Very clean and exceptional offerings all around, their hoppy beers are dry and crisp in the same Societe and alpine vein. The stouts are extremely attenuated and roasty with little sweetness very toasted and flavorful.

Well worth seeking out, in a sea of sd mediocrity this certainly stands out.

San Clemente looking beautiful as fuck.

Creamy, cirtrusy, clean, a touch of grassiness and a watery finish lends to make this endlessly chainable KILLER COMBO

How have I neglected the fuck out of my PA homies on this one? When I first read saison yeast in a 13 % abv quad I had images of some cuvée de tomme head on collision. Welp old DDB was a dumb shithead, as usual.

This isn’t that old tart saison yeast I was expecting and it comes across as more of the golden and DuPont blend, estery and substantial in mouthfeel. The nose is distinctively quad but the appearance screams English barleywine. You get wafts of turbinado sugar by the fist , Carmelized plums, port fig reduction, and burnt brown sugar.

The mouthfeel is so substantial that is veers hard into that apeshit Deal with the Devil stickiness again in the realm of overboard Xyauyu barleywines, but who gives a shit about being on style: is it fucking tasty? Well the hefty coating rocks like caramel robitussin imparting a fusel waft balanced by a toasted walnut and bruised peach. The dark fruits go ape shit and this massive residual sugar is certainly out of step for the TH catalogue but it’s good to see them hit it raw dog once in a while to show tickers they can do it both ways.

So is this an amped up st. Bernardus? An under attenuated kuhnhenn bbbw? The answer is somewhere in between. Americans are still grabbing titties in this style and working out the deets. This was good, off style, massive and begging for a cognac or Madeira barrel treatment. That would have really massaged my prostate to full malty completion. We can only dream.

Go get it, or don’t , you probably still are vying for black note and ain’t even smoking this good.

Hit the PA station and start jacking

Thanks to Dr Garage for this FORMER top 50 saison. I swear to god keeping up with that shit is like medicating HSV, once you get something all set another area pops up violently. I am perpetually behind by like 4, never to complete that bad bitch due to retirements.

Everyone told me scary stories about potential diacetyl so I did naked diamond push ups and got swole all ready to handle this shit and…sadly no reinfection prominently pops out. I warmed it up and waited for butter popcorn madness and, just your standard top notch, very tasty blended ba saison. FUCK.

The look is standard pilsner, wheat, and a smooch of caravienna with gold and light amber resin hues. The carb leaves a sustained collar and frothy wispiness like a traditional egg white whiskey sour.

The nose is peach rings, apricot, Brett L, light musk like damp construction paper, lemon zest and hint of agave nectar sweetness. I was promised some overt flaws, the fuck am I supposed to comment on now? Just another tired ass world class saison review. No one has time for that shit. This site is barely meeting it’s operating costs, gonna have a fire sale soon.

Taste is that crisp Fuji Apple and grapefruit zest with a dry and strangely bitter closer like lemon rind. This is the most ” lambic-esque” I guess you could opine, with the acidity and bitter golden blend finish, but decidedly far from a wild ale with the emphasis steering away from Cascade lacto madness more towards a goldilocks Allagash approach. If you are here I shouldn’t have to explain the foregoing to you.

Whatever land o lakes issues previously existed seem to have metabolized out and this is worth the cost of entry if resurgam doesn’t get your attenuation any more.

Hit it and quit it

This is how I feel every time I see haul pics from Vermont assholes flaunting their tawdry wares

On paper this seemed like some srs Wyerbacher loopy loops farmhouse riff: black. 9%. Salt. Grain of paradise. The WUTTTT was initially strong. Pour was as expected, black and slick, like that Michelle Pfeiffer catwoman poster you used to stroke it to in 2nd grade.

Nose doesn’t exhibit much of the salt but provides a mineral clean waft of light acidic lactic presence meets a sort of choco red wine tannins. Again the wutttt was initially prevalent, but as they tell bandos and homosexuals: it gets better.

The taste is essentially a dark imperial gose, you know, that style. Use your imagination okay jeez DDB has to do fucking everything for you ingrates. Clean hard water profile leaves no streaking or lingering presence and lends to an invisible abv profile, light roast a hint of walnut and toasty rye bread. The sourness is iconic middle of the road acidity from Sara, approachable and no TUMS on deck, like a more balanced Tart of darkness…or a less acidic and more nuanced dark sour from Rare Barrel. Again this isn’t exactly well tread ground so parallels are as hard to come by as elixirs in FFVIII.

Essentially this is a bigger, maltier entry into their catalogue that serves more as a wheeeelie than a real GOTO beer like saison Bernice. It is a demonstration of power not unlike Old Testament Yahweh turning people Into salt JUST FOR LOOKING OVER THEIR FUCKING SHOULDERS. Awesome to try and a nice execution but kinda like watching Eraserhead, only the truly dedicated will pump out multiple reps.

Recommended, but don’t Indian burn your dick if you miss it. Actually don’t Indian burn your cock, ever.

Sage advice from DDB.

The original Daybreak was one of those heart breaking works of staggering genius that even Dave Eggers would question. At the heart of it, this citrus element screamed Danish intervention and entirely contrary to the other Hill Farmstead canon. The best part was Damon b1 released very close in time and demonstrated how well HF can operate without some interlopers tossing juice into their stouts.

But what happens when some time elapses and some barrel aging goes down and those crafty Vermonteers set to fix the adjunct flaws inherent in past works. Now to be clear, I am assuming Hill farmstead aged this beer in barrels, or Mikkeller just drove them around in their gypsy U-haul; if that is not the case, then fuck this review.

The beer pours thinner and more watery than the rest of the HF canon, but not in a gentle attenuated fashion, just slim Central Waters BB stout thin. Carb is gentle and poetically exits with a tip of the chocolate malt cap. The nose is bright and sharp, a touch of citrus, grand marnier, chocolate fudge and a bakers chocolate sweetness. If you have had some of the Struise barrel treatments you are on board, let’s get the lube and grease them face holes.

The taste is sweet. Dry, cognac stickiness, lingering toastiness that resonates like almond tannins, and a closer that is an oaky dark chocolate.

SO HOW DOES THIS STACK UP AGAINST OTHER MIKKELLER STOUTS? With the exception of Vanilla shake, et al, this is the best.

SO HOW DOES THIS STACK UP AGAINST OTHER HILL FARMSTEAD STOUTS? If we choose to include Jim/Jimmy in the stout canon, this is better. If we do not, then consider this along the bottom rungs. This speaks more to the quality of Hill Farmstead left alone over and above the deficiency of this stout. This beer is pretty gooood (italics) and if we let it kick some Midwest stouts in the dick, sure, it will rough them up. But relative to the Damon and mcx lineage, this is kinda like Dr. Wily, some amazing creations but Mega Man just keeps fucking it all up.

Not sure where that last simile was going but, I am sure you got the Dr Light parallel.

Should you seek this out? Yes, tasty beer.

Should you cancel your daredorm account to pay crazy trade ransoms for it? It depends on how much you love Dare Dorm. I am not here to tell you how to live your life.

Moral of the story: blame interloping officious Mikkeller for everything unless it has the word “vanilla” in it.

Wait for the busses but the busses won’t come

A new fantastic point of view

Looking to go $4$ with whatever brewery only one off in the sub 1000 bottle range you have. You will need to add FYI