Cutting Tiles - Citra
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series|
Score
8.03
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Floral and zesty up front backed up with a nuanced citrus character on the nose that continues straight through in the flavor profile. Pillowy soft mouthfeel, with a restrained bitterness on the finish.
STYLE: Double IPA
ABV: 8.5%
HOPS: Citra
MALT: Pilsner, White Wheat, Flaked Wheat, Dextrine, C-15
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Raw Wildflower Honey
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Can shared. Thanks Kaori and Jon! Hazy glowing gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Huge tropical nose with mango juice, pineapple and peach dominating. As it warms floral honey notes come out as well. Really easy drinking and very smooth and juice-like on the palate. Restrained bitterness with the honey really well-integrated and not overdone at all. Fantastic! --- Beer merged from original tick of Citra Cutting Tiles on 16 Oct 2016 at 08:25 - Score: 9. Original review text: Mango juice with a touch honey. Stellar!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500mL can, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours an opaque cloudy orange with a medium white head. Aroma brings out wonderful darkness from the citra, with tons of piney hops, some resins, and a lightly sweet caramel biscuity malt base. Flavour is uber dank and fresh, with loads of piney, dank hops, and sweet caramel malt on the underside. Big and juicy, with almost no residual astringency. Finishes with sweet hop oils. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
1pint can via trade in Brussels, thanks to Diesehrl. Canned 09/14/2016. Dorée présentant un léger trouble, col blanc épais. Arôme au nez très frais houblonné rappelant la citronnelle avec un plaisant fleuri qui semble accentué par le fini mielleux de wildflower avec un petit accompagnement rétro d’agrumes. Le malté perce en rétro ajoutant un léger bouquet de froment. Palais est épais finement huileux, houblonné mettant très bien en avant le Citra. Le mielleux accorde une pointe de douceur sauvageonne. Petite note épicée arrivant plus des grains avec un Citra juste grandiose sans pour cela être trop dominant du fait des malts utilisés. Le tout reste assez épais en bouche principalement à cause du malt froment. Amertume persiste en fin de bouche, le tout est assez sec.
TimE (11146) reviewed Cutting Tiles - Citra from Trillium Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Light haze yellow. Massively white grape nose with some peaches and tropical fruit. Slightly sweet mouth, with lots of acidity and bitterness with the honey balancing things out with honey dew. Great stuff
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
4 pack drunk over the course of 4 weeks, as per how I believe these beers should be drunk. The last one I had was on 10/10/16.
Medium-to-small, white head tops a thoroughly hazy, though not quite soupy, bronze-golden body. Retention is moderate to moderately-low.
True to form, I think the beer improves greatly from within the first week of being canned. The first one I had at about six days old was a little muddled and sharp in the nose, but this easily changed over the course of another one-to-two weeks, and even after almost four weeks, it still had a very similar, enjoyable nose, much as it did after two weeks. Anyways, I’ll stop with the week-by-week narrative, but suffice to say, you should give these at least a week in the can before drinking them, optimally, it seems. This is bright and full of citra hops, of course, adding lemon, tangerine, lush greenery and very light pine and white grapefruit. Quite aromatic and clean, with dry, crackery malts behind it. Alcohol is nicely controlled in the nose.
In the mouth, much like Artaic and Bees, the texture just seems slightly looser than their non-honey beers. I said the same thing on the other two cutting tiles versions and nothing has changed here. Slightly loose/watery textures aside, this is clean and nicely attenuated with tons of bright citrus, very light tropical notes and some peach/nectarine as well. If you’re looking for a lighter-bodied Double IPA, then maybe this is exactly what you want, but for my money, I like the softer, more tightly carbonated and creamier-textured non-honey beers Trillium does.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Pours hazy orange, medium off-white head, dissipates fairly quickly, decent lacing. Aroma is tropical, dank pot, citrus and grapefruit notes. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Pretty solid beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can thanks to Steve. Pours out a hazy cloudy gold topped with a white head. Nose is the tropical fruit notes rich sweetness some melons. Taste is more of the nice tropical fruits citrus notes and a nice sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can - pours yellow white head - nose and taste of white grape, citrus, lemon, honey - medium body
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy mango into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Hot caramel, tropical fruit and grapefruit aromas. Sweet honey and toffee upfront turning to mango, passionfruit and citrus before the lasting pith finish.