Society & Solitude #6
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series|
Score
7.98
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The series of experimental imperial IPAs continues. Imperial IPA brewed almost exclusively with hand-selected Mosaic® hops from the Pacific Northwest.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Growler thanks to Adam/Drew, thanks! Pours a clear slightly pale yellow with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of earthy pine with a bit of grass and a sweet grains. Flavor has resinous pine with a sweet grain backing and just a bit of musty grain.
Tried
from Growler
on 23 Mar 2013
at 12:55
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Growler. Thanks to Adamjackson. Pours hazy orange with a creamy head and lacings. Nose is hops and slight funky yeast. Very fresh and overall lovely. Crisp and really bitter and dry flavor with notes of pine, grapefruit and massive citrus. Delicious.
Tried
from Growler
on 23 Mar 2013
at 06:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
67 oz. Growler directly from the brewery. Nice hazy gold with thin ring of white head. Nose is a wonderful blend of grapefruit, tropical fruit simply packed with citrus. Flavor is much like the nose. Packed with LARGE tropical fruit, citrus flavors galore. Grapefruit, peach, lemon and a light Earthy note. The hop variety is slightly different. Mouthfeel has a nice effervescence. Real active. Very nice brew yet, personally I liked 5 slightly better. This is still really tasty in its own right.
Tried
from Growler
on 15 Mar 2013
at 20:51
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2 Litre growler fresh from the brewery. Enjoyed at a painfully cold fridge temperature in a Teku glass. Side-Note, already 24 reviews on this beer? Man, Hill Farmstead is blowing up. Never seen an HFS IPA get so many reviews so quickly.
A - Looks similar to almost every other DIPA from Shaun. A sort of cloudy peach color with a minimal fast fading solid white head.
S - The nose is awesome. Very tropical. Lots of mango and pineapple. Sort of an orange peel scent as well.
T - Incredibly hoppy. IBU has to be high 90s and that may be the only downside to this beer. The taste is great, also carrying that pineapple but with the added pine cone character with lemon zest. It’s a very fruity beer but the lingering bitterness lingers for a little too long and you’re forced to drink more to get the bitterness off the palate.
M - Medium body, really nice carbonation balance. For someone who has had a lot of cough syrup lately (recovering from the flu), it does have that booziness at the finish.
O - This is a great IPA but not my favorite in the Society series. 5 and 2 really shine as the winners here. Still, a great beer from a great brewery.
A - Looks similar to almost every other DIPA from Shaun. A sort of cloudy peach color with a minimal fast fading solid white head.
S - The nose is awesome. Very tropical. Lots of mango and pineapple. Sort of an orange peel scent as well.
T - Incredibly hoppy. IBU has to be high 90s and that may be the only downside to this beer. The taste is great, also carrying that pineapple but with the added pine cone character with lemon zest. It’s a very fruity beer but the lingering bitterness lingers for a little too long and you’re forced to drink more to get the bitterness off the palate.
M - Medium body, really nice carbonation balance. For someone who has had a lot of cough syrup lately (recovering from the flu), it does have that booziness at the finish.
O - This is a great IPA but not my favorite in the Society series. 5 and 2 really shine as the winners here. Still, a great beer from a great brewery.
Tried
from Growler
on 13 Mar 2013
at 10:40
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL growler, sent from Glouglouburp (thanks a lot, Dany!), pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Extremely aromatic nose full of pine, fresh meadows, floral hops, and tropical fruits - a bit of biscuity malt to back as well. Flavour brings out loads of piney, resinous and floral hops, medium presence of tropical fruits (peach, mango, pineapple), and a bit of caramel and biscuity malt in the back. Extremely delicious bunch of flavours as with the whole Society & Solitude series - this time with the mosaic hops delivering a balance of tropical fruits and piney and resinous hops, all with that signature Hill Farmstead quality to it. Awesome stuff.
Tried
from Growler
on 12 Mar 2013
at 21:43