Hill Farmstead Pacifica Single Hop Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Hill Farmstead Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Greensboro, Vermont USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Draft. Pours orange with a white head. Piney floral hoppy aroms with a light sweetness. The flavor has piney and spicy hops, light flowery notes, and light sweet malts. Nice bitter finish. Solid stuff.

Draft with Pat at the Hill Farmstead event at Blind Tiger. Pours a clear orange with a thin white head. Aroma is spicy, piney and earthy. Mouthfeel is somewhat resinous with notes of citrus fruit, pine, earthy hops.

Draft at the Hill Farmstead event at Blind Tiger. Slight, clear sunset orange with a thin, sudsy, slippery off-white head. Not much lacing. Very soapy/piney/earthy nose that opens slowly to reveal notes of lemon zest, orange peel, grapefruit, and freshly cut grass. Resinous, juicy, yet tight and bitter palate; the beer finishes very dryly and rests heavily upon the gentle carbonation and piney bitterness. Very good IPA.

From tap at Hardy. Pours hazy and towards murky orange with a thick, white and lasting head. Aroma is peachy, grapefruity and citrusy. Bitter and distinct grapefruity. Bitter and dense grapefruity finish.

A: The pour is definitely murky. Burnt orange in color with a white head that sticks quite nicely to the glass. S: Smells different, but I sort of expected that since this is my first encounter with Pacifica hops. Definitely some citrus, but there’s a sharp grassiness and maybe even a bit of blue cheese. A strong aroma of pine is present as well. T: The taste is better than the nose, I think. A nice bitterness to go with some pine, grass, and fresh tangerine an grapefruit flesh and definitely some rinds as well. Not really much malt flavor to this beer at all. M: The body is medium with a fairly low carbonation, but that’s likely due to the growler. D: Not as good as the Abner growler I drank yesterday, but sort of a different beast. Not sure that I’m too crazy about Pacifica as a hop, though.