Civil Disobedience #36
Hill Farmstead Brewery

 

 

 

This one pours dark brown, nearly black color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells semi roasty, with some lemon, lime, oak, red wine, and light milk chocolate.

Every four entries in this series, we always seem to get one of the best dark saisons, dark wild ales, whatever you want to call it. This has a minerally and almost like lime zest, lemon zest, even grapefruit, with red wine, a lot of oak, some light acidity, and a wonderfully chocolatey and roasty cream finish.

This is light bodied, crisp, clean, and only mildly tart.

The dark blends of this series are always some of the most underrated Hill Farmstead beers.

Look - Reddish brown with nice foamy rimming
Smell and taste - woody floral wine and funky
Feel - medium body and carbonation
OVerall - pretty nice funky saison

 

Pours a frothy bubbly tan 1 finger head with good retention, messy lacing, dark molasses brown color

Nose starts with some barnyard farmhouse saison like funk, yeasty, earthy funk, some dark sweet malt caramelized sugar notes and hint of roast, very faint fruity wine and port with some chocolate after, a bit of oak and more port notes as it warms

Taste brings more barnyard farmhouse Brett saison funk, earthy Brett funk bordering a cheese funk, some dark malt notes, a bit of caramelized turbinado sugar like character, hint of chocolate, then plenty of fruity wine characters, no specific wine just like a fruity red wine, with a hint of port and oak on the back end, finishes a little sweet and sticky, but dries a bit as well

Mouth is med to a bit fuller bod, med carb

Overall not usually a fan of dark funky beers, this was pretty good though, still not one I would reach for