Florence Foudre
Hill Farmstead Brewery

 

 

 

750ml bottle, no date noted, poured into a stemless wine glass. Enjoyed on 04.04.2023, reviewed from Tasting Journal.

The beer pours a bright golden color, straw hues, nice clarity with a loose white head that offers no retention and a few spots of lacing. The aroma is pleasant, lots of funk, white wine grape, soft oak, biscuit dough, citrus, wildflower, and lingering mineral water. The flavors are very good, plenty of bright citrus and wildflower, white grape, oaky wine barrel, dough, mineral water and lots of bright funk. The mouthfeel is good, lively, medium body, coating, with a tart and crisp finish.

Verdict: A great oak aged saison from Hill Farmstead. Crisp, bright, delicate, complex, and very well balanced.

 

 

poured from a 750mL bottle into a SP stemmed wine glass. pours a hazy chardonnay with a little over two fingers of fluffy white foam. oak and soft wheat on the nose. a bit of white wine. it has a lovely mineral-like quality to it both in smell and taste. super well integrated oak on the nose and taste. fluffy, wheated mouthfeel with a lovely carbonation to it. this is excellent. bottled 10/14/20. consumed 10/30/22.

 

 

 

Solid beer - had the 2016 vintage.

 

 

Clear golden yellow body, slight hint of unfiltered haze. Crisp lemon, fluffy wheat, mild acetic acidity. Touch of wet oak and a bit of white vinous fruit character, mild dryness lingering on the finish. Medium lighter bodied, eminently drinkable.

Bottled on 10/14/2020; consumed on 11/13/2021

Pours a brilliant, crystal-clear golden sheen sporting a steady effervescence and topped with two fingers of rocky, soapy, off-white foam; decent head retention yields a few spotty islands of cap along with an inconsistent, frothy collar circling the surface, while minimal lacing holds to the walls of the glass over time.

Aroma brings notes of wet wheat, Sauvignon Blanc, and discarded potato peel for an earthy/vaguely savory impression as distant hints of ripe pastoral undertones graze the foundation of the bouquet; quietly nutty, with oaky vanillins meeting lemon peel and increasingly vinous white grape over time.

Taste opens with lemon and persistent, vinous undertones guiding toward accents of green apple peel and building white grape over the mid-palate; an oaky grit begins to take hold of the back end, bringing hints of faded peach skins and a resolutely lingering, cheesy funk through the finish.

Mouthfeel features a light-medium body along with a wispy spritz of moderate carbonation, drying to a tautness flowing effortlessly over the mid-palate; an enhanced grit derived from the oak is concentrated into the fabric of the palate, deriving a nuanced, lingering brightness from a plush acidity profile as a mild tartness extends over the finish.

Casually complex and almost unceasingly quaffable, it carries the sessionable spirit of old-world saisons with those rounded, striking Hill accents; elegantly understated and plainly complete.

 

 

750ml bottle poured into HF Wine Stem. bottled on date 10/24/2020.

Appearance: golden straw yellow body with bone white head.

Smell: Citrusy / Lemon and lightly floral with hints of oak.

Taste: Lots of white wine tartness. Not tasting much of "base Florence" after the Foudre treatment. Lots of well water / mineral notes. Hint of lemon / lime citrus notes and green apples. Hint of light oak.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied saison. Slippery / acidic body. Bright beer. low yet adequate carbonation. Light dryness is the finish.

Overall: 70th different/unique beer from Hill Farmstead. great saison, I think that I prefer the standard Florence aged in the bottle to add some light tartness to the saison.