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For this upcoming week, we will have freshly packaged cans of Double Citra. Featuring hand-selected hops from Washington’s Yakima Valley, this beer has made frequent appearances over the last decade.

Our inaugural single-hop beer brewed on Hill Road, in May of 2010, showcased a then-little used variety: Citra®. As the hop’s popularity grew and the qualities of Citra evolved dramatically in those next few years, the original essence became but a fond memory. Years of conversations, much analysis, and hours of on-farm sensory led to a few suitable candidates in 2019 that most closely resembled that original Citra®. It’s with those selections we continue to brew Double Citra today.

Additionally in cans, we will have Edward; Everett; Walden; and Marie. We will also have nearly a dozen bottle offerings available this coming week, including Arthur Cascade; Nonconformist 01; Cherry/Raspberry 2019 Harvest; Civil Disobedience #32; Foudre Florence; and guest bottles from The Lost Abbey and 3 Fonteinen.

As in the before times, you can order in the bottle shop when you arrive, or you might choose to order in advance (online) on the day that you’re planning to visit! The same-day order window opens on toasttab.com/hillfarmstead at 5 a.m. each day.

Continuing the measured evolution of our Taproom experience, we have been able to open up additional reservations for the next few weeks to accommodate more guests. We will make additional spots available on Monday at 5 p.m. for the same week. We expect to open up the last week in August soon!

If you’re visiting the area and miss our open retail hours, check out Willey’s Store and Wilson Farm Market in Greensboro, Smith’s Grocery in Greensboro Bend, and Buffalo Mountain Coop in Hardwick. We try to maintain a small selection of bottles, and occasionally cans, for our immediate local area in these spots.

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For this, the last week of July, we will release new presentations for two of our Farmstead® Ales: ⁣
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Bottle conditioning since July 2020, this edition of our traditional Farmstead® ale was conditioned in a stainless tank for three months and dry-hopped with the 2020 Cascade Cup Award Winning Cascade grown by Tributary Farms in Yakima Valley. ⁣
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We aged this version of our wheat Farmstead® ale for more than a year in our 500-liter puncheons—not quite Florence, not quite Flora, but magical all the same. This beer has been bottling conditioning since February 2020 and will continue to develop well for the foreseeable future. ⁣
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We will have freshly packaged cans of our American Pale Ale, Edward; our American Porter, Everett; and Walden, our hoppy blond ale brewed with Amarillo®, Motueka™, and Simcoe® hops. First brewed in June 2012 as a collaboration with The Alchemist, we continue to brew Walden each year to remind us of that enduring friendship.⁣
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Our can selection will also include Marie and Harlan, and our wide-ranging bottle offerings will also feature Cherry/Raspberry 2019 Harvest; Civil Disobedience Blend 32; and Nonconformist 01, amongst others. ⁣
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Remember, you can order right in the bottle shop when you arrive, or you can order online on the day that you’re planning to visit! The same-day order window opens at 5 a.m. each day. ⁣
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In order to maintain the quality and balance of our Taproom experience, our Taproom (onsite consumption) will continue to operate on a reservation basis. As we allocate more resources to this experience, we anticipate additional reservation openings to be made available on Monday at 5 p.m. Please book through our website. ⁣
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If you’re visiting outside of our retail hours, check out Willey’s Store and Wilson Farm Market in Greensboro, Smith’s Grocery in Greensboro Bend, and Buffalo Mountain Coop in Hardwick. We try to maintain a small selection of bottles, and occasionally cans, for our immediate local area in these spots.⁣

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Well, folks, it’s been quite the last year and a half. The support from you has been so fully heartwarming and has allowed us to arrive here, now, after such a departure and a journey away from the normative life. With the re-opening of our Bottle Shop space this Wednesday, I welcome the opportunity to share a bit of insight into the process of how we intend to move forward with our Retail operations based on the collective feedback from our Team and you, our incredible group of supporters.⁣
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When we closed down in March of 2020, the idea of re-opening our space seemed far away. We launched Curbside in April 2020 and did so facing several challenges. Our point-of-sale system, Toast, was designed for restaurant take-out service and did not readily provide the ability to pre-order beer ahead of time for pick-up the following week (or even the following day). This created myriad issues with tracking inventory, discovering variances, and issuing refunds for no-shows. A significant amount of bandwidth was spent canceling and rescheduling orders. It also proved to be a challenge physically, requiring tens of thousands of daily steps to greet cars and fulfill each order by hand carrying cases of beer outside. ⁣
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Curbside was never intended to be a long-term, sustainable endeavor; however, our Team recognized that, and we put in the energy to make it work out for as long as was needed. Yet, with restrictions loosening and tourism returning to Vermont, nearly half of our daily customers are arriving without advance ordering and are placing their orders here, onsite, as has been tradition. Our decision to re-open the Bottle Shop, expending less energy in the behind-the-scenes administration of Curbside fulfillment, will allow us to refocus the energy and capacity of our limited team into a hopeful expansion of our reservation-based Onsite experience. ⁣
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Beginning this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we will open up day-of advanced ordering via our Toast website at 5:00 a.m. each day until 4:30 p.m. for pick-ups inside the Bottle Shop from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. *𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄*⁣

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For the coming week, we will retire our curbside operations for a time and reopen our retail shop to inside sales. This will be the first time in 15 months that we will welcome guests back to the retail shop, and given the current size of our team, this will be a trial run to evaluate the ongoing viability of a more familiar retail structure. We hope to maintain as enjoyable and safe an experience as possible for our staff and guests, so we ask that everyone wear a mask while inside the shop, regardless of vaccination status.

As part of that reopening, we will release a unique variant of Damon, our imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels. We selected three barrels that had aged for nearly two years and conditioned them further atop cocoa nibs from Hacienda Azul in Costa Rica, sourced, roasted, and winnowed by the best bean to bar chocolate company we know: Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco, Calif. These will be offered at a limit of 2 bottles per person.

We will also have freshly canned offerings:

Edward - Our American pale ale, this batch featuring organic base malts
Conduct of Life - An American Pale Ale brewed with Amarillo® and Citra® hops.
Society & Solitude #6 - Imperial IPA brewed almost exclusively with hand-selected Mosaic® hops from the Pacific Northwest.
A reminder that our taproom is by reservation only, and seatings for this coming week’s onsite sessions have filled up. We are unable to offer a waiting list; if there are cancellations, those reservations will automatically be made available via the Tock service, so check back there occasionally for possible openings.

Visit our retail shop page for additional information.

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One of the most inspiring moments in the last decade of journeys abroad was our 2017 visit to the historical time capsule that is the cellar at Plzeňský Prazdroj. Amidst the kilometers of cavernous hand-hewn limestone caves remain several actively fermenting wooden tuns—open to the cool cellar air and visibly krausening.

The moment of connection with the specialness of that place is in tasting the original beer of Pilsen, as it had once been, entirely fermented and conditioned in wood. Nearly 30 years ago, the brewery transitioned out of these cellars to more modern stainless steel vessels. Thankfully, the brewery has maintained this historical method (in parallel) as a sort of concurrent calibration of the flavor and quality occurring in their fermentation and conditioning world outside of the cellars. This is only available for visitors, served fresh from the oak, where it is also naturally carbonated.

We were afforded the rare and humbling opportunity to independently visit the cellars, guided by friend and former brewmaster at Plzeňský Prazdroj, Lenká Straková, who set out on this particular collaborative journey with us in 2018. She now leads Pivovar Proud, an independent brewery on the grounds, housed in its historic 1930s power generation facility, long since replaced by “modern” technology.

Before treading the hallowed oak-filled tunnels, we were proudly shown around Lenká’s project. Layers of history and ongoing renovations greeted us, as well as a tasting of beers considered non-traditional in Czechia but quite recognizable at home: pale ale, IPA, saison… even an outstanding non-alcoholic IPA—a revelation!

Our visit concluded in those magical cellars, no less entrancing and inspiring on this, our third opportunity. For this, we were also joined by new friend Martín Rosička of Pilsner Urquell.

The quiet echos of footfall, water, and history set the ideal stage for a wholly transformative experience. Enjoying a perfectly poured glass, being encouraged to try our hand at self-service from the wooden casks, and sharing meaningful space and time with thoughtful, wholesome people punctuated this already enriching chapter of Hill Farmstead’s story.

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7 July 2021 Curbside Retail Offerings

This coming week, we will offer up four freshly canned options for take-away:

• Susan - Our American IPA brewed with hops from the Yakima Valley and Riwaka hops grown by our agricultural partners, Freestyle Farms, in Upper Moutere, New Zealand.

• Mary - Our German-style unfiltered Pilsner, lagered for 10 weeks.

• Abner - Our original American Imperial IPA.

• Of First and Last Things - Our American IPA with Motueka™, Nelson Sauvin, and Simcoe® Hops.

We will also have a small amount of Earl and George available in cans for the coming week.

Our selection of bottles to-go for curbside retail also includes Civil Disobedience Blend 32, Sankt, Soignée Cherry/Raspberry, and Florence: Foudre, as well as Anna, Arthur, and Brother Soigné.

Reservations for this coming week’s onsite sessions have filled up so we look forward to seeing some of you in our taproom, as well. Please note that we are unable to offer a waiting list; if there are cancellations, those reservations will automatically be made available via the Tock service, so check back there occasionally for possible openings.

Visit our online retail shop for complete information and to order for curbside pick-up.

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The opportunity to not only collaborate with but truly cooperate with the brewing teams at Pivovar Velké Popovice (Kozel) and Plzeňský Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell) has been rewarding and eye-opening. We are grateful for their immense expertise and openness to create a beer outside their comfort zone—at a scale outside our imagination.

Bringing a beer in the spirit of Edward—our American pale ale—to a tradition-steeped institution with nearly 200 years worth of lager brewing experience presents some challenges—and interesting opportunities—for learning and growth. The addition of flaked oats to the mash was a certainly novel idea in this brewery, not to mention the much more assertive hop additions! The size and scale of the operation created a surprising number of unconsidered variables, all of which the assembled team tackled with a sense of openness and enthusiasm.

A hearty děkuji to everyone involved with this project, especially those folks at the brewery who will continue to shepherd the beer towards success in our stead. This includes Daniel Urban, Jana Šťastná and the technologists at Pivovar Velké Popovice, as well as Martín Rosička and Lenka Straková of Plzeňský Prazdroj.

After a long and satisfying brewday, we now wait, monitor, and project forward optimism. The beer now rests in the brewery’s open fermentation chamber and will journey along a path set forth after much planning and consideration of the end goal: a balanced, hop-forward, sessionable pale ale that combines the sense of place across two continents with shared respect and admiration for tradition.

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In the spring of 2018, we were invited by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling as the keynote presenter on Innovation, held at Plzeňský Prazdroj in Pilsen. Following this visit, and a fruitless attempt to acquire the coveted Nefiltrovaný for our Farmhouse Festival, Lenka Straková, one of the brewmasters at Prazdroj, inquired about our interest in making a collaboration beer with the Urquell team—an unexpected invitation we were glad to accept.

The brew had been intended for May 2020, to coincide with our anniversary celebrations; hop selections were personally made in the Yakima Valley in anticipation of a summer 2020 brew; and travel plans began. It was not to be, though.

Flash forward to today.

We have arrived in Praha, as quickly as it was safe to do so. Years of planning, communication, and anticipation now navigate towards the achievement of this shared goal: an American pale ale—in the spirit of Edward—brewed in collaboration with the Urquell and Kozel teams at Pivovar Velké Popovice, for the enjoyment of the Czech people in a few weeks.

We are grateful for the opportunity to see this project to fruition, after so many delays. This beer will only be available here, on draft around Czech Republic (Czechia), as a way to celebrate the virtue and beauty of fresh beer, treated well, served with skill and pride, and as part of this truly amazing beer culture.

We will share more information about how the beer is progressing and where those of you in—and traveling to—Czechia in early August may find and enjoy the beer.

Na zdraví a děkuju!
(Cheers and thank you!)

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23 June 2021 Curbside Retail Offerings

This coming week, we will release Blend 32 in our Civil Disobedience series. As has been customary, the fourth entry has been and continues to be a dark entry. Bottle conditioning for 18 months, this particular arrangement is woven from threads including Biere de Norma, Edith, and E., barrels whose lineage ranged from Flora Cuvee and Vera Mae to Sue and Juicy. These components were composed and then dry-hopped with personally selected Motueka hops from Freestyle Farms, our agricultural partners in Upper Moutere, New Zealand, as well as Hersbrucker and Mittelfrüh from Seitz Farm—our agricultural partner in Wolnzach, Germany.

We will also have available bottles of our collaboration with The Lost Abbey, A Still Small Voice. Portions of the final beer were brewed and barrel-aged in each location, then evaluated and blended in San Marcos at Lost Abbey. It was then dry-hopped with select Cascade hops, bottled in February 2020, and spent all of 2020 slumbering prior to release.

Anna makes its return this week to our bottle offerings, as will a fresh selection of cans including our coffee stout, Earl, and our American Pale Ale, Edward. This batch of Earl has been conditioning in stainless for over 2 months prior to packaging and features a blend of coffees from the roasters at George Howell Coffee in Acton. Mass.

Our selection of bottles to-go for curbside retail also includes Sankt, E., Soignée Cherry/Raspberry, and Florence: Foudre.

Visit our online retail shop (Order Food button in bio) for complete information and to order for curbside pick-up.

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In a much more modest and intimate scale than our previous incarnation, our onsite experience has returned.

We presented a “soft opening” this week, and we’re grateful for your patience during these initial gatherings. Today, we will open reservations for a limited number of seatings—by reservation only—during our current retail operating hours through the end of July.

Each Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we will host two daily sessions for a small number of guests. We are not able to offer a walk-up service for our taproom. We may add a Saturday session in the future, depending on staffing availability, but we are unable to do so at this time.

Given the size of our team—and reflecting on the experiences of both staff and guests in those previous times—we wish to provide a more wholesome, enjoyable opportunity for quiet, conviviality with less hecticness and more opportunities to share our sense of place. These smaller seatings allow for space to amply appreciate the entire experience, and as this is a relaunch, we are starting slowly and deliberately to ensure guests have the most enjoyable visit possible.

You will find a curated selection of vintages and variations on draft and in bottle, discover exclusive offerings only available here, and experience our creations in their natural environs. Reservations include a non-refundable fee; all proceeds from those fees will be donated to various local charities, which we will announce each quarter.

This cycle’s charitable recipient is none other than the legendary @breadandpuppet in Glover, Vt., one of the oldest nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country and a vital, integral part of the local community—one extremely hard-hit by the pandemic.

Please note that there is no gratuity necessary; we have donated all tips for over seven years to local charities. If you would like to make an additional donation, we will have our donation box available and would be grateful for your generosity.

To learn more, check for availability, and schedule your seating, please visit our website at the link in our bio.

We look forward to seeing and sharing this place with you again.

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