Hill Farmstead (2022)

Reservations are refundable, too, as long as you’re further than 12 hours out. I just have a bunch of reservations for days I know I could go, and cancel or transfer them as my plans get more concrete. Costs nothing except some mild planning ahead of time.

 

Put me in the pro-reservation camp. The only irritating thing is if you suddenly have a day off for a spontaneous trip you might have to camp out on the Facebook groups to see if someone forgot they bought one and can't go.

 

I went up last Friday spontaneously and was able to get a res when I walked in. I was lucky it wasn’t super busy, but they were very accommodating.

 

Six Years at Six Years is a timeworn derivative of smart – delicate – perplexities

Considering - An acidic draw with an aged intensity that’s rustic in bestowing an oak delimitation. The growth is tannic by oldness over an eroding/erotic state on acetates, given the wood-finished solvency, of an enhanced oddity. Namely, fickle phenols to the enriched actions of an archaic remoteness. That being, a ventilated pastime to beat leathery tannins against a gunflint minerality, for an ability to construct a semi-dry stillness. In the aggregate, a Burgundian/Flanders ale with a vino sophistication to motor fine-grained fungi, while accentuating a coordinated life-force behind malt & yeast: an “evolving” continuation



…itching to revisit the other Burgundy ale, in view of the re-emergence

 

Your day job must either be to write full-documents in nothing but jargon or whiskey tasting notes that approach full on story telling.

I mostly joke, but I’m an intelligent guy with multiple degrees, and that was so convoluted, over complicated and flowery that I couldn’t tell what you were trying to say or appreciate the beer (vicariously) or the review. Surely you don’t talk like that.

(Disclaimer: Sick as a dog. Sorry if I came off like a prick.)

 

It seems like you may be archaically remote

 

Always welcomed & in short - mainly about the yeast development & barrel involvement...being furthered by timed aeriation

 

It just needs the Hill Farmstead description ending:

"It's the beer I dream to have shared with my Great Uncle Ralph outside of a Cumberland Farm's at 2AM."

 

*Cumby's

 

Spare yourself Don't Drink Beer's reviews. Those'll give you a next level aneurism. Especially these days. You can read 7 paragraphs and still not know what beer he's talking about.

 

Lol I almost sent him a dm of the above review.

Are his not satirical?

 

They are, until you realize the satirical pompousness is so heavily belabored that it's not at all satirical, but is simply self-aggrandizing. I used to love it, but it's become too painfully apparent to me.

 

BA Genealogy of Morals sounds really good. I'll consider it, but I'm really just hoping to get a bunch of shelfies (and Poetica). Pretty good selection all around.

 

If I had the choice of only drinking fresh Poetica whenever I want for the rest of my life or drinking my current status quo of choice, I would have to do some deep prayer about my decision.

 

I just checked their retail site for the first time in a while…

ISO: One copy of Thoreau

 

Just a discussion point on Hill in general...

Then it would cease to be Poetica wouldn't it? Part of what I think makes Hill Farmstead beers so special is time and place, to me at least.

Something about that drive through and to the middle of nowhere knowing that an incredibly well balanced and drinkable beer awaits, in the most beautiful atmosphere you could ask for.

Yes the cans you can bring home are great, but they do not compare to drinking a pour while there taking it all in, because drinking that beer is an experience. It is a special place if you ask me and I look forward to hopefully getting up there again later this summer during our annual trip to see our friends in Vermont.

Hopefully you too get to return when you have the chance.

 

100% agree.

But that's just how damn good Poetica is haha.

Every time I go (which isn't often) the hardest part is there is just too much beer that I want to drink. And a part of me just wants to drink 120oz of Poetica.

 

They allow it for growler fills now too right?

 

Correct. The wood-aged lagers/puncheons have some minor (growler) restrictions

 

Well....

About 8+ years ago I was able to drink Hill Farmstead beers on tap at Philly area craft beer bars. I don't exactly remember which brand was the first but I would be willing to bet it was Edward. And then I drank Abner, Mary, and a whole bunch of others. The Edward 'back in the day' was not a crystal clear beer but it was not murky (i.e., a Juicy/Hazy beer) and was very, very enjoyable to drink. For me, being able to drink Hill Farmstead beers on draft at my local places was a real treat and I personally appreciated that I did not have to travel to Northern Vermont to drink/enjoy these beers. And then one of the local craft beer bars, for some reason, decided to 'sit' on a keg of Hill Farmstead beers and Shaun Hill made a decision to no longer send his kegs to the Philly area. That was a very sad day and decision for me.

After some time (3ish years?) Shaun did re-introduce Hill Farmstead beers to the Philly are but very infrequently and with very limited amounts.

Boy, I really miss those 'good old days' when we would get kegs of Hill Farmstead beers.

Cheers!