mersk862
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While I really liked Alchemist I was not blown away like so many seem to be. Hill Farmstead definitely lived up to the hype.
I personally find Focal Banger to be much superior to Heady Topper. I had some of my fellow beer snob friends do a blind taste test at a bar one night (I had managed to pick up a couple of four packs of each while in Vermont) as well as Sip of Sunshine. Sip of Sunshine was the unanimous number one, with Focal coming in second and Heady in third.
As for Hill Farmstead, I found both Society and Solitude #4 and #9 on draft in New York back in October (along with Harlan), and Arthur at Brewdog in Brussels back in 2018 (was very surprised to see a bottle of that over in Europe).