Hill Farmstead Brewery Madness & Civilization #06

Madness & Civilization #06

 

Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Series Out of Production
Score
7.77
ABV: 10.0% IBU: - Ticks: 28
Blended Barrel-Aged Ale

Madness & Civilization is a panorama of our barrel aging program—oak-aged beers that emerge from their individual silences to find structure and voice as a unified composition. This is the result of an unpredictable state of permanent happenstance—a dialogue with our evolving approach to blending that challenges convention and circumstance. Each release will include multiple threads and is likely to approximate the style of an imperial stout.

This iteration was aged in a 500 liter port barrel that previously held Damon, refilled with a blend of six different beers including Damon and Everett. Aged for 26 months.
 

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8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle picked up via trade. Rich, not overly sweet, stewed dark fruits, booze, layered roast and cocoa. Nibbles of oxidation. Some earth, burnt earth. Well rounded.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2025 at 23:04

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 9
Tap @ Warpigs. Pours pitch black, oily, with no head. Aroma is heavy oaky, lots of tannins, dark bitter chocolate, subtle roast, vanilla, fudge. Taste is bitter, boozy, chocolate, lots of oak, vanilla, fudge, roast, slick and oily. Pretty damn heavy but nice either way.
Tried from Draft on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle, many thanks to AdamChandler, drunk 7/7/17.
Dark mahogany with an almost burgundy tint to it. Good clarity and a small ring of tan bubbles that fizzles away immediately.
Dark fruits, black pepper and light suggestions of hickory smoke portray a lovely English-style RIS. Tar and baker’s chocolate are quite assertive and "dry" out the nose considerably, though the salty-like hickory and molasses add back some depth and fill out the aroma. Tons of vinousness and yet no sharp esters or particular alcohol notes for its size. The port is well-integrated with the beer and it never comes off as heavy port notes on top of beer. But rather, the vinousness, wood and such all blend quite seemlessly with the dark fruits from the dark malt and yeast.
Dry as hell and fruity with raisins, plums, figs, tobacco and so on. Flat, but it doesn’t seem to bother the beer, being so well-attenuated and having a strong texture filled out by barrel tannin and malt. Still shows a chocolatey-caramel character that balances the dry aspects nicely as port tickles the palate on the finish. Very soft all around with no syrupiness whatsoever, which is remarkable given the lack of carbonation. Loved it, but then, this "old" English-style stout is right up my alley.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2017 at 20:01

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7
500 ml bottle, thanks to AdamChandler. Deep black color. Nose is mild rchocolate malts, Portuguese Port, dark fruity notes. Flavor is chocolate, roasted malts with a nice mellow Port wine that lingering for a good amount. The texture is oily with a ,eduim plus body. Maybe a bit oily.

This is absolutely blended to perfection. The amount of time this sat it is not oxidized much. Pretty nice stout.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2017 at 19:19

7.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 8
Holy crap! I haven’t rated this one???? Thanks Heather for sharing. Supposedly we have a ton of these in the cellar.

A - Stemmed Crystal pour split 4 ways at fridge temp. 500ML bottle poured oily and flat.

S - Smells very smokey with oil, charcoal, tobacco and cocoa.

T - It’s a delicious beer. Has a ton of Damon in it. Lots of cocoa, smoke, charcoal, whiskey, vanilla, chocolate milk, coconut finish

M - Totally flat, thick, oily, very sweet finish that ends with some tobacco chew

O - Did I hold on to this too long? The flatness with noticeable tobacco is a strange combo.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2017 at 18:12

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
(On tap @ Warpigs HF Day, Copenhagen, May 12 2016) Pours black with a tiny head pale tan bubbles. Aroma is malty molasses, prunes, red grapes, port, roasted grain, chocolate, light coffee, heavy soy sauce umami, wood, slightly nutty. Flavour is quite sweet but the fruity components almost touch tartness. Dark molasses malt and chocolate, plum, port, dried fruit, umami, woody, slight vanilla. The woody astringency and vinous acidity dries down an otherwise sweet body towards the finish, along with some booze. Full oily body and very low carbonation. Definitely a different stout, takes a moment to wrap the head around but it’s an excellent sipper.
Tried from Draft on 09 Oct 2016 at 15:09

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with no head. The aroma is roast, chocolate, wood, vanilla. Thick, chewy, roast, cocoa, wood, vanilla, very boozy, really nice.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2016 at 16:51

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap at Warpigs, Copenhagen. Poured a clear dark brown with no life. The aroma is big roasty sweet malt, molasses. The flavour is moderate to strong sweet with a rich oily sweet red berry fruit palate. Full bodied with flat carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 14 Jul 2016 at 10:29

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Draught @ [ Hill Farmsted Tape Take Over ] - Warpigs Brewpub, Flaesketorvet 24, DK-1711 Copenhagen, Denmark. [ As Hill Farmstead Madness and Civilization #6 ].ABV: 9.0%. Clear dark black brown color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, plum, prune, dark dried fruit almost soy sauce. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, dusty, dark malt, plum, dark dried fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light light alcoholic. [20160512]
Tried from Draft on 30 Jun 2016 at 11:02

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Draft @ Warpigs Brewpub, Copenhagen. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate woody licorice aroma. Roasted malty woody licorice and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate and licorice finish.
Tried from Draft on 20 Jun 2016 at 04:56