Works of Love - Keeping Together
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 4.46 | pDev: 5.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 12, 2026
- Added:
- Aug 01, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Averie Swanson is a genuinely wonderful human being, a gifted brewer, an exceptionally hard worker, an inspiringly creative individual, and, most importantly, a friend. She is in the final stages of opening her much-anticipated brewery in Sante Fe, N.M., so this serves as a bit of a cross-continent toast and celebration.
Organic spelt, organic buckwheat, organic oats, and organic barley serve as the base, along with a gentle hopping of Perle and German-grown Cascade. Ground into a coarse powder, locally foraged medicinal chaga was integrated into the wort, along with Vermont wildflower honey. The beer was open-fermented in a wooden foudre with our house yeast and conditioned in wine barrels with both our yeast and Averie’s unique house culture for a fully integrated collaboration. Following three years of maturation in the bottle, this complex and unique expression of friendship is ready to be shared with many other friends.
Organic spelt, organic buckwheat, organic oats, and organic barley serve as the base, along with a gentle hopping of Perle and German-grown Cascade. Ground into a coarse powder, locally foraged medicinal chaga was integrated into the wort, along with Vermont wildflower honey. The beer was open-fermented in a wooden foudre with our house yeast and conditioned in wine barrels with both our yeast and Averie’s unique house culture for a fully integrated collaboration. Following three years of maturation in the bottle, this complex and unique expression of friendship is ready to be shared with many other friends.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.51/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.51/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a light golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like lemongrass, herbal funk, with a sort of earthy but sweet aroma that I can’t place – maybe it’s the chaga?
I have been excited to try this one ever since I heard it was coming out. It’s got a super herbal and botanical type of funk to it, with a sweet earthiness that I really enjoy. It’s also citrusy and lemony, with a touch of wine and oakiness.
This is light bodied, clean, super drinkable, and not too sour.
This is definitely near the top of this series in quality – I wish I had more of it.
Nov 24, 2025This smells like lemongrass, herbal funk, with a sort of earthy but sweet aroma that I can’t place – maybe it’s the chaga?
I have been excited to try this one ever since I heard it was coming out. It’s got a super herbal and botanical type of funk to it, with a sweet earthiness that I really enjoy. It’s also citrusy and lemony, with a touch of wine and oakiness.
This is light bodied, clean, super drinkable, and not too sour.
This is definitely near the top of this series in quality – I wish I had more of it.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
4.92/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.92/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
A well suspended yet barely there haze blurs an otherwise vibrantly soft yellow body under a dense white half finger of foam.
Uniquely dry, floral and herbal simultaneously, I experience more oak here than the Anna Puncheon, though it expresses subtly as a sort of polished fineness--not splintery, woody or charred--while disappearing on the swallow entirely.
A serendipitous culmination of two masters of cultures.
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Having my first full bottle nine months later, it's bright and awakeningly refreshing. Softly effervescent, limey botanicals and a still pleasant thread of fine, drying oak make for just a fucking killer of a quenching yet complex saison. It almost feels blasphemous drinking this at the tail end of doing some yard work, but at the same time, also perfect.
Aug 15, 2025Uniquely dry, floral and herbal simultaneously, I experience more oak here than the Anna Puncheon, though it expresses subtly as a sort of polished fineness--not splintery, woody or charred--while disappearing on the swallow entirely.
A serendipitous culmination of two masters of cultures.
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Having my first full bottle nine months later, it's bright and awakeningly refreshing. Softly effervescent, limey botanicals and a still pleasant thread of fine, drying oak make for just a fucking killer of a quenching yet complex saison. It almost feels blasphemous drinking this at the tail end of doing some yard work, but at the same time, also perfect.
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