Description
Each box will include the following bottles:
- Flora
Flora is the wine barrel-aged version of Florence, our grandfather’s sister, as well as the name of our Farmstead® wheat ale. In her honor, we fill French oak wine barrels with Florence and allow the beer to mature in the presence of our resident microflora. After extended aging, a beautifully complex beer emerges; Florence becomes Flora. 5% abv, 750ml - Flora: Cherry
Flora is the wine barrel-aged version of Florence (1915-1967), Edward’s sister, as well as the name of our wheat Farmstead® ale. Each blend of her namesake beer rests in oak for an undetermined period—from many months to several years -and embodies our progressive vision for Hill Farmstead, a pursuit guided by natural intuition, evolving experience, and optimistic forecast. On occasion, we select a portion of Flora and age it on a blend of local cherry varieties, as a means of highlighting the sympathetic natures of beer in barrel and fruit in season. This year, we received a bumper crop of Balaton and Juliet variety cherries upon which we could condition Flora for over two months, allowing for a singular integration of fruit terroir and elegant and balanced acidity. This particular assembly of Flora was crafted with organic Vermont wheat and then rested for nearly a year in our lineage wine barrels before pairing with the year’s ruby red harvest. 5% abv, 375ml - Florence: Puncheon
This version of Florence, our Belgian-inspred Farmstead® ale, was aged for many months in our puncheons—not quite Florence, not quite Flora, but magical all the same. Unfiltered and naturally carbonated. 5% abv, 375ml