Hill Farmstead Brewery Flora - Blueberry/Black Currant/Raspberry/Cherry

Flora - Blueberry/Black Currant/Raspberry/Cherry

 

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

Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
7.79
ABV: 6.2% IBU: - Ticks: 20
Flora is the wine barrel-aged version of Florence (1915-1967), our Farmstead® wheat ale. Only a few barrels of Flora were selected, and that beer was aged further on a blend of fresh, hand-picked berries from Greensboro, East Hardwick, and elmore. The result is a complex, elegant, fruit-forward blend that both marries and highlights each of its constituent elements.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375ML, split 3 ways. Wow. gorgeous pour. it's this dark cherry blood red color. wow. the aroma is good. Acidic, tart, lots of raspberry. hmmm. well blended. No vinegar, it's like a fruit salad of flavors, chewy mouthfeel, tasty!

Tried on 11 Nov 2018 at 02:47


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

Bottle - pours reddish white head - nose and taste of raspberry, cherry, oak and tart black currant - medium body

Tried from Bottle on 25 Oct 2018 at 22:57


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle thanks to Ben. Pours a dark ruby with small off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is strong currant, cherry skin, oak, light funk. Thin body, currant, oak, sweet cherry, funky, nice tartness, enjoyed this.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jul 2018 at 19:50


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle - Raspberry and nice current. Clear ruby with almost no head. Nice tart berry, raspberry and cranberry. Dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2018 at 02:53


8.3
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

At Quintessence 2018. Clear red ruby color with pinkish head. Yeasty and malty, spicy herbal, floral, berries, some funky notes. Acidic and light sweet taste. Light to medium thin to oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried on 29 May 2018 at 19:40


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Hf flora Pours unclear pinkred. Smsll to no wh head. Smell is intense, herbal. Taste is fu, tart , dry, fruity, milder herbal notes .

Tried on 14 May 2018 at 15:52


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Quintessence. Cloudy bright ruby. Super herbal, quite fruity, earthy, perfume, fennel. Medium, tart, no yoghurt, little acidity, bushes, red fruit, but just a bit too mashed. Lingering sour palate. Good, but over the top.

Tried on 08 May 2018 at 17:17


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Intensiver, säuerlich kräutriger Beginn. Mild herb, spritzig, trocken bitter. Süffig, runde Würzigkeit. Algen. 10/9/10/9//10

Tried on 07 May 2018 at 06:16


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Hill Farmstead's delightful Flora farmhouse ale turned into a fruit beer with fresh blueberries, blackcurrant berries and raspberries; from a 37.5 cl bottle at Cantillon's Quintessence tasting event. Medium thick, moussy but slowly opening, dirty off-pinkish head on top of a hazy, deep and warm ruby red beer with violet tinge. Aroma of a lot of blueberry jam, raspberry yoghurt and indeed some - less explicit - cassis, sourdough, blue grape peel, rhubarb compote, young cheese, sour cream. Crisp sour fruit acidity in the onset, again seemingly more blueberry flavour than raspberry and blackcurrant but with a general 'dark forest fruit' feel to it nonetheless, lemony around its edges and a bit wry due to fruit skin and seed tannins, spritzy carbonation, lingering fruit (even rhubarb-like), drying sourness over a soft, sourdough-like basis, tannic notes further drying the finish - but all the way at the back, the fructose from the berries delivers a trace of sweetness amidst all the tartness. Fascinating sour ale, very genuine and uncompromisingly pure and dry, this is modern American sour at a high level.

Tried from Bottle on 04 May 2018 at 19:54