Sue
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Sour / Wild Special Out of Production|
Score
8.26
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Sue is the wine barrel-aged version of Susan (1891-1975), our grandfather's sister and the namesake of our bright, citrusy Farmstead® IPA. Aged for nearly two years, it has developed and evolved into its current manifestation: a complex, lightly tart and delicately hopped Farmstead® ale.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Well filtered dark orange and a finger of clean white foam. Well rounded tart notes of brett and white wine. The palate is light bodied and well carbonated. Balanced moderate tartness with flavours of light bretty funk and a white wine profile with a light white wine bitterness.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2017
at 01:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Batch #1. Bottle from Toby. Hazy golden pour. Pours flat and dull. Sour, tart aroma. Taste smooths out the tartness, Pretty much in the ballpark., Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 23:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, thanks Toby! Batch 1. Pours a hazy golden straw with a small white head. Aroma is tart, vinous, and oak. Smooth flavors are vinous, tart, straw, yeast, and oak. Swirling layers of flavor. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 22:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml batch 1 thanks to Toby. Pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is plenty sour funk tartness a little fruit notes along with some spice. Taste is more of the nice sour funky tartness a well rounded soft barrel along with a mellow end.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2017
at 22:02
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Poured from bottle batch 1 bottled 9/14 thanks Willrunforbeer whalezz son hazy orange with a nice white head. Aromas of funk ripe fruit mango pineapple peach lemon soft grass and grape skin. Taste is soft balanced oak grape skin fruit and a nice lingering funky feel. Wow what a treat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2016
at 22:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
750mL bottle shared with Blisscent, at the tasting room on 4/29/16.
Stunning appearance boasts a massive, white, very well-retained head topping a multilayered orange/yellow-sunset-like body with a gentle haze.
Oak and brett mix in the front of the nose, with very light citrus and "dry" wood notes giving way to a surprisingly still-apparent hoppiness. Lightly dank, spicy and moderately citric hop notes also instill a touch of pineapple-mango which works wonderfully well with brett. A hint of sulfur rises up and completes the funky picture. This stuff is still very bold and sour, after resting in the bottle for over a year. Between the strong wood, fair amount of lactic acid and strong hop presence, it’s definitely not your typical sour, but the elements are all enjoyable, that’s for sure.
In the mouth, it’s still given over to the hops, with dry pineapple and citrus notes still apparent. Moderate bitterness combines with light lactic sourness and moderate brett tartness. Strong wood dryness, with perhaps a wine-like dry fruitiness. The texture is a phenomenally tight, spritzy carbonation creating a creamy-like mouthfeel. Even with that, there’s just a bit too much aggressiveness for me; hop, wood, acid all still need time to mellow and homogenize.
Stunning appearance boasts a massive, white, very well-retained head topping a multilayered orange/yellow-sunset-like body with a gentle haze.
Oak and brett mix in the front of the nose, with very light citrus and "dry" wood notes giving way to a surprisingly still-apparent hoppiness. Lightly dank, spicy and moderately citric hop notes also instill a touch of pineapple-mango which works wonderfully well with brett. A hint of sulfur rises up and completes the funky picture. This stuff is still very bold and sour, after resting in the bottle for over a year. Between the strong wood, fair amount of lactic acid and strong hop presence, it’s definitely not your typical sour, but the elements are all enjoyable, that’s for sure.
In the mouth, it’s still given over to the hops, with dry pineapple and citrus notes still apparent. Moderate bitterness combines with light lactic sourness and moderate brett tartness. Strong wood dryness, with perhaps a wine-like dry fruitiness. The texture is a phenomenally tight, spritzy carbonation creating a creamy-like mouthfeel. Even with that, there’s just a bit too much aggressiveness for me; hop, wood, acid all still need time to mellow and homogenize.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 09:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
A lightly hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light coriander, curacao, light Brett and woody notes, grapeskin, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, fruity esters, light curacao, grapeskin, clementines, very nice. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2016
at 19:48
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Split a 2014 bottle with a buddy at the brewery.
This was poured into a wine glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy golden orange color with a 3 finger white foamy and bubbly head that dissipated within less about a minute and a half. Thin lacing sticks and then slides into the beer.
The smell had a mostly bitter to sweet orange rind and pulp. Subtle sour notes hit the nose with a fairly good sharp tang.
The taste was sour, sweet, and bitter with the orange up front. Subtle tang hits in the aftertaste. Smooth juicy citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Sour isn’t too invasive. Tang hits in the bitterness. Good harshness.
Overall, I say this was a very nicely done American Wild Ale that I would have again.
This was poured into a wine glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy golden orange color with a 3 finger white foamy and bubbly head that dissipated within less about a minute and a half. Thin lacing sticks and then slides into the beer.
The smell had a mostly bitter to sweet orange rind and pulp. Subtle sour notes hit the nose with a fairly good sharp tang.
The taste was sour, sweet, and bitter with the orange up front. Subtle tang hits in the aftertaste. Smooth juicy citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Sour isn’t too invasive. Tang hits in the bitterness. Good harshness.
Overall, I say this was a very nicely done American Wild Ale that I would have again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2016
at 08:48
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Many thanks to Will for trading it with me! Great and intense floral hops in the nose. Fresh floral malty dry body. Funky farmhouse sourness, dry with hints of wood. Dry and slightly floral with a nice depth. Round and fresh and easy to drink.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2015
at 15:17
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Small white head, stable, over golden-orange beer. Lunaria, grapey nose, flowery, green fruit, delicate aroma as few. Sweet-fruity, as just-ripe fruits as nectarines; lunaria again. Finish is slightly bitter and extremely earthy. Hardly any acidity. Light to medium bodied, starts feeling a bit dead after some time. Quite good, the nose is stellar. Resident microflora indeed, as long as we can’t teach rodents to ferment...
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2015
at 03:44