Fated Farmer - Chardonnay
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production|
Score
7.38
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Our Fated Farmer Series is a landmark step toward realizing our foundational vision for Trillium: Build a place that intuitively celebrates the intersection of New England farming, agriculture, brewing, and integrated community experience. The grist of each of the dynamic Fated Farmer wild ales is set on the structure of Valley Malt and is barrel fermented in 500L puncheons with our Native New England Wild Culture and aged for 5-7 months, before refermenting on freshly harvested fruit.
Pouring a soft, pale yellow, the 2020 Vintage of Fated Farmer: Chardonnay offers a bouquet of gooseberry, peach, guava, and a limestone minerality. On the palate, a mild acid profile is complemented by a touch of sweetness. Easy-drinking and gentle, each sip finishes well-rounded and nuanced.
STYLE: Barrel Fermented Wild Ale
ABV: 7.5%
HOPS: Aged Hops
MALT: Valley Wheat, Valley Pilsner
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Chardonnay Grapes
Pouring a soft, pale yellow, the 2020 Vintage of Fated Farmer: Chardonnay offers a bouquet of gooseberry, peach, guava, and a limestone minerality. On the palate, a mild acid profile is complemented by a touch of sweetness. Easy-drinking and gentle, each sip finishes well-rounded and nuanced.
STYLE: Barrel Fermented Wild Ale
ABV: 7.5%
HOPS: Aged Hops
MALT: Valley Wheat, Valley Pilsner
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Chardonnay Grapes
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Almost clear, golden, small white head. Funky, fruity aroma, kinda vinous. Some barnyard. Full body, acidic, dry. Soft carbonation. Funky flavor, barnyard, lemon, green grapes, some pale malts. Long finish. Quite delicious. 250420
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2025
at 14:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beerdome. Aroma is tart white grapes, white wine, some funk, notes of lemon, grape juice. Big tart flavour with a medium sourness, and a slight suggestion of sweetness. Finishes quite dry, medium body. Vinous, bit puckering, nice grapey fruity aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, July 23. Cheers Mark for this. Pours a misty gold, pure white head that recedes. White wine aroma. Soothing Chardonnay presence to taste alongside a nice wild character with a breezy acidity and a dry lactic close. Lovely sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2023
at 17:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
1/XI/22 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ ElManana’s place, BB: n/a (2022-1433)
Clear pale yellow beer, small aery white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: a bit dirty, some sulphur, funky, brett, barnyard, cabbages, cheesy. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish up front, lemony, fruity, pretty bitter, dry, spicy, funky, fruity, grapes. Aftertaste: sourish, bitter, quite some tannins, lemony, little funky, decent.
Clear pale yellow beer, small aery white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: a bit dirty, some sulphur, funky, brett, barnyard, cabbages, cheesy. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish up front, lemony, fruity, pretty bitter, dry, spicy, funky, fruity, grapes. Aftertaste: sourish, bitter, quite some tannins, lemony, little funky, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Bierhalle Deconinck
on 01 Nov 2022
at 19:30
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Süffiger, angenehm säuerlicher Beginn. Etwas helles Malz, erhöhte Karbonisierung, vinös. Spritzig, die deutliche Säure bleibt konstant, leicht bitter zum Ende. Spritzig säuerlicher Abgang, holzig, langer Nachgeschmack. 7/11/11/11/9/11
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2022
at 18:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Almost clear, golden, short white head. Aroma of cellar, wild yeast and grapes, taste is citric, white whine, lambic, citrus. With bg
Tried
on 04 Sep 2022
at 14:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Piccadilly, Bod�. Has a clear straw colour with a small off-white head. Aroma of oak, vinegar, grapeskins, heather and lemon. The flavour is similar and is nice and dry. White wine undertones. Has a slick mouth feel, medium body and a soft bitterness. Well-balanced and fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2022
at 19:19
8/10
Top notch lambic styled beer. This being 76 on here shows that no one knows anything. World class neutral well fermented beer. Bottle from friend at beer temple ams
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2022
at 18:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is tart with notes of malt, funk, yeast, vinous and grapes. Taste is light sweet and medium sour with a long very dry, tart, fruity, funky and vinous finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is fizzy to soft.
Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is tart with notes of malt, funk, yeast, vinous and grapes. Taste is light sweet and medium sour with a long very dry, tart, fruity, funky and vinous finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is fizzy to soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2021
at 21:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fort Point draught, 8/27/21. Mildly hazy, bright canteloupe-to-brass. No head. Lovely mix of acids in the nose reminds of lambic. Grape isnt overrepresented and there's a delightful sulfur note to it on top of the other random mineral notes. Wow, this reminds me of early 2000s Cantillon. Lots of acid but lots of malt with a ton of sulfur. This is a bit more raw with the acidity but it's in the best company with that comparison. Chardonnay adds a bit more citrus and light grape juiciness while no alcohol or flaw is noted. Juicy and soft in the mouth. Dry and with a bit of acid on the end. I think the aroma is much more successful but the chardonnay notes and malty but attenuated texture are enjoyable. A bit of funk on the end though still a bit more raw/lingering/unbalanced acidity than I'd prefer.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Aug 2021
at 18:50