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Hill Farmstead Fear and Trembling - Bourbon Barrel

Hill Farmstead Brewery
Greensboro, Vermont
Beer style: Porter - Baltic
Ref: ratebeer.com Apr2024

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Fear and Trembling is Hill Farmstead’s first collaboration - a Baltic Porter brewed with malt that was hand smoked over maple wood by our Danish friend, and former colleague, Anders Kissmeyer. This bottled version was aged in Bourbon barrels. As a student of philosophy and former resident of Copenhagen, it is fitting that our brewer named our first collaboration after Denmark’s great thinker: Søren Kierkegaard. All three contemplated absurdity, faith, and salvation while wandering the shores of the Baltic Sea... "...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling..." **Note: This beer was aged in barrels that previously held Samuel Adams Utopias...