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Society & Solitude #2
Hill Farmstead Brewery
- From:
- Hill Farmstead Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
Ranked #1 - ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 96
Ranked #1,126 - Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 7.18%
- Reviews:
- 69
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2012
- Wants:
- 93
- Gots:
- 20
Imperial Black IPA
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Reviewed by jngls from Germany
4.75/5 rDev +10%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +10%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
2 months old. Can to wine glass.
L: Pours a very dark brown, almost black. The foam is fluffy and leaves a good amount of lacing. No floaters.
S: Hoppy and malty at the same time. Lemon and fresh orange cutting into roasty notes of dark chocolate.
T: Malty, roasty and bitter up front followed by fruity hop notes. Lemon and orange again, but rather candied than fresh. Grapefruit‘s also there. So are piney and resiny notes.
F: Full and smooth with a medium carbonation.
O: Not a big fan of the style, but this has to be the best Black IPA I‘ve had so far. Great balance, very complex and clearly distinguishable HF. Very good beer.
May 23, 2023L: Pours a very dark brown, almost black. The foam is fluffy and leaves a good amount of lacing. No floaters.
S: Hoppy and malty at the same time. Lemon and fresh orange cutting into roasty notes of dark chocolate.
T: Malty, roasty and bitter up front followed by fruity hop notes. Lemon and orange again, but rather candied than fresh. Grapefruit‘s also there. So are piney and resiny notes.
F: Full and smooth with a medium carbonation.
O: Not a big fan of the style, but this has to be the best Black IPA I‘ve had so far. Great balance, very complex and clearly distinguishable HF. Very good beer.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.3/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Canned on 1/11/23; consumed on 2/27/23
Pours a stark, jet-mahogany body topped with just under two fingers of rich, tan foam; good head retention leaves a finger of cap, moderate, frothy collar, and chunky rings accompanying a generous spatter of spotty lacing coating the walls of the glass.
Aromas of milk chocolate intertwine with grapefruit peel as nutty malt interludes see earthy cacao nibs pronounced through subtle grassiness while accents of coffee meet a touch of spruce.
Taste offers distant tones of peach pith easing to fresh coffee and a subtle, malty char upfront: a chocolatey prickle through residual grapefruit over the mid-palate finds wisps of boggy spice and wet moss on the back end as a dank kiss of dark cocoa finishes.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body and a rounded, moderate carbonation; a creamy silk, almost nitrogenated texturing supersedes a subdued, prickly char, drying steadily with a backing, resinous sensation through the finish.
The eclectic embrace is delicate yet extensive, cleanly displaying a quirky, even interplay of both malt and hop character; a healthy marriage of contrast at peak attenuation for a typically polarizing style.
Feb 28, 2023Pours a stark, jet-mahogany body topped with just under two fingers of rich, tan foam; good head retention leaves a finger of cap, moderate, frothy collar, and chunky rings accompanying a generous spatter of spotty lacing coating the walls of the glass.
Aromas of milk chocolate intertwine with grapefruit peel as nutty malt interludes see earthy cacao nibs pronounced through subtle grassiness while accents of coffee meet a touch of spruce.
Taste offers distant tones of peach pith easing to fresh coffee and a subtle, malty char upfront: a chocolatey prickle through residual grapefruit over the mid-palate finds wisps of boggy spice and wet moss on the back end as a dank kiss of dark cocoa finishes.
Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body and a rounded, moderate carbonation; a creamy silk, almost nitrogenated texturing supersedes a subdued, prickly char, drying steadily with a backing, resinous sensation through the finish.
The eclectic embrace is delicate yet extensive, cleanly displaying a quirky, even interplay of both malt and hop character; a healthy marriage of contrast at peak attenuation for a typically polarizing style.
Society & Solitude #2 from Hill Farmstead Brewery
Beer rating:
96 out of
100 with
400 ratings
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