Hill Farmstead is very well known among beer geeks or beer enthusiasts or beer nerds..whoever they are they know this brewery. Located about an hour outside of Waterbury..home of the Alchemist, this place is hidden in the middle of lots of farmland and thank god for a GPS because I would have had no clue where I was going.
After reading plenty of reviews, I knew this place gets packed early and you can expect to wait. We arrived about 30 minutes early and already had about 20 people in line. We waited, and waited, finally opened! You then go inside a building where you wait again. Very basic farm house here with an organized process of getting you your beers. You step up, tell them what you want, they take your growlers and you wait a few minutes and boom..it's done!
The one nice thing is when you get close to the counter, a nice woman comes and takes an order for 4 samples for 5$. You can choose any 4 of the beers and she brings them to you one by one.
Between me and my girlfriend and friend we got 9 growlers. The Susan is just an incredible IPA. Society and Solitude #4 outstanding. Abner was really good. The Walden Session was a really nice session. And for a porter the Everett was incredible. But for growlers it was all about Society and Solitude #4 and Susan...they killed it!
They have a few t-shirts and very nice stemmed glasses for sale. They also sell bottles of different beers they make..none of the IPAs or anything, usually sours and farmhouse ale type beers.
I wouldn't make the trek out here again, too far and too much work for a few growlers. BUT it did look like they were constructing a tasting room perhaps, and in Waterbury you can get most the beers on tap..so I would stick to that. They update their taplist daily and are open most days expect Monday and Tuesdays I believe, check them out...
www.hillfarmstead.com/
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