Hill Farmstead Edward

Brewed by Hill Farmstead Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Greensboro, Vermont USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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This IPA isn’t out to be the biggest or the baddest extreme beer on the block but it may be the best one on the block. Dry finish, uber refreshing, mouth watering hop flavors that make you keep drinking another pint. SUPER SESSION beer.

UPDATED: APR 16, 2012 Unfiltered, honey-colored pour with a thin white head. Tangerine, pine, tropical fruit funk, and nicely floral nose. The yeast is amazing, and you can tell they have great water. Flavor is earthy, full of mango/apricot, and is wonderfully balanced by firm malt and just enough resin. Ample but soft carb carries the flavors through a fantastic medium-bitter finish. Sitting very lovely around 5%. This just works for me. It has proven to be, far and away, my favorite pale ale.

On tap at Pizza Stone in Chester, VT. Tried Edward first for my intro to Hill Farmstead. Delicious, best beer I have ever had! Then I tried an Arthur and a taste of a James, nice but no Edward. Went back a few days later and stuck to the Edward. Awesome!

On tap for the Hill Farm event at Capones. Poured a cloudy orange with zero head and lacing was very spotty. Huge aromas of pineapple, oaky butter, caramel, toffee, warm bread, and loads ofcitrus hops. Taste is pure wood, orange peel, pineapple, pine, vanilla, cocoa powder, caramel sweet malts. A truly incredible pale ale that is up there with Alpha King from 3F. Awesome.

Draft at CAH and Capone’s. Wow, what a surprise here, and what a great beer this is. The pour is hazy dark straw colored, with 1-finger off-white head. Nose is heavy fruity of the tropical variety, hopcitric, pale malty, with notes of black pepper and white wine grapes. Tastes rich, extremely complex, amazingly delicious, with gigantic assertive piney hops, multi-layered tropical fruit, tangerine, pineapple, grapefruit, grapes, and a solid pale malt bill. This one comes off like a 9% Imperial IPA, and is perhaps the greatest APA I have yet quaffed. I tried to growler it, but it kicked. C’est la vie, and I hope to see this one again.

Had on tap at Flatbread Factory & Taproom in Shelburne, VT. This beer is delicious, with a wonderful fresh hop aroma, balanced with good malt and finishing with less bitterness and more hop flavor than I expected. If there is one word to describe this beer it is "fresh".

Aroma of pure grapefruit and apricot. Pours bright orange and hazy. Tastes of all the cascade citrus but that quickly disappears into a clean yeast. Fantastic IPA. Gulpable.

Unfiltered almost chewy at times. This beer should be available every where. Brewers could learn a thing or two. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Served in a goblet at Canal St. Pours a radiant, chilled peachy apricot color with a thick cream colored head. Excellent retention, the head never quite fades away and leaves behind thick, sticky rings of lace. Aroma is fresh and abundantly hoppy. Bitter grapefruit rind and pine with subtle tropical fruit sweetness. Body is medium thick and chewy with in your face carbonation. Flavor is ridiculously hoppy and rich for a 5% APA. Like the nose, grapefruit and pine hops, resiny and bitter, dominate from start to finish. There is a slight bready malt present and some sweet tropical fruits as the beer warms, but the hops are what linger well into the finish. Incredible flavor and hop presence for what is expected to be a mild APA.

Without question the best pale ale I’ve ever had. The hops, malts, and yeast come together perfectly in this beer. Another great beer from Hill Farmstead.