Edith: Alaka
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Black Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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For this special selection of Edith, we conditioned the beer atop Alaka coffee from the Guji region of Ethiopia, sourced and roasted by The Coffee Collective in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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bookman65 (6047) reviewed Edith: Alaka from Hill Farmstead Brewery 5 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a dark, cola brown-black, with big, tan head. Looks a lot like some sort of stout. Aroma is tart fruit, some basement dankness, a touch of coffee. Flavors follow, with the fruit and the coffee kind of battling it out, somewhat. There's a good, strong coffee flavor here that doesn't quite fit with the sour brett yeast flavors of the thing. Mouthfeel fairly clean and crisp. Interesting experiment that I'm not quite sure works.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Edith: Alaka from Hill Farmstead Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375 ML bottle at brewery, 10/12/22. Cola-mahogany, good clarity, white head to cover. Nose is astringent. Very dry, exposed tannin. But good minerality, with strong pumpernickel and light dark fruits. The coffee, or something has become tart. But still good bean character with earth and floral notes. Not sour or astringent. Still some malt depth though very dry and becoming over attenuated. Very fruity and the lingering earthy coffee is actually quite impressive. Need to dial back the tartness or the earthiness. Both are intense and almost but don't quite go together fully.
Chalumeaux (4962) ticked Edith: Alaka from Hill Farmstead Brewery 3 years ago
Bottle split 3 ways thanks Clark. Aroma is coffee, light farmstead notes. Taste is good, coffee has come and gone. It's not sour but slightly tart.
djd07 (28882) ticked Edith: Alaka from Hill Farmstead Brewery 5 years ago
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with small beige head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is strong mineral, roast, cocoa, bready malt, oak. Medium body, light roast, licorice, oak, bready malt, tart, very nice.
CLW (16859) reviewed Edith: Alaka from Hill Farmstead Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
375 ml. Ok, to be fair, a 750 ml bottle of regular Edith is $9.99. So this has a additional adjunct of coffee and is $12.99 for half the size bottle. The texture comes off thin and light and doesn’t add anything to the base Dark Saison. Ouch, this hurts!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
375ML. split 3 ways at fridge temp. snifter. aroma is faint...a slight bit of vinegar and apple cider. taste...interesting. vinegar. old coffee. roasted wood. interesting?