Self Reliance: Amarillo/Strata
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.36 | pDev: 6.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Yesterday at 11:21 PM
- Added:
- Aug 30, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay "Self-Reliance" inspires and compels our persistent reflection, examination, and refinement. This release of our Farmstead® single-hop India pale ale was brewed in September of 2024, conditioned in oak barrels, and hopped copiously with Amarillo® and Strata®.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by GreesyFizeek:
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.33/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a slightly hazy pale orange color, with a big fluffy head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like tart grapefruit, with lemon peel, Smarties, marijuana, wine barrel, with some floral notes.
I really, really enjoy all these beers – they have basically batting .1000 for me. This has some nice candied hop notes, and it’s quite lemony, with lots of grapefruit too. There’s a very pleasant floral bitterness to it, with a soft and pleasant acidity on the back end.
This is light bodied, soft, and super drinkable.
This is really excellent – Hill Farmstead does these farmhouse/Farmstead sour IPAs so well.
Nov 04, 2025This smells like tart grapefruit, with lemon peel, Smarties, marijuana, wine barrel, with some floral notes.
I really, really enjoy all these beers – they have basically batting .1000 for me. This has some nice candied hop notes, and it’s quite lemony, with lots of grapefruit too. There’s a very pleasant floral bitterness to it, with a soft and pleasant acidity on the back end.
This is light bodied, soft, and super drinkable.
This is really excellent – Hill Farmstead does these farmhouse/Farmstead sour IPAs so well.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Hab11 from Massachusetts
4.84/5 rDev +11%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.84/5 rDev +11%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Self-Reliance Amarillo & Strata. 750 ml poured into a Teku. Pours amber golden straw colored with a frothy pure white head. Lots of natural effervescence, bottle opened with a champagne like pop.
Smells of apricot and pears with a hint of lemon zest and black and white pepper. Mouth feel is crisp upfront sweetness in the mid palate finishing slightly dry. Leaves the mouth with a texture akin to velvet and leather.
Taste like apricot/peach and apple ciders with a peppery finish. Reminds me of a good non grape wine.
It is currently 93 in central NC with a heat index over a 100, my only real complaint is I don’t have two more bottles. Very refreshing and crushable on this hot day.
Yesterday at 11:21 PMSmells of apricot and pears with a hint of lemon zest and black and white pepper. Mouth feel is crisp upfront sweetness in the mid palate finishing slightly dry. Leaves the mouth with a texture akin to velvet and leather.
Taste like apricot/peach and apple ciders with a peppery finish. Reminds me of a good non grape wine.
It is currently 93 in central NC with a heat index over a 100, my only real complaint is I don’t have two more bottles. Very refreshing and crushable on this hot day.
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