Hill Farmstead Brewery Madness & Civilization #08

Madness & Civilization #08

 

Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series Out of Production
Score
8.00
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 31
Blended Barrel-Aged Ale

Madness & Civilization is a panorama of our barrel aging program—oak-aged beers that emerge from their individual silences to find structure and voice as a unified composition. This is the result of an unpredictable state of permanent happenstance—a dialogue with our evolving approach to blending that challenges convention and circumstance. Each release will include multiple threads and is likely to approximate the style of an imperial stout.

Release #8 is a blend of whiskey and bourbon barrels ranging from 20 to 24 months. Components include Aaron, Double George, Genealogy of Morals, and Everett.
 

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Bardzo szlachetna acz nie rypiaca ta beczkowosc w blendzie. Taka... no ewidentnie beczkowa, nie to ze w strone jakas. Troszke alko. Szlachetnego. Srednio ciala. Fajna czekolada z ciemnymi owocami. Eleganckie piwerko, nie jest obliczone na robienie wrazeni

Tried at Powiśle on 15 Jan 2020 at 16:47


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared. Pours pitch black with a brown head. Notes of roasted malt, vanilla, oak, dark chocolate, bready, lightly bitter, subtle acidity.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is big sweet milk chocolate some barrel notes vanilla and bourbon. Taste is more of the nice bourbon barrel notes vanilla sweet chocolate roast coffee.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2018 at 08:22


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

650 ml bottle. Pours black with light head. Aromas of light bourbon, green oak, dark sugar, nougat and slick roasted malts. Flavors of coconut, dry woody bourbon, rich roasted malts, nougat, and sweet dark chocolate. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2017 at 02:32


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle poured at Matt's. Much thanks for sharing this one! Thick, dark brown pour. Heavy, sweet caramel, chocolate, and booze aroma. Very strong impression. Robust, roasted flavor. Strong toasted malts, caramel m. Warming toasted finish. Quite the compound barrel character going on with this. Potent, but full of enjoyable flavor. A bit om the harsh side. Could be a little more smooth, but quite a beer as an overall.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2017 at 02:18


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Dark brown. No head. There's a nice chocolatey character, like molasses, touch of smoke...appetizing. Soft, sweet, and has a nice soft smokey. character. Nice brown sugar notes. Luscious.

Tried on 17 Dec 2017 at 02:11


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500mL bottle, sent fro yourilevesque (thanks a lot, Youri), pours black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of bourbon and lightly smokey whiskey upfront, followed by caramel and burnt brown sugar. Flavour is decadent, with fudge, bourbon barrels, caramel and burnt brown sugar. Medium sweet, very barrel-pronounced, and caramely on the finish. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2017 at 02:09


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Pours black, no head' smell is bourbon, dark malts, rather thick, taste is full, thick dark malts, bourbon, tad sweet, complex, bit boozy.

Tried on 18 Nov 2017 at 17:59


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle 500ml. @ [ pre-TTOD(U)RBSG17 - The Tenth Official Danish (Ulfborg) Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2017 ] @ fonefan - Brugmansia house, Denmark. [ As Hill Farmstead Madness and Civilization #8 ].Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, wood, coconut - vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft. IMO. very smooth and balanced .. nice work Shaun and crew ! [20170818] 8-4-9-4-18

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2017 at 10:27


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Sampled @ 10th Danish Ratebeer Gathering, Ulfborg, Day 1. Opaque, dark brown color with a red glare coming through, decent sized light brown colored head. Aroma is malts, chocolate, dark chocolate, cocoa. Tastes about the same: malts, dark malts, dark chocolate, chocolate bitter, mocha, nice chocolate and malt bitterness in the finish. Very nice indeed.

Tried on 18 Aug 2017 at 18:53