Hill Farmstead Brewery is thee most beautiful brewery I've ever been to. Located off dirt roads in Greensboro, VT on land that's been in Brewer Shaun Hill's family for over 200 years, it takes hours to get to from just about everywhere. On the plus side, on my way back to Boston you drive through beautiful Franconia Notch State Park, adding even more beauty to an already amazing trip.
Hill Farmstead is an absolute must visit for any Vermont beer trip. Getting out of the truck and walking over you can smell the sweetness of nature and a brewery, a mix of grass and cooked grain, and the sights are just endless fields and a quaint farmhouse. That farmhouse just happens to have a brewery attached to it. Now, maybe it's the experience of making the extra journey, and being in what might be the most beautiful place I've ever been able to buy and drink a beer but Hill Farmstead makes the best beers I've ever tasted. Drinking them is as much about the adventure as it is about the excellent quality of these small batch beers that get churned out daily.
Edward, Hill Farmstead's American Pale Ale, named after their Grandfather, is the most purchased growler fill of the day, with a few folks bring cases of their custom labeled 2 Liter growler to get it filled. The man directly in front of me had 2 and says he comes every Wednesday to get them filled with Edward. Edward, as a beer, is just amazing. It's not some knock your socks off double IPA, clocking in at 5.2% alcohol, but it still boasts 85 IBU's, the International Bittering Units. The beer itself is nice and sweet, with hints of caramel malt but mostly it's carried by it's delicious hop profile, filling your mouth with stinging hops that are reminiscent of some tropical fruit, grapefruit and some excellent piney bite. It's just a perfectly balanced pale ale and the only fall back is that it's 3 hours just to get this growler refilled.
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