Memoria
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Helles Rotating|
Score
7.93
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Wood-Conditioned German-Style Helles
Memoria – Single decocted, Old World German-style helles; lagered in wood for 3 months, and gently carbonated naturally via krausen.
In October of 2018, we brewed a batch of Marie—our single-decocted, unfiltered, German-style Helles—and lagered a portion of it at 3º Celsius, as we have with Poetica, in our now cherished French oak puncheon. After three months of conditioning, we moved the beer to stainless steel and krausened with fresh-fermenting Mary to provide natural carbonation.
Following more than a month of slow, gentle carbonation, we now proudly pour for you an elevated expression of Marie, one that demonstrates our progressive pursuit for refinement while honoring and ennobling the most inspiring elements of classical brewing tradition.
Soft. Sincere. Simple.
Memoria – Single decocted, Old World German-style helles; lagered in wood for 3 months, and gently carbonated naturally via krausen.
In October of 2018, we brewed a batch of Marie—our single-decocted, unfiltered, German-style Helles—and lagered a portion of it at 3º Celsius, as we have with Poetica, in our now cherished French oak puncheon. After three months of conditioning, we moved the beer to stainless steel and krausened with fresh-fermenting Mary to provide natural carbonation.
Following more than a month of slow, gentle carbonation, we now proudly pour for you an elevated expression of Marie, one that demonstrates our progressive pursuit for refinement while honoring and ennobling the most inspiring elements of classical brewing tradition.
Soft. Sincere. Simple.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
On tap at Hill Farmstead, pours a clear golden with a large white head. Aroma brings out bright herbaceous notes, grass, straw, and biscuity malt. Flavour is bright and fresh, with clean herbaceous notes, lightly sweet biscuity malt, and some straw. Maybe a bit sweet, but the pillowy mouthfeel works so well. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
at
Hill Farmstead Brewery
on 08 Aug 2026
at 03:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample at Churchkey is a clear gold with some creamy white head. Nose has nice brioche and honey and grist. Hay too. Flavor is an ode to malt, sweet and earthy, honey and flower petals. Lightly prickly finish. Real good.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2025
at 21:42
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours hazy light gold into a stein. Bright white micro head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Oak and straw aromas. Crisp with sweet oak, honey and earthy straw front to back. Lasting straw finish.
Tried
on 18 May 2024
at 19:26
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
750mL growler filled 4/7/22, drunk 4/18/22. Crystal clear, well-carbonated, brilliant brass-golden. Small, but dense, white head showing moderate-to-strong retention. Soft, delicate herbs dot a dainty, honey-and-white bread malt base with additional rustic grain notes as it warms/breathes. Clean, crisp, clear, chalk full of lovely minerality and showing no alcohol, flaw and, even for a German helles, very low hopping. Sweet malts add honey and white bread dough. Tight carbonation helps distribute the hop bitterness, which is very low here, though ample. I love that that's the case, allowing the malt to really do the work here, as it should. Great mineral character, fresh herbs, honey. Crisp enough, yet malty. Drinkable and quenching, yet highly flavorful. Pretty god damned spectacular. Now I REALLY want to try Poetica.
Tried
from Growler
on 18 Apr 2022
at 21:46