15th Anniversary Blonde Ale - Shaun Hill & Dan Suarez
Hill Farmstead Brewery

15th Anniversary Collaboration: Shaun Hill and Dan Suarez - A pub-style Blonde Ale

Some people move through life like a song, leaving an everlasting imprint—etched in laughter, the effortlessness of purpose, and the formation of experience that is impossible to forget. Some people are a constant source of motion—ideas, laughter, and words that loop and linger long after they’ve been spoken. Dan Suarez embodies this sentiment.
Dan was my first employee, but more than that, he was an endless collaborative source of inspiration to me in our nearly inseparable and tireless early days together (February 2011 - September 2013). Through long days and late nights, he filled the brewery and my life with a tune all his own. Every day, a new fixation, a new phrase, a new reason to laugh. Words that I would affix (and still adorn) some of our coveted beers: Convivial and Soigné. My endearing nickname for Dan was “Pub-Style.” And so, we brew together again—not just a beer, but a reflection of those early days and of the energy that shaped us.
We offer this Blonde Ale—simple, classic, yet brimming with intention. A toast to laughter and to the beautiful obsessions that make life worth living. A reminder that the best friendships, like the best songs, never really leave you.