Sunshower - Galaxy Dry Hopped
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Imperial Saison Series Out of Production|
Score
7.71
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The most hop-forward in our series of Super Saisons, Galaxy Dry Hopped Sunshower is juicy and herbal, yet dry and peppery on the finish. Beautifully haze-straw colored in appearance with an earthy, pineapple aroma, this is a farmhouse offering that will delight any hop-head. The spicy, fermentation-driven character of our farmhouse yeast is subdued by the intensity of the Galaxy hops, which impart strong flavors of grapefruit and peach.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz can shared by a friend, thanks Mike! Hazy yellowish orange with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, floral notes, herbs. Tastes of citrus, floral notes, herb, light funk. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2017
at 19:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a nice golden straw from a can, thick white head dissipates leaving minor lacing. Big floral and tropical fruit aroma, similar flavor maybe a touch of nectarine. Very good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Dec 2017
at 18:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can, received in a trade with T.J, thanks for the hook up buddy! Slightly cloudy pale golden in color. Aroma is citrus, old fruit, mild yeast. Flavor starts with a pils malt base and decent wheat backbone. The finish has citrusy note with a mild pine presence. Subtle yeast is hiding in here. It feels different than the other three I have sampled in this series. The funniest thing is I have never sample the base non dry-hopped Sunshower.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2017
at 19:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tall can (thx, Francis A.!). Canned on 2017-10-20. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is juicy with some tropical fruits notes, earthy and somewhat spicy, slightly similar to Belgian Saisons. Taste is much more close to the classic Belgian Saisons. Very hoppy forward. Fairly good.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Nov 2017
at 00:38
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Got the last of the bottle at the meeting tonight. Hazy straw with a minimal head. Earthy rustic spicy with a great resinous pine hop presence to counter. Wish I had more of this!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2015
at 23:21
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
American farmhouse ale, courtesy of tderoeck. Very thick, rocky, stable, clearly hops-enhanced, thickly lacing, snow white head over a light hazy, beautifully pale yellow blonde beer. Wonderfully fragrant aroma of lemon peel, chamomille, orange peel, white pepper, pine needles, lavender, white bread, passionfruit, white grapes, old cheese, pear. Vivid, fruity but ’clean’ onset, melon, pineapple, pear, creamy mouthfeel with just the right amount of carbonation, sweetish bready and lightly honeyish maltiness, slightly yeasty, dry finish, complexely hoppy, floral, bit citrussy, bit piney with some of the exotic fruitiness coming through. Saisons pop up everywhere these days and are not necessarily dry-hopped, but I can accept this one as a very refined example of the style. Great beer.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2015
at 07:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Tdereock. Dorée, col blanc épais. Arôme au bouquet super rafraichissant, fleuri avec un rétro belge dans la levure. Houblon sympa sans vraiment surfaire le côté Galaxy. Palais présente un agréable et puissant profil agrumes avec pas mal de Galaxy, retrouve un côté melon et finement poivré. Malt pâle, pils froment, pour un fini rustique de style farmhouse, fini légèrement épicé et herbacé.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2015
at 11:55
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Thanks to tderoeck! 750 ml. bottle split by five. Should be about 6 weeks old. Dark orange, quite hazy, creamy big white head. Nose is lightly dank, very creamy, melon, light flowers, white bread hay, white grapes, delicate rich hops,.. Taste is dry grass, melon, white grass, creamy white bread, light floral, touch dank & cheese, some hay,… Super creamy,… Almost a bit reminiscent in its profile to a delicate white wine but with more body & creamier. I wouldn’t call it a saison, comparable to the versions of Congress Street we tried at the same tasting,… It doesn’t matter, this is a pretty wonderful beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2015
at 07:58
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Trillium Sunshower - Galaxy Dry Hopped (by Trillium Brewing Company):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
25/VII/15 - 75cl bottle from a trade @ Trillium tasting, home - BB: n/a, bottled: 6/XII/15 (2015-983) Thanks to Thomas for muling this trade!
Clear orange beer, huge creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very piny, resinous, citrus, floral, very floral, bit herbal, hay, grassy. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, bit soapy, floral, dry, pretty spicy, slightly fruity. Aftertaste: herbal, some green unripe melons, nice bitterness, citrus, little soapy, some orange peel. Lovely stuff.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
25/VII/15 - 75cl bottle from a trade @ Trillium tasting, home - BB: n/a, bottled: 6/XII/15 (2015-983) Thanks to Thomas for muling this trade!
Clear orange beer, huge creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very piny, resinous, citrus, floral, very floral, bit herbal, hay, grassy. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, bit soapy, floral, dry, pretty spicy, slightly fruity. Aftertaste: herbal, some green unripe melons, nice bitterness, citrus, little soapy, some orange peel. Lovely stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2015
at 14:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
32oz growler filled 6/8/15, drunk 6/14/15
And here I was ready to write off all of these "different" dry-hopped versions of Sunshower as just one [not so hot] batch with very marginal variations from the hops. Granted, the Galaxy didn’t taste all that much different from the previous two, but what it did lack was that big cotton candy, aspartame-like sweetness mixed with too much punchy sweet tart-like candied fruitiness.
The aroma was still a mixed bag for me (and my friend who had some), with some raw yeastiness and very inelegant esters (canned peach, spoiling apricot). Light citrus and mango somewhat elevate but it still seems too messy. No alcohol in the nose, at least.
The flavor, for whatever reason, is MUCH cleaner than the others. Instead of the cotton candy and sweet tarts, it’s a more dry, hop centered strong ale-like flavor. Not overly Belgian, again, but the hops are done well, adding moderate bitterness but no resin (mangoes, starfruit, cherries, oranges). Carbonation is a little tighter, or perhaps it just feels so, having less yeast and/or hop particle slickness in the mouthfeel.
So, more of just a strong, hoppy pale ale here. Definitely not rating this as a super saison, even, on which, it would score much worse. Either this is a second batch fermented a bit longer/lower temps, or (likely) this one just had more time to condition before its release. The beer looked in better condition, as well, having only a light haziness to its soft copper-tangerine juice color. White head was large and slowly receded to cover.
And here I was ready to write off all of these "different" dry-hopped versions of Sunshower as just one [not so hot] batch with very marginal variations from the hops. Granted, the Galaxy didn’t taste all that much different from the previous two, but what it did lack was that big cotton candy, aspartame-like sweetness mixed with too much punchy sweet tart-like candied fruitiness.
The aroma was still a mixed bag for me (and my friend who had some), with some raw yeastiness and very inelegant esters (canned peach, spoiling apricot). Light citrus and mango somewhat elevate but it still seems too messy. No alcohol in the nose, at least.
The flavor, for whatever reason, is MUCH cleaner than the others. Instead of the cotton candy and sweet tarts, it’s a more dry, hop centered strong ale-like flavor. Not overly Belgian, again, but the hops are done well, adding moderate bitterness but no resin (mangoes, starfruit, cherries, oranges). Carbonation is a little tighter, or perhaps it just feels so, having less yeast and/or hop particle slickness in the mouthfeel.
So, more of just a strong, hoppy pale ale here. Definitely not rating this as a super saison, even, on which, it would score much worse. Either this is a second batch fermented a bit longer/lower temps, or (likely) this one just had more time to condition before its release. The beer looked in better condition, as well, having only a light haziness to its soft copper-tangerine juice color. White head was large and slowly receded to cover.
Tried
from Growler
on 21 Jun 2015
at 11:08