Big Bird
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.83
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Making its annual migration to New England, Big Bird draws inspiration from our “Small Birds” by utilizing specialty grains and unique hop varieties, Big Bird has an amped profile worthy of a larger fowl. Pouring a noticeably cloudy yellow, this intensely aromatic Double IPA conjures up a tropical fruit cocktail nose of fresh pressed orange and ripe pineapple with a garnish of lemon and light spruce tip spice.
Strong citrus flavors of key lime pie, mandarin orange, and tangy grapefruit pith lead into a creamy profile of kiwi flesh, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon with papaya. Medium bodied, Big Bird’s tropical sweetness on the front of the palate is balanced out on the finish by a soft herbal bitterness. We welcome this bird back to the nest!
STYLE: Double IPA
ABV: 8.5%
HOPS: ???
MALT: American 2-Row Barley, White Wheat, Dextrine, Flaked Wheat, Valley Danko Rye, Valley Triticale, Malted Oats, Dextrose
Strong citrus flavors of key lime pie, mandarin orange, and tangy grapefruit pith lead into a creamy profile of kiwi flesh, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon with papaya. Medium bodied, Big Bird’s tropical sweetness on the front of the palate is balanced out on the finish by a soft herbal bitterness. We welcome this bird back to the nest!
STYLE: Double IPA
ABV: 8.5%
HOPS: ???
MALT: American 2-Row Barley, White Wheat, Dextrine, Flaked Wheat, Valley Danko Rye, Valley Triticale, Malted Oats, Dextrose
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
25th June 2021 Tasting at Fergus gaff. Thanks to Wingman. Can. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Smooth but light malts, a nice light creamy sweetness. Smooth pine. Juicy citrus. Orange and mild mandarin. Mild and smooth grapefruit and a little citric peel. Smooth finish. Nothing unusual here but just expertly done.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2021
at 15:16
8/10
Tried
on 25 Jun 2021
at 15:15
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thank you for sharing this Chris - Hazy golden with a white head - Fruity citrus hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity citrus hop flavour with nice bitterness - The fruity hop flaovurs with bitterness goes into the finish - This was good
Tried
on 30 May 2021
at 19:47
Quite the large fowl. A cornucopia of tropical fruit, with orange, grapefruit, and pineapple taking the the bird by charge. Beautiful hazy yellow. Almost gold. 🦅
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2021
at 21:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at Trillium Fenway. Pours hazy pale yellow. Orange, papaya, pineapple, lemon, bright citrus and passionfruit, light grain, light bitterness. Medium body. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 May 2021
at 00:28
8/10
0,473 litre Can, at home. Hazy yellow with white head. Malts, hops, Citrus, mouthfeel, supersmooth!
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2021
at 18:07
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Canned 15th April! It pours crazy cloudy golden - orange with a thick, frothy white head. The aroma is bright tropical fruit punch, big peach character, papaya, mango, juicy action, melon, guava, Um Bungo, reen, dank and weed. The taste is so crazy fresh, a massive mash up of tropical fruit and green vibes, wet herbal action, weedy, dank, bong rips, green fruits, juicy melon, greengage, then it's peach, mango, grapefruit, passionfruit, nectarine, um Bungo, nip of alcohol and hop spice. Medium body and lovely massaging carbonation. Best Trillum I've had in ages.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Apr 2021
at 08:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from a neighbor. Poured a totally cloudy light orange color with a medium sized white head. Big citrus, guava, big pineapple. Slight bitterness in the finish as it warmed. Alcohol really well masked in this one.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Aug 2020
at 06:55
7.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jul 2020
at 13:19
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16 oz can, 6/11/20, ABV says 9% on this can, canned 5/18/20. Fully hazed golden-orange, white head, fairly heavy lace. Sweet and fruity. Papaya, grapefruit, mango, and some apricot. Dank. Lots of overripe fruit notes. Juicy stuff. Decently bitter. Tons of flavor. On the full bodied side, sticky. A little dry. Quite nice.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jun 2020
at 22:00