Subsidiaries
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at the brewery, 4/29/16.
Mildly hazy with a bright golden to muted brass body topped by a small, yet modestly well-retained white head.
Very fruity in the nose, with the tell-tale spicy pineapple-meets-marajuana-and-meyer-lemon that is galaxy. Light banana and various other fruit esters from the yeast behind it (apples, strawberries lightly) give just enough impression of a Belgian ale while biscuits and light white bread sweeten the finish somewhat, as tangerine and other softer citrus notes linger. No alcohol or flaw.
Juicy again in the flavor with a tight carbonation and malty, but well-attenuated texture. Definitely not too sweet, though the esters and the juiciness from the hops give the false impression of it. No alcohol in the flavor however and light biscuit and cracker notes throughout, helping to keep things dry. Citrus and tropical fruit are met with a little bit of pine and moderate bitterness, on the finish.
Mildly hazy with a bright golden to muted brass body topped by a small, yet modestly well-retained white head.
Very fruity in the nose, with the tell-tale spicy pineapple-meets-marajuana-and-meyer-lemon that is galaxy. Light banana and various other fruit esters from the yeast behind it (apples, strawberries lightly) give just enough impression of a Belgian ale while biscuits and light white bread sweeten the finish somewhat, as tangerine and other softer citrus notes linger. No alcohol or flaw.
Juicy again in the flavor with a tight carbonation and malty, but well-attenuated texture. Definitely not too sweet, though the esters and the juiciness from the hops give the false impression of it. No alcohol in the flavor however and light biscuit and cracker notes throughout, helping to keep things dry. Citrus and tropical fruit are met with a little bit of pine and moderate bitterness, on the finish.
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 16:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at the brewery, 4/29/16.
Clear goldenrod with a small white head that shows moderate to poor retention.
Lots of grain/cereal in the nose with only an afterthought of light, dusty, minimally herbal hops. Clean, with some seltzer-like minerality and a hint of honey.
Quite watery, as it should be for its size, with light to moderate carbonation. Good attenuation, actually a lot lighter than most helles I usually have, coming off more like a very light pilsner (though minus the higher hop rates of that one). Not to say a helles has to be super malty, and this one does have some lovely cereal notes, with light sourdough, mild lemon and hints of biscuit and dry vanilla. But I could use just a bit more maltiness in texture. Otherwise, clean and with no alcohol noted.
Clear goldenrod with a small white head that shows moderate to poor retention.
Lots of grain/cereal in the nose with only an afterthought of light, dusty, minimally herbal hops. Clean, with some seltzer-like minerality and a hint of honey.
Quite watery, as it should be for its size, with light to moderate carbonation. Good attenuation, actually a lot lighter than most helles I usually have, coming off more like a very light pilsner (though minus the higher hop rates of that one). Not to say a helles has to be super malty, and this one does have some lovely cereal notes, with light sourdough, mild lemon and hints of biscuit and dry vanilla. But I could use just a bit more maltiness in texture. Otherwise, clean and with no alcohol noted.
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 16:46
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Draught at the brewery, 4/29/16.
Light golden body shows a soft haziness and a copper tint. White head atop is small and slowly fades to a ring.
Smokiness in the nose is "dry", very woody and quite peppery as well, with only a soft touch of more smoked meat coming with extended warming/breathing. Very delicate honey, baguette and light sourdough notes emanate from the malt, as just a faint hint of lactic character is noted on the finish. Some salinity/minerality is present and quite charming. No alcohol or flaw.
Dry wood smoke greets the mouth as peppery hops help lighten things while a tight, dainty carbonation keeps things drinkable and crisp. As well, the soft lactic notes add mild acidity and salt, whitebread and burnt oak-like smokiness collect on the finish. What it doesn’t have is any heavy smoke flavor, nor doughy, unfinished yeasty flavors. The production/execution on this beer is jaw-dropping. The carbonation, attenuation and flavor balance is absolutely stunning, with no one flavor dominating, nor anything ever becoming fatiguing. Fantastically drinkable and flavorful, especially given its low gravity.
It was a great trip up to Hill Farmstead, but a Schilling beer would take home top honors on this trip. I have a feeling that’s going to keep happening quite often. What a brewery!
Light golden body shows a soft haziness and a copper tint. White head atop is small and slowly fades to a ring.
Smokiness in the nose is "dry", very woody and quite peppery as well, with only a soft touch of more smoked meat coming with extended warming/breathing. Very delicate honey, baguette and light sourdough notes emanate from the malt, as just a faint hint of lactic character is noted on the finish. Some salinity/minerality is present and quite charming. No alcohol or flaw.
Dry wood smoke greets the mouth as peppery hops help lighten things while a tight, dainty carbonation keeps things drinkable and crisp. As well, the soft lactic notes add mild acidity and salt, whitebread and burnt oak-like smokiness collect on the finish. What it doesn’t have is any heavy smoke flavor, nor doughy, unfinished yeasty flavors. The production/execution on this beer is jaw-dropping. The carbonation, attenuation and flavor balance is absolutely stunning, with no one flavor dominating, nor anything ever becoming fatiguing. Fantastically drinkable and flavorful, especially given its low gravity.
It was a great trip up to Hill Farmstead, but a Schilling beer would take home top honors on this trip. I have a feeling that’s going to keep happening quite often. What a brewery!
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 16:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Row 34, 4/8/16.
Dark, burnt umber with some lighter milk chocolate hues and a large, nicely retained beige head.
Tons of dried toffee, hazelnuts, walnuts, brown bread and other lovely malt complexities to open the nose. Soft yeast minerality, dried leaves from the hops and a touch of milk chocolate. Very elegant as usual from Schilling and quite authentic methinks. No alcohol or flaw.
Taking a sip, it’s lusciously soft, malty and rich with tobacco and coffee tinged milk chocolate maltiness. Drying out significantly towards the finish with dry roast, very light anise/prune notes and a graham cracker and dry toffee character that pleasing balances the former sweetness. Tightly carbonated, soft texture. Some minor astringency/anise/old coffee characteristics are the only detractor here.
Dark, burnt umber with some lighter milk chocolate hues and a large, nicely retained beige head.
Tons of dried toffee, hazelnuts, walnuts, brown bread and other lovely malt complexities to open the nose. Soft yeast minerality, dried leaves from the hops and a touch of milk chocolate. Very elegant as usual from Schilling and quite authentic methinks. No alcohol or flaw.
Taking a sip, it’s lusciously soft, malty and rich with tobacco and coffee tinged milk chocolate maltiness. Drying out significantly towards the finish with dry roast, very light anise/prune notes and a graham cracker and dry toffee character that pleasing balances the former sweetness. Tightly carbonated, soft texture. Some minor astringency/anise/old coffee characteristics are the only detractor here.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2016
at 22:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Crowler shared by someone Friday night, thank you anonymous BFD’er. Dark brown in color with a smallish off white head. Big smoky earthy yeasty nose. Flavor is what the nose promised. Big campfire wheat and yeasty earthy flavors. Little to no hop flavor or aroma. Light easy to drink but a bit to heavy on the smoke for my tastes.
Tried
from Crowler
on 10 Apr 2016
at 19:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Blackback Pub.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt yellow to orange color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately. Slim semi-foamy lacing sticks and then slides into the beer.
The smell had some light sweet lemon, subtle Belgian spices, white and black pepper, some sweet orange pulp, sweet grassy hops.
The taste was mainly the same. Sweetness slightly overpowers the bitterness. Sweet orange pulp and slightly bready aftertaste. Wet smooth pepper finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a great sessionability about it. Carbonation seemed to run low enough to allow the spices to hit just right.
Overall, as a Belgian Pale ale it works. I’d have again.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt yellow to orange color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately. Slim semi-foamy lacing sticks and then slides into the beer.
The smell had some light sweet lemon, subtle Belgian spices, white and black pepper, some sweet orange pulp, sweet grassy hops.
The taste was mainly the same. Sweetness slightly overpowers the bitterness. Sweet orange pulp and slightly bready aftertaste. Wet smooth pepper finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a great sessionability about it. Carbonation seemed to run low enough to allow the spices to hit just right.
Overall, as a Belgian Pale ale it works. I’d have again.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2016
at 18:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Paulus _ slightly hazy golden orange. Dense but with big bubbles head. The aroma is pretty weak. Certainly a sweet aroma with orange, with a Munich malt aroma. Taste is nice. Very German. Sweet malt, chech hopping honey, very intense malt dry finish.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2016
at 23:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at The Blackback Pub, Waterbury, VT.
This was poured into a tulip glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy golden yellow to orange color with a bar pour’s kind of slim white head that dissipated immediately. No lacing.
The smell takes in some sweet orange pulp. Adding in some light sweet lemon, subtle Belgian spices and sweet Belgian sugars. Light bready tones slide in slightly.
The taste was mainly sweet through the previously mentioned flavors, adds in the subtle Belgian aspects nicely. Light citrus aftertaste, sly wet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing the breadiness gently poking the bitterness units to combine and hit my tongue nicely - smooth, yeah somewhat.
Overall, not sure why it’s labeled as an IPA on here but after tasting, smelling and feeling it. It seems it’s more of a Belgian IPA, still very nice and I would have it again.
This was poured into a tulip glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy golden yellow to orange color with a bar pour’s kind of slim white head that dissipated immediately. No lacing.
The smell takes in some sweet orange pulp. Adding in some light sweet lemon, subtle Belgian spices and sweet Belgian sugars. Light bready tones slide in slightly.
The taste was mainly sweet through the previously mentioned flavors, adds in the subtle Belgian aspects nicely. Light citrus aftertaste, sly wet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing the breadiness gently poking the bitterness units to combine and hit my tongue nicely - smooth, yeah somewhat.
Overall, not sure why it’s labeled as an IPA on here but after tasting, smelling and feeling it. It seems it’s more of a Belgian IPA, still very nice and I would have it again.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2016
at 22:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Row 34, 2/19/16.
Lightly hazy amber-bronze body is topped by a strong, off-white head.
First impressions are varied and show leafy, earthy, woodsy hop notes mixing with very light phenols and some dry, baked bread-like malts and other lighter grain characters. Soft vanilla, and yellow fruit-like esters slowly emerge with warming, while citrus from the centennial stays pretty consistently lemony-grapefruity. No acidity/resin from the nose and no alcohol. Quite light and heady which was surprising, as I would never associate this hop with that.
Flavor starts out just a touch too dry and grainy, but with warming, candied orange peel, white grapefruit, dank, green, woodsy hops and heavily fruity belgian esters all play nicely together, as the malt eventually sweetens things enough to keep the balance and the tight carbonation produces a creamy, lightly soft texture. Quite neo-Belgian, but importantly still very Belgian in the yeast department, with ample ester and phenol pushing through the hops. Moderate bitterness never overwhelms and the balance continues to improve as more malt and yeast character emerges towards the end of the glass. Really nice stuff, as expected.
Lightly hazy amber-bronze body is topped by a strong, off-white head.
First impressions are varied and show leafy, earthy, woodsy hop notes mixing with very light phenols and some dry, baked bread-like malts and other lighter grain characters. Soft vanilla, and yellow fruit-like esters slowly emerge with warming, while citrus from the centennial stays pretty consistently lemony-grapefruity. No acidity/resin from the nose and no alcohol. Quite light and heady which was surprising, as I would never associate this hop with that.
Flavor starts out just a touch too dry and grainy, but with warming, candied orange peel, white grapefruit, dank, green, woodsy hops and heavily fruity belgian esters all play nicely together, as the malt eventually sweetens things enough to keep the balance and the tight carbonation produces a creamy, lightly soft texture. Quite neo-Belgian, but importantly still very Belgian in the yeast department, with ample ester and phenol pushing through the hops. Moderate bitterness never overwhelms and the balance continues to improve as more malt and yeast character emerges towards the end of the glass. Really nice stuff, as expected.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2016
at 11:33
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap at Blackback Pub, Waterbury. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, tartness, some tropical fruits, sourness and some malts. Some lactic elements when warming up.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Feb 2016
at 15:42