Trillium Brewing Company |
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Boston, MA (We've had too many of these. See pages 2 and 3)
Pete - The brewery has a bar/restaurant. You'll need reservations for food, but there's a small-ish bar with a couple TVs to drink at, plus beer to go. In the summer (not sure exact schedule), Trillium also has a beer garden on the Greenway in downtown Boston. It's incredibly popular, especially for post-work drinks, and they typically have ~10 beers on tap, along with a couple wines for non-beer drinkers. They don't have flights, but they typically have a mix of pale ales, imperial IPA's, sours, and dark beers. Also, the garden is mostly in the shade after ~5, so if it's hot out, don't worry. If it's not that warm, bring a jacket.
Pete - The brewery has a bar/restaurant. You'll need reservations for food, but there's a small-ish bar with a couple TVs to drink at, plus beer to go. In the summer (not sure exact schedule), Trillium also has a beer garden on the Greenway in downtown Boston. It's incredibly popular, especially for post-work drinks, and they typically have ~10 beers on tap, along with a couple wines for non-beer drinkers. They don't have flights, but they typically have a mix of pale ales, imperial IPA's, sours, and dark beers. Also, the garden is mostly in the shade after ~5, so if it's hot out, don't worry. If it's not that warm, bring a jacket.
Trillium Almond Crunch
Stout - 6.5% ABV Pete This is my 2nd of this newish series (as of 4/8/2020) of relatively low alcohol stouts that are intended to taste like candy bars. This is definitely nutty and fudgy, but it's a bit too sweet. Definitely don't plan on more than 1 in a row. Excellent if you can split it with someone - beyond that the sweetness will start to eat at your enjoyment. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Barrel Aged Peppermint Hot Chocolate
Imperial Stout - 14.9% ABV Pete Tons of bourbon and chocolate flavors with a tiny hint of peppermint. I drank this on Christmas Eve, which was the correct time to drink it. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Bees
Wild Ale - 5.7% ABV Pete Funky and sour with a medium amount of honey flavor. It's pretty straightforward, but perfectly executed. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Bianca Guava Mango Lassi Gose
Gose - 6% ABV Pete It's really hard to beat the mango and guava combination. You can't really see it in the picture, but there were actually what appeared to be flecks of vanilla suspended in the beer too, which was pretty cool. It's definitely sweet, but it's a great dessert beer. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Big Bird
Imperial IPA - 9.4% ABV Pete This beer is extremely popular, and I can see why. Super citrusy, and a very very creamy body that lingers after you put it down. I would prefer just a touch less creamy with this flavor profile, but it's still amazing. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Black Currant Soak
Sour - 6.3% ABV Pete Super sour going down with a little sweet/fruity flavor to it also. I'm not sure what black currant tastes like, but this had a specific fruit flavor I didn't recognize, so I'm sure it's that. Super carbonated too, which makes the super sourness not linger too long. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Black is Beautiful
Imperial Stout - 10.7% ABV Pete Collaboration with White Lion (haven't had any of those as of 8/14/20). This just tastes like vanilla and liquor. It's pretty flavorful, but quite boozy. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Black Mettle
Imperial Black IPA - 8.4% ABV Pete I wouldn't know this was an IPA while drinking it. It is a delicious light-bodied dry toasty porter that finishes chocolatey. Maybe a touch of pine at the very end if you reeeeeally think about it, but mostly just a great porter. Fine by me. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Blackberry Super Soak
Sour - 7.1% ABV Pete Absolutely incredible sour. Good amount of blackberry flavor and sweetness to go along with a medium-high amount of sourness. A little extra alcohol too for a sour, really really good. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Blueberry Soak
Wild Ale - 6.3% ABV Pete Quite sour with subtle blueberry. Didn't get the salt I tasted in the Super Soak version, but it doesn't really need it. Just an excellent sour. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Blueberry Super Soak
Sour - 7.1% ABV Pete Awesome sour. Large amount of tartness with a hint of saltiness and juuuuuust a little bit fruity to balance it out. Also high alcohol for a sour. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Broken Angel
Belgian Strong Golden Ale - 8.7% ABV Pete Damn good beer. It's very obviously Belgian. It has a little spiciness to it, and it doesn't taste nearly as strong as the ABV might indicate. Delicious. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Bumpkin Island
IPA - 6.8% ABV Pete Ultra creamy mouthfeel with what I thought was a good amount of dank to go along with citrus flavors. The dank dominated for me (and I liked it a lot), but it wasn't mentioned in the official description anywhere, so maybe I'm crazy. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Buncha Bananas
Imperial Stout - 11.5% ABV Pete Collaboration with Other Half. Lots of dark chocolate. The banana doesn't really come through until it warms a little. Somehow this is good, not great. Maybe my expectations were too high. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Coffee Cake
Imperial Stout - 12.9% ABV Pete Unreal stout. Cinnamon is the most obvious flavor, but chocolate comes through quite a bit too. It hides the alcohol dangerously well. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Comm Ave
Imperial New England IPA - 8.2% ABV Pete Super creamy. Clementine sorbet going down, with a nice dry finish. A lot of subtle flavors in this beer - I recommend having it as your first of the night, otherwise you may miss things. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Congress Street
American IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Great IPA with a depth of flavor. It has some citrus, but is dominated by a piney dankness that I tend to like more than the average person. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: Citra
Imperial IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Really damn good IPA. The honey is definitely there, but not overpowering. Creamy and citrusy too to give you a nice well rounded beer. Reminds me of Beekeeper but a tiny bit less honey. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: El Dorado
Imperial New England IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Lime, orange, and sweet from the honey, plus a good amount of earthiness you don't normally get in a NEIPA. Really good. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: Galaxy
Imperial New England IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Pretty obvious honey flavor in this one, with the accompanying sweetness, but definitely not too sweet. The galaxy hops balance it nicely with a fruitiness that still has some earthy flavors behind it. Really good. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: Mosaic
Imperial IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete This is incredibly dangerous for me. Super citrusy, with a little sweetness from the honey (and high ABV). There's a decent amount of earthiness in the background to balance it. Awesome. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: Mosaic DDH
Imperial IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Absolutely love this, like the single DH Mosaic version. This is pretty extreme on the earthiness, overwhelming the citrus, but the sweetness does come through from the honey to balance it a little. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Cutting Tiles: Nelson Sauvin
Imperial IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Really great IPA. Flavor is honey with a nice peppery bite from the hops. It's a tiny bit too sweet, but that's nitpicking. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Daily Serving: Black Currant, Blackberry and Boysenberry
Berliner Weisse - 4.1% ABV Pete This is a very good fruit beer. It's extremely fruity without being overwhelmingly sweet. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Daily Serving: Cherry
Berliner Weisse - 4.1% ABV Pete Very obvious cherry flavor, which comes off as medicinal to me. Not a fan. Ratings: Pete - 3 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Daily Serving: Mango & Passion Fruit
Berliner Weisse - 4% ABV Pete This tastes like a melted version of a tropical frozen drink you'd get at a Caribbean resort. Hard to complain about that. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Daily Serving: Mixed Berry Batch 2
Berliner Weisse - 4.5% ABV Pete Super super fruity. A tiny bit of tartness, but like a tart fruit, not a sour beer. The intensity of the fruit flavor means I'd want this in small quantities (10 oz or less), but it's a real winner at that size. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Daily Serving: Pomegranate & Blackberry
Berliner Weisse - 4.5% ABV Pete Intensely fruity. A tiny tiny bit of sour. Mostly just a really intense fruit beer. Well named. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Danish Guy
Imperial Stout - 14.3% ABV Pete Collaboration with Evil Twin. A couple breweries that can really make stouts collaborating on this one, and it doesn't disappoint. Just a boozy, slightly nutty cinnamon roll in a glass. Outrageously good and quite dangerous at that ABV. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Dialed-In w/Moscato Juice
Imperial New England IPA - 9.2% ABV Pete Incredible. Intensely dry and peppery IPA, which is not what I was expecting for something with Moscato juice in it. I don't specifically taste Moscato (or even grape), but there is definitely a hint of fruity in there. I'm just impressed that an IPA this strong wasn't too sweet for me. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Dialed-In w/Sauvignon Blanc Juice
Imperial IPA - 8.5% ABV Pete Delicious fruity and creamy IPA. Maybe notice a touch of bitterness, but the other flavors dominate. The grape comes through a tiny bit at the end of the sip, but the creaminess really takes over the finish. A little more of that than I'd like, but it's still an awesome beer. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Dialed-Up w/Mosaic & Riesling Juice
Imperial New England IPA - 11% ABV Pete I don't trust IPA's this strong, but this one really did it for me. It's definitely on the sweet side, which is usually my problem with this much booze in an IPA (and the Riesling juice can't help), but the earthiness of the mosaic hops really balance this for me. There's also a slight hint of bitterness to go along with all the citrus/grape flavors. Really excellent. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Dogtooth Violet
Wild Ale - 6.2% ABV Pete Pretty meh. It's funky but not a ton of flavor. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Dot Ave
Imperial New England IPA - 8.2% ABV Pete Super dry beer with some citrus up front. The flavor even improved as it warmed a tiny bit, becoming more earthy, but it definitely didn't warm a lot, as it was 50 degrees outside, and I drank this in about 8 minutes. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Congress Street
IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Incredible IPA. A little creamy, but not too much (an issue I have with some of Trillium's beers), and a massive amount of tropical fruit. It says "light, modest bitterness", but I didn't get any bitter at all. Granted, I was quite a few deep. Awesome beer. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Farnsworth Street
IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Great beer. Tiny bit creamy with a dry piney flavor. Makes you want more for sure. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Fort Point
American Pale Ale - 6.6% ABV Pete Citrusy, creamy, mildly bitter, and a touch of grassy. Incredible. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Melcher Street
IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Crowd favorite the day I had this at the beer garden. It has very little bitterness to go along with a burst of citrusy flavor. The texture is creamy, but not so much that it leaves a weird taste in your mouth (which some of Trillium's beers do and are still amazing). Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Mettle
Imperial New England IPA - 8.9% ABV Pete Super creamy going down with a dry earthy finish. It definitely has all the smells of a tropical citrus bomb, but I appreciate that the flavor is more balanced, as IPA's this strong can lean too sweet usually. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Scaled
IPA - 7% ABV Pete Hard to find a better beer than this. It's pictured with water next to it because I realized after 3 of their beers that I'd want to have everything on the menu and actually remember it, and this was the best of the bunch. Smells and tastes super citrusy with a touch of creaminess (much less than many of their others) and maybe a tiny bit of bitter just to balance it out. Ratings: Pete - 7 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Stillings Street
New England IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Exactly what I've come to expect from Trillium. Creamy citrusy goodness. I couldn't necessarily pinpoint specific fruit/citrus flavors in this one, but it was my 5th pint of 8%+ ABV beers in 90 minutes, so that's probably why. Still managed to take a good photo at least. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped Summer Street
New England IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete I assumed this was going to be pretty dank with a Simcoe hopping, but it really wasn't. It comes off a little on the sweet side and super drinkable. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Dry Hopped The Publick House
IPA - 7.3% ABV Pete Another great one. Orange and peach in the smell. Orange and a hint of lemon going down, with a touch of malt and some mild bitterness in the finish. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Raspberry Lineage Wheat
Wild Ale - 6.7% ABV Pete Super tart with raspberry and a tiny bit of funk in the background. I love it. I thought the funk was extremely subtle, but I got a comment about someone not liking this as much as their other sours because of the funk, so maybe it's more funky than I give it credit for. Either way, I love it. Fairly expensive. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Seesaw: Black Currant
Sour - 4.6% ABV Pete This has a creaminess to it that I wasn't prepared for in a sour, but I really liked it. Extremely fruity and extremely sour to go along with that. Tons of flavor. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Seesaw: Blood Orange
Gose - 4.8% ABV Pete Medium level of sourness. The flavor is pure blood orange, very obvious, almost like it's just orange juice. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Seesaw: Boysenberry, Blackberry, Raspberry, & Cranberry
Gose - 4.7% ABV Pete Hard to imagine a better sour. Pretty sour up front, tempered by a little saltiness, then you finally get the fruit in the finish. The berries all blend together in the flavor. Unreal. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Seesaw: Plum, Blueberry, and Peach
Gose - 5.5% ABV Pete Pretty high on the sourness level, with a good amount of salty flavor in there too. There's some generic fruitiness to it, I couldn't really pinpoint any of the specific fruits that are in this, but still quite good. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Double Seesaw: Raspberry
Gose - 4% ABV Pete Looks like juice and tastes like liquid raspberry. Tart and fruity, with a tiny hint of salt in the background if you really think about it. One of the best sours I've had. I'm a sucker for raspberry. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Trillium Endless: Cacao
Imperial Stout - 15.6% ABV Pete Incredible beer. Super, super rich. It is like drinking brownie batter that finishes with a pretty boozy bite. My only complaint is the price: it was in the $20's for a 12 ounce bottle (Feb. '22). Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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