Sue: Yellow Raspberry
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
Ranked #211 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 92
Ranked #6,580 - Avg:
- 4.35 | pDev: 4.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 24, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
The wine barrel-aged version of Susan (1891-1975), Sue is our bright, citrusy, and beautiful Farmstead® India pale ale. During barrel observation, we discovered some of her namesake beer that exhibited characteristics sympathetic to freshly revealed pomace from the previous harvest season’s yellow raspberries, grown at Fisher Brothers Farm in Shelburne, Vt. The result embraces a complex, lightly tart, and delicately dry-hopped nature within the context of the lingering essence of this unique fruit’s character.
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Rated by Huhzubendah from District of Columbia
4.65/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.65/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Bottle shared with Hyeonjae. Great beer on an incredibly fun evening.
Nov 16, 2023
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.23/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This one pours a slightly hazy golden orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like stone fruit, raspberry skin, pear, pineapple, honey, and citrusy funk.
This is a little bit underneath the Yellow Raspberry Harvest that Hill Farmstead put out last year, but, this is still good, and we don’t even need to compare it to anything else. Sue is going to be an excellent base – that funky and citrusy bite works really well with the sort of raspberry, peach, and apricots dipped in funky honey tones that the yellow raspberries give off.
This is crisp, clean, effervescent and not all that sour, with a nice drinkability.
Hill Farmstead’s fruited beers have been semi-unimpressive lately, but both this one and Harvest version of this one have been lone bright spots.
May 22, 2023This smells like stone fruit, raspberry skin, pear, pineapple, honey, and citrusy funk.
This is a little bit underneath the Yellow Raspberry Harvest that Hill Farmstead put out last year, but, this is still good, and we don’t even need to compare it to anything else. Sue is going to be an excellent base – that funky and citrusy bite works really well with the sort of raspberry, peach, and apricots dipped in funky honey tones that the yellow raspberries give off.
This is crisp, clean, effervescent and not all that sour, with a nice drinkability.
Hill Farmstead’s fruited beers have been semi-unimpressive lately, but both this one and Harvest version of this one have been lone bright spots.
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