin, riding the waves of white burgundy, grape skin, oak tannin, a kiss of sulphur, and chalk. Lemon grass is sublte, with a lovely white pepper kiss.
T - So complex, with ripe fruit, pear, green grape, leading the way, then lovely mineral threads meet up with barrel notes light oak and the slightest tannins. Mixed cultures and house yeast put the HFB thumbprint squarely on the offering, showing a bit of tart that accentuates the lovely pear element. Make no mistake this is Flora first with the fruit acting in a support role. As it warms the wine like elements recede and nice light grain character steps up for a quick appearance.
M - Tart start, quickly balances against a rich dusty mineral wave, rushed out by semi sweet fruit threads, quickly rushed out out with a vinous push out the door. the finish is farmhouse and a bit funky, ashen dry in the best way. All that in a split second it seems.
O - A very special variant of a very special beer. Of the fruited versions this is my favorite. Never leaving the base Flora, the pears add a layer of complexity, some fleshy fruit skin threads, on top of an elegantly expressed Barrel treated largely wheat saison. As contradictory as it may sound.
Simply a Masterpiece

Poured from a bottle (03Dec2018) into a Belgian-ish glass

L: crystal clear light golden yellow, with a small white head that fades quickly. Some foam around the edge, not much visible carbonation

S: the great HF farmstead aroma you want, with a little more lambic-style tart/funk. Hay, lemon, white wine, some oak, wouldn’t say I’m getting much pear

T: very much like the flavor here, but you have to work to find the fruit. Label calls it “subtle” so guess it’s what Shaun intended. Opens with a slightly tart white wine note, with some lactic acid sour/funk to it. Toward the middle get a flavor reminiscent of a good slightly grainy pear, but it’s very faint and I may be trying to make it happen. Medium/long finish - find it tingly, slightly drying

F: medium/light body, lighter carbonation, slightly drying

O: a very good beer that I have to knock a little bit as the pear flavor is faint enough to nearly non-existent for me. Luckily the base beer is amazing, dinged for the fruit not coming through but hey label makes the level of fruit flavor known from the outset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bottled december 3 2018

beautiful, almost glowing, light straw color with a bright white head that fizzes away quickly. on nose there is earthy and grassy character, wonderfully rich pear aromas, some funky and slightly spicy character. on palate there is some funkiness and very mellow fruity acidity, rich and complex pear flavor steals the show! getting candied pear, sweet and ripe almost invoking that soft texture, there is mellow spice and a baked pear quality and plenty of sweetness, almost reminds me of slurping the syrup out of the bottom of canned pears. there is a pleasant wheat character throughout and a fairly mellow but zippy tartness that makes this one so crisp and quenching. each sip begs for another!

 

 

 

beautiful fresh ripe pear aroma and flavor, subtle oak wine barrel with a refreshing tartness, super drinkable

 

Vibrant almost neon yellow-orange with a loud fizzy white head quickly fizzling out to nothing.

Tart and cleanly beautiful farmhouse funk features loads of pear and apple, both the flesh and the peel, with a complexity that even simulates apricot. Unique white wine-like oak is bright yet exhibits some welcome age. The tingly crisp body has a semi-dry finish.

Wow this is amazing. Impossible to explain, yet easy to thoroughly enjoy.

 

 

This one pours a hazy and glowing light yellow color, with a small head, and a little bit of acling.

This smells like funky but slightly sweet pear juice, lemon zest, mineral funk, vanilla, and sour candy.

I think pear is basically a perfect fruit to add to the Flora base. It's a light enough flavor so that it doesn't overwhelm the Flora base itself. The pear adds a sweet juiciness, but also a nice funky citrusy acidity. There's some candied fruitiness, too, along with earthy lemon, a touch of vanilla, and some white wine. It's delicious.

This is light bodied, fruity and clean, with a great level of drinkability, and a nice softness.

This is certainly a top tier Flora variant.

 

 

Bottle: Poured a clear yellow color ale with a nice white foamy head. Aroma of acidic notes with some funky yeast and clear pear notes. Taste is also a mix of pear notes with some acidic and funky yeast notes and limited sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. I liked how the pear was offsetting some of the acidity on the base beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bottle shared by Brennan. Thank you so much!

 

Pours gold with a slight haze, a baby finger of head, tiny specs of lace. Aroma of pear, wheat, slight funk. Aroma and taste really opens as this warms up:. Young pear, wheat, white wine, oak, light barnyard funk. Lighter body.