Hop Quilt
Fonta Flora Brewery
- From:
- Fonta Flora Brewery
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 20.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 19, 2026
- Added:
- Jul 19, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A west coast-style pale ale dry-hopped with Citra and Strata
Brewed from water from our wells and 77% local ingredients.
Mashed with a blend of local barleys along with a touch of dextrin and colored malt for a robust mouthfeel and golden appearance. Delicately hopped with citra and strata, two of our very favorite varieties. Fermented with our favorite westy crush crush yeast strain for brilliant clarity and mega drinkability.
Spend any time driving through the hills and hollers of Appalachia and you’ll be hard pressed not to see ornate geometric paintings affixed to rural barns. Known as barn quilts, we have long been obsessed with these works of art. When we began building our whippoorwill farm brewery, we immediately knew we would have one of our own.
Though barn quilts might be common, the hop quilt is unique to us and our Nebo home. Dreamt up by us and created by our longtime friend Joel Tracey of JTC Marketing based in Charlotte, North Carolina. First of its kind, our signature quilt is a beacon for our farm as it sits centered atop our farmhouse brewery.
As for the beer itself, this is the pale ale we’ve been dreaming about. Lightly bittered, full bodied yet somehow crushingly dry and intensely aromatic, we know this is the pale ale y’all have also been dreaming about.
Brewed from water from our wells and 77% local ingredients.
Mashed with a blend of local barleys along with a touch of dextrin and colored malt for a robust mouthfeel and golden appearance. Delicately hopped with citra and strata, two of our very favorite varieties. Fermented with our favorite westy crush crush yeast strain for brilliant clarity and mega drinkability.
Spend any time driving through the hills and hollers of Appalachia and you’ll be hard pressed not to see ornate geometric paintings affixed to rural barns. Known as barn quilts, we have long been obsessed with these works of art. When we began building our whippoorwill farm brewery, we immediately knew we would have one of our own.
Though barn quilts might be common, the hop quilt is unique to us and our Nebo home. Dreamt up by us and created by our longtime friend Joel Tracey of JTC Marketing based in Charlotte, North Carolina. First of its kind, our signature quilt is a beacon for our farm as it sits centered atop our farmhouse brewery.
As for the beer itself, this is the pale ale we’ve been dreaming about. Lightly bittered, full bodied yet somehow crushingly dry and intensely aromatic, we know this is the pale ale y’all have also been dreaming about.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by dano213 from Pennsylvania
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
16oz can purchased from the fridge as a single for $4.99 or $5.49 plus tax. No canned on date, so not sure how fresh this is. It's probably fresh enough.
Look: Medium gold color with a very faint haze. There was a finger of white head that dissipated very quickly. The beer looks like a may be under-carbonated, but that could also be due to the lack of head.
Smell: I get a very strong peachy note from far away. As I delve in some more, I get orange zest and peach, also some apricot. Smells nice enough, although simple.
Taste: Pretty tasty. It's clean and refreshing. Even though the beer looks flat, thankfully it is not. Up front, the flavors mirror the nose with lots of orange zest, mandarin orange notes, peach, and apricot. The finish is pretty clean with a mild to moderate piney bitterness and gentle acidity. The bitterness builds over time.
Feel: Medium bodied or just south of it. Carbonation is fine, slightly tingly.
Overall: It delivers on what it says it is and that is a West-Coast Style Pale Ale dry-hopped with Citra and Strata. Those hop characteristics come through and this is a pretty quaffable beer at 5.4% ABV. It's a nice showcase of Citra and Strata with a very simple malt bill. I would say that it i a bit lacking in complexity, but then again for a 5.4% ABV pale ale, it's par for the course. It's not SNPA, but it's better than average.
Sep 29, 2025Look: Medium gold color with a very faint haze. There was a finger of white head that dissipated very quickly. The beer looks like a may be under-carbonated, but that could also be due to the lack of head.
Smell: I get a very strong peachy note from far away. As I delve in some more, I get orange zest and peach, also some apricot. Smells nice enough, although simple.
Taste: Pretty tasty. It's clean and refreshing. Even though the beer looks flat, thankfully it is not. Up front, the flavors mirror the nose with lots of orange zest, mandarin orange notes, peach, and apricot. The finish is pretty clean with a mild to moderate piney bitterness and gentle acidity. The bitterness builds over time.
Feel: Medium bodied or just south of it. Carbonation is fine, slightly tingly.
Overall: It delivers on what it says it is and that is a West-Coast Style Pale Ale dry-hopped with Citra and Strata. Those hop characteristics come through and this is a pretty quaffable beer at 5.4% ABV. It's a nice showcase of Citra and Strata with a very simple malt bill. I would say that it i a bit lacking in complexity, but then again for a 5.4% ABV pale ale, it's par for the course. It's not SNPA, but it's better than average.
Reviewed by Darthsheep
2.35/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.35/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
The appearance is a light haze, close to see through. The nose is very bready, almost a sourdough bread. The taste doesn't match the nose, it falls flat, it gives a small citrus flavor from the citra hops but other than that I get no other flavors.
Sep 13, 2025
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