Madness & Civilization #15
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.18
|
|
For this, the fifteenth entry, we selected specific barrels of an imperial stout brewed in honor of batch #1,000—a 33º American-style sweet imperial stout that spent more than 28 months in Bourbon barrels from our favorite distillery. In order to achieve heightened nuance and balance, the blend was then conditioned atop a small proportion of Ecuadorian Costa Esmeraldas cocoa nibs sourced by Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco and organic vanilla beans from Agrofloresta de Mesoamerica in Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico.
Sign up to add a tick or review
8.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks to Wingman for this one. A thick dark brown black coloured pour with a a halo oh tan head. Aroma is meaty roast, earth, jammy fruits, blackberry, earthy roast. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, oily, brown sugars, hazelnut, praline, peanut, coffee cake sponge,. Walnut. Palate is semi sweet, oily, mellow carbonation.. Well rounded.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2026
at 19:50
7/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at the Boise tasting. Pours near black. Dark malts, chocolate, dark fruit, sweet malts. Ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2023
at 02:53
5.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled Nov 13, 2020, drunk 12/21/22. Thick black-mahogany. Tan head immediately to ring. Hmmm, smells a bit oxidized. Prune, raisin, caramel, a bit of spicy bourbon, but not all that much. Honestly this is surprisingly oxidized. But no booze, or excessively sugary notes. Soft, sweet, syrupy, chocolatey, but none of the acidity or dryness from the nose. Very flabby and sweet. Oxidation on the finish. Hmmm, for a barrel aged beer of its size that has been barrel aged, it's oddly sweet and oxidized.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2022
at 20:32
6/10
11/13/2020 Thanks Clark aroma shows oxidation light barrel vanilla. Disappointed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2022
at 15:31
8.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice sweet chocolate roast malts rich coffee and chocolate. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate roast malts bourbon barrel goodness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2022
at 22:39
8.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle from HF. Black pour, ring of beige head. Light chocolaty, roasty aroma, woody. Taste is smooth, mildly boozy, sweet cocoa, coffee. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2022
at 18:07
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to JMFP. Pours black with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is dark chocolate, vanilla, wood, licorice, bourbon. Slick body, similar flavors to nose, boozy, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2022
at 02:16
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml (thx, Marc-Antoine G.!) shared with George's gang @ Green Point campground beach ⛱️ . Appearance: dark brown with a dark beige head. Aroma: sweet, some chocolate and dark fruits, some molasses. Taste: along the same lines, quite weird, some like rusty notes. Overall: I expected much more from this, considering it is HF BBA IS anf the adjuncts added. Despite it is nicely balanced in terms of the mouthfeel, ABV, and body, I am not sure how it ended being this product that doesn't really deliver.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2022
at 00:21