Song of Spring (2026)
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Spring|
Score
7.48
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For 2026, this edition of our vernal demarcation features brewed with flaked oats and organic wheat, Vermont-grown Centennial from Whitefield Hop Yard in nearby Hardwick, as well as a selection of New Zealand hops
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared at craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. A hazed golden orange coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is lovely, white grape, nz hop, dank creany wheat. Flavour is composed of semi sweet oily hop, nz, white grape, melon, petrol. Palate is semi sweet z creamy. Moderate carbonation. Nice.
Tried
on 27 May 2026
at 18:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can at CBJ Tasting. Hazy-opaque gold. Foamy white head. Aroma is fruity with some sweetness. Flavourwise it has stone fruit with a bitter.edge. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish.
Tried
on 27 May 2026
at 18:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Can
at
Elbow Room Cask and Craft
on 27 May 2026
at 18:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
27th May 2026
Bottleshare at CBJ. Thanks to Wingman for the can. Just a light haze on this gold beer, small pale bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy palate, smooth, reasonable fine carbonation. Airy pale malts, a forward creamy sweetness. Hops are ... underwhelming... Soft pine. Modest ripe fruits, slightly candyish citrus and stone fruits, mild tropical fruits. Airy finish. Hype.
Bottleshare at CBJ. Thanks to Wingman for the can. Just a light haze on this gold beer, small pale bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy palate, smooth, reasonable fine carbonation. Airy pale malts, a forward creamy sweetness. Hops are ... underwhelming... Soft pine. Modest ripe fruits, slightly candyish citrus and stone fruits, mild tropical fruits. Airy finish. Hype.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2026
at 18:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tastes a little faded. Some pine needles, dried citrus peel, dried pale malts. Lean and dry.
Tried
from Can
at
Craft Beer Junction
on 27 May 2026
at 18:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Mule Bar, Winooski, VT.
Poured into a becher glass.
Appearance: burnt orange haziness with a quarter finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some spotty lace
Aroma: sweet pine to orangey hops up front with an eloquent floral hop sweetness rolling in for a spectacular balance; slight white grapey notes with a sly vinous note to them; then a sly peachy hop note; super light clean bready malt tone underneath
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to sly bittersweet sort of quality to it and a pop of lemony hop sweetness in there; finishes with a sort of a dry soothingly crisp peachy/white grapey to piney sweetness
Texture: light to medium bodied; sessionable; some smoothness with a good low carb about it and low hop bitterness assertiveness
Overall: pretty nicely done NEIPA I would return to.
Poured into a becher glass.
Appearance: burnt orange haziness with a quarter finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some spotty lace
Aroma: sweet pine to orangey hops up front with an eloquent floral hop sweetness rolling in for a spectacular balance; slight white grapey notes with a sly vinous note to them; then a sly peachy hop note; super light clean bready malt tone underneath
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to sly bittersweet sort of quality to it and a pop of lemony hop sweetness in there; finishes with a sort of a dry soothingly crisp peachy/white grapey to piney sweetness
Texture: light to medium bodied; sessionable; some smoothness with a good low carb about it and low hop bitterness assertiveness
Overall: pretty nicely done NEIPA I would return to.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 May 2026
at 20:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Armsby Abbey on Zwanze Day
Hazy electric yellow color with a tightly bubbled frothy white head that persists. Juicy floral light pine nose countered with soft bready maltiness, nice.
Hazy electric yellow color with a tightly bubbled frothy white head that persists. Juicy floral light pine nose countered with soft bready maltiness, nice.
Tried
from Draft
at
Armsby Abbey
on 03 May 2026
at 20:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Canned 4/6/26, drunk 4/29/26.
Fruity and juicy, but not disgustingly-so. Lots of lovely, mineral-rich yeast and water notes with soft white wine and lots of wheat and honey-like notes from the grain. Big stonefruit emerging more and more as it warms. Bright and balanced with a speck of toasted grain, even.
Luscious apricot-nectarine with kumquat and pepper. Soft, chewy texture with big depth but well-attenuated. Really nice balance throughout. There's a good grain character with a speck of toast, some chewiness to add body and tons of mineral, good bitterness and a bit more unusual stone fruit and kumquat in place of the ubiquitous citrus-mango-whatever. Glad they augmented this instead of just using the Centennial. The Centennial is lovely and all (wood, pepper, earth) but doesn't provide much brightness, fullness, roundness, etc...
Fruity and juicy, but not disgustingly-so. Lots of lovely, mineral-rich yeast and water notes with soft white wine and lots of wheat and honey-like notes from the grain. Big stonefruit emerging more and more as it warms. Bright and balanced with a speck of toasted grain, even.
Luscious apricot-nectarine with kumquat and pepper. Soft, chewy texture with big depth but well-attenuated. Really nice balance throughout. There's a good grain character with a speck of toast, some chewiness to add body and tons of mineral, good bitterness and a bit more unusual stone fruit and kumquat in place of the ubiquitous citrus-mango-whatever. Glad they augmented this instead of just using the Centennial. The Centennial is lovely and all (wood, pepper, earth) but doesn't provide much brightness, fullness, roundness, etc...
Tried
from Can
on 29 Apr 2026
at 20:01