Flora - Cherry
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Series|
Score
7.89
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Flora (1915-1967), Edward's sister, as well as the name of our wheat Farmstead® ale. Each blend of her namesake beer rests in oak for an undetermined period-from many months to several years -and embodies our progressive vision for Hill Farmstead, a pursuit guided by natural intuition, evolving experience, and optimistic forecast. On occasion, we select a portion of Flora and age it on a blend of local cherry varieties, as a means of highlighting the sympathetic natures of beer in barrel and fruit in season.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Batch 2 of Cherry Flora, 375ML Bottle although this is technically batch 1 as a commercial release. It’s not fair to compare both batches but I might do it anyway because batch 1 was truly a flawless beer, very kriek-like in many ways. Limit 1, released earlier this month. Stored upright @ cellar temp and served at 40F
A - Intense hiss of CO2 when opening the cap but zero gushing and very little bubbling. Pours a very faint red that looks almost orange in a certain light. Very little carbonation on the pour.
S - Aroma is distinctly cherry. Really good cherry presence with a bit of wine tannins and oak.
T - The taste culmination is very much a wine barrel aged saison, funkified with cherries added and, in its simplest form, that’s exactly what this is. You get a grape laste with lemon, oak, red wine, a little bit of peach and wild yeast and the cherry presence starts strong and lingers.
M - Thin mouthfeel, might carbonate more with time.
O - First notes when thinking of batch 1 and 2 is that this must have far less cherries or be a larger batch than the 1st. Looking at my photos, for sure not as much cherry. Also, the carbonation is not as thick or filling. This is also a slightly more sour beer than batch 1. I like this a lot. I think the 1st batch ruined me. Still, a fantastic beer. Unfortunately, I’d take standard Flora any day.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Flora - Cherry from Hill Farmstead Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours a hazy ruby pink with small off white head. The aroma is cherry skin, funk, oak. Thin mouth, tart cherry, funk, oak, light acidity, very nice.