Birth of Tragedy
(has 4 batches)
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.04
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Birth of Tragedy is the imperial and oak barrel-aged version of our annual winter porter, Twilight of the Idols. Brewed with locally roasted coffee and Vermont honey, we age this beer for a year in personally selected bourbon barrels from our favorite distilleries.
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9/10
WOW!!! Mega bzeczkowe w migdalowa strone, slodkie, geste, wyklejajace, waniliowe, kokosowe, miodowe, bombonierka, suszone i kandyzowane owoc
Tried
at
Chmielarnia Marszałkowska
on 17 Jun 2017
at 15:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color porter with a deep brown color head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of coffee with some bourbon notes and nice vanilla notes. Taste is a complex and rich mix of nice vanilla notes with bourbon and rich black chocolate notes and a sweet honey-laced finish. Body is full with deep oily texture and good carbonation with hints of warming alcohol notes. Very rich porter but a bit too much honey for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2017
at 22:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500 ml bottle from an IP trade in NYC. Bottle date unreadable, probably relatively fresh. Pours pitch black with a brown head, fairly short retention. Aroma’s: from the glass it’s not very strong, a bit woody, sweet, honey-ish, light vanilla and chocolate. Retronasal it’s stronger, wood, chocolate, sweetness, vanilla, nicely balanced. Flavor is sweet, cocoa, light roast. Alcohol feel is quite strong, warming. Over medium bodied. Long finish with chocolate, light roast and bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2017
at 15:30
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Poured from bottle 2015 vintage thanks Willrunforbeer blackish cola with nice lacing and a mocha head. Aromas of roasted chocolate coffee vanilla caramel and bourbon. Taste is rich creamy luscious mouthfeel caramel vanilla coffee and a nice alcohol finish. Well crafted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2017
at 19:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at tasting. Black pour. Aroma of licorice, booze, honey and cream. Taste has lots of honey, licorice, creamy chocolate, coffee and caramel. Bourbon is subtle, but present. Very balanced and tasty, but more bourbon flavor would make it better, expected even more from this. (perhaps that’s the problem)
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2017
at 14:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, picked up at the brewery November 2016. More or less black. Noisy, tan head settles down to a thin, dense, sticky layer. Slow moving and oily. Nose has whisky truffle. Chestnut honey. Milky coffee. Dense, sticky stone fruit. Lots of date, prune and fig. Taste is stone fruit sweet, with a vinous, tangy dryness. Mouthfeel is rich and full, although a bit too fizzy to suit. Vinous, chocolatey, coffee rich finish. Very nice, if a little sweet, for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2016
at 15:48
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Tasting at Alex’s. 500ml, bottled on 21-Sep-2016 (thx, Higo V.!). Pours an almost black with a dark beige head. Aroma is bourbon barrels, some sour berries notes, roasted malt. Taste is the same with some very slight coffee. Surpusingly very drinkable with almost no boozy notes. Just perfect.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 01:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. - Sweet dark bourbon and dark bourbon. Jet black with a rich brown head, Tons barrel notes and sweet bourbon with a long fruity dark sweet finish. Better than the nose which I found a little hot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 01:42
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Thanks Dr. Moll for sharing the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing black center with thin coffee brown rims and half a finger of dark latte foam. The nose shows a strong mix of roasted malts and burnt black coffee. The palate is moderately carbonated and medium bodied. Caramel malt forward with a light latte with burnt and toasted bitter notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 12:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2015 bottle, if I remember correctly, drunk 10/21/16, thanks to Nelson. Deep, dark, impenetrable ebony body is topped by a medium-sized, tan head showing strong retention. Much less spice comes through in this than Twilight, which is good as I thought last year’s batch of that was overspiced, not terribly so, but still somewhat. Low on the barrel aging with no big oakiness and predominantly spicy bourbon notes without any sharp, boozy edges. What it certainly does have is malt. Lots of it. Rich, fudgey malts are full and aromatic with roasted barley acidity helping to balance. Light soy, maple and chalky, yeast notes with vanilla and fudge lingering. Rich, velvety and sweet, it has low but tight carbonation and low spicing. The bourbon adds spicy liquor notes which help offset this huge maltiness. Furthermore, the finish is full of roasted acidity, creating luxurious coffee flavors and balancing the beer. It still tends sweet, of course, but importantly doesn’t seem in the least bit syrupy or cloying, and I’m very sensitive to too much sweetness. 2012 bottle shared by Willrunforbeer on 2/10/24. Thanks, Brian. Still lovely bourbon in the nose, mellow. Touch of alcohol. Chocolatey. Soft, sweet, thinned out but still sweetly malty with mild bourbon and mild roast. Not overdone coffee. A bit thin at this point but very impressive for its age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2016
at 18:28