Ephraim
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
8.12
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Ephraim (1823-1913) was our great-great grandfather; Hill Farmstead Brewery resides several hundred feet downhill from the land that he and his father settled. In his honor, this Imperial India Pale Ale is dutifully crafted from American malted barley, buckets of American hops, our ale yeast and water from our well. It is unfiltered and double dry hopped. Intensely aromatic and saturated with resinous hop flavor, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Ephraim.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Growler into a wineglass showing hazy dark orange with sparse white foam. The nose shows soft juicy grapefruit with a back bone of NE style malt. The palate is full bodied and well carbonated. Strong flavours of blood orange with mild adzuki bean sweetness. No bitterness until finish. More like a strong pilsner bitterness.
Tried
from Growler
on 14 Jul 2017
at 19:26
10/10
Growler imported straight from the US. Number 9 imperial/double ipa on ratebeer. So good.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Mar 2016
at 00:47
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle (growler) [from trade with abitker, huge thanks] @ weekly tasting. Clear light orange golden color, average to medium sized off-white head. Aroma is malts, some resin, some hops. Taste malts, hops, a nice firm bitterness, resinous, piney, lovely. Yeah very nice. Huge thanks Adam!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2016
at 18:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler shared by kermis. Thanks! Clear honey golden with off white head. Quite resinous, sweet tropical fruits, bitter grapefruit peel, some dank weed notes too, spring onion, herbs, lots of sweet malts, syrup, toffee. Quite sweet and bitter. Full bodied with syrupy feel. Nice stuff, but very heave too.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2016
at 09:32
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Growler shared. Clear orange golden with a thick white head. Aroma of resinous hops, grapefruit, pine, onion notes, citrus and caramel malt. Flavour is over moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with a juicy hop resin coating palate and soft carbonation.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2016
at 09:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Very thin white head. Low carbonation (but it was very fresh). Slightly hazy golden pour. Tropical fruits bitterness. Some malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2016
at 09:28
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Growler from HF.
Tagged best consumed by March 01, 2016.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a semi-hazy almost burnt orange color with a thin wisp of a white head that quickly dissipated. Light bubbles of broken head float around the top. Light wispy lacing.
The smell takes in sweet danky onion sliding on into through resinous pine and then a light grapefruit underneath.
The taste had a full bittersweet flavor revolving around the resinous piney part. Dry resinous aftertaste leads into a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body. ABV, whoah, where did that go? Its not really there, well hidden.
Overall, wow, just wow, just an absolutely stellar job by HF. I’d love to have this again.
Tagged best consumed by March 01, 2016.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a semi-hazy almost burnt orange color with a thin wisp of a white head that quickly dissipated. Light bubbles of broken head float around the top. Light wispy lacing.
The smell takes in sweet danky onion sliding on into through resinous pine and then a light grapefruit underneath.
The taste had a full bittersweet flavor revolving around the resinous piney part. Dry resinous aftertaste leads into a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body. ABV, whoah, where did that go? Its not really there, well hidden.
Overall, wow, just wow, just an absolutely stellar job by HF. I’d love to have this again.
Tried
from Growler
on 26 Feb 2016
at 15:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at Hill Farmstead Brewery. Colour is very cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, some alcohol, hops and malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Feb 2016
at 12:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Gowler shared during the London Bimble 26/04/2014. Big thanks to Leighton for the big HF tick. Translucent yellow / straw coloured pour with a lsting loose white head. Aroma is spicy, citrus hop, lemon rind and slight cut grass. Flavour is sticky resin, juicy citrus and warming alcohol in the finish. Palate is stciky resin. Very smooth and drinkable. Very tasty.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2014
at 14:32