The Fens
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Series|
Score
7.17
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The Emerald Necklace series tells a foundational piece of the Trillium Brewing story. If you’ve visited our home of Boston, you’ve likely encountered and enjoyed a section of the Emerald Necklace. Beginning downtown at the Boston Common and Public Garden, extending out to Back Bay, and all the way to Dorchester, this 1,100 acre, seven-mile-long public park system is a cherished green oasis in the heart of the city. Years ago, JC cultivated a plot in the Fenway Victory Gardens, where he grew edible and decorative plants, trees, and even some hop bines!
We're kicking off the Emerald Necklace series with The Fens! Hopped with the incredibly vibrant and aromatic duo of Mosaic and Galaxy, this beer is profoundly tropical. Intense notes of fresh stone fruit, mango juice, pineapple, and pine dance across the palate. Pillowy soft with a creamy mouthfeel and dry finish, The Fens is a joy to drink.
We're kicking off the Emerald Necklace series with The Fens! Hopped with the incredibly vibrant and aromatic duo of Mosaic and Galaxy, this beer is profoundly tropical. Intense notes of fresh stone fruit, mango juice, pineapple, and pine dance across the palate. Pillowy soft with a creamy mouthfeel and dry finish, The Fens is a joy to drink.
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7/10
Pours a pale yellow gold from can from Department. Fluffy sticky white lacing. Tangerine orange nose, orange juice, mango pineapple notes
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 02:04
7/10
Tried
on 17 Nov 2024
at 14:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
16oz in Fort Point is a lightly hazy yellow with some sticky white head. Clumpy. Nose is nice enough, fresh cut grass, some cream, some herbs, some citrus. Well balanced. Flavor has a little grist and some oat and then citrus and grass and tropicals now. Medium bodied, lightly creamy, lightly bitter finish. Easy drinker.
Tried
on 14 May 2024
at 02:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Fort Point taproom. Extremely hazy dark orange-peach with a small foamy off-white head, unripe mango-orange aroma, adequate carbonation, mildly bitter orange, mango, pineapple taste, thin body, long juicy finish. Very juicy.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jan 2024
at 19:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from the Fort Point location. Pours a slightly hazy gold with a yellow hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has slightly dank mango and citrus with a bit of melon and a touch of grass supporting. Flavor has mango up front that is joined by citrus, some mango and a bit of a sweet grain backbone.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jan 2024
at 02:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Trillium Brewing Company, Fenway, Boston, Mass, USA. A hazy golden/yellow coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, peach, mango, pineapple, tropical fruit taste and aroma. Decent enough IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2023
at 17:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Mango and white pepper. Not a huge depth on the hops here. Pours golden with ok head. Light bitter end. Uninspired. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2023
at 00:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Can. Pours hazy golden yellow, medium creamy off white head, great lacing. Aroma is a bit ofc grass and overripe fruit. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. Medium body. Canned 5/8, but tastes older.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2023
at 00:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught Fort Point, 3/23/22. Heavily hazy, drab maize-brass. White head steadily fades to ring. Juicier than softer, in the nose, than most of the others in the series. Peach, mango, honey-like malt and a good dose of estery fruitiness, though nothing messy. No resin is the main draw here. Deceptively light; the juicy mango and orange rapidly dries out through a transition to pine, with crackers dryness and heavily attenuated malts creating a sense of lightness bordering wateriness on the finish. Dry, chalky/pithy hop lingers, dulling the palate. The malt softness/sweetness opens up a bit with warming/breathing, but so does the resin/pith/chalk, unfortunately. The Galaxy white wine notes in the middle are really the only saving grace here.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2022
at 00:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can (9/10/20) pour from Fort Point location. Appearance is opaque yellow-orange (orange juice) with trace sparkle, finger-plus width white foamy head with good retention and light soapy lacing. Aroma is strong mix of citrus and stone fruit/peach. Taste is more citrus/less peach than the aroma but some other fruit and solid grain backbone. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average carbonation and grainy finish with light piney bitterness. Overall, good but not a Trillium standout. A bit more malty than I would expect but might be related to age--probably best to have in the first 30 days.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Nov 2020
at 23:06