Crown and Crate - Congo Vanilla
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series|
Score
6.83
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Crown And Crate brings together raw wildflower honey straight from Massachusetts hives with milk sugar to create a unique and luxurious double IPA. The name is derived from the merger of royal queen bees and old-school milk crates. For this new variant, we've sourced Congo vanilla, which we've found to offer a unique and creamy, fruit-forward flavor profile that pairs beautifully with Mosaic and Citra hops.
Pouring a soft canary yellow color, Congo Vanilla Crown And Crate's opaque, glowing haze prepares the senses for an array of citrus and tropical aromas. The palate opens with a wash of pineapple sorbet, candied mango, and honeysuckle, each sip rounded out by a creamy vanilla character and touch of sweetness. Plush and medium-bodied, Congo Vanilla Crown And Crate finishes with just a touch of grapefruit-like bitterness.
STYLE: Double IPA
ABV: 8.5%
HOPS: Mosaic, Citra
MALT: PIlsner, Flaked Wheat, White Wheat
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Raw Wildflower Honey, Congo Vanilla Beans, Milk Sugar
Pouring a soft canary yellow color, Congo Vanilla Crown And Crate's opaque, glowing haze prepares the senses for an array of citrus and tropical aromas. The palate opens with a wash of pineapple sorbet, candied mango, and honeysuckle, each sip rounded out by a creamy vanilla character and touch of sweetness. Plush and medium-bodied, Congo Vanilla Crown And Crate finishes with just a touch of grapefruit-like bitterness.
STYLE: Double IPA
ABV: 8.5%
HOPS: Mosaic, Citra
MALT: PIlsner, Flaked Wheat, White Wheat
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Raw Wildflower Honey, Congo Vanilla Beans, Milk Sugar
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Best of Beers. Hazy golden with a white head. The aroma is sweet, malty, heavy vanilla, hoppy and citrus. The taste is sweet and bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Sep 2024
at 18:23
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2024
at 18:15
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at international beer bar zürich. Intense stuff - malty, rather sweet, noticeable lactose, crazy vanilla. Not easy drinking but good.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jul 2024
at 19:29
7/10
Hoppy and creamy. The vanilla blasts you right away, followed by pineapple and orange. More vanillin than vanilla, a bit peppery. Would be far better without it.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jul 2024
at 15:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at Palace Hall 27/04/2024 Fruity notes of pineapple and mango with some vanilla coming together, nice hopage and a sweet creamy dense mouthfeel and body, sweet and hoppy into the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jun 2024
at 09:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap @ Ghetto Something. Aroma is lactic, honeyish and tropical fruity. Pours hazy pale golden color with large soapy off-white head and good lacing. Tastes as tropical fruity milkshake with honey and vanilla, while finish is average bitter. Full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Congo fun…
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jun 2024
at 21:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, peach-orange, with mid-sized head. Aroma is citrus, vanilla, tropical fruit. Flavors follow. Soft mouthfeel. Moderate hop bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2024
at 17:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2024
at 21:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught Fort Point, 12/12/21. Heavily hazy, drab brass-pineapple. Small, quickly fading, white head. Big vanilla, light lactose creaminess and softer, juicy hops. Bright and yet softly creamy. Pine, orange, grapefruit, sweet vanilla and heavy cream. Works pretty well, maybe a touch less lactose/vanilla would be preferable, personally, to allow more hop juiciness. As is, there's plentiful pony bitterness to balance but it creates a very stark dynamic of sweet and bitter. Still, the malty soft palate and good attenuation makes it pretty easily drinkable and you can't really fault a milkshake IPA for being ok lactose forward.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2021
at 20:07