Fear & Trembling
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Kissmeyer BeerPorter - Smoked Rotating
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Score
7.81
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Fear and Trembling was Hill Farmstead’s first collaboration – a Baltic Porter brewed with malt that was hand-smoked over maple wood by our Danish friend, and former colleague, Anders Kissmeyer. This version was brewed with malts smoked onsite with a blend of native woods, fermented with lager yeast, and conditioned in stainless. As a student of philosophy and former resident of Copenhagen, it is fitting that our brewer named our first collaboration after Denmark’s great thinker: Søren Kierkegaard. All three contemplated absurdity, faith, and salvation while wandering the shores of the Baltic Sea…
“…continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling…”
“…continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling…”
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap@Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen - black pour with tan head. Aroma and taste is medium roasted and sweet malty, solid notes of chocolate, caramel, some nice vanilla nuances, liquorice, some earthy burnt malty notes, roasted into the finish. Gorgeous. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 28 May 2016
at 09:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Hill Farmstead Day - Warpigs Brewpub, København
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and licorice. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long chocolate and coffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and licorice. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long chocolate and coffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 26 May 2016
at 14:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Warpigs, pre-CBC. Dark, with a beige head. Roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, cherries. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 May 2016
at 04:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Warpigs, Copenhagen. Colour is black with slightly brownish white head. Aromas and flavors: Grain, rye, rye bread, some chocolate, bread and roasted malts. Very bready beer and I like it.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2016
at 13:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Hill Farmstead Day, Warpigs, Copenhagen. Pours pitch black with a small head. Aroma of roasty malts, licorice, rye bread, syrupy notes and earthiness. Taste is roasty, earthy and heavy with syrup, licorice and rye bread. Finish is malty, earthy and slightly roasty with loads of rye bread, hints of licorice and syrup. Heavy with rye notes.
Tried
on 12 May 2016
at 13:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Steve. pours out black topped with a tan head. nose is roast malts smoke and some sweetness. Taste is more of the heavy roast smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2016
at 22:22
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a deep black color porter with a nice dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with light coffee notes is quite nice. Taste is a nice mxi between some roasted malt, light lactose notes with some nice dry floral coffee notes with light smoky undertones. Body is light with good carbonation. Great beer and nice balance to avoid the smoke notes form overshadowing the other flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2016
at 20:25
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, picked up at the brewery. Very dark brown. Thin, dense, lasting, tan head. Leggy. Viscous. Looks as good as it gets. Nose has savoury smoke. Bit of Kempke bacon in there. Some wood smoke. Vine fruits. Taste is smoky sweet. Pretty bitter, in a fruity kind of way. Soft, creamy smooth palate. 9%? Really? Finishes smooth, fruity, smoky sweet, with a rising bitter close. Nowhere near my preferred style of beer, but this is undeniably good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 17:07
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at the 10th Annual Epic & Unusual Beer Tasting, 11/29/15. Dark brown, thin head. Aroma of smoke, roasted malt, chocolate, mild nuttiness. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, smoke. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2015
at 17:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 10/25/15, drunk 11/28/15. Thanks to AdamC as always.
Opaque black body is topped by a well-retained, light tan head.
Smoke and hops combine beautifully in the nose. Light ash, cigar and mild sardine. Not bacony/meaty and nicely dry, seemingly. Very clean, no alcohol. Could use a bit of caramel/toffee but as is, it really highlights the smoke and I suppose caramel and toffee are not exactly a baltic porter mainstay...
Assertive flavor shows a strong hop bitterness, lightly green and spicy. Smoke is ashy, strong and dry. Very, very rich, with a huge body and tons of sweetness. Between the ash, caramel and light booze, it seems the stuff is just too young or too sweet. But I can certainly appreciate the challenging smokiness. Very intense.
Opaque black body is topped by a well-retained, light tan head.
Smoke and hops combine beautifully in the nose. Light ash, cigar and mild sardine. Not bacony/meaty and nicely dry, seemingly. Very clean, no alcohol. Could use a bit of caramel/toffee but as is, it really highlights the smoke and I suppose caramel and toffee are not exactly a baltic porter mainstay...
Assertive flavor shows a strong hop bitterness, lightly green and spicy. Smoke is ashy, strong and dry. Very, very rich, with a huge body and tons of sweetness. Between the ash, caramel and light booze, it seems the stuff is just too young or too sweet. But I can certainly appreciate the challenging smokiness. Very intense.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2015
at 16:54