Charlie - Plum / Blueberry
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Grisette Series|
Score
7.71
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On a whim (indeed, in the spirit of Charlie), we moved a portion of his namesake low-alcohol (2% abv) Farmstead® ale onto a few hundred pounds of pomace from organically grown plums, grown by nearby Elmore Roots and which had given up its initial fruit bounty to Plum: 2020 Harvest, as well as organic Maine blueberries from Merrill Blueberry Farm. After some time in contact with the spent fruit, we bottled the beer, allowing it to develop more complexity of flavor and spritely carbonation. The result is buoyant, effervescent, and fruit-forward, capturing the playful spirit of our neighborly Golden Retriever, the delicate richness of the fruit, and our continuing efforts to produce offerings that exemplify conscious consumption.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: pours clear garnet with small white head. Aroma is plum and blueberry of course, little bit of mineral and a touch of light funkiness. Taste is lightly tart, clean dry fruitiness, but has a little but of sweetness at the finish that gives the beer a little more heft over its diminutive size.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2025
at 01:19
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home shared with the fam. It pours clear rich purple with a decent fluffy pinky white head. The aroma is delightfully funk upfront, brett, barnyard muck, must, juicy, tangy, ripe blueberry, crunchy plum, jammy and vinous vibes. The taste is crisp, dry, slightly lactic, tart, tangy, quite vibrant, vinous, puckering, juicy blueberry, bramble, plum, plout, touch of granny smith apple, quite jammy and sherbet with a dry finale. Light body and soft, fluffy carbonation. Delicious and crushable. Plenty flavour for the abv. A fine beverage.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2025
at 13:22
8/10
Split 2 ways. Nice flavor with plum forward.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2025
at 17:54
8/10
Drinks super easy. Lots of natural plum and blueberry flavor. Not too funky, not too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2025
at 23:29
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Brewery draught, 7/14/23. Bright blueberry juice. Good clarity and head. Nose is just outrageously aromatic. Blueberry (moreso than plum) for days. Coupled perfectly with light, mellow lactic acidity and moderate Brett. Substantial, biscuity/wheaty grain in support and so much funk and mineral. Blueberry is rich, flavorful and perfectly macerated. Light plum contributes additional complexity and light acidity. Phenomenally deep malt texture for its size with so much soft chew to it. Dry, clean, just wow....
Tried
on 14 Jul 2023
at 15:43