This is a Hamlet of Heathens
Norbrook Farm Brewery in Colebrook, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Rotating|
Score
7.02
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Meekertown was a community of colliers working the charcoal industry in an area of South Norfolk / Falls Village, now part of Great Mountain Forest. In 1820 a local deacon visited the camp to persuade them to accept religion and renounce their way of life. The deacon deemed the community "a hamlet of heathens, living in intellectual, moral and spiritual darkness." We've brewed this easy-drinking IPA with wild hops harvested from Meekertown. Look for bright, floral & resinous notes that will entice that inner Meekertown in all of us!
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Undated, but coded can, drunk 9/26/25.
Bright copper-brass with a gentle haze and a lightly-creamy, white head.
Pine, wood, sweat, pepper. Lots of West Coast qualities, yet no resin nor any big crystal malt qualities. But yeah, certainly mostly a West Coast IPA in all but name.
Soft but with a biscuity, doughy, bready undertone. Malty and well-attenuated as this brewery seems to have mastered. Pepper, wood, sweat, pine, but again, no resin or iced tea-like character that is the downfall of the classic WC IPA. Not even that much bitterness, though it certainly has enough. Easy-drinking, somewhat malt-forward IPA. Yeah, not my favorite style, but it's hard to be mad at how well these guys seem to be making beer, regardless of style.
Bright copper-brass with a gentle haze and a lightly-creamy, white head.
Pine, wood, sweat, pepper. Lots of West Coast qualities, yet no resin nor any big crystal malt qualities. But yeah, certainly mostly a West Coast IPA in all but name.
Soft but with a biscuity, doughy, bready undertone. Malty and well-attenuated as this brewery seems to have mastered. Pepper, wood, sweat, pine, but again, no resin or iced tea-like character that is the downfall of the classic WC IPA. Not even that much bitterness, though it certainly has enough. Easy-drinking, somewhat malt-forward IPA. Yeah, not my favorite style, but it's hard to be mad at how well these guys seem to be making beer, regardless of style.
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Harvest Wine & Spirits Elmwood
on 26 Sep 2025
at 18:50