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Ephraim
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
Ranked #24 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 100
Ranked #91 - Avg:
- 4.56 | pDev: 7.89%
- Reviews:
- 253
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 22, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 28, 2010
- Wants:
- 1,486
- Gots:
- 50
SCORE
100
World-Class
100
World-Class
Ephraim (1823-1913) was our great-great grandfather; Hill Farmstead Brewery resides several hundred feet downhill from the land that he and his father settled. In his honor, this Imperial India Pale Ale is dutifully crafted from American malted barley, buckets of American hops, our ale yeast and water from our well. It is unfiltered, naturally carbonated, and double dry hopped. Intensely aromatic and saturated with resinous hop flavor, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Ephraim.
280 Theoretical IBU
Pale Malt; Dextrose; Centennial, Chinook, Columbus, Simcoe, and Warrior hops, Ale Yeast, and our Well Water.
280 Theoretical IBU
Pale Malt; Dextrose; Centennial, Chinook, Columbus, Simcoe, and Warrior hops, Ale Yeast, and our Well Water.
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Reviewed by brewme from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Picked-up two four-packs of cans at Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend Vermont for about twenty two dollars. My twenty first brew from these guys. Good, but a bit overrated for me.
Jun 10, 2023
Reviewed by drdiesel9483 from Ohio
4.43/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Look - Nice hazy tannish orange with a ncie white head rimming and lacing
Smell - more faint than I would guess. Mostly citrus slight floral dank
Taste - Dank Resin Citrus with a slight caramel malt backbone
Feel - Full body with a lighter carb, slight creamy
Overall - almost like a cross between a west coast and an east coast
May 30, 2023Smell - more faint than I would guess. Mostly citrus slight floral dank
Taste - Dank Resin Citrus with a slight caramel malt backbone
Feel - Full body with a lighter carb, slight creamy
Overall - almost like a cross between a west coast and an east coast
Reviewed by Zach_Attack from Massachusetts
4.5/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
While Boneyard Notorious is still my favorite traditional / West coast stylized triple IPA, this is quite enjoyable - dank, a touch fruity, big in hoppy bite and some ethanol, yet still pretty smooth. Dig!
Jan 17, 2023
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
4.5/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
12oz can from HF. Hazy golden pour, fine white foamy head. Piney, hoppy aroma, citrus peel. Taste is oranges, citrus peel, light caramel malts. Very smooth, juicy, lingering bitter finish. Sublime.
Sep 29, 2022
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.25/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Canned on 5/25/22; consumed on 6/14/22
Pours a hazy, largely translucent dark orange body topped with two fingers of fluffy, slightly off-white foam; good head retention leaves a half-finger of cap, a slim, frothy collar, and myriad spattering of webby/spotty lacing strewn across the walls of the glass.
Aroma highlights dank orange oils and accents of sunflower petals/general florality upfront, leaving crackery malt lingering into soft, grassy resins glossing over soft lemon peel over time.
Taste features waxy peach zest within a resinous overlay as grapefruit steadily washes over a catty/peppery undertone; light moss and wilted mint over the mid-palate fade to residual pine past the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a medium body and a choppy fluff of moderate carbonation, dispersing dry textures and a pseudo-bittering over the mid-palate before eventually fading to a flaky crispness; a resinous glide brightens over the back end as bits of residual grit prickle the finish.
A warming aggression peeks through the stability of crackery malt and floral resins, an unforeseen grit waving across the normally clean Hill IPA profile; the subtle bittering and choppier tones of earth the result ultimately lend to a slightly more varied and intense profile to contrast the largely delicate base.
Jun 15, 2022Pours a hazy, largely translucent dark orange body topped with two fingers of fluffy, slightly off-white foam; good head retention leaves a half-finger of cap, a slim, frothy collar, and myriad spattering of webby/spotty lacing strewn across the walls of the glass.
Aroma highlights dank orange oils and accents of sunflower petals/general florality upfront, leaving crackery malt lingering into soft, grassy resins glossing over soft lemon peel over time.
Taste features waxy peach zest within a resinous overlay as grapefruit steadily washes over a catty/peppery undertone; light moss and wilted mint over the mid-palate fade to residual pine past the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a medium body and a choppy fluff of moderate carbonation, dispersing dry textures and a pseudo-bittering over the mid-palate before eventually fading to a flaky crispness; a resinous glide brightens over the back end as bits of residual grit prickle the finish.
A warming aggression peeks through the stability of crackery malt and floral resins, an unforeseen grit waving across the normally clean Hill IPA profile; the subtle bittering and choppier tones of earth the result ultimately lend to a slightly more varied and intense profile to contrast the largely delicate base.
Ephraim from Hill Farmstead Brewery
Beer rating:
100 out of
100 with
1143 ratings
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