Flora
(has 8 batches)
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating|
Score
7.95
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Flora is the wine barrel-aged version of Florence, our grandfather’s sister, as well as the name of our Farmstead® wheat ale. In her honor, we fill French oak wine barrels with Florence and allow the beer to mature in the presence of our resident microflora. After extended aging, a beautifully complex beer emerges; Florence becomes Flora.
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8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared in London for the 20k - sourced from the brewery. Pours clear yellow-gold with a frothy, white head. Restrained aroma, some lemon peel, flaked wheat, subtle yeast, minimal funk. Light sweet flavour with quite modest lemony tang, some melon, woody dryness, white wine, citrus peel. Light bodied with delicate, massaging carbonation. Super clean finish, more lightly tart lemon, restrained wheaty sweetness, some straw, soft funk. Subtle to an incredible level, but still nicely layered. Hugely drinkable. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2017
at 12:38
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Sample shared at 1st Lambic & Sour Sunday (at Bierhalle Deconinck in Vichte). One of Hill Farmstead’s classic farmhouse ales, intended as a saison, but ’soured’ with ’wild’ fermentation agents and ageing on wine barrels so in practice a true New World sour ale rather than a genuine saison. Moussy, bubbly, snow white head, hazy straw blonde colour with a lime greenish hue, looking a bit like a witbier. Aroma has a wealth of fruity and funky impressions: sour cream, yellow raspberry, vanilla-like oak, lime zest, butter, soggy white bread, dry hay, white grapes, yoghurt, gooseberries... Tart, very fruity and estery flavor, lots of green plum, ripe gooseberry, peach, pear, spritzy but perfectly dosed carbo, supple and smooth, bit creamy mouthfeel. Lemony sourness cuts through it all without being sharply acidic; bready core, soapy wheatiness evident, rounded and complexely and dryingly tart finish with ongoing juicy fruitiness as well as drying wood notes, light wine flavor after swallowing. Beautifully balanced and delicate beer, but as said, much more a modern sour ale than a classic saison.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2016
at 13:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Due to artificial lighting, arbitrary rating for Appearance Peaches, lactic acid, lemon, unripe stonefruit. Sour-fruity, peaches, lactic acid, wheat, Bretts in the good way. Quite carbonated, lipsmacking acidity, but mals . Finally an American sour that remains easily drinkable. Txs to M & L V!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2016
at 03:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle sample big thanks to the Malmö Crew@Hill Farmstead Day, Warpigs, Copenhagen (12/05/2016) - fuzzy yellow pour with white head. Prominent floral and lemon zesty aroma and taste, straw, hay, medium acidic, wood, some bretty notes into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2016
at 07:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Warpigs, Copenhagen. Pours hazy yellow with a white head, lacings. Aroma of malt, yeast, barnyard, light dusty, wood, hay, white wine grapes, green grapes, little sweet fruit. Flavor is light sour, yeasty, light brett, wood, oak, hay, tart fruit, white wine, wine grapes. Medium body, average carbonation, dry and light acidic finish. 120516
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 13:53