Twilight of the Idols
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Winter|
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7.79
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Winter Porter Brewed with Coffee and Cinnamon, Aged On Vanilla Beans
Twilight of the Idols is our winter porter brewed each autumn with a touch of coffee, and aged on a blend of vanilla beans. This tradition—conceived with a friend in 2009 while brewing in Denmark—continues still as we present this 10th release of this beer. The name is inspired by the title of the last text written by Friedrich Nietzsche, one of our philosophical idols and a guiding voice throughout our journey.
Twilight of the Idols is our winter porter brewed each autumn with a touch of coffee, and aged on a blend of vanilla beans. This tradition—conceived with a friend in 2009 while brewing in Denmark—continues still as we present this 10th release of this beer. The name is inspired by the title of the last text written by Friedrich Nietzsche, one of our philosophical idols and a guiding voice throughout our journey.
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Tried
on 01 Sep 2018
at 14:40
9/10
Backlog
Tried
on 01 Sep 2018
at 14:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500 ml bottle. Pours a pitch black color with a large light brown head. A big dark roast and licorice nose. Huge licorice, sweet coffee, some heavy metallic roast which I love, dark cherry, a lovely palate. Smooth, more metallic roast. Big but very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2017
at 23:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(Thanks, Brandon! "Clownoisseur") Bottle. A- Tobacco, cocoa, vanilla. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Tobacco, char, vanilla, cinnamon, roasty. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Another HF beer, another success. Borderline Imperial Porter. Also bottled on my birthday! A year and a half old. Still holding up well. Easy to drink without thinking too much about it. Nice balance of vanilla and cinnamon. Coffee is there but comes through more as an earthy roastiness. Textbook porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2017
at 10:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
50cl Bottle shared by JulienHuxley, thanks Julien! Black colour, beige head. Aroma of soft sweet malts, roast, subtle coffee, chocolate, light fruity. Flavour is medium sweet, malty, soft and well-integrated coffee, chocolate, light fruity, light vanilla, bittersweet finish. Light to medium bodied, soft mouthfeel. Tasty porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2017
at 15:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
2015 bottle with Borresteijn & JulienHuxley, tfs Julien. Black color. big dense beige head with good lacing. Aroma’s: roasty, fruity. Retronasal it’s fruity, a bit alcohol, coffee, less fruit in time. Flavor is moderate sweet, roasty, coffee-ish. Medium bodied. Long finish with lots of roast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2017
at 03:46
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Hunted by Sergey; 7.2% ABV; 10.06.16
Black color; brown compact head. Wonderful aroma, coffee, intense, velvety. Dry but extremely smooth; very good flavor of cocoa, chocolate, coffee, a bit spicy; roasty, velvety. Balanced and elegant.
Wonderful.
Black color; brown compact head. Wonderful aroma, coffee, intense, velvety. Dry but extremely smooth; very good flavor of cocoa, chocolate, coffee, a bit spicy; roasty, velvety. Balanced and elegant.
Wonderful.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2016
at 01:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tasting at Alex’s. 500ml, bottled on 06-Oct-2016 (thx, Hugo V.!). Pours an almost black with a tan head. Aroma is coffee, roasted malt, some dark fruits. Taste is coffee, some berry notes, roasted malt. Despit I couldn’t find any vanilla presence, this beer is really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 01:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Dark roast and coffee notes with a touch of spicy cinnamon. Jet black brown with a decent light brown head. Dark roast malts with some cinnamon and coffee notes. Spicy and decent finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 00:57
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured into a Hill Farmstead becher pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown mostly close to black color with a great two finger foamy off white to tan head. Mild lacing roaming all around the glass.
The aroma took on a great amount of roasty to smooth sweet cocoa to coffee great bitterness. Subtle cinnamon, but super low key, really, it is. Some vanilla bean.
The flavor rides on the smoothness of the sweet to roasty cocoa to coffee bean. Subtle riding bitter to a smooth roasty coffee aftertaste sliding on into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium like a good American styled porter should sit. Carbonation felt exactly right for what it should be.
Overall, a very well done porter that I would have again.
The appearance was a dark brown mostly close to black color with a great two finger foamy off white to tan head. Mild lacing roaming all around the glass.
The aroma took on a great amount of roasty to smooth sweet cocoa to coffee great bitterness. Subtle cinnamon, but super low key, really, it is. Some vanilla bean.
The flavor rides on the smoothness of the sweet to roasty cocoa to coffee bean. Subtle riding bitter to a smooth roasty coffee aftertaste sliding on into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium like a good American styled porter should sit. Carbonation felt exactly right for what it should be.
Overall, a very well done porter that I would have again.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Dec 2016
at 00:40