Hill Farmstead Bottle releases

phil does an awesome job keeping up and for the amount of pressure he is under always remains calm and cool. kudos to you phil...ask shaun for a raise

 

Phil should have his own Beer. That guy is a machine!

 

his job has become much more difficult in the last six months.

 

Definitely. In fact, I look forward to the day when I can drive up there and get a growler fill of Phil from Phil.

 

Poor Phil. Gets his own eponymous beer, followed by 30 people telling him the growlers won't fill themselves.

 

Every time I go to HF I bring Phil a beer, usually a Jack's Abby.

 

Thats a great idea I will do the same next time I make the trip from Chicago. Hoping for Feb.

 

Looks like the bottles of Twilight are gone until Dec. 19. Such an awesome beer, not hard to believe it sells quickly. Juicy will be gone very soon too...probably today by the sounds of it. Some awesome stuff coming up, as usual:

http://www.hillfarmstead.com/bottle-release/

Looking forward to trying Foster. I love Jim and Jimmy, can't wait to try Foster. Never had a black IPA I liked other than ones brewed by the Vermont Sean/Shaun combo. (Big Hapi is great!)

 

Foster has been on tap in Burlington, Montpelier, and Waterbury for a few weeks now if you really want to try it (susan, abner, edward, anna, arthur, and foster are what I've seen on tap the past week). I see Arthur bottles are gone now. I wonder if they will be putting anymore on shelf soon.

 

There is another batch of Arthur on the way currently in the oak. Pretty sure when I was there on 11/17 Shaun said it was roughly 6 weeks out.

 

Arthur isn't barrel'd at all....more Art?

Also - Foster is awesome, a more sessionable, less roasty Big Hapi

it was on the shelf for 2-3 months hopefully more soon, love arthur

 

nh2032 is correct. All of our saisons now see a few weeks in oak for conditioning... Arthur is being bottled tomorrow.

 

how recent of a change? awesome...

 

The Arthur that we are bottling tomorrow is the first. This batch, tomorrow, is also very lightly dry hopped. This was my original plan... that Arthur would eventually become slightly closer to what Art (batch 1) was ... but it's only a few weeks in french oak. There won't be any discernible "oak" character... we just like what we can achieve through the contact time. Experimentation and learning drives all...

 

Indeed. Earl in bottles. Planning more bottles in the coming months. Florence as well. More Twilight. And another saison collaboration with Tired Hands (fermented in oak). Also look for more Grassroots Saisons (seasonally driven).

 

The Arthur that we had on-tap at the Harvest Festival was simply stunning...it's fun to open different batches and compare contrast.

 

Absolutely agree with you. My girlfriend used two of her tasting tickets on Arthur there and kept saying it was the best saison she has ever had (without trying some of the other saisons at the festival). I can't wait for these bottles to drop.

 

I think that was the "blue label" batch

 

Been looking to try some HF for a long time; shoot me a BM if anyone has been looking for some Surly. Cheers!

 

Hey Shaun - will the new batch of Arthur have a similar touch of tartness? It has been a long time since I've found a beer that I wanted to drink this much of...goddamnit that last batch was good.