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Hill Farmstead Brewery
Greensboro Bend, Vermont, Vermont, USA
- Founded
- 2010
- Archive ID
- TB-P495WZ7S
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Summary
Repeatedly named the best brewery in the world by RateBeer, producing exquisite farmhouse ales on remote ancestral land.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Repeatedly named the best brewery in the world, producing exquisite farmhouse ales on remote ancestral land.
The People
Behind the beer
Brews on land his family has farmed since 1788.
Founder/owner/brewer.
The Beer Library
Beers
Edward
Year-RoundAmerican Pale Ale
Named for Shaun Hill's grandfather, on land his family has farmed since 1788. Hill Farmstead has been rated the best brewery in the world repeatedly, from a dirt road in Greensboro Bend.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Abner
LimitedDouble IPA
Named for Shaun Hill's great-grandfather. Hill Farmstead names its beers after relatives and brews on the land the family has farmed since 1788, which makes the range a family tree.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Ann
LimitedSaison
Named after Hill's grandmother and aged in wine barrels with wild yeast. One of the most sought-after farmhouse ales made in America, from a dirt road in Greensboro Bend.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Aaron
LimitedBarrel-Aged Barleywine
Named for Hill's grandfather. Oak-aged English barleywine is an old and unfashionable thing to make, which is roughly the brewery's position on most subjects.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Samuel
LimitedSaison
Another family name, another mixed-culture farmhouse ale. The consistency of the naming is the clearest statement the brewery makes about why it exists.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Clover
LimitedSaison
Mixed fermentation on the brewery's own well water. Hill Farmstead talks about its water the way a winery talks about soil, and with more justification than most.
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LimitedWild Ale
Part of the Flora series, conditioned on plums. Fruit skins bring tannin as well as flavour, which is why these read closer to wine than to beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Double Citra
LimitedDouble IPA
A single-hop showcase taken as far as Citra goes. Single-hop beers are a teaching tool disguised as a release.
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LimitedDouble IPA
Australian Galaxy hops in Vermont. The same variety that made Stone & Wood's Pacific Ale, used to a completely different end.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Double Nelson
LimitedDouble IPA
New Zealand Nelson Sauvin, which tastes of white grape and gooseberry and is named for the wine it resembles.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Ephraim
LimitedDouble IPA
Named for a Hill ancestor five generations back. The family the beers are named after is documented further than most breweries are old.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Beyond Good and Evil
LimitedBarrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Named after Nietzsche, and made without the adjunct load that defines most stouts at this level. Restraint here is a position, not a limitation.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →No Bad Parts
Year-RoundNon-Alcoholic Malt Beverage with Hops and Organic Lime Juice
Qualifies under Tally's <=0.5% NA rule. (Current / recurring) [USA Pass 07]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Self-Reliance: Vermont-Grown Cascade
Year-RoundFarmstead IPA
Official Hill Farmstead page says the batch was brewed entirely with Cascade hops grown by Kevin and Karen Broderick of Whitefield Hop Yard in East Hardwick. (2022 release / brewed Oct. 2020) [Vermont Pass 10]
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