Hill Farmstead collective essay

And... you forgot the link...

 

I guess, HF wants their fans to be edumacated...

 

Still can't find anything about the essay, but here's the latest release:

• Genealogy of Morals: Wheat/Coffee Imperial Stout, Blend of Bourbon Barrels: 500ml 15$ LIMIT 2
• Phenomenology of Spirit: Our Dark Farmstead Ale. This version was cooled overnight, exposed to winter air, and 100% spontaneously fermented in oak barrels with Greensboro/Hill Farmstead airborne yeast. 375ml. 15$. LIMIT 2

PS: Got it!

 

Hill Farmstead's Collected Works
2013 Summer Edition
What is it?
The Collected Works is a private reserve membership. For now, only a very limited amount of memberships are available. For those lucky enough to acquire memberships, Hill Farmstead will reserve 1 (one) bottle of each of our upcoming barrel aged beer releases - totaling 12 (twelve) bottles (one bottle of each release). Bottle sizes will vary, depending upon the release (375ml, 500ml, and 750ml). Because we have many releases in the months ahead - Members will have the opportunity to choose some of the beers that they receive. See below.

Why are we doing this?
It is our intent to be able to help a small number of our customers by guaranteeing them access to these beers. If you are able to visit us often, or live nearby, then this membership isn't intended for you...

We can only offer a very minute amount of memberships because we have nearly no storage space. We hope that this will change as we continue to add buildings.

How does it work?
Those wishing to join will follow the instructions below ("Where do I sign up?"). Hill Farmstead will store all 12 bottles at 35ºF from time of release until date of pick up. All bottles must be retrieved at once - for the simplicity of our antiquated tracking methods. Pick up date of bottles is the morning of Saturday, August 10th - which also happens to be our Festival of Farmhouse Ales - free admission to this event is included for members. Members may appoint a trustee (of legal age) to retrieve bottles for them (which means the trustee will gain admission to the Festival). Upon entrance into the Works, members will receive detailed instructions.
Membership includes the following:

• • 12 Bottles of Beer chosen (some by us, some by you...) from the following list of 15.(* = mandatory)
    • Biere de Norma. Our Biere de Mars. *
    • Double Barrel Damon: 1 year in Port, 1 year in VW Bourbon.
    • Phenomenology of Spirit: Our Dark Saison. This version was sent through our coolship and 100% spontaneously fermented. *
    • Spontaneously Fermented Ale.
    • Hill Farmstead/Jackie O's/Crooked Stave: Release #1: Oud Bruin brewed with Ohio Walnuts. Aged 18+ months in assorted oak barrels.
    • Flora aged with Satsuma Mandarins
    • Flander's (style) Red: Aged in Wine and Port barrels. Collaboration with Will Meyers from Cambridge Brewing Company. Brewed in April of 2011. *
    • Civil Disobedience #6: Blend of Art and our Favorite Belgian Lambics.
    • Flora: Wine barrel aged Wheat Saison. *
    • Genealogy of Morals: Wheat/Coffee Imperial Stout, VW and BT barrels. *
    • Damon: Russian Imperial Stout: Bourbon Versions. *
    • Damon: Russian Imperial Stout: Port Barrel Versions.
    • Everett: Bourbon Barrel Aged Treatments.
    • Civil Disobedience #7: Blend of oak aged Sankt Hans, Clara, and misc. barrels.
    • Madness and Civilization: TBA: Series of Blended Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stouts.
      • Any of these releases could be substituted if we feel that the quality of a different offering (ie, not listed here) is a better supplement/more representative. For example, if a release is infected, or compromised, we will substitute it with another high(er) quality product.
      • Likely to expect more options than those listed above.
      • Email Correspondence, once you become a member, will determine the final contents of your box. 6 of the bottles are mandatory ( see -> * ), others will be member's choice - this allows the members to determine, for example, a stout or wild allocation...
      • It is entirely possible that some bottles not chosen as part of your 'member allocation' could be available for sale at the time of box retrieval...
  • nd Crafted Wooden Crate/Box: built of native wood by Darren Hill of Leaning Maples Woodcraft. All beers will be delivered/presented in this box.
  • Automatic Right of first Refusal to the next round of Collected Works Entrance (admit 1) to the Festival of Farmhouse Ales on August 10th, 2013
  • Other assorted good things to be determined

What is the cost?
$350

Where do I sign up?
Memberships will be randomly chosen through a lottery system (names from a hat, to be precise). Those wishing to join will need to send an email to [email protected] between the dates of 12am February 25 and 12am March 1. Any emails sent before/after this date and time will be deleted.
Subject line mustread: Hill Farmstead Collected Works Lottery Body

of email mustinclude the following information (Copy and Paste): (Failure to include this information will result in the deletion of name and email from our folder...)

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Date of Birth: __/__/__

Age:

Name: First Middle Last
Address: Street, City, State, Zip Code

My favorite Hill Farmstead beer, thus far, is: ____

(In absolutely no less than 100 words I want to join the Collected Works because: ______

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Lottery will occur on Monday March 4th at 12pm.

Lottery winners will be notified via email by the evening of March 4th and a request for funds transfer will be made.
Funds must be transferred and confirmed by 4 p.m. on March 11. Failure to do so will result in a forfeiture of reservation and the waiting list will be consulted.

 

Jesus Christ it sounds like the MacArthur grant for beer drinkers.

 

Can you sell the MacArthur grant on eBay?

 

I'm something of a beer-drinking genius.... Hope I win.

 

You'll have to do it retroactively, as it ended March 4th...

 

If someone taps you and tells you where to look.

Otherwise, good lord, it may just be I'm making an abstract kind of joke about hill farmstead's penchant for philosophical ideals in regard to the naming and overall mindset of their beers.

Gasp. Heresy!

 

I'm thankful I didn't say I was a genius in other areas.

 

Clearly no master of time travel...

 

Not a joke, no. People wrote essays and some of them won.

 

Wasn't the requirement to include an essay primarily intended as a means of discouraging people from just having all their friends sign up on one's own behalf as a form of lottery muling?

 

I think the essay was a serious idea for the sake of writing an essay.

 

They made it pretty clear at the time that it wasn't an essay competition- just deliberately a bit of a chore to get your name in the hat.