Damon: Dandelion Chocolate • Poetica 3 • Citra IPA • Society & Solitude #3 • Sunday Gravel Ride

For the coming week, we will welcome the return of our cocoa nib-forward Damon and Poetica 3, along with two freshly packaged canned offerings: Citra Single Hop IPA and Society & Solitude #3 (DIPA).

This will be the final week of food trucks for the 2025 season! We will host Bobber’s Seafood on Wednesday and Thursday, Hook & Peel Pizza on Friday and Saturday, and MexiRico Áuthentico on Sunday. 

Damon: Dandelion Chocolate

Damon (1993 – 2004) was Darren and Shaun’s furry, four-legged brother—devout and patient in an age of busyness and distraction. From time to time, in his honor, we craft a rich, balanced imperial stout and then age it in Bourbon barrels from our favorite distilleries. 

For this particular version of his namesake beer, we selected a few barrels of Bourbon barrel-aged beer that dates back to July 2022 and had aged for nearly three years before conditioning them further atop cocoa nibs from Camino Verde Cacao, located in central Ecuador. Vicente Norero buys freshly harvested, unfermented beans from over one hundred farms and associations around Ecuador, aiming to achieve optimal fermentation and drying. The nibs are sourced, roasted, and winnowed by one of the finest bean-to-bar producers in the world: Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco, California.

Poetica 3

After a trip to Pilsen in 2017, we began a purposeful pursuit of lager refinement. Over the course of the last eight years, that journey has resulted in a number of forays into oak-conditioned lagers. This Czech-inspired pilsner is brewed with a single decoction mash process, team-selected Poetica 3 specific Czech Saaz hops, fermented with Czech and German lager yeast, and cold-conditioned in our French oak puncheons. After more than three months of rest, the beer is krausened with fresh fermenting pilsner for gentle, natural carbonation.

Phil will lead another Sunday Gravel Ride at 10:30 a.m. on 5 October. For information, visit https://hillfarmstead.com/sunday-gravel-ride-series/.

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