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in. This is going to be a long one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t want to deal with the tabloid-content below?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/adamchandler.beer\/2015-the-year-in-beer-hill-farmstead-edition\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Click here to read my\u00a0<strong style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">\u201c2015: The Year in Beer\u201d (Hill Farmstead Edition)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, via Google Alerts, I came across\u00a02015: The Year in Beer written by\u00a0Hannah Palmer Egan for Seven Days VT. You can read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/BiteClub\/archives\/2015\/12\/29\/2015-the-year-in-beer\">here<\/a>. The Google Alert I had was for Hill Farmstead brewery. Shaun Hill\u2019s upstart is new to Vermont\u2019s very long history of craft beer and I like to read press about the brewery for any news or updates on what\u2019s on the horizon. I was confused because I did a CTRL+F in my browser for \u201cHill Farmstead\u201d and found 3 matches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This is nothing new \u00a0\u2014 Otter Creek\u2019s OG pale ale was single-hopped with Cascade hops, and Hill Farmstead has been making single-hopped beers for years.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Best Imperial IPA: Society &amp; Solitude #5, Hill Farmstead Brewery\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2026<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/hill-farmstead-brewery\/Location?oid=2246882\"><em>a link to Hill Farmstead Brewery\u2019s venue page on the Seven Days\u2019 Website<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I checked \u201c2014: a Banner Year for #VTBeer\u201d written by the same author posted a year ago exactly and executed the same query but last year seemed to be a bit nicer to Hill Farmstead although still so very little was said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Memorial Day Weekend launched a beer-soaked summer in style in the Mad River Valley, with an Alchemist truck sale, Lawson\u2019s Finest Liquids sale, and Valley-wide tap takeovers from Hill Farmstead, which celebrated its fourth anniversary that weekend.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;And in Greensboro Bend, Shaun Hill spent most of the summer and fall building more brewing capacity into his operation at Hill Farmstead.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Best fruity beer: Siren\/Mikkeller\/Hill Farmstead Limoncello\/li&gt;\u201d\u00a0(their HTML coding issue, not mine)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/hill-farmstead-brewery\/Location?oid=2246882\"><em>a link to Hill Farmstead Brewery\u2019s venue page on the Seven Days\u2019 Website<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Since Hill Farmstead brewed their first batch of beer in 2011, they\u2019ve been recognized in local and global press. Seven Days\u2019 Readers Choice Poll appropriately named \u201cSeven Daysies\u201d awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/best-craft-brewery\/BestOf?oid=2293906\">Hill Farmstead the best craft brewery in Vermont in 2013 and 2015.<\/a> The award in 2014 went to Switchback but Hill Farmstead was a runner up. Also, RateBeer announced that via very intense calculation on ratings entered during the calendar year, Hill Farmstead was awarded best brewery in the world in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/ratebeerbest\/bestbrewers_012013x.asp\">2013<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/ratebeerbest\/BestBrewers-World2015.asp\">2014<\/a> and they earned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/ratebeerbest\/bestbrewers_012012.asp\">#6 Brewery in the world in 2012<\/a> after being open for less than a year during a time where most breweries are too busy dialing in their brew-house to worry about winning awards. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find Hill Farmstead again at the top when RateBeer announces this year\u2019s winners but that\u2019s purely speculation by this blogger.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, my Twitter rant on the subject began when I was trying to confirm my suspicions that Vermont hipsters were over Hill Farmstead. I mean that with no disrespect to the brewery at all. Switchback had always been cool. Alchemist is pretty cool. Breweries like Fiddlehead, Prohibition Pig and a Vermont beer brewed in Connecticut (aka Sip of Sunshine) are \u2019so hot right now\u2019 and beer fans couldn\u2019t be bothered to drive 90 minutes from Burlington, aka the center of the world to the Northeast Kingdom every week for growlers. No one has said that Shaun Hill doesn\u2019t brew amazing beer but my suspicion is since\u00a0\u00a0you have to drive to the middle of nowhere to get more than a pint on draft, it was not worth even discussing or trying for unless you roamed into Farmhouse Tap &amp; Grill and saw Edward on draft. Then you can officially start freaking out.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this, I assumed Hill Farmstead, the #1 brewery in the world and #1 rated brewery in Vermont according to Seven Days readers was not included because uber-nerds didn\u2019t think Shaun Hill was cool anymore. &#8220;Hill Farmstead? That\u2019s so 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My tweets below basically summarize my point above but with more brevity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681867751217074176\">[1]<\/a>\u201cYour Year in Beer 2015 has zero mention of @HillFarmstead except to compare it to Otter Creek\u2019s Single Hop Pale ales.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681868498562342914\">[2]<\/a>\u201dWhen I talk to Vermonters, @HillFarmstead is that far-away brewery w\/ lines &amp; lotteries and tourists.\u00a0Why did the perception change?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681868687087894528\">[3]<\/a>\u201cNo other brewery in Vermont compares to @HillFarmstead but it seems the breweries making good-enough pale ales distroed in Bton get love.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681869550070161408\">[4]<\/a>\u201d\/@FindThatHannah @sevendaysvt CCing the author for my last few tweets hoping for clarification on the omission\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised when the author of the story came back to me with this whammy of a line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681877992629469184\">[1]<\/a> \u201c@AdamCBeer Omission mostly b\/c my paper and @HillFarmstead have history and Shaun Hill won&#8217;t talk to any @sevendaysvt reporter.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The following is the dialogue I had with Hannah. I link to each tweet and start each with\u00a0\u201cAdam\u201d and\u00a0\u201cHannah\u201d to keep who-said-what clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adam:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681878320129175552\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d@FindThatHannah @HillFarmstead @sevendaysvt No journalistic integrity or reporting on a company despite past grievances?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681879865365295104\">[1]<\/a>\u201d@AdamCBeer also past grievance = not mine and = nada to do w\/ me or my writing, but let\u2019s all have fun calling each other out via web eh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adam:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681878320129175552\">[1]<\/a>\u201d<em>@FindThatHannah don\u2019t take this personally. You authored the piece and they edited \u00a0\/ published what they wanted. I understand how it works.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681881285829259264\">[1]<\/a>\u201d@AdamCBeer It&#8217;s OK and no worries. But FYI journalists take accusations re: journey integrity very seriously!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adam:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681878320129175552\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d@FindThatHannah which is why I phrased it that way to get your attention but omitting the #1 brewery in the world is a big one.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681881285829259264\">[1]<\/a>\u201d@AdamCBeer Also @HillFarmstead and I are cool \u2014 enjoying #vtbeer = 1st\/most important priority between me and all local breweries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681878384285237249\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d<\/em><em>@AdamCBeer So I haven\u2019t been able to properly cover @HillFarmstead&#8217;s expansion, but can admit that not noting it here was pure oversight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adam: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamCBeer\/status\/681881690759917568\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d<\/em><em>@FindThatHannah I\u2019m happy to take this to email. I have no foul agains you personally.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681882774870061056\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d@AdamCBeer as you wish: (email)<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ron, who is a fan of Hill Farmstead too jumps in with a very appropriate response and something I had not noticed, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDufresne\/status\/681891916015923200\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d@AdamCBeer @FindThatHannah @HillFarmstead No other owner is quoted&#8211;just links to others&#8217; reporting. Oversight\/grudge\/immaturity\/laziness?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FindThatHannah\/status\/681913347147739136\">[1]<\/a><em>\u201d@RonDufresne @AdamCBeer @HillFarmstead Lesson #1: \u00a0Can\u2019t please everybody, tallyho!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This all took a turn for the worse. What started as simply a branding issue I thought Hill Farmstead was guilty of turned into some beef between Seven Days (the newspaper) and Shaun Hill (the owner of a brewery in Vermont) and yet that beef has bled over from a personal issue to one that the entire newspaper has. I still can\u2019t believe Hannah challenged me on calling for journalistic integrity in one tweet while just before stating that the paper and Shaun have history that no one at Seven days has disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Ron, who chimed in above is also right. I didn\u2019t see any other brewers quoted in the article by Hannah. If it was a requirement that the brewery pick up the phone to be written about, I certainly didn\u2019t see that reflected in the article.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, I sent the below email to Hannah. Note, this email was intended to remain private but I believe in transparency when reporting on things I experience especially when it comes to oversights in journalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Good morning,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I haven\u2019t read your work before but over the last few months, I keep a Google Alert active on \u201cHill Farmstead&#8221; as I\u2019m working on a larger piece about the collapse in coverage of Hill Farmstead and even though some of the major newspapers still make time for them, most local blogs and Vermonters have written them off. it comes down to their location, the lottery system on bottle releases \/ events and the fact that their clientele seems to mostly be out of staters. Everyone I know thinks the brewery thinks too highly of themselves and this has led to not negative coverage but simply no coverage from local press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note, I am not employed by Hill Farmstead. I\u2019m just a fan of their beers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The article published on VT Beer in 2015 further confirmed what I\u2019m seeing lately in press about Hill Farmstead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note, you\u2019re just the author and while it\u2019s easy to single you out, I put a lot of onus on the editors of the paper to ensure their journalists are offering fair coverage w\/o bias and they either fell short of this for their readers or they deliberately left it out. Given your comments, it seems the latter is true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I called Journalistic Integrity in to question not as a personal dig to you and your background. I\u2019ve never read your work before but you represent this paper and, for the time, you two are linked because you write for them. If they are asking you to omit a brewery from coverage or simply removing the coverage of the #1 Brewery in the world for 3 years running, then their Journalistic Integrity is at stake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If I were in your shoes, I\u2019d file a piece on Hill Farmstead and if they rejected the piece citing (in writing) that Hill won\u2019t give them the time of day or they think Shaun Hill is a jerk, or too cool for school or whatever issue they have with him, I\u2019d file my resignation. Associating myself with an independent newspaper with leadership that holds grudges against Vermont owned businesses is a company I wouldn\u2019t write for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You gotta pay the bills so my thoughts above you probably find offensive but it\u2019s just one non-professional\u2019s opinion. I\u2019ve written for publications in the past local and national and I choose to maintain a personal blog because \u201cindependent media\u201d is a joke these days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In closing, no publication that is striving for reader trust and covering a topic while omitting the hottest company of that topic for our area should exist. I put the full blame of this on them and not you. It calls into question how many other articles in the tabloid are rejected and edited due to conflicts between the ownership and local job creators, politicians and activists. What articles are left on the cutting room floor that we the readers never see?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s shameful of them and I\u2019m very sorry that I involved you. I really assumed they weren\u2019t covered because Hill Farmstead in your eyes aka the Burlington\/Montpelier beer scene is no longer cool and worth talking about. The issue is far worse than I assumed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you very much for your time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nPS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:sevendaysvt.com+%22Hill+Farmstead%22+expansion&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=1041&amp;tbas=0&amp;source=lnt&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiMzY_syoHKAhXKPT4KHXazD5cQpwUIFA\">there\u2019s been nothing written about Hill\u2019s expansion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?biw=1920&amp;bih=1041&amp;tbs=qdr%3Ay%2Csbd%3A1&amp;q=site%3Asevendaysvt.com+%22Hill+Farmstead%22+&amp;oq=site%3Asevendaysvt.com+%22Hill+Farmstead%22+&amp;gs_l=serp.3...80719.80719.1.80964.1.0.1.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..11.0.0.k8tn_j4oMsI\"><em>and almost nothing about the brewery at all int he last year other than their name mentioned on tap-list at local restaurants and oddly winning best craft brewery in your yearly reader polls<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a personal note, I have a script that runs every day that checks for sent emails that have not received replies and it prompts me if I want to re-send those emails or not and sometimes I do and sometimes I don\u2019t. I think in the last seven days, I\u2019ve sent Hannah the same email 4 times and I have not received a response.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I reached out to the two managing editors of Seven Days VT,\u00a0Paula Routly and Pamela Polston requesting a comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Good morning. I\u2019m writing a short article on the absence of Hill Farmstead from your 2015 in Beer article published last week. http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/BiteClub\/archives\/2015\/12\/29\/2015-the-year-in-beer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to make a comment or provide your side of the story for why this brewery was absent aside from a comparison to Otter Creek\u2019s new single-hop pale ale in this year\u2019s summary of Vermont beer?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s been over 24 hours and no response. 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