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Ever so slowly, we are greening and warming, welcoming spring to the Northeast Kingdom. Curbside retail continues, and we have a new offering in our Self-Reliance series for this coming week, along with the returns of both Sumner and Abner in cans.

Self-Reliance: Styrian
The next entry in our exploration of Farmstead® India Pale ales will feature Styrian Goldings hops. Grown in Slovenia and often used in Belgium, its earthy, resinous, and spicy characteristics—with the slightest hint of citrus—accent and buoy the base beer. Prior to dry hopping, the beer rested in our oak puncheons for nearly five months, and it has since conditioned in the bottle for over seven months, allowing for the development and integration of its acidity. This is the most classic “hoppy saison” thus far in the Self-Reliance series, perhaps a bit less India Pale Ale-ish and a bit more of the old world classic hoppy rustic saison.

Sumner and Abner
We will offer fresh cans of Abner, our Ancestral Imperial IPA. The second beer brewed in our brewery (April of 2010), its recipe has remained virtually identical since its inception. Also, Sumner, a 5% abv pale ale hopped copiously with Citra®, Mosaic®, and Simcoe® returns, alongside Abner, Mary, Marie, and a small amount of Susan.

Our bottle offerings for the week will also include Damon, as well as Soignée, Foudre Florence, and Leaves of Grass: Organic Saison.

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As part of our evolving mission here, we are seeking activities to truly revive, diversify and prolong the Hill Farmstead as a more encompassing concern, while encouraging each team member to pursue and bring to fruition projects aligned with their individual interests and those of the company. ⁣
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One such avenue of exploration has been mycology, in all its forms—from sustenance to medicine. Karen and Brian Wiseman of Peaceful Harvest Mushrooms generously played host to a large part of our team, so that we could learn about one of the many facets of this ancient organism. ⁣
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Thank you, Karen and Brian, for extending such a warm welcome and openness with your craft. The visit provided wonderful insight and no small amount of inspiration for our efforts here.⁣
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We’ll share more of our various ventures into the revitalization of Hill Farmstead in the coming months, including projects that can harness the potential of mushrooms as part of a robust biodynamic ecosystem.⁣

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𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻 (𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹-𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘁); 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀⁣
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During our 2020 holiday home deliveries in Vermont, some of you were able to enjoy a preview of sorts with an exclusive offering of Damon. This coming week, we will make that beer available for curbside retail.⁣
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From the outset of the brewery, Damon has enjoyed a privileged place in our offerings, as both the progenitor of our distillery specific Bourbon barrel-aged beers as well as a uniquely warm reminder of a companion held dear. Each barrel of the beer rests in naturally fluctuating seasonality, occupying carefully selected Bourbon barrels from our favorite distilleries, conveying the spirit’s character as a complementary layer of the final result. Only a few barrels ever seem to exhibit the special and singular qualities we deem characteristic of the beer, identified through emotional reaction, subjective sense memory, careful monitoring and timely selection.⁣
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We will also see the return of our American India Pale Ale, Susan, freshly packaged alongside a new batch of Edward. Both of these batches were brewed with organic base malts, much like the most recent Edward. These packagings of Edward and Susan utilize organic barley from Maine and the United Kingdom. ⁣
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Also available will be the prolongedly conditioned (5+ months of lagering) version of our German-style Helles, Marie, and our German-style Pilsner, Mary, along with a selection of bottles to go, including Civil Disobedience Blend 31 and Soignée Cherry/Raspberry.⁣
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Visit our website for curbside ordering information or order directly with the Order Food button.⁣

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Edward Anew; Gin-Barrel Soigné; Marie Refreshed

It has been nearly five months since we last brewed and shared a fresh batch of our American pale ale, Edward. This coming week, the beer that has marked each step of Hill Farmstead’s path returns to curbside retail—renewed. This newest batch is once again brewed with organic malt. While we are working to establish a transparent and aligned relationship with growers and maltsters, this fundamental backbone of our beer may oscillate between conventional and organic.

During our sabbatical, our leadership conceived a mission and strategy in alignment with a new vision for Hill Farmstead. This will carry us along into the next decade and likely beyond. While we as a team are implementing the embodiment of these values and this vision, we are quickly discovering the challenge in pairing with vendors, farmers, and growers who align with these goals. There are seemingly innumerable variables to consider for each element—soil health, farming practices, company responsibility, transport and packaging, and more. We continue to evaluate ingredient options and share our pursuance of not only minimizing our impact but positively contributing locally and globally.

Occasionally, we are afforded the opportunity to furnish Brother Soigné—our Farmstead® ale brewed with blood orange, lime, and hibiscus—with a residency in gin barrels from Vermont’s own Caledonia Spirits. This combination of juniper’s subtle botanical bitterness and the base beer’s inherent but inferred underlayment of fruit and effervescence creates a mature and pleasantly delicate result. Packaged as 750ml bottles for the first time, this is the same batch that we released previously in 375ml but has appreciated during that subsequent conditioning and rest time. This variable—bottle size—allows us to observe and learn the different factors impacting development and advancement over the course of a single beer, side-by-side.

We will also have fresh cans of our German-style Helles, Marie, available in the curbside retail shop, along with Mary, our German-style Pilsner, and a range of bottles to go, including Civil Disobedience Blend 31 and Foudre Florence.

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A day in the life.

#hillfarmstead #vermont #teamhillfarmstead

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𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀: ⁣
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝟯𝟭⁣
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Our Civil Disobedience series provides a near-endless opportunity through which we try and weave together threads and strands in a hopeful attempt to achieve a graceful tapestry in which the sum is greater than its parts. Each blend is assembled from selections that we project out and envision will harmonize over time, and then we wait while the beer conditions in its bottles. In some cases, it can be three or four years; others can emerge with the surprising alacrity of just six or eight months; and some fail to achieve at all. ⁣
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Blend 31, like the best of its predecessors, has been one of those that took its own leisurely path and time.. In June of 2016, the oldest constituent of this blend began as a batch of Arthur that had been brewed and dry-hopped solely with Cascade and was conditioned in puncheons. Joining a portion of that beer was a share of Sankt Hans that began its wine barrel aging in February of 2017; single wine barrels of Dorothy, Nordic Saison, and Leaves of Grass (brewed with sorrel), all from summer of 2017; wine barrels of Anna from autumn of 2017; and finally, a nuanced contribution of depth from a strand of Biere de Norma from 2018. Each element was chosen to complement and optimistically strengthen the final whole.⁣
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This composition was blended and bottled in May of 2018. The hopeful maturation and current stature of this blend has required nearly three years in the bottle, and we fully expect that it will continue to present exceedingly well for four to five more years. Like the blend numbered 30 before it, this, too, recalls subjective notions of Civil Disobedience 10 yet with a softer, more gentle approach. While Blend 30 remains assertive, its Buckwheat component perhaps even still too forceful, Blend 31 seems to demonstrate the delicate marriage of Arthur and Sankt Hans with the orchestral accompaniment of a varied cast of gentle characters.

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A bird’s eye view.

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21-23 April: Civil Disobedience Blend 31 • Soignée: Cherry/Raspberry

Over the course of the last decade, Civil Disobedience, our series of blended, barrel-aged Farmstead® ales has provided us with a constant and curious source of creative companionship, reminding us of the unpredictable, often serendipitous nature of beer in oak. Each blend represents a contemplative, intentional benediction to potentiality—paired with an embrace of the anarchistic nature of microbial activity. Since the first Civil Disobedience release in Summer 2011, these blends have become, ever more, an engagement with surrender. Each has provided us with an opportunity to learn about and “practice” this waning artform that is bottle conditioning.

Blend 31 receives its moniker and label this week. This numbering is a designation determined by happenstance, patience, and how we anticipate the trajectory of each in our unlabeled archive. This assemblage comprises nine beers conditioned in wine barrels and puncheons for spans between 4 and 15 months. Packaged in May 2018, the hopeful maturation of this blend has required nearly three years in the bottle. The result, much like Blend 30, is a delicate, complex, pleasantly tart expression of time, barrel, and nature that will achieve for several more years. Given its long conditioning time and lively effervescence, we recommend presenting this at 40ºF/4ºC.

Also available this coming week is a new expression of our ongoing relationship with local farmers, organic fruit, and the various methods of usage. The most recognizable candidate for this commission has been Brother Soigné, our Farmstead® ale brewed with blood orange, lime, and hibiscus. We take a small amount of this base beer and age it atop pomace—in this instance, cherry and raspberry. The result becomes Soignée.

We will have fresh cans of our German-style Pilsner, Mary, available in the curbside retail shop, along with our German-style Helles, Marie, and a range of bottles to go, including Juicy, Anna: Pear, and Edith.

Our website has all the details for curbside ordering; order directly with the "Order Food" button. Contact our team at info@hillfarmstead.com with questions.

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Debuts for the Week of 14-16 April

Spring has arrived in its splendor to our corner of the world, and we have been cheered by both the return of the sun’s warmth and so many of your smiling eyes this first week back.

This coming week, three new offerings will make their arrival:

Anna: Pear
With the arrival of each harvest season, we are presented with the opportunity to curate the pairing of incoming fruits with select barrels of beer, guided by the goal of elevating both by assemblage. This batch of Anna’s namesake beer was aged just over six months in wine barrels and then conditioned further on a blend of Siberian pears and a few local varieties of dessert pears—Stacy, Luscious, Summercrisp, and Nova—all organically grown by Elmore Roots Nursery in nearby Elmore, Vt. It is a delicate, expressive representation of Vermont's summer and annual autumn harvest

Juicy 2019 (750ml)
With more than a year’s time conditioning in the bottle, Juicy will make its appearance anew. This particular batch was conditioned in wine barrels with our resident microflora for over eight months before being dry-hopped with a plethora of personally selected hops from New Zealand—a place that holds a powerful and special magnetism. The landscape, the agriculture, and the spirited reflection of its inhabitants deeply inspire the expression shared within each bottle.

Edith
To honor the memory of Edward’s sister, this dark Farmstead® ale is produced from American malted barley, German roasted malts, European hops, our farmhouse yeast, and water from our well. After resting and harmonizing in our puncheons, this batch has been bottle conditioning for over six months.

Our website [link in bio] has all the details for curbside ordering. Order directly with the Order Food button. Please contact our team at info@hillfarmstead.com with questions.

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Our curbside retail operation reopens this coming week from 11 am to 5 pm, Weds. - Fri., and we anticipate maintaining that arrangement for the foreseeable future.

The taproom remains closed, and we are evaluating our options for outdoor consumption and events. We appreciate your patience while we consider our path forward.

Our team has been afforded an historic opportunity over the last two months, and we look forward to sharing our rejuvenated selves with you, both in-person and online, in the coming days and weeks.

This week we offer freshly packaged cans of Mary and Marie. Each has had the benefit of extended lagering during our pause (four months for Mary and five months Marie), which seems to provide an appreciably recognizable yet indescribable (beyond our own words, anyway) level of refinement.

Following more than a decade of fixed prices, our loyal patrons may notice that we have increased the price of our Farmstead® Ales from $10 to $12. We will speak more to this decision in the coming weeks and imagine that many of you may appreciate that the $10 price has outlasted both inflation and the passage of more than ten years...

Several new bottled offerings will debut:

Flora: Blueberry/Cherry 2019 - A single barrel of Flora that had aged for nearly a year was conditioned atop a blend of blueberries from Fisher Brothers Farm in Shelburne and organically grown cherries from Elmore Roots in nearby Elmore.

Leaves of Grass: October 3, 2019 - Brewed entirely with certified organic ingredients: barley, oats, spelt, and hops, and aged in an oak puncheon.

Self-Reliance: New Zealand Cascade - Generously hopped with Cascade selected at Freestyle Hops in New Zealand, and aged in oak puncheons for 5 months prior to bottling.

Self-Reliance: Strata - Conditioned in puncheons for four months, and double dry-hopped exclusively and copiously with Strata®, a variety from the Indie Hops Breeding Program at Oregon State.

Florence: Foudre - This edition of our wheat Farmstead® ale experienced over six months of extended conditioning in our oak foudres and has been bottle conditioning for nearly six months.

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As we approach our reawakening, in tandem with Vermont’s spring, we are recharged and ready to embrace a new vision for Hill Farmstead in our second decade. Thank you Sally Pollak and Seven Days for sharing an early sense of where we hope to lead ourselves and our community. ⁣
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In this week's issue, @hillfarmstead founder and globally celebrated brewer Shaun Hill opens up to Sally Pollak about family and the future of his business. Read the story. Link in bio.

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𝗔 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 ⁣
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As we wind down our day here at Hill Farmstead, we mark a pivotal moment in the last ten-plus years of operations. Our team has wrapped up its final retail service until April, home delivery boxes have begun arriving in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the brewery is well underway towards its upcoming slumber. ⁣
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In developing and shaping our evolving shared vision here, this “liminal intermission” affords each member of our staff the time, space, and means to pursue professional and personal development goals in a most unique way during utterly unprecedented circumstances. In the spirit of a sabbatical, the team will continue to be fully employed and benefitted throughout—but free to pursue personally developed goals and self-cultivation. ⁣
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Throughout this pause, we plan to share our story, history, and vision as a company, as well as our progress towards a positive, self-realized environment. From time to time, look for posts and stories on our website and across various social media platforms. ⁣
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We are grateful for the opportunity to recognize and manifest this spaciousness in our lives as well as for the sponsorship and appreciation of our dedicated patrons over the last decade. ⁣
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With fondness and gratitude,⁣
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Hill Farmstead ⁣

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