Trillium Brewing Company Butler Flats Lighthouse

Butler Flats Lighthouse

 

Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series Out of Production
Score
7.68
ABV: 8.9% IBU: - Ticks: 10
Our tour of the New England coastline continues with Butler Flats Lighthouse. Like the Harbor Island IPAs, our brewing team's innovative Permutations were the genesis for these beers. With amplified strength, the Lighthouses will continue to showcase specific hops while paying homage to historic New England landmarks.

A trusted guide in New Bedford’s outer harbor at the mouth of the Acushnet River, Butler Flats Lighthouse’ distinctive sparkplug design has allowed it to withstand harsh weather conditions since 1898.

Butler Flats Lighthouse' eponymous beer is a double IPA brewed with Simcoe hops and pours a dark yellow with moderate haze. On the nose a bright orange peel character melds with ripe pineapple leading to a palate rich with flavors of fresh apricots and honeydew melon. A soft mouthfeel and a medium body gives Butler Flats an even balance - it displays a touch of orange blossom honey sweetness with restrained hop character on the finish.
 

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8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Can. Pours cloudy yellow orange, medium creamy off-white head, dissipates fairly slowly, good lacing. Aroma is dank, oranges, mango, grapefruit. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter, juicy, dank. Medium body, small mouthfeel.

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2019 at 02:36


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Pours unclear, darker blonde. Small Hite head. Smell is rich, tropical fruit, creamy. Taste is full tropical, very malty, bready. Apparently a year old, but this hasn't got the slightest trace of oxidation, and still has a nice amount of hoparoma. Lovely double IPA, clearly NEIPA style with not a single negative to be said due to age. Perhaps even more hoppy when fresh? Than it'd be even better! Very impressive

Tried on 19 Jan 2019 at 01:07


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can shared at Lucky Bamboo share. Pours a hazy straw gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Tangerine and grapefruit aromas with mango and peach as it warms. Smooth and juicy on the palate. Medium to low bitterness on the finish.

Tried from Can on 29 Oct 2018 at 17:33


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can - pours hazy gold white head - nose and taste of citrus, alcohol, orange peel and biscuit malt - medium body

Tried from Can on 24 Oct 2018 at 05:16


9

I'm Heung-min Son drinking this beer. Fucking brilliant. Hazy as a Los Angeles morning. OJ would love this juice bomb.

Tried from Can on 19 Oct 2018 at 17:38


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Canned 10/1/18, drunk 10/14/18.
Light, rosy-peach colored with a white head that fades steadily to a ring. Very hazy, though not soupy.
Surprisingly light for its size, with no booze or intense/sharp ester. Not much lime/grapefruit or pine and almost tropical-leaning, I daresay. Pretty damned nice for Simcoe. Light juice, even, with honey-like malts filling in the space and easily balancing. No resin or flaw.
In mouth, it's soft, succulently malty and does show a good amount of yeast fruitiness. Pineapple, orange and cherry with strong bubble gum. Feels like it's mostly yeast-driven flavors with the simcoe as an afterthought. Great texture and tightly carbonated. So much pineapple throughout, bordering canned-like. Lots of honey character, as well. Solid and a massive improvement from Nauset.

Tried from Can on 15 Oct 2018 at 22:21


8.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a very hazy, golden-orange, with smallish, but lasting head. Aroma has citrus (orange) and tropical fruit (pineapple) characteristics, with lots of dankness. Flavor is very smooth, with light sweetness. Citrus and tropical fruit abound, with a lightly bitter pine/spruce hop finish. Alcohol content is well-hidden. Great beer!

Tried on 14 Oct 2018 at 17:01


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Poured from can thanks Clark 10/1/18 hazy peach with a white head. Aroma is orange pineapple resinous pine. Taste is delicious candied orange pineapple nice aromatic hops with a nice balanced pine finish.

Tried from Can on 14 Oct 2018 at 14:19


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz. can. Aroma is mild orange, light pine. The flavor is amazingly fruit for Simcoe. Well, orange blossom honey and most be a citrus peel going on here. The sweetness doesn’t overwhelm at all. Really good.

Tried from Can on 06 Oct 2018 at 02:12


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours murky deep mango into a tulip. White head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Hot mango aromas. Soft with peach and hot caramel upfront turning to mango and passion fruit before the lasting burning pith finish.

Tried on 02 Oct 2018 at 02:32