Color & Grain
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special Out of Production|
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7.21
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We drew our inspiration from wood for this year's anniversary beer, its natural beauty as well as its building and lasting strength, provides layers in the depth of character in a concentric annual growth cycle. Color & Grain Imperial Stout Aged on Oak & Chocolate serves as an apt representation of our continued growth at our five year milestone.
Color & Grain: Oak & Chocolate is an Imperial Stout that presents with a deep impression of complex and layered chocolate. Best served at cellar temperatures to reveal all the details! Aromas of chocolate malt balls and bruleed sugar fill the glass. Luxuriously silky mouthfeel reminiscent of melted chocolate bars with an oak derived vanillin subtlety. The flavors continue to extend with subtle roasted malt, then dark, charred figs, dates, then finally with a rich molasses and dry, dark cacao. A minimal, balancing bitterness with subtle warming alcohol reveals a finish expressive, bright and fruity lightly roasted coffee notes. The palate ends with oak tannin structure. Share this stout as a deep, dark and decadent treat to commemorate your own milestone achievements!
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Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Color & Grain from Trillium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught at their 5th Anniversary party, 3/18/18.
Dark ebony, with lighter mahogany hues and some clarity on the edges. Light tan head atop slowly fades to cover.
Strong oak rises up in the nose. Very interesting and unlike many oak-aged stouts you usually encounter. It's oaky for sure, yet not the usual toasted variety showing pina colada and coconut. None (or little) of that, in fact, yet a strong, grainy, vanilla and wood presence, nonetheless. Layered chocolate gives off gentle, lightly sweet milk chocolate while there is little aggressive roast, nor char/ash. Seemingly fairly well-attenuated, though, on account of the lack of deep fudge. Gains a lot of caramel and vibrant red and dark fruit notes, on the finish, with a touch of alcohol, though it isn't sharp or heavy.
In the mouth it's sweet, lightly bitter (dark roast coffee, prune, tart cherry) with a strong oak presence that is drying and lends tons of dry vanilla and rich, oily wood. Powdered milk, chocolate malt and sweet milk chocolate all form the main force of the flavor. Low, but engaging carbonation and the sweetness vying with the wood dryness on the end. I think it's a bit too sweet and overly milk chocolatey for my tastes, but this could very easily change with some aging. Certainly would love to revisit. Alcohol is light, not problematic, texture is rich, creamy and sumptuous.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface. Chocolate, vanilla and espresso aromas. Oily with oaked chocolate and hot vanilla upfront turning to warm mocha in the dry lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From notes taster at the source dark chocolate pour with a frothy head. Aroma is bakers chocolate earthy roasted malts. Taste is creamy light coffee chocolate notes with a lingering bitterness throughout the finish.
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Color & Grain from Trillium Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of candi sugar, sweet grain, oak, coffee and roast chocolate -medium body