Green Street SIPA
Hermit Thrush Brewery

Green Street SIPAGreen Street SIPA
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From:
Hermit Thrush Brewery
 
Vermont, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
6.8%
Score:
88
Avg:
3.92 | pDev: 9.18%
Reviews:
23
Ratings:
106
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 29, 2021
Added:
Apr 08, 2015
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  11
Our Green Street Sour IPA is the sour take on the beloved hop-centric beer Vermont is known for. We focus on a balance of hop and malt flavors with a citric tang from a few days of kettle souring. It's not the jolt to your taste buds that our Flemish Sour Brown provides, but it certainly has a powerful, tart presence to support its hoppiness. We use 100% locally sourced hops from our neighbors at Four Star Farms for their truly excellent aroma and flavor. Are you ready for a new approach to an old style?
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Reviewed by GarthDanielson from Virginia

3.93/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a tallboy can into a snifter, the beer is a hazy, opaque, orange-copper coloring with a thin, low profile, sparse, white head. Aromas of subtle caramel, tart lemon and white grape must, and hints of grassy hops. Flavors are extremely tart forward, with notes of white grape must, lemon tart and sweet, salty notes, grassy hops highlights, a subtle caramel backbone, and bitter hops overtones. Interesting blend, leaning more sour than any IPA characteristics. The body is smooth and robust, with a bitter, crisp, and dry edge. Tart and sour aftertaste, with a puckering feel. The finish is crisp, dry, and that pucker lingers on your taste buds for a bit. Interesting brew. The more I drink, the more I like it.
Aug 27, 2015
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Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire

3.98/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Can from the brewery labeled as Green SIPA
Brilliant dark gold in color with a good sized frothy white head that slowly recedes. Earthy lemony tartness front and center. Citrus and earthy hops with hints of cherry and earthy woodiness to counter. Complex, really nice.
Aug 29, 2021
 
Rated: 4.21 by RV109106 from Pennsylvania

Dec 06, 2020
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Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

3.59/5  rDev -8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
From an undated 16 oz. can. Sampled Oct 4, 2020.

Attractive orange-amber pour with a fading off-white head. Some chill haze perhaps.

My nose is overwhelmed by overripe pear, cherry, or melon with something akin to green tea leave. Wild yeast abounds.

The mouthfeel is around medium.

Very tart and sour taste. Stylewise, I think this meets the mark but I personally am not a big fan of the style. This my rating.
Oct 04, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by Velivolus1 from Vermont

Aug 02, 2020
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Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania

4.18/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
OMFG! All of my plans have just suddenly taken a turn off of the rails! One unexpected thing segues into the next, into the next, ad nauseum! Jeezum H. Christopher! At least there is one CANstant - The CANQuest (tm)! Viva The CANQuest (tm)! This one closes me out for the time being with this brewery, but look at how far the detour took me. 8=O This must mean that I'm close to being back on track, right? Believe that! ;=)

From the CAN: "One Pint of Craft Ale"; "Sour Pale Ale with Local Hops"; "New American Sours Brewed Responsibly"; "Hermit Thrush Brewery uses historical brewing processes, oak casks, and new green technologies to make exciting beer while minimizing environmental impacts. Using exclusively wild-harvested yeast, we highlight local flavors and ingredients in each of our beers. Cans recycle and ship using less energy than glass, and our wood pellet fueled brewhouse eliminates any need for fossil fuels in our brewing. Are you ready to break free from the flock?"; "Get Beer Off Oil"; "We [CAN] see Green Street from our brewery windows and we want the hops we bring you to be just as local! We exclusively use hops from Four Star Farms, just 20 miles from us, and support their unique flavors with a balance of malty and tart to bring you a true taste of local hoppy terroir."; "Enjoy Local, Enjoy Fresh!"

Being as that this was the CANmination of several days with this brewery, to say that I was excited & CANxious to close things out would be an understatement! I have gained a better understanding of their craft & artisanship, but it was time to move forward & onward. To get there, though, I first had to Crack! open the vent. I beCAN a slow, gentle C-Line Glug since I was curious as to what may lie ahead & I did not want to muddy the waters by being overly aggressive. Color was a gorgeous Deep-Amber/Light-Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, < 17) with NE-quality clarity. 8=O Nose was heavy on funk, but light on hops, hence my submitting a ChANge request, away from an AIPA. Mouthfeel was medium, but more solid than many (most?) of their previous offerings. The taste was only lightly funky, but it still overrode/overwrote the hops. It may well have been an AIPA at its base, but it was so terribly removed from it that to think of it as such would be a travesty. It was actually one of the more approachable AWAs that I have had in a while with a light funkiness that actually fell somewhere between tart & sour. It really was neither, perhaps due to the hops, but they were overcome by the funk. Man, this was a strange one! Finish was semi-dry to dry, making it all the more pleasant after so many bone-dry beers from them. I really did not know quite how to quantify it, but I did my best. YMMV.
May 03, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by whatsgoody from Vermont

Apr 01, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by smcel371 from New York

Jul 15, 2019
 
Rated: 4.24 by newcastlemike from Connecticut

Jul 14, 2019
 
Rated: 3.88 by PaleAleWalt from New York

Jul 05, 2019
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Reviewed by VTbrewfan from New Hampshire

4.02/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a translucent dark amber (like the color of maple syrup) with a fluffy tan head. Scents of wild yeast funk, vinegar, on the nose. Tastes follow the nose- funk, sour, with a slight hint of hops. Definitely not as hoppy as I anticipated, but a really refreshing sour nonetheless.
Jun 25, 2019
 
Rated: 3.87 by ummswimmin from New Jersey

May 26, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by plaid75 from New York

May 15, 2019
 
Rated: 3.91 by Stofko1992 from Pennsylvania

Apr 22, 2019
 
Rated: 4.36 by jefkeman from New York

Apr 21, 2019
 
Rated: 4.05 by Daniellobo from District of Columbia

Mar 30, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by EatonHops from Massachusetts

Mar 10, 2019
 
Rated: 4.25 by williahd from Maine

Feb 16, 2019
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Reviewed by metter98 from New York

3.97/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A: The beer is very hazy and murky brownish yellow in color. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that quickly died down, leaving lacing on the surface and a thin collar around around the edge of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of sourness are present in the nose with faint hints of cherries.
T: The taste follows the smell, but is much more sour—so sour that the underlying flavors of hops and malts are masked from the taste. There are some notes of cherries and oak with additional hints of vinegar.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and rather tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I didn't really get any hops in the smell or taste so I would consider this to be more of a sour ale than a sour IPA.

Serving type: can
Feb 05, 2019
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Reviewed by trancecylist from Pennsylvania

3.95/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I'd say that this beer is mis-classified as an IPA by style. It's definitely a sour on an IPA base, but the hops are pretty far in the background. It's a bit muddy-looking, but as a sour it's a very credible one.
Jan 20, 2019
Green Street SIPA from Hermit Thrush Brewery
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 106 ratings