Self Reliance: Styrian
Hill Farmstead Brewery
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- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- IPA - American
Ranked #1,198 - ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #11,702 - Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 5.9%
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 06, 2022
- Added:
- May 12, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
Notes:
Farmstead® India Pale Ale brewed and dry-hopped solely with Styrian hops and conditioned in oak barrels.
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4.28/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
by Roy_Hobbs from Connecticut
Pours a mostly clear, light golden color with an effervescent head that slowly receded to a thin cap. Aroma has a nice complexity to it. Plenty of earthy funk up front, but there are really nice barrel notes lurking beneath. Taste is not as acidic as I anticipated. The result is a nice blend of funk, barrel, lemon, grass and some subtle fruity notes. Just the right amount of carbonation. Clean and lively Really tasty beer. Glad I finally cracked it open.
Mar 06, 2022
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
by Roy_Hobbs from Connecticut
Pours a mostly clear, light golden color with an effervescent head that slowly receded to a thin cap. Aroma has a nice complexity to it. Plenty of earthy funk up front, but there are really nice barrel notes lurking beneath. Taste is not as acidic as I anticipated. The result is a nice blend of funk, barrel, lemon, grass and some subtle fruity notes. Just the right amount of carbonation. Clean and lively Really tasty beer. Glad I finally cracked it open.
Mar 06, 2022
4.06/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
by Stevedore from Oregon
Hazy golden yellow body. Crisp and grassy with a nice grapefruit bite. A bit of freshly squeezed lemon and a bit of leather. Good hop bite, mild-med floral bitterness. Medium bodied, good carbonation, crisp like an IPA but as complex as a saison.
Jan 02, 2022
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
by Stevedore from Oregon
Hazy golden yellow body. Crisp and grassy with a nice grapefruit bite. A bit of freshly squeezed lemon and a bit of leather. Good hop bite, mild-med floral bitterness. Medium bodied, good carbonation, crisp like an IPA but as complex as a saison.
Jan 02, 2022
3.95 by westcoastbeerlvr from California on Dec 03, 2021
4.25 by PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts on Nov 16, 2021
4.47/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
by Huhzubendah from District of Columbia
Shared with Ben whilst playing some tunes. Delicious!
Oct 27, 2021
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
by Huhzubendah from District of Columbia
Shared with Ben whilst playing some tunes. Delicious!
Oct 27, 2021
4.13 by Beerbom from California on Sep 24, 2021
4.02 by mltobin from Connecticut on Aug 30, 2021
3.9/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
by Alieniloquium from Florida
750 mL bottle. Cloudy orange. Smells of grassy and floral hops, light lemon. Tastes of earthy hops, bright lemon, grassy hops, earthy yeast notes. Pleasant tartness. Medium light. Pleasant and very tasty. A dynamic version of Styrian.
Jul 29, 2021
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
by Alieniloquium from Florida
750 mL bottle. Cloudy orange. Smells of grassy and floral hops, light lemon. Tastes of earthy hops, bright lemon, grassy hops, earthy yeast notes. Pleasant tartness. Medium light. Pleasant and very tasty. A dynamic version of Styrian.
Jul 29, 2021
4.27/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
by GreesyFizeek from New York
This one pours a hazy golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like hay-like funk, clove, pear, stone fruit, and that classic citrusy/grassy Hill funk.
This feels a bit more classic saison than new world hop driven saison, perhaps because Styrian is a more subtle and "traditional hop." There's pear, peach rind, clove, grassy hops, and floral funk, with a restrained acidity.
This is light bodied, crisp, and very clean, with a very good drinkability.
I've had a lot of the entries in this series, and this is certainly one of the more unique ones.
Jul 13, 2021
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
by GreesyFizeek from New York
This one pours a hazy golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like hay-like funk, clove, pear, stone fruit, and that classic citrusy/grassy Hill funk.
This feels a bit more classic saison than new world hop driven saison, perhaps because Styrian is a more subtle and "traditional hop." There's pear, peach rind, clove, grassy hops, and floral funk, with a restrained acidity.
This is light bodied, crisp, and very clean, with a very good drinkability.
I've had a lot of the entries in this series, and this is certainly one of the more unique ones.
Jul 13, 2021
4.24 by SadMachine from New Jersey on Jun 28, 2021
3.74/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
by papposilenus from New Hampshire
From a 750ml bottle. Bottled 09/23/20. Served in a willi becher.
Pours a heavily cloudy mango-yellow with a scant finger of fizzy, short-lived head. Juice-like in appearance. Note: the second pour resulted in a massive flocculant dump of superfund-worthy proportions.
Nose is earthy and floral. Pretty faint but I think I’m picking up on citrus and whatever dry, chalky smell it is that aspirin has.
Taste is super-tart citric and acidic. Lime juice, lime peel, lemon, aspirin, baking soda, citric acid, honey, pee and - totally incongruously - whipped cream.
Feel is smooth and creamy, medium bodied with bright, zesty carbonation.
Overall, tasty enough in a mouthpuckering sort of way. There is a weird disconnect between the under-sweetened-lemonade-and-aspirin taste and the creamy/slick ice cream soda-like body - not necessarily unpleasant; just unexpected and frankly hard to believe that it was intentional.
May 17, 2021
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
by papposilenus from New Hampshire
From a 750ml bottle. Bottled 09/23/20. Served in a willi becher.
Pours a heavily cloudy mango-yellow with a scant finger of fizzy, short-lived head. Juice-like in appearance. Note: the second pour resulted in a massive flocculant dump of superfund-worthy proportions.
Nose is earthy and floral. Pretty faint but I think I’m picking up on citrus and whatever dry, chalky smell it is that aspirin has.
Taste is super-tart citric and acidic. Lime juice, lime peel, lemon, aspirin, baking soda, citric acid, honey, pee and - totally incongruously - whipped cream.
Feel is smooth and creamy, medium bodied with bright, zesty carbonation.
Overall, tasty enough in a mouthpuckering sort of way. There is a weird disconnect between the under-sweetened-lemonade-and-aspirin taste and the creamy/slick ice cream soda-like body - not necessarily unpleasant; just unexpected and frankly hard to believe that it was intentional.
May 17, 2021
3.58 by acurtis from New Jersey on May 15, 2021
Self Reliance: Styrian from Hill Farmstead Brewery
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
12 ratings