Upper Case

Draught at Publick House, for Trillium 2nd Anniv., 3/23/15
Massively fluffy white head is well-retained and tops a moderately hazy, very sunny golden body.
From the first sniff, you know. It’s going to be a good one. Incredibly clean, bright, hop notes portray all sorts of tropical fruits. Suffice to say we’ve all smelled a delightful tropical fruit-hopped DIPA and this is one of the best ones. No yeast, vitamin, dough, dishwater, blanding; none of that. Soft, but perceptible honeyed malts sit in the background giving support but certainly adding nothing more than needed. Alcohol nowhere to be found. Aroma strength is very high.
The flavor delivers and then some. Kind of surprised by the ratings, seems like almost everyone loves a solid DIPA. Not that the ratings are low here; far from it, but I couldn’t find much to fault this thing for. Wonderfully effervescent carbonation spreads the delicious hop flavors about, while just a touch of alcohol (welcome here) and bitterness begin to build. The fluffy, moderately sweet pilsner malts balance nearly perfectly here and the whole thing glides down the throat leaving you wondering how you just drank a 9% abv Double IPA. It sucks to nitpick, but I guess that’s what rating beers is about and I guess, ultimately, this one’s just a little on the sweet/sugary side. Hard to fault it much for that, as I’d MUCH rather brewers err on the side of a bit too much balancing malt instead of the reverse leaving a mouthful of astringent, dry, burning resin.
Other than that, what else is not to love here? Not quite as explosively juicy and overwhelmingly lush as Pliny the Younger, but it makes you think along those lines, which is always impressive. If Trillium is doing this on their 2nd Anniversary, they’ve got a very bright future ahead.

750ml bottle pours a lightly hazy gold with some frothy, white head. Aroma is quite dank, a lot of chivey/garlicky notes, a little onion dip, grassy too, mild pine, some tropical fruit, straw. a little lurking guava sweetness. Flavor follows, very grassy, straw, lots of dank hop, some tangerine, some orange, mild honey, some turbinado sugar, tropical fruit. I was surprised at how tempered the bitterness levels were. For a nose with that much hops, the bitterness was extremely balanced. Scary drinkable.

750 ml bottle, 4 hours old shared by Eric A. Thanks man! Bright gold color, aroma is most resembles Amarillo hops. Citrus, grapefruit and mild grain. The flavor is big on citrus, traces of orange and grapefruit hints. The bitterness is low with a juicy texture that also has a mild pine undertone. The finish is damn clean without any alcohol notes. Damn, this maybe a one trick IPA but the brewer does it very nicely.

Thanks guys for sharing. Hazy Orange, almost no head. This was a 750ML picked up today @ Trillium. The aroma is stupid crazy good. Tangerine, grapefruit, special super duper awesome juicy fruits. Taste is great. You get a really good melding of grapefruit, tangerine and other fruits. almost no residual sweetness. Good sweet taste. Incredibly clean. almost no booze at all. delicious overall.