Flood Relief IPA
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #881 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #11,964 - Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 6.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 26, 2024
- Added:
- Aug 05, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
This version brewed in Greensboro Bend, VT at Hill Farmstead.
American IPA brewed in collaboration with The Alchemist in Stowe, Vt. Out of mutual respect for each other, and a shared love for our vibrant state, we have come together to collaborate on this beer and raise money for Vermont-flood relief. 100% of all beer sales will go directly to Vermont-based funds to support people, our farms, and our Main Street businesses. Made in Vermont, for our beautiful Vermont.
American IPA brewed in collaboration with The Alchemist in Stowe, Vt. Out of mutual respect for each other, and a shared love for our vibrant state, we have come together to collaborate on this beer and raise money for Vermont-flood relief. 100% of all beer sales will go directly to Vermont-based funds to support people, our farms, and our Main Street businesses. Made in Vermont, for our beautiful Vermont.
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Ratings by SadMachine:
Rated by SadMachine from New Jersey
3.84/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Sep 02, 2023
3.84/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Sep 02, 2023
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by kevanb from Illinois
3.69/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16oz can, dated 08.03.2023, poured into a 16oz tumbler glass. Enjoyed on 08.13.2023, reviewed from Tasting Journal.
The beer pours a nice orange copper color, honey and amber hues, cloudy with a fluffy and soft white head, great retention and lacing. The aroma is very green and earthy, raw, bitter, herbal hop, some grapefruit citrus with lots of sweet dough and mineral water. The flavors are similar, very bitter and green, somewhat astringent, very herbal, bitter citrus peel, pine, grass, and the distinct Hill Farmstead water and malt character. The mouthfeel is good, coating, lively medium body, vibrant, with a dry and crisp finish.
Verdict: A nice IPA, very green, very bitter, somewhat astringent. Lots of raw hop flavor but the body is great and it goes down easily.
Aug 26, 2024The beer pours a nice orange copper color, honey and amber hues, cloudy with a fluffy and soft white head, great retention and lacing. The aroma is very green and earthy, raw, bitter, herbal hop, some grapefruit citrus with lots of sweet dough and mineral water. The flavors are similar, very bitter and green, somewhat astringent, very herbal, bitter citrus peel, pine, grass, and the distinct Hill Farmstead water and malt character. The mouthfeel is good, coating, lively medium body, vibrant, with a dry and crisp finish.
Verdict: A nice IPA, very green, very bitter, somewhat astringent. Lots of raw hop flavor but the body is great and it goes down easily.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.39/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Can purchased from the brewery. Great cause!
This one pours a slightly hazy golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
The aroma on this is much more reminiscent of something from the Alchemist than something from Hill Farmstead – zippy pine, fresh cut grass, marijuana, dense orange and grapefruit, and some peach.
I really enjoyed both of these beers, but it’s also definitely interesting how each individual version felt like the brewery putting on the costume of the other brewery. The Alchemist version was softer, subtler, and “juicier,” with the feeling of Shaun Hill taking a whack at brewing Heady Topper. While Hill Farmstead’s version felt like if Abner was brewed by the Alchemist – it’s harder edged, refreshingly bitter, weedy and piney, with a nice peachy and grapefruity hop character.
This is medium bodied, bitter, but very drinkable.
I really enjoyed this one, but I think I ultimately enjoyed The Alchemist’s version a tiny bit more, for whatever that is worth.
Sep 05, 2023This one pours a slightly hazy golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
The aroma on this is much more reminiscent of something from the Alchemist than something from Hill Farmstead – zippy pine, fresh cut grass, marijuana, dense orange and grapefruit, and some peach.
I really enjoyed both of these beers, but it’s also definitely interesting how each individual version felt like the brewery putting on the costume of the other brewery. The Alchemist version was softer, subtler, and “juicier,” with the feeling of Shaun Hill taking a whack at brewing Heady Topper. While Hill Farmstead’s version felt like if Abner was brewed by the Alchemist – it’s harder edged, refreshingly bitter, weedy and piney, with a nice peachy and grapefruity hop character.
This is medium bodied, bitter, but very drinkable.
I really enjoyed this one, but I think I ultimately enjoyed The Alchemist’s version a tiny bit more, for whatever that is worth.
Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Side by side with HF version. Alchemist gets the slight nod. Both are excellent!
Alchemist has their house ipa flavor, think heady, maybe focal. Dank, pine, weed. Very hoppy and nice bitterness.
HF version is pretty similar but has a bit more New Zealand hop profile and some stone fruit. Floral, earthy, soft, bitterness in the finish.
Aug 19, 2023Alchemist has their house ipa flavor, think heady, maybe focal. Dank, pine, weed. Very hoppy and nice bitterness.
HF version is pretty similar but has a bit more New Zealand hop profile and some stone fruit. Floral, earthy, soft, bitterness in the finish.
Rated by acurtis from New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Draft at HF on 8.4.23
Aug 05, 2023
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